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Dew Drop – September 27, 2024 (#4274)

Posted on September 27, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

.NET MAUI 8.0.91 (Service Release 9.1) (David Ortinau)
Uno Platform 5.4: Perf Improvements and 290+ Issues closed (Uno Platform Team)
7 Things about C#: Switch Statements (Joe Mayo)
Announcement: Swashbuckle.AspNetCore is being removed in .NET 9 (Jeremy Likness)
Using JSON Schema for Structured Output in Python for OpenAI Models (Evan Mattson)
Boost your CLI skills with GitHub Copilot (Michelle Duke)

Web & Cloud Development

Taking a look at the Problem Details enhancements in ASP.NET 9 (Tim Deschryver)
Free Tutorial: Build React Hooks (Kent C. Dodds)
React 19: Goodbye to Old Features, Hello to the Future (Adhithi Ravichandran)
Pulumi Azure Classic Provider Version 6.0.0 (Daniel Bradley)
This Month in Azure Static Web Apps | 08/2024 (Glaucia Lemos)
Introducing the AI-Powered Smart Blazor Components and Features (Rajendran R.)
Distributing WebAssembly components using OCI registries (Joe Zhou & James Sturtevant)
Deno 2 Release Candidate Ready (Ian Elliot)

Visual Studio & .NET

Designing the Perfect Contract Template for MailMerge in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
If you’re going to specify the LVS_SORTASCENDING or LVS_SORTDESCENDING style, you had better be telling the truth (Raymond Chen)
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2.1 release notes (Microsoft Learn)

AI

Tailored Code Completions for C++ Developers: Fine-tuned models are now in limited public beta for GitHub Copilot Enterprise (Erika Sweet)
Upgrading the Moderation API with our new multimodal moderation model (OpenAI Team)
Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens (Cameron R. Wolfe)
Software Development with AI-Powered Code Editors (Hassan Djirdeh)
NotebookLM adds audio and YouTube support, plus easier sharing of Audio Overviews (Raiza Martin)
Activate your data responsibly in the era of AI with Microsoft Purview (Rudra Mitra)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Identity Obsession and Domain-Driven Design (Peter Ritchie)
GitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans (Mario Rodriguez)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Pico brings junked joysticks back to life | The MagPi #146 (Andrew Gregory)

Screencasts & Videos

Server Audit Redesign for Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Sravani Saluru)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – April Speight (Isaac Levin)
Random.Code() – Updating My CSLA Serialization Source Generator, Take 2 (Jason Bock)
What are some web accessibility hacks for devs? | One Dev Question (Dona Sarkar)
Multi-Project Launch Configuration | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Nayana Srikanth)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – CQRS, System Maintainability, and Pragmatic Tech Choices with Dejan Miličić (Jamie Taylor)
Software Defined Talk Episode 486: Platform Engineering vs. DevOps (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Soft Metrics, The Key to Understanding Agile Team Dynamics and Succeeding as a Scrum Master | Richard Coplan (Vasco Duarte)
The Changelog Podcast #610 – Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2 (Ryan Dahl & Jerod Santo)
The CSS Podcast #090: Scroll-driven animations (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with Anthropic (Ben Popper)
Software Engineering Radio #635: Stevie Caldwell on Zero-Trust Architecture (Priyanka Raghavan)
AI Integration in Web Apps – React Round Up #267 (Chris Frewin, Lucas Paganini & Peter Osah)

Community & Events

My Recent Talks (Shawn Wildermuth)
Our Contributions Towards a Stronger Open Source Future (WordPress Staff)

Database

SQL Server Metadata for Stored Procedures, User-Defined Functions and Views (Rick Dobson)
Rewriting T-SQL Scalar UDFs So They’re Eligible For Automatic Inlining In SQL Server (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.20 with updates on building enterprise extensibility within Microsoft 365 (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell & Terminal

Dynamically sync env vars into your terminal session (Sega Okhira & Noah Zweben)

Miscellaneous

The Tor Project merges with Tails, a Linux-based portable OS focused on privacy (Paul Sawers)

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Dew Drop – September 26, 2024 (#4273)

Posted on September 26, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Creating a React TODO app in Visual Studio 2022 (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
.NET Aspire integrations overview (David Pine)
Organize Your Breakpoints like a pro (Harshada Hole)
Getting started with testing and .NET Aspire (Aaron Powell)
Measuring and Reducing the Environmental Impact of Software (Ben Linders)
Winamp is now open source and on GitHub! (Scott Hanselman) – View the repo here

