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Dew Drop – April 10, 2023 (#3918)

Posted on April 10, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Bing Preview Release Notes: Performance Improvements on Microsoft Edge and Bing (Bing Team)
What developers need to know about generative AI (Damian Brady)
Technical Writing 101: Working with SMEs (Cole Henry)
How to Build Your Own Scrum Board with Kendo UI for Angular Drag and Drop (Dany Paredes)
Trying out What ChatGPT Knows About XML Doc Comments (Roland Weigelt)

Web & Cloud Development

Using A Transient CSS Stylesheet To Remove Scrolling On Body While Modal Is Open and Using Public Class Fields To Bind Event Handlers In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Book Review: Just jQuery The Core UI – Animation (Ian Elliot)
ECMAScript 2023 Spec for JavaScript Includes New Methods for Arrays (EditorDavid)
Bulk Updates To Azure Blob Storage Cache Control Metadata (Den Delimarsky)
AWS Lambda Response Streaming with Pulumi (Josh Kodroff)
Part 1 | Blazor WebAssembly [.NET 7] JWT Authentication Series | User Registration (Naveen Bommidi)
3 Methods for Scoped Styles in Web Components That Work Everywhere (Zach Leatherman)
ESLint v8.38.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
Using Step Functions to Orchestrate a Series of Lambda Functions (Bryan Hogan)
How eBay Modernized the Most Important Page on Our Platform (Lakshimi Duraivenkatesh, Ben Vesco & Saral Sukumar Jeyaseelan)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio Extensibility SDK Preview 3: New Features for Building Productivity Extensions (Almir Vuk)
Introducing the ‘Breakpoint Notifier’ Visual Studio extension! (Calvin A. Allen)
How to Do an Inner Join in LINQ? (Code Maze)
Run dotnet core projects without opening visual studio (Karthik Chintala)
Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming with C# and F# [Presentation] (Urs Enzler)
The case of the PasswordVault.Add call that the customer thinks was hung (Raymond Chen)
How to stop JetBrains Rider asking to add files to Git version control (Alexander Zeitler)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Psychological Biases (J.D. Meier)
4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
How to Get and Give Feedback Using the Radical Candor Order of Operations (Brandi Neal)
How we engage with LLMs (Dimitri Glazkov)
How to Use Sparring to Collect Feedback | Trello (Kat Boogaard)
Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report – April 2023 (Thomas Betts, Blanca Garcia Gil, Daniel Bryant, Eran Stiller, Vasco Veloso & Tanmay Deshpande)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction (Bruno Verachten & Kevin Marten)
Why WebAssembly Is Perfect for Tiny IoT Devices (Dan Mihai Dumitriu)
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn (EditorDavid)
Unity Gaming Services: 5 highlights from recent releases (Tatiana Fedotova)

Screencasts & Videos

What languages can you use to interact with Azure services? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
ChatGPT made this Flutter app for me (Codepur)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Moving from Technical Contributor to People Leader with Lena Reinhard (Lena Reinhard)
Merge Conflict 353: Exploring & Analyzing Bing Chat (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Stream Processing with Chris Cooney – Adventures in DevOps 157 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Signals, the Future of Reactive Programming in Angular – Adventures in Angular 377 (Charles Max Wood, Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
PPP 379 | Overcoming Fear and Uncertainty: A Guide to Risk-Taking, with author Angie Morgan Witkowski (Andy Kaufman)
The Changelog – LLMs break the internet (Simon Willison, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Fragmented, The Software Podcast #243: Mastering the Art of Switching Careers in Tech with Dan Lew (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 078 – Tales From the Time Series Trenches with Jay Clifford and InfluxData (David Isbitski)
Sad Python Girls Club Episode 17 – Sarah Kaiser (Kim-Adeline Miguel & Luciana Abud)
The Amp Hour #627 – Works on my machine (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community & Events

Halo veteran Joseph Staten is leaving Microsoft (Jay Peters)

Database

Learn how to use SQL ORDER BY in Your Queries (Joe Gavin)

PowerShell

Secure Sensitive Information in PowerShell Scripts With Encryption (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25336 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23430 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1546 and 22624.1546 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Resetting Twitter’s interests list using browser developer tools (Chris Heilmann)
Windows 365 offers flexibility from the office or home to the frontline (Wangui McKelvey)

More Link Collections

.NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #52 (davita8)
Code Maze Weekly #168 (Vladimir Pecanac)
C# Digest Issue #449 – April 10, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
The Overflow #172: The path to async work (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
F# Weekly #14, 2023 – Rider 2023.1 and OOP vs FP with C# and F# (Sergey Tihon)
Collective #759 (Manoela Ilic)
Daily Wrap Up – April 7, 2023 (#063) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications (Jesse Liberty & Rodrigo Juarez) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 7, 2023 (#3917)

