Category: announcements

Morning Dew Break Coming Up Next Week

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The daily Dew Drop posts will be taking a break for about a week and a half. I’m taking some personal time off and unplugging after Friday. So, there will be no daily links from Monday, October 21st through Wednesday, October 30th.

I should be back on the 31st, but I won’t be including most of the blog posts that folks share in that time in-between. If there are any major announcements from Microsoft and other “companies of interest”, I’ll flag those to be included upon my return.

I’m also experimenting with migrating from WordPress to a static site, and I’d like to bring my 4800+ blog posts along with me. If you have any recommendations for static site generators that can build sites of that size without memory heap issues in JavaScript, give me a heads-up. My brief experimentation with Astro didn’t go well. See this GitHub issue for others running into a similar problem. I ran into the issue on Netlify, GitHub Actions, and when building the prod site locally (even with NODE_OPTIONS=–max_old_space_size=8192 set).

Thanks for continuing to follow the daily links on the Morning Dew. We’re coming up to 17 years of sharing links in early November. Cheers!

Get 40% off my print books through January 5th

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Packt Publishing is having a 48-hour sale. Get all print books including my two titles, Learn WinUI 3 and Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6, at 40% off their list price. Use this link to access the sale.

Note: All print titles include free access to the eBook version. AI-powered assistants available on top 500 titles.

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Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition

My new book, Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition is now available

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Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition was published on October 31st! Get your print or Kindle copy on Amazon today or read it online with a subscription from Packt Publishing.

Many thanks to Peter Foot for his tech review of the content and to the Packt editors for helping me get this into your hands a few weeks early. All the code and content in the second edition have been updated to work with the latest Windows App SDK versions available today. It also includes three brand-new chapters on app notifications, Template Studio for WinUI, and porting WinUI 3 apps to Uno Platform.
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If you’re attending TechBash 2023 next week, I’ll be there with five signed copies of the book to give away to some lucky attendees. If you’re interested in WinUI and cross-platform apps, Steve Bilogan will also be at TechBash, presenting a half-day workshop on creating xplat .NET apps with Uno Platform. There’s still time to register, and you can get 10% off with EventBrite code DOTNET10. I hope to see some of you there!
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition