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Dew Drop – July 9, 2024 (#4223)

Posted on July 9, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Building AI enhanced Progressive Web Apps on Windows (Justin Willis)
Adding Antivirus to .NET Aspire Systems (Jeff Fritz)
Building a .NET TWAIN Document Scanner Application for Windows and macOS using MAUI (Xiao Ling)
C# 13 Semi-Auto Properties (NDepend Team)
Deploy Angular App with GraphQL on IIS & Azure (Part 7) (Ankit Sharma)
Unlocking the Potential of Phi-3 and C# in AI Development (Lee Stott)

Web & Cloud Development

Capture and review .NET Profiler Traces on App Service (Windows) and Memory Dump Collection using Procdump.exe for App Service (Windows) (Kunal Vaidya)
The React useId Hook (Hassan Djirdeh)
Network Round Trips are Evil (Jeremy D. Miller)
More Examples of using GitHub to Manage Your OpenAPI (Kin Lane)
Node v18.20.4 (LTS) and Node v20.15.1 (LTS) and Node v22.4.1 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
July 2024: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates (Adam Matthews)
API Testing: Does My API Work-Work? (Gil Zilberfeld)

Visual Studio & .NET

EF Core Entity Validation (Ricardo Peres)
Entity Framework Core– Avoid losing precision (Bart Wullems)
Document Automation 101: Leveraging TX Text Control for Business Efficiency in .NET C# Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
Self-signed certificate chain problems with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Dominique St-Amand)
Improve Entity Framework Core Performance with Complex Types (Januarius Njoku)
Should interfaces be asynchronous? (Mark Seemann)
What’s the point of std::monostate? You can’t do anything with it! (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Feature branch environments with Kubernetes and Octopus (Bob Walker)
The Potential and Pitfalls of AI-Assisted Coding (Brad Ediger)
Open AI Whisper (Monu Bambroo)
Web AI Toolkit (alpha) (npm)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 216 – Formula 1 IoT (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Generative AI with Azure Cosmos DB (Microsoft Mechanics)
June 2024: Cloud Messaging, Vertex AI, and faster Flutter web apps (Firebase Team)
Select Different Camera and Prevent Memory Leaks with CameraView (Gerald Versluis)
How to upload files and folders to GitHub: A beginner’s guide (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict #418: Is AI Really Intelligent? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Power of Feedback, Lessons from a New Scrum Master | Esther Schmit (Vasco Duarte)
Talk Python to Me #469: PuePy: Reactive frontend framework in Python (Michael Kennedy)
SQL Server Radio Episode 165 – News in Azure SQL and Woes of Excel (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
The PowerShell Podcast – Behind the Scenes at PSConf.EU: Harm Veenstra’s Experience and Insights (James Petty)
Syntax Podcast #792: Perfect Sitemaps for SEO (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #180 – SOC Crossroads: Optimization vs Transformation – Two Paths for Security Operations Center (Anton A. Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast #102 – Programming advice for my younger self (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – We chat search from both sides now (Eira May)
Gone Mobile Podcast #112 – The Tools & Libraries We Use (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
Grammar Girl Podcast – The unspoken rules of adjectives. The rise of ‘yeah-nah.’ Sundies (Kate Burridge, Isabelle Burke & Mignon Fogarty)

Community & Events

Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Khalid Abuhakmeh (David McCarter)
Silos Are Fantastic. Just Ask Kelsey Hightower (Kaspar Von Grünberg)
Tunisia DevDays 2024 (Magnus Mårtensson)

Database

MySQL Shell CLI Integration (Scott Stroz)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint roadmap pitstop: June 2024 (Mark Kashman)

Miscellaneous

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3977 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-28 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #150 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – July 8, 2024 (#350) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #611 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 8, 2024 (#4222)

Posted on July 8, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Developer Experience in Windows 11 with Kayla Cinnamon – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 305 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Simplify Your .NET Aspire Caching with Metalama (Metalama Team)
Tracing External Processes with Akka.NET and OpenTelemetry: Part 1 (The Code) (Elton Stoneman)
How to use VS Code to develop and build a .NET application (David Grace)
Modernizing your WPF application with the Fluent theme (Bruno Sonnino)
Demystify history with GitHub Copilot commit explanations (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

