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Dew Drop – April 13, 2023 (#3921)

Posted on April 13, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Boost Productivity with High-Fidelity Figma Designs and Clean XAML Code. Preview 5 is here! (Uno Platform Team)
Android 14 Beta 1 (Dave Burke)
Introducing a new way to verify your workplace on LinkedIn with Microsoft Entra Verified ID (Ankur Patel)
Windows App SDK 1.3.0 (1.3.230331000) Released (Gabby Bilka)
.NET Rocks! – Making a Copilot with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Get started with OpenAI in .NET (Luis Quintanilla)

Web & Cloud Development

Public preview: Azure Functions V4 programming model for Node.js (Azure Team)
Creating an ASP.NET Minimal Web API to Generate PDF Documents from HTML Template Dynamically (Sowmiya Loganathan)
Wasp Auth UI: The simplest way to a full-stack auth! (Matija Sosic)
Node v18.16.0 (LTS) (Danielle Adams)
DS Server 3.1.1 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
Build a Twilio Flex ChatGPT Plugin (Dimitris Sotiriou)
Dapr extension for AKS is available in 7 new regions (Hannah Hunter)
TLS 1.3—What is It and Why Use It? (Nikolay Iliev)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the New .NET MAUI Popup Control (Jayaleshwari N.)
Introducing the New WinUI AvatarView Control (Manivannan Elangovan)
Part 3: Migration of Telerik Xamarin ERP App to .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Upcasting and Downcasting in C# (Code Maze)
.NET 8 Performance Edition (Steven Giesel)
How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 2: Via a buffer (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Figma cheat sheet for developers using inspect mode (Christian Reich)
Mapping User Journeys with Mermaid.js and Illustrating git Branching with Markdown & Mermaid.js (Matt Eland)
Innovation frontier (Dimitri Glazkov)
Best Flowchart Software for Developers (Enrique Corrales)
Recipes For Product Failure: Obsess Over Competitors (Den Delimarsky)
Are meetings making you less productive? (Ryan Donovan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Bring your IOT apps to cars (Brad Hinkel)
Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds (James Ward & Boris Farber)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 151 – Almost Everclear IoT! (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
Live Coding – Uno Platform – Android TV support (Martin Zikmund)
Automate document analysis with Azure Form Recognizer using AI and OCR | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)

Podcasts

Complete Developer Podcast – Explaining Agile To Non Technical CoWorkers (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Syntax Podcast – 600th Episode! Major Announcement + SWAG Giveaway! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – SCaLE20x (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
The Rework Podcast – Listener Questions Part 2 (Kimberly Rhodes)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 264: Verified Backups (Carlos L. Chacon)
Practical AI Podcast – Computer scientists as rogue art historians (Amanda Wasielewski, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Python Bytes Podcast #331 – Python From the Future (Michael Kennedy)
Software Engineering Radio 559: Ross Anderson on Software Obsolescence (Priyanka Raghavan)

Community & Events

You’re Invited! Microsoft AI, Data & Modern App – In Person Event (Shelly Avery)
Google Dev Library Newsletter: 20th Edition (Google Dev Library Team)
GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next (Kara Sowles)

Database

Optimize Costs in Azure SQL Managed Instance (Niko Neugebauer)
That weird slow benchmark and its root cause (Oren Eini)
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023 (Azure Team)
Announcing General Availability of Azure Data Studio extension SQL Database Projects (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
Announcing Azure Data Studio 1.43 (Erin Stellato)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Enabling billing for Microsoft Teams APIs in Microsoft Graph (Ajit Kalele)
Microsoft enhances Together mode experience in Teams (Kevin Okemwa)

Miscellaneous

Sysmon v14.16 (Alex Mihaiuc)
LinkedIn and Microsoft Entra introduce a new way to verify your workplace (Christine Barrett)
PBS also stops tweeting after being hit with ‘Government-funded Media’ label (Jon Porter)
The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down (Kim Lyons)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3685 (Chris Alcock)
Bits and Bytes – 2023-1 (Joe Brinkman)
Daily Wrap Up – April 12, 2023 (#066) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 12, 2023 (#3920)

Posted on April 12, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 3 (David Ortinau)
Check out new C# 12 preview features! (Kathleen Dollard)
Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program (OpenAI Team)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 3 (Daniel Roth)
Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3 (Jiachen Jiang)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes v1.27: Chill Vibes (Kubernetes Release Team)
Wasp Launch Week #2 (Matija Sosic)
State Hasn’t Changed? Why and when Blazor components re-render (Jon Hilton)
Shallow vs. Deep Copying in JavaScript (Mark O’Neill)
Consume the DevExpress Backend Web API from JavaScript with Svelte (Part 1) (Oliver Sturm)
Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
Deploy your ChatGPT based model securely using Microsoft Teams, Power Virtual Agent and Azure OpenAI (Alexis Kinzelin)
How to build a TypeScript app with Vite (Clara Ekekenta)
OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 and GraphQL (Antoine Carossio)
Announcing a white paper on Platforms for Cloud Native Computing (Josh Gavant & Abby Bangser)
Improving my blog’s performance with WebPageTest – part 1 (ThisCouldBeUseful)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

