fluid framework – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 17, 2024 (#4171)

Top Links

How to use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio (Cynthia Zanoni and Laurent Bugnion)
Check out the TechBash 2024 workshops! (TechBash Team) – Speakers include Jeffrey T. Fritz, Erissa Duvall, and Jeremy Clark!
Windows Photos adds new Microsoft Designer integration (Mala Srivatsa)
RunAs Radio – GitHub Copilot with Damian Brady (Richard Campbell)
Accessibility in Flutter on the Web (Thomas Steiner)
Build & test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy (Waldek Mastykarz)

Web & Cloud Development

Event Queues and Buffering Functions with JavaScript (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Mocking the native Node.js Test Runner (Oskar Dudycz)
Top 5 Underutilized JavaScript Features (Alexander T. Williams)
Call Protected APIs from a Blazor Web App (Andrea Chiarelli)
Rendering Math in HTML: MathML, MathML Core, and AsciiMath (Andrew Lock)
ASP.NET Core – Use factory based middleware with scoped services (Bart Wullems)
Blazor Basics: Handling Images Dynamically (Claudio Bernasconi)
Powerful React Form Builders to Consider in 2024 (Femi Akinyemi)
How to build a gRPC API in Node.js (Gbadebo Bello)
HTML5 Boilerplate 9.0.1 Released (Rob Larsen)
How to Run Docker-based .NET apps in JetBrains Rider Without “Fast Mode” (Sean Killeen)
A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) – Part 6 (Maho Pacheco)
Golang: How to Write a For Loop (Jack Wallen)
Run Pulumi with Any TypeScript Version (Julien Poissonnier)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Apple Deployment/Distribution for .NET MAUI Apps (Sam Basu)

Visual Studio & .NET

C#: What is the difference between ‘string’ and System.String? (Chris Pietschmann)
The Difference Between Invariance, Contravariance and Covariance in Generics in C# (Georgi Georgiev)
.NET 9 Preview 3: ‘I’ve Been Waiting 9 Years for This API!’ (David Ramel)
Dubious security vulnerability: Program allows its output to be exfiltrated (Raymond Chen)
String Performance: Appending a Character using the StringBuilder (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Azure OpenAI offering models – Explain it Like I’m 5 (Jake Wang)
Advanced RAG with Azure AI Search and LlamaIndex (Khye Wei & Farzad Sunavala)
Patient Referral Document Summarization using Azure OpenAI (Manasa Ramalinga)
Common Challenges in MSI Deployment (Alex Marin)
Generative AI in Content Production: From Research to Application (Alena Gupaisova)
Unlocking Potential with Natural Readers: The Intersection of AI and Voice Manipulation (Aqeel Alazree)
Why API Testing Is Complex – An Example (Gil Zilberfeld)
Python Tutorial: Use TensorFlow to Generate Predictive Text (Ryan Cartwright)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter Made Easy: 5 Tools to Build Better Apps Faster (Binara Prabhanga)
Flutter and Dart at Google Cloud Next (Kelvin Boateng)
Unity Asset Bundles tips and pitfalls (Unity Team)

Screencasts & Videos

Do NOT update your Visual Studio solutions to .slnx just yet! (Martin Zikmund)
Introduction to the Azure Developer CLI (AZD) | Open at Microsoft (Liam Hampton & Grace Kulin)
Exploring Dapr’s integration with Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024 (Nick Greenfield)
Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024 Keynote (Kirill Gavrylyuk)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 536 (Jason Bock)
Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – The Professor of Prompts, with Liz Danzico (John Maeda)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Centralized to Collaborative, Cultivating Independent Agile Teams | Tom Baldwin (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast – Udio & the age of multi-modal AI (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Python Bytes Podcast #379 – Constable on the debugging case (Michael Kennedy)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – If everyone is building AI, why aren’t more projects in production? (Ryan Donovan)
Software Engineering Radio #612 – Eyal Solomon on API Consumption Management (Kanchan Shringi)
Pivotal with Hayete Gallot – Project Gutenberg expands access to literature by creating audiobooks with AI (Hayete Gallot)

Community & Events

Countdown to the Global Azure 2024: Apr 18-20 (Rie Moriguchi)
What you missed from Firebase at Cloud Next ‘24! (Sumit Chandel & Vikas Anand)
CfP List Updated 2024-04-16 (Dave Aronson)
Unlock AI Collaboration at Microsoft BUILD 2024 with Semantic Kernel (Evan Chaki)
Learn the basics of Generative AI—Register Today! (Jolene Weller)
The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024 (Jeimy Ruiz)

Database

Elastic Jobs for Azure SQL DB (Josephine Bush)
sp_PressureDetector: Now With PerfMon Counters And Server Sampling (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint Pages is now generally available (DC Padur)
Announcing Fluid Framework 2.0 Preview (Kashif Qureshi)

PowerShell

Using PowerShell for Brute-Force Password Cracking (Example Script) (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Cross compiling C/Rust to win32, again (Evan Martin)
Microsoft OneNote now available on Apple Vision Pro (Greg MacEachern)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3920 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – April 16, 2024 (#298) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – March 18, 2024 (#4151)

Top Links

“Partial” Document Updates in Marten 7 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Implementing Subscribing to Your Site Feature with Mastodon/Fediverse Accounts (Maho Pacheco)
Gone Mobile Podcast #98: MAUI Blazor Hybrid Apps (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
March 16 – 22: Global AI Bootcamp Local Event Information (Rie Moriguchi)
Build an OpenAI Assistant App with NodeJS in Less than 15 minutes (Stephen Walther)