Using a Blazor Excel Datasheet to Update a Database (Michael Washington)
It Needs to Scale and What is API Search and Discovery and An APIs.json for the Train Travel API (Kin Lane)
Vue Basics: Moving Away from Filters in Vue 3 (Hassan Djirdeh)
Exploring docker compose watch in Visual Studio Code (Julie Lerman)
What’s coming next for ESLint (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Avoiding long-running HTTP API requests (Derek Comartin)
Do you know about TypeScript keyof operator? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Service Discovery in Microservices With .NET and Consul (Milan Jovanović)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Create a Gauge control using SkiaSharp in .NET MAUI (Sebastian Jensen)
.NET 9 MAUI Preview 5: New Blazor Project Template, Android 15 Beta 2 Support (Edin Kapić)

Visual Studio & .NET

Importing a Database into VS Code (John Folberth)
How to Find All the Positions of a Substring in Another String in C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
How do I produce a Windows Runtime asynchronous activity from C++/WinRT? (Raymond Chen)
.NET Upgrade Assistant Introduces Third-Party API and Package Map Support (Almir Vuk)
UUID v7 in .NET 9 (Steven Giesel)
Microsoft Releases .NET 9 Preview 5 (Arthur Casals)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

‘How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really?’ (EditorDavid)
Combatting AI Deepfakes: Our Participation in the 2024 Political Conventions (Ginny Badanes)
Semantic Kernel: Implementing Native Functions and Plugins (Jamie Maguire)
First Steps into Automation: Building Your First Playwright Test (Japhlet Nwamu)
Unlock the Power of Generative AI: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Applications with LLMs (Korey Stegared-Pace)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Michelle Sandford on Responsible AI (David Giard)

Podcasts

freeCodeCamp Podcast #131 – What Scott Hanselman learned from 900 podcast interviews with devs (Quincy Larson)
The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Maarten Balliauw! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
AWS Developers Podcast – AWS CodeArtifact (Carl Lewis & Derek Tam)
Mastering Angular Testing Strategies with Ng Demo and Cypress Integration – Adventures in Angular #417 (Louis Paganini)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 185: A/B Testing Mechanics (Ben Nadel)
Mastering Dotnet Testing: Using Verify to Minimize Assertions – Adventures in .NET #192 (Shawn Clabough & Adam Furmanek)
Integration Platforms: Prismatic’s Strategy for Seamless SaaS Connectivity – Adventures in DevOps #207 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Syntax Podcast #791: LLRT The Serverless Runtime w/ Richard Davison (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Coding Blocks Podcast – AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries…oh my! (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Meta Cast – Everyday Leadership Tips: Transform Your Team with Small Actions (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Changelog & Friends Podcast #51 – A different kind of rug pull (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Building and Distributing PWAs: Tools, Techniques, and Insights – JavaScript Jabber #638 (Steve Edwards)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – What can devs do about code review anxiety? (Eira May)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #176: How Elite Communication Can Increase Your Income with Ty Hoesgen (Max Ahumada)
AGL 372: Sol Rashidi (John Rouda)
The Breakpoint Show Episode 024 – Amazing Discovery in .NET 9 (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)

Community & Events

MVP’s Favorite Content: .NET at Microsoft Build, C#, Azure (Rie Moriguchi)
Hachyderm and Nivenly (Hachyderm Team)

Database

Create Document Templates in a SQL Server Database Table (Sebastiao Pereira)
A Little About Hash Join Spills And Bailouts In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Data API Builder for Azure Cosmos DB (Renato Losio)

Miscellaneous

Christie’s Likens Microsoft’s Work On MS-DOS To Einstein’s Work In Physics (BeauHD)
New storage features in Windows Server 2025 (Dan Cuomo)
Developer Successfully Boots Up Linux on Google Drive (EditorDavid)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3976 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest – Building PowerShell (Jakub Chodounsky)
PHP Annotated – June 2024 (Roman Pronskiy)
F# Weekly #27, 2024 – Building Functional TTRPG with F# (Sergey Tihon)
Collective #853 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications, Third Edition (Carl-Hugo Marcotte) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 5, 2024 (#4221)