MauiWorkshop Sample Code (Jeff Fritz)
Dependency Injection with Avalonia UI Apps (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Tip: Access items from the end of the array using the ^ operator (Davide Bellone)
How to Validate Email Address in C# (Code Maze)
Your JetBrains All Products Pack Tools Are Ready To Be Updated to 2023.1 (Eugene Toporov)
Build a ChatGPT clone in .NET using OpenAI and Semantic Kernel (Jim Bennett)
Extending .NET Caching Provider for Collections (Matthew Groves)
.NET April 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.5, .NET 6.0.16 (Rahul Bhandari)
How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 1: Via an encoded stream (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Announcing Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 RC and Azure DevOps 2023 Q2 Roadmap update (Gloridel Morales)
Beat Your Biases: What I Learned Building a Library of Cognitive Biases (J.D. Meier)
Agile Transformation Requires More Than Agile Practices (Mike Cottmeyer)
OpenAI Cookbook – Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API (OpenAI Team)
What is ChatGPT and How Can it Help Me? and Using ChatGPT to Make Your Work Easier (David Giard)
Saying ‘No’ to Stress (‘Tine Zekis)
Ask a Techspert: What is generative AI? (Eben Carle)
New features now on Atlassian Admin hub for Trello admins (Erika Storli)
Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development (Mark Paulsen)
What is the Software Development Lifecycle? (Nicholas Rini)
3 Methods to Generate a .gitignore File Automatically (Nipuni Arunodi)
Real-time Messaging (Sameera Thangudu)
The Ultimate Compilation of Skills, Frameworks, and Tools for Software Development Management (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (April 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
12 Reasons for Using Kotlin for Android App Development (Ravi Makhija)
Swift Package Index gains Apple sponsorship and Swift 5.8 Released! (Swift Team)
Dart 3.0.0 Changelog (Kevin Chisholm)
Motors in Unity Physics (Amanda Schembri)
What’s new in multiplatform Jetpack libraries (Marton Braun)
Try RiderFlow and Share Your Experience With Us (Anna Ruban)
Game Development Tooling Tutorials – Unity, Unreal Engine, Rider, and RiderFlow (Maarten Balliauw)

Screencasts & Videos

Enable True Dark Mode with this Screen Brightness Plugin for .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
Why is Scrum so easy to understand but incredibly hard to master? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Native Inline Microsoft Image Creator AI Experience Powered by DALL·E Now In Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos)
Technology & Friends – Kevin Grossnicklaus on Low Code No Code Solutions (David Giard)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Chris Klug (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

CodeNewbie S23:E8 – Empowering the Next Generation of Black Tech Talent (Pariss Chandler) (CodeNewbie Team)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 122: Coding Hot Takes (Ben Nadel)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Moving Beyond Roadmaps, and Using Data to Drive Decision Making for Agile Product Development | Daniel Westermayr and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Group Mentality vs. Creating Real Agile Product Teams | Daniel Westermayr (Vasco Duarte)
Meta Cast 246 – Eradicating Agile Nit-Pickers (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Reverse Engineering with Joyce Lin – JavaScript Jabber 577 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
RunAs Radio – Team Metrics with Angela Dugan (Richard Campbell)

Community & Events

Join us for Oracle Database World London on April 20th (Maria Colgan)
Run an open source-powered virtual conference! (Máirín Duffy)

Database

Data Encryption at rest with Customer Managed keys for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Akash Rao)
ChatGPT – Oracle Deployment in Azure via Azure CLI (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Request external files into SharePoint document libraries (Irfan Shahdad)

PowerShell

De-hardcoding File Paths Using VbScript and PowerShell Custom Actions (Alex Marin)
Convert Specific Table of Excel Sheet to JSON (Sonam Rastogi)

Miscellaneous

PsExec v2.43, Sysmon v14.15, and TCPView v4.19 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Introducing the newest GitHub Shop collection (Chrissy Nasi)
4 Maps updates to help you explore U.S. national parks (Michael Curtes)
Enter for a chance to win this custom Redfall Xbox Series X console (Robert Collins)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3684 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Wrap Up – April 11, 2023 (#065) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 11, 2023 (#3919)

Posted on April 11, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Learn how to modernize your .NET apps from the pros! (Jon Galloway)
SOLID Principles in JavaScript (Chameera Dulanga)
Start your AI and .NET Adventure with #30DaysOfAzureAI (Dave Glover)
Sequence Diagrams in Markdown with Mermaid.js (Matt Eland)
Using Application Insights in .NET Desktop Applications (Rick Strahl)
Migrating extensive Xamarin native apps (with Xamarin.Forms Embedding) to .NET 7 (Andreas Nesheim)