Posted on April 7, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

ChatGPT on Android with OpenAI (Craig Dunn)
Edge features to help you stay organized and power your productivity (Roger Capriotti)
PowerToys v0.69 adds a new Registry Preview utility to visualize and edit Windows Registry files (Kunal Chowdhury)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Building your own PC with Damian Edwards (Scott Hanselman)
Windows 365 Frontline available in public preview (Sam Tulimat)

Web & Cloud Development

Removing A CSS Stylesheet Removes Its Affect On The Document (Ben Nadel)
Integrate logic apps with SQL server by API connection using credentials kept in key vault. (Serena Li)
Improving Web Accessibility with Semantic HTML and Testing Techniques and Tools (Ben Linders)
WebStorm 2022.2.5 Is Out (David Watson)
React forwardRef(): How to Pass Refs to Child Components (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Running .NET Console Apps in Azure Container Instances (Mark Heath)
Develop a DevExpress XAF and Web API Solution in Docker (Oliver Sturm)
Triggering a .NET Lambda Function from an Amazon SQS Queue (Bryan Hogan)
Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails (Adam Hess)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Best Place to Edit Your Images—On the Maui Shoreline (Viktoria Grozdancheva)

Visual Studio & .NET

An ignored exception can be misinterpreted as a hang, particularly in coroutines (Raymond Chen)
A Simple Union Between .NET Core and Python (Nick Cosentino)
Handling CommandTimeout With Dapper in .NET (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

DevOps threat matrix (Ariel Brukman)
Introducing the ‘Visual Studio VSIX Signer’ GitHub Action (Calvin A. Allen)
Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT (Lewis Maddison)
The best keyboard shortcuts to get started with Sketch (Gabrielle van Welie)
How a List of One-Sentence Experiments Accelerates Innovation (JD Meier)
Top 10 common Git issues and how to fix them (Kunal Chowdhury)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Managing build environments in Appflow (Cecelia Martinez)
Announcing Capacitor 5.0 Beta (Conner Simmons)
On trend and on time: 5 skill-building resources for your next game (Jennifer Pyne)

Screencasts & Videos

Registering SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with New IaaS Agent Extension Benefits | Data Exposed Episode 12 (Buck Woody, Logan Carrington & Aditya Badramraju)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Debug Threads & Tasks with Parallel Stacks (Leslie Richardson)
Working with GraphQL APIs in Postman (Postman Team)
Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming With C# and F# – Recording Available (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Power of Partnership between Product Owner and Scrum Master in support of the Agile Team | Oguz Ozyurt (Vasco Duarte)
Rocket 432: Rumors and Invention (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 552 – Building an API is half the battle (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 228: Web Apps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with Brian Love (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Python Bytes Podcast #330 – Your data, validated 5x-50x faster, coming soon and Talk Python to Me #410 – The Intersection of Tabular Data and Generative AI (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Clubs Conference 2023: Ideas and tools for CoderDojos and Code Clubs (Sarah Roberts)

Database

SQL Server 2022 Pause and Resume Creation of Table Constraints (Daniel Calbimonte)
Event stores are key-value databases, and why that matters (Oskar Dudycz)
What SQL Server People Should Know About Amazon Aurora Serverless (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell & Terminal

Configure input at the top in Warp (Melanie Crissey)

Miscellaneous

Introducing the “Browser essentials” feature in Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Edge Team)

More Link Collections

Daily Wrap Up – April 6, 2023 (#062) (Richard Seroter)
.NET Annotated Monthly | April 2023 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – April 6, 2023 (#3916)

Posted on April 6, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Introducing the New .NET MAUI Masked Entry Control (Paul Anderson)
.NET Rocks! – Understand Web Apps using Fiddler with Sam Basu and Rosen Vladimirov (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Animating color properties using .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Leomaris Reyes)
Our approach to AI safety (OpenAI)
.NET Monthly Roundup – March 2023 – .NET 8 Preview 2, EF Core goodies, and more! (Jon Galloway)