Web & Cloud Development

MailMerge with Angular and ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
Adding EntityFramework and Sqlite to ASP.NET Core Web API (Brian Mullen)
WebStorm 2023.3.5 Is Out! (David Watson)
React Basics: Getting Started with React and GraphQL (Hassan Djirdeh)
The Best Blazor Component Libraries to Consider (Katie Mikova)
ASP.NET 8 – Multilingual Application with single Resx file – Part 3 – Form Validation Strings (Mark Pelf)
Microsoft, Oracle Expand Cloud Partnership (Christine Horton)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the 11th Set of New .NET MAUI Controls and Features (Gayathri Ramalingam)
An Update on Xamarin Support in Rider (Matt Ellis)
Sharing ViewModels in .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid (Joachim Leonfellner)

Visual Studio & .NET

The t-SNE Data Visualization Technique from Scratch Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Why Should We Avoid Using Await in a Loop in C# (Anaedobe Nneka)
How to Resolve IOptions Instance Inside Program Class in C# (Georgi Georgiev)
Difference Between await and Task.Wait in C# (Georgios Panagopoulos)
Implementing Soft Delete With EF Core (Milan Jovanović)
ConstructorInfo – How To Make Reflection in DotNet Faster for Instantiation (Nick Cosentino)
Different Methods for Computing the Size of a Directory in C# (Rachel Okorie)
Not So Stupid Question 330: What’s the Difference Between Binary and Source Compatibility? and Not So Stupid Question: 331: Net Aspire, What Does an Opinionated Stack Mean (Iris Classon)
NCronJob – Scheduling made easy (Steven Giesel)
How well does WRL ComPtr support class template argument deduction (CTAD)? (Raymond Chen)
Collection Performance: Comparing Byte Array’s with SequenceEqual() (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Code samples for the opening chapter of Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
Demystifying LLMS From Zero to Raccoon-Hero, with Azure and DotNet, Part 2: Adding the OpenAI magic with Semantic Kernel (Maho Pacheco)
The Importance of Finding a Career Mentor (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Deploying Win32 Applications via Microsoft Intune (Alex Marin)
Software developers don’t need performance reviews (Nick Hodges)
Today’s AI is unreasonable (Anil Dash)
A Modest Model Proposal (Andrew Mowe)
Apple Acquires Startup DarwinAI As AI Efforts Ramp Up (BeauHD)
RAFT: A new way to teach LLMs to be better at RAG (Cedric Vidal)
From GitHub Copilot to Your Coding Companion: Meet Devin, the First AI Software Engineer (Munish Munagala)
Homo sapiens 1.0 (Mark Downie)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Watch the earth move with Raspberry Shake (Ashley Whittaker)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Kashif Qureshi and Nick Simons on Fluid Framework (David Giard)
Enums and Constants – C# in the Cards Episode 11 (Jeff Fritz)
Not So Stupid Question 329 Video Is Up (Iris Classon)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 528 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

Adaptable Databases and Effective Data Integration in Modern DevOps Environments – Adventures in DevOps #193 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Culture Clash, Ownership vs. Approval, a Key Difference That Affects PO’s | Dave Smith (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 743: JavaScript Figma Plugins & Working at GitHub With Cameron McEfee (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The .NET on AWS Show, Featuring Norm Johanson! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
The Work Item #74 – Books, Remote Work, and Q&A, with Adrienne Tacke (Den Delimarsky)
The Changelog – We have a right to repair! (Kyle Wiens & Adam Stacoviak)
Changelog & Friends Podcast – The Oban Pros (Shannon Selbert, Parker Selbert, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
React Native Radio #291 – RNR Explains: The Dev Menu (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #160: Build a Legacy You Can Be Proud Of with Shawn Dalcour & Keshia Robinson (Max Ahumada)
AGL 356: John Fisher (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Tech Layoffs Highest Since Dot-Com Crash (BeauHD)
Dell Workers Can Stay Remote – But They’re Not Going to Get Promoted (EditorDavid)

Database

SQL Server DDL Trigger to Capture for Create, Alter and Drop Commands (Muhammad Kamran)
The How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly Cheat Sheet: Common Table Expressions (Erik Darling)
Data Science & DevTools: Visual Studio Code (Renee Noble)

Miscellaneous

retrowin32: Minesweeper and the four month bug (Evan Martin)
Python: If You Don’t Know Conditional Statements, Then Read This (Jack Wallen)
Extracting data from a small CSV file with Python (Mark Seemann)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3904 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #11, 2024 – F# 8: the new while! keyword (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – March 15, 2024 (#277) (Richard Seroter)
Reading List 315 (Bruce Lawson)
C# Digest – Behind the implementation of .NET’s PriorityQueue (Jakub Chodounsky)
Collective #821 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Networking eBook Bundle from Packt Publishing – Level up your IT skills (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – February 7, 2024 (#4123)

Top Links

AutoMapper 13.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
Concurrently Asynchronous | Multithreaded Income Episode 28 with Stephen Cleary (Kevin Griffin)
Make demo typing easy with DemoType in ZoomIt v8.0 (John Stephens)
Beautiful Sortable Drag & Drop Lists for your Blazor Apps | On .NET (James Montemagno, Burke Holland & Jon Galloway)
Quick Tips for using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci)

Web & Cloud Development

HTML Web Components with Vanilla JavaScript and ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
jQuery 4.0.0 BETA! (Timmy Willison)
Handling Electronic Signatures in a