Web & Cloud Development

Critter Stack 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Best Practices in Building ASP.NET Core API Projects (Peter Vogel)
What’s New in Blazor: 2024 Volume 3 (Rajendran R.)
Sentry can’t fix React hydration errors, but it can really help you debug them (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Sep 2024: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates (Adam Matthews)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Mastering .NET MAUI Shell—Part 3 (Héctor Pérez)
Create a WPF FastLine Chart to Analyze Global Population Trends by Age Group (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to install the .NET framework as a prerequisite using Inno Setup (Renato Ivanescu)
How to Add a C# .NET Excel XLSX Viewer to Your WinForms App (Mackenzie Albitz)
Interact with Ollama through C# (Bart Wullems)
Building Secure and Scalable APIs in .NET 8 (David Ramel)
Service Discovery in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
Another example of the Windows Runtime interop pattern: Using the UserConsentVerifier from a Win32 program (Raymond Chen)

AI

Enterprise trust in Azure OpenAI Service strengthened with Data Zones (Steve Sweetman)
Integrating AI into Business Processes with the Process Framework (Evan Chaki)
Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust (Takeshi Numoto)

Design, Methodology & Testing

ImageMagick MSIX is Now Built and Signed with Trusted Signing via Advanced Installer (Dirk Lemstra)
Code Signing Certificates Types (Horatiu Vladasel)
Explaining the New HandleExceptionInTest Flag in Isolator++ 4.3 (Alon Sapozhnikov)

Screencasts & Videos

End-to-end integration testing with .NET Aspire | On .NET (Aaron Powell)
Random.Code() – Updating My CSLA Serialization Source Generator (Jason Bock)
Data API Builder was just released into GA. What is that exactly? | One Dev Question (Davide Mauri)

Podcasts

Syntax Podcast #826: You Need These 30 Apps – PART 2 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Skeptic to Believer, Embracing SAFe for Agile Success | Richard Coplan (Vasco Duarte)
The Rework Podcast S2E124 – Progressing in Public Speaking (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
.NET Rocks! – Microsoft Playwright Testing with Debbie O’Brien (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The S in KISS…..Embracing simplicity with Guilherme Ferreira – Adventures in .NET #198 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough, Wai Liu & Joel Schaubert)
Practical AI Podcast #288 – GraphRAG (beyond the hype) (Prashanth Rao, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Optimizing SQL and ORM Practices for High-Performance Applications – JavaScript Jabber #650 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
Talk Python to Me #478: When and how to start coding with kids (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Philly .NET October Meetup – Build 2024 and Beyond – Designing and Developing for AI (Rich Ross)
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving (Kylie Robison)
Winamp Releases Source Code, Asks For Help Modernizing the Player and Amazon Employees Plead For Reversal of 5-Day RTO Mandate in Anonymous Survey (msmash)

Database

Yes, Cardinality Estimation Keeps Changing After SQL Server 2014. (Brent Ozar)
Why Expressions Are Better Than Local Variables For Performance In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Connection String Confusion in SSMS (Steve Jones)
Dumping and Restoring Azure PostgreSQL Databases (Josephine Bush)
Migrating a small web application from SQL using DuckDB (Greg Kontos)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Enabling and Using Copilot Agents in SharePoint – HLS Copilot Snacks (Michael Gannotti)
Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Secure software development and deployment (Krishna Mawani)

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Daily Reading List – September 25, 2024 (#405) (Richard Seroter)

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Dew Drop – September 25, 2024 (#4272)

Posted on September 25, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Create Stunning Gym Subscription UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Back in the Pocono Mountains: Meet Text Control at TechBash 2024 (Bjoern Meyer)
How-to: Listening to Keyboard Events and Handling Shortcuts in .NET MAUI (Joachim Leonfellner)
Get AI ready: Inside the Copilot Learning Hub (Rae Lyon)
.NET Terminology (Rocky Lhotka)
Adding Interactive Gestures to Controls in .NET MAUI | On .NET (James Montemagno)
Introducing Verdi, an AI dev platform powered by GPT-4o (OpenAI Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Customizing the combo of Azure Developer CLI and .NET Aspire (Andreas Helland)
How to Create a Reusable Modal Component in React (Grant Riordan)
Encrypting and Decrypting sensitive Information in ASP.NET Core (Hariom Dubey)
Breaking a String by Visual Width in JavaScript (j2inet)
Vue Basics: How to Build Complex Forms in Vue (Nada Rifki)
ASP.NET Core 9 and IAsyncEnumerable – Async Streaming JSON and NDJSON From Blazor WebAssembly (Tomasz Pęczek)
Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Receiving GitHub Webhooks When Using the ASP.NET Core Developer Certificate (Steve Gordon)
Running Docker in an Azure Windows Virtual Machine – Not so fast! (Tore Nestenius)
DS Server 3.5.0 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
Color Mixing With Animation Composition (Geoff Graham)
Integrating the Particular Service Platform with Aspire (Jimmy Bogard)
Human-Readable gRPC Calls with Fiddler Everywhere (Petar Grigorov)
How to Host Your Personal Portfolio Using GitHub Pages (Raiyan Bin Sarwar)
Level Up: Auth0 Plans Just Got an Upgrade (Shiven Ramji)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