Web & Cloud Development

Your Blazor component needs data in a certain format, where to Map? (Jon Hilton)
Inspecting ASP.NET integration testing logs made easy with JetBrains Rider (Alexander Zeitler)
Typed SignalR Clients – Making type-safe real-time communication in .NET (Kristoffer Strube)
Keeping Kubernetes Secure with Updated Go Versions (Jordan Liggitt)
CSS overscroll-behavior Only Affects Scroll Containers (Ben Nadel)
Docker Desktop 4.18: Docker Scout Updates, Container File Explorer GA (Chris McLellan)
GraphQL Introduction and Product Application using .NET Core 7 (Jaydeep Patil)
Accelerate Language Cognitive Services customization with Azure OpenAI (Hazem El Hammamy)
Advanced AWS Networking, Part 1 (Jose Juhala)
How Tabby compares with Visual Studio Code (Popoola Temitope)
Can you create beautiful stroked text in CSS? (Rob O’Leary)
Sharing Transport in Azure SDK for Python (Xiang Yan)
Creating Dapr-enabled Platforms with Kratix (Mauricio Salatino)
Astro 2.2 (Matthew Phillips)
Tweaking the Modern Script Editor Web Part (Liam Cleary)
Build and deploy a service with Go (Tyler Aldrich)
Microsoft Edge Workspaces public preview is now available (Microsoft Edge Team)
WebAssembly Tail Calls (Thibaud Michaud & Thomas Lively)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2: Productivity, Game Development and Enterprise Management (Almir Vuk)
Enhancing Accessibility, Building a Read This Page feature with Azure Speech Service and C# (John Kilmister)
How to Declare an Empty Array in C# (Code Maze)
Type Casting In C# – Implicit Vs Explicit (Diwakar Tiwari)
ReSharper C++ 2023.1: Call Tracking, Macro Expansion Preview, and Support for C++23 Features (Elvira Mustafina)
Avoiding Common C# Coding Mistakes – Do’s And Don’ts To Remember (Jay Krishna Reddy)
Rider 2023.1: Enhanced C# Support, Best-in-class GameDev Features, and Much More! and ReSharper 2023.1 Comes With Enhanced C# Support, Exciting Updates for C++, and More! and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2023.1 Release! (Sasha Ivanova)
How do I modify the contents of a boxed Windows Runtime value? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Deploy MSIX Applications with Group Policies (Alex Marin)
What’s new in MSIX: April 2023 (Naveen Nooka)
A Lap Around DevSecOps (David Giard)
SudoLang: A Powerful Pseudocode Programming Language for LLMs (Eric Elliott)
Meet Alpaca: Stanford University’s Instruction-Following Language Model that Matches GPT-3.5 Performance (Jesus Rodriguez)
Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions (Chris Reddington)
Greenfield Project? Start HERE! (Derek Comartin)
Writing Tips for Improving Your Pull Requests (Jeff Mueller)
Should Every Incident Get a Retrospective? (Lex Neva)
Introducing the ‘Visual Studio VSIX Versioner’ GitHub Action (Calvin A. Allen)
Bring your enterprise together with enterprise accounts for all (Melody Mileski)
Solving Build Server Scalability Issues (Pavel Sher)
Microsoft Semantic Kernel for AI Dev: A Chat with John Maeda (Richard MacManus)
Pathways to Success as a Product Manager (Tim Sneath)
Artificial Intelligence – the Next Technological Revolution that will Upend Everything (Andras Velvart)
Investing in Yourself (Zach White)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build a production-ready multiplayer game with Netcode for GameObjects (Samuel Bellomo)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 150 – Massage Time! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Managing Connections in Azure Data Studio | Open at Microsoft (Erin Stellato & Cheena Malhotra)
Partnering with Higher Education in Innovation Ecosystems (Microsoft Developer Team)
Can ChatGPT work with your enterprise data? (Microsoft Mechanics)
Exploring the Capabilities of ChatGPT | Calum Simpson | User Group (SSW TV)

Podcasts

The Happy Engineer Podcast 095: Hello, My Name is Awesome! with Alexandra Watkins | Chief Executive Boss Lady (Kae Lynne Sapino)
Software Engineering Radio 558: Michael Fazio on Modern Android Development (Gavin Henry)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Liberating Structures and Wise Crowds, Strategies for Facilitating Effective PI Planning in Agile Teams | Oguz Ozyurt (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 597 – Stump’d Gameshow! Answering Coding Interview Questions from AI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Signals: What You Should Know with Tejas Kumar – JavaScript Jabber 576 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
Complete Developer Podcast – 404 Personality Not Found (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Staying on Top of Productivity – Adventures in .NET 141 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Women in Technology Podcast – Cybersecurity Evangelism (WiT Team)

Community & Events

Hachyderm: A Minute from the Moderators (quintessence)
BOSTON CODE CAMP 34: An Exciting Opportunity for Developers to Learn and Connect! (Tressha)

Database

ODP.NET JSON Relational Duality and Oracle Database 23c Free (Alex Keh)
Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool v2.0 (Chris Pietschmann)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

OneNote: Your Digital Notebook, Reimagined with Copilot (Greg Mace)

Miscellaneous

career programs (ThreddyRex)
Making Edge Usable (Jeff Handley)
Microsoft brings its Bing chatbot to your fingertips with SwiftKey on Android (Tom Warren)
There is Nothing on the Internet (agent x51)
GitHub Copilot for Docs – putting the “fun” into RTFM (Chris Heilmann)
Explainer: File Types (Eric Lawrence)
Universal Print or unlimited print? (Harjit Dhaliwal)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3682 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Wrap Up – April 5, 2023 (#061) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think (Russ Laraway) – Referral Link

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