Web & Cloud Development

Role-Based Access Control in Blazor Applications (Andrea Chiarelli)
List Azure Functions based on Configuration Values (Dennes Torres)
Azure Functions, GitHub Actions, and Terraform: Assembling all the pieces (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
Using Azure Data Factory to read and process REST API datasets (Rayis Imayev)
Spin 1.0 — The Developer Tool for Serverless WebAssembly (Radu Matei)
Let’s make our SPA more secure by setting up a .NET BFF with Duende and Auth0 (Tim Deschryver)
Node v19.9.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Boost your productivity in Postman with these 4 keyboard shortcuts (Cara Borenstein)

Visual Studio & .NET

Debugging native memory issues in a C# application (Oren Eini)
How to Round Down a Number to a Nearest Integer in C# (Code Maze)
Find the Longest Common Prefix in C# (Dotnet Office)
You can now use Microsoft Kiota within Visual Studio Code (Rabeb Othmani)
Normalize and compare URLs with C# (Thomas Ardal)
5 useful extensions for Task in .NET (Steven Giesel)
Binding Generator Preview Release (Eric Sink)
Static Fields Are Evil, If Not Coded Correctly (David McCarter)
Investigating a crash in Enumerable.LastOrDefault with a custom collection (Gérald Barré)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

12 Insidious Biases that Impact Our Every Day Lives (J.D. Meier)
Azure DevOps for Beginners: How to Set Up Your Account, Organization, and Repository (Rachel Irabor)
Building a bond with the company while working 100% remotely (Michael Bialecki)
Building toward more autonomous and proactive cloud technologies with AI (Alyssa Hughes)
6 signals that your architecture is not visible enough (Dennis Doomen)
How enabling developers can help drive financial inclusion (Mark Paulsen)
Khan Academy Chief Says GPT-4 is Ready To Be a Tutor (msmash)
Anagrams kata as a one-liner (Mark Seemann)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Signs It’s Time to Migrate Your Cordova App (Jacklin Altman)
Flutter Vs React Native – The Ultimate Battle For Cross-Platform Mobile Development Supremacy (Md Sarfaraj)
Reduce uninstalls for your app with auto-archive (Chang Liu & Lidia Gaymond)

Screencasts & Videos

What’s new in the book? (Jimmy Engstrom)
Responsible AI Mitigations and Tracker | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez, Besmira Nushi & Marah Abdin)
Armchair Architects: Data and Apps; How is data changing (part 2) (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
Using Webhooks to Run on the Cloud | Postman Flows (Postman Team)
Asp.Net Monsters – Time Series Data with Postgres (David Paquette, Simon Timms & James Chambers)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Breon Waters II (Maurice Cherry)
Bojan Magusic: Azure Security – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 240 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The PowerShell Podcast – Securing the Cloud with David das Neves (James Petty)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 553 – Going stateless with authorization-as-a-service (Eira May)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Build once, deploy efficiently, connect across Microsoft 365 (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
The ReadMe Podcast – Fusing tech and progress (Jerome Hardaway, J. Luc Peterson, Klint Finley, Neha Batra & Kedasha Kerr)
AGL 306: Rish Gupta from Spot AI (John Rouda)
Syntax Podcast Episode 599 – oAuth APIs Explained (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Made by Google Podcast – Call Me Maybe (Rachid Finge)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 116 – SBOMs: A Step Towards a More Secure Software Supply Chain (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog – Ken Thompson’s keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable (Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

PyDev of the Week: Marius van Niekerk (Mike Driscoll)
Important observations from Microsoft at Mobile World Congress 2023 (Yousef Khalidi)

Database

Return TOP (N) Rows using APPLY or ROW_NUMBER() in SQL Server (Jared Westover)
A Beginners Guide To MySQL Replication Part 2: Configuring Source and Replica Servers (Aisha Bukar)
Understanding Connectivity Issues in Azure SQL Database (Karthik Yella)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint Framework v1.17 – Whats in Latest Update of SPFx (Andrew Connell)
Introducing Viva Engage, now on iOS and Android! (Evelyn Chan)

Miscellaneous

Zig – A Newcomer To TIOBE Top 50 (Sue Gee)
Skill up on Modern Work: Quarterly recap (Allie Thompson)
Open-Source Software (OSS) Licenses Explained (Anna Maltceva)
How to Get Mac Battery Level from Command Line (David Walsh)
What’s the difference between software engineering and computer science degrees? (Keith van der Meulen)
How to Install WSL2 on Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Michael Reinders)
Why is there a large gap between some of the Windows system metrics indices? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3683 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-15 (#67) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #98 (Sam Basu)
Daily Wrap Up – April 10, 2023 (#064) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #550 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)

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