Posted on July 5, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Monthly Roundup – June 2024 – .NET Aspire events, Upgrade Assistant news, and more! (Jon Galloway)
Visual Studio Code June 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
Frequently Asked Questions about using AI in Windows apps (Microsoft Learn)
Visual Studio AI Toolkit : Building Phi-3 Generative AI Applications (Shreyan Fernandes & Lee Stott)
.NET Rocks! – GPT-4o with Veronika Kolesnikova (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Introducing .NET Aspire with Damian Edwards (Scott Hanselman)
A Lap around the WinUI TableView (Diederik Krols)
The TechBash 2024 schedule is now available! (TechBash Team) – Keynotes from Maddy Montaquila & Brandon Minnick and lots more in September

Web & Cloud Development

What’s New in React Gantt Chart: 2024 Volume 2 (Alan Sangeeth)
Docker Logging Guide Part 2: Advanced Concepts & Best Practices (Bravin Wasike)
Object.values to iterate JavaScript object properties and Choosing Between for..in Loops and Object.values() in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
Optimizing Blazor TreeView Performance with Virtualization (Keerthana Rajendran)
Announcing Instant GraphQL APIs with Hasura Data Connector for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
What’s New in Blazor Image Editor: 2024 Volume 2 (Satheeskumar S.)
Introducing the New Blazor OTP Input Component (Silambarasan Ilango)
What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor library 4.9 (Vincent Baaij)
Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication enhancements (Alex Weinert)
Fleet 1.37 Is Out! Introducing AI Code Completion for Java, Folding Imports by Default, Soft Wraps for Markdown and Asciidoc, and Other Enhancements (Daniela Bentrup)
Convert Gamertag To XUID (Den Delimarsky)
Using Auth0 to Collect Consent for Newsletter Signups (Juan Cruz Martinez)
Microsoft is ditching React – Here’s why Microsoft considers React a mistake for Edge (Afan Khan)
Pulumi + Python: Bringing the Best of Modern Python to IaC (Julien Poissonnier)
Self-Hosted Pulumi Cloud Support for Resource Search and Pulumi Deployments (Meagan Cojocar)
Master Configuration in ASP.NET Core With The Options Pattern (Anton Martyniuk)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

C# Code Markup Library for WinUI 3: User Interface Development with Fluent Methods (Pawel Krzywdzinski)
Chart of the Week: Creating the .NET MAUI Radial Bar to Visualize Apple’s Revenue Breakdown (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.6.240701003-experimental2 (NuGet)
.NET Object Model Diagram Generator – Windows App SDK 1.6 Exp 1 to Exp 2 Diffs (via Morten Nielsen)
MemoryToolkit.Maui – A developer toolkit for detecting, diagnosing, and mitigating memory leaks in .NET MAUI applications (Adam Essenmacher)
Official OpenAI Library for .NET – Sample App is here! (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