AI-Driven Smart PDF Form Filling in .NET MAUI PDF Viewer (Deepak G.)

Visual Studio & .NET

Htmx and Playwright Tests in C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Next-Gen Code Coverage in Visual Studio: Enhanced C++ Support and Security (Jakub Chocholowicz)
The UserConsentVerifier confirms that the user is there, but it doesn’t protect any data (Raymond Chen)
Hot-Reloading C++ with Live++ and JetBrains Rider (Matt Ellis)

AI

5 Ways to Implement Enterprise Security with Azure AI Studio (Meera Kurup)
Using GenAI to build a capability map and translate legacy systems (Martin Fowler)
New GenAI simulation and evaluation tools in Azure AI Studio (Minsoo Thigpen)
Running a fully local AI Code Assistant with Continue–Part 4– Learning from your codebase (Bart Wullems)
Microsoft Launches Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET (Robert Krzaczyński)
Updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more (Logan Kilpatrick & Shrestha Basu Mallick)
Realizing the expanded partner opportunity with the next wave of Copilot (Jill Armour)
Demystifying Fine-Tuning: A Beginner’s Guide (Manjeet Singh)
Microsoft Hackathon: Virtual Customer Success Manager (VCSM) using Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust (Takeshi Numoto)
Customers are putting Gemini to work (Thomas Kurian)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Breaking Down Agile Estimates: Story Point Estimation, T-shirt Sizing and Time (Allison Bokone)
Embracing Vibrant Universality in Fluent Illustrations (Jay Tan & Alexis Copeland)
5 Reasons to Link Code Commits to Tickets (Claudia Fernandes)
My Evolving Approach to Learning Programming Languages (Dan Lew)
Git pull vs. git fetch: What’s the difference? (GitLab Team)
Microsoft Intune support for Apple Intelligence (MS Intune Support Team)
Designing against the deaf tax (Toby Fitch)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Attestation format change for the Android FIDO2 API (Christiaan Brand)
RISC-V on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (Luke Wren)

Screencasts & Videos

Navigating Visual Studio Easily with Feature Search (Leah Tran)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 564 (Jason Bock)
Implementing RAG with SQL Database Vector Search and Semantic Kernel | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Marco Minerva)
Token theft protection with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR & Windows (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Impact of Product Owner Pressure on Agile Team Morale | Richard Coplan (Vasco Duarte)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Spotify AI Platform, with Avin Regmi and David Xia (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
The CSS Podcast #089: View transitions (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience. (Eira May)
Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – In Focus—Designing for Copilot (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
RunAs Radio #951 – Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas (Richard Campbell)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – USPS Tech Innovator Bob Dixon (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

2024 Docker State of Application Development Survey: Share Your Thoughts on Development (Rebecca Floyd)
Microsoft Ignite Sold Out? Not for Security Professionals! Secure Your Spot (Olivia Daniels)
F5 layoffs impact in-house content creation employees (Taylor Soper)
CfP List Updated 2024-09-24 (Dave Aronson)
Authtoberfest 2024 is Here! (Deepu K. Sasidharan)

Database

Why You Shouldn’t Use The Plan Cache To Figure Out CPU Load In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
TRY/CATCH Doesn’t Always Work. (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Excel (September 2024) (Ms. Excel)

PowerShell

PowerShell Screen Captures: How To Automate Screenshots in Your Scripts (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft gives a sneak peek into how Windows may look in the future (Simon Batt)

More Link Collections

Collective #866 (Manoela Ilic)
Daily Reading List – September 24, 2024 (#404) (Richard Seroter)

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