Cloned Dictionary vs. Immutable Dictionary vs. Frozen Dictionary in high traffic systems (Oren Eini)
20 VS Code Extensions to INCREASE Productivity 2024 + Themes, Icons, & Shortcuts (Hayk Simonyan)
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 17.10.2 (Arthur Casals)
Visual Studio–View .NET Counters while debugging (Bart Wullems)
Sunsetting the NuGet v2 Server (Lance McCarthy)
How do I produce a Windows Runtime asynchronous activity from C++/CX? and How do I produce a Windows Runtime asynchronous activity from C#? (Raymond Chen)
How to Read appsettings.json in a .NET Console Application (Matheus Dasuke)
Discovering .NET codebases using code coverage and NCrunch (Tor Nestenius)
The Best Way to Map Objects in .NET in 2024 (Anton Martyniuk)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Deploying GPT-4o AI Chat app on Azure via Azure AI Services – a step-by-step guide (Muhammad Suzarilshah bin Zakaria)
Why the Newest LLMs use a MoE (Mixture of Experts) Architecture (Exxact Team)
Advanced Installer 21.9 (Advanced Installer Team)
Building a resilient workplace through emotional understanding (Cinthiya)
Copilot Studio – Prompt Response Times (Tahir Naveed)
Introducing Per-Minute macOS Sonoma M2 Agents in TeamCity Cloud (Olga Bedrina)
An Overview of Commonly Used Access Control Paradigms (Sam Bellen)
Authenticating Microsoft Entra ID using windows principal metadata – Public Preview (Sravani Saluru)
Building and Selling a GPT Wrapper SaaS in 5 Months (Vince Canger)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Dr. Love: a pocket-sized love tester arcade game (Ashley Whittaker)
Is Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Replacing Flutter? (Rajdeepsinh Gohil)

Screencasts & Videos

Getting Started with C# & .NET in VS Code (Official Beginner Guide) (James Montemagno)
WPF App Modernisation with Avalonia & Avalonia XPF (Avalonia Team)
Video – Partial Type in TypeScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
Generative AI for Beginners – Full Videos Series Released! (Korey Stegared-Pace)

Podcasts

The Cloud Pod #266: AWS Billing Finally Comes into FOCUS (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
Syntax Podcast #790: State of JS 2023 Reactions (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
JS Party Podcast #329 – A standard library for JavaScript (Philipp Burckhardt & Jerod Santo)
InfoQ Podcast: Technical Excellence, Team Productivity and Scrum Anti-Patterns (Stefan Wolpers)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Consent-based Decision-making for Agile Organizations | Milica Lubinic and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Measuring Psychological Safety in Agile Teams | Milica Lubinic and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Product Owner Anti-Pattern, The Renamed Project Manager | Milica Lubinic (Vasco Duarte)
The CSS Podcast #083: :has() tips and tricks (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
PPP 422 | Project Manager Productivity Hacks, with Nigel Creaser (Andy Kaufman)
Duke’s Corner Podcast – Simon Martinelli: Trains, Code, Community, and Teaching! (Jim Grisanzio)
The Changelog Podcast #598 – Code review anxiety (Carol Lee, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Web Rush Episode 287: Why You as a Developer Must Care About Managing Your APIs (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Software Defined Talk Episode 474: There’s at least a road to Nirvana (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

gRPConf 2024 Schedule (gRPC Team)
Learn Live: Moving on (Laurent Bugnion)
Threads hits 175 million users after a year (Alex Heath)
From Fear to Triumph: My 30-Year Journey in Public Speaking (David McCarter)
Celebrating the AI innovators of tomorrow (Liz Eaton)
MVP/RDs United to Inspire: European Cloud Summit 2024 (Rie Moriguchi)
Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts (Taylor Soper)
Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon (Matthias Ott)
Coding Tools Preferences Survey (JetBrains)

Database

MySQL 9.0 is out! Thank you for your contributions! (Frederic Descamps)
Announcing the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database (Debbi Lyons)
A Little About Hash Aggregate Spills and SLEEP_TASK Waits In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Introducing Online Migration Capability for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB in Azure Data Studio (Sandeep S. Nair)
Modifying sp_QuickieStore Returned Column Order (Josephine Bush)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams (Connor Rodewald)
What’s new in Microsoft Teams (free) | June 2023 (Miikka Oksanen)
Microsoft Teams in Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (Rinku Dalwani)

PowerShell

How To Make PowerShell Speak (Text-to-Speech .NET Tutorial) (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Steve Ballmer Surpasses Bill Gates In Wealth (BeauHD)
GOP Heritage Foundation: Democrats must step in line with MAGA — or expect blood (video) (Carla Sinclair)
Proton launches privacy-focused document editing and sharing (Ian Barker)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text (Jay Peters)
I renewed my US passport in a single week with the government’s speedy online beta (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3974 and The Morning Brew #3975 (Chris Alcock)
dotInsights | July 2024 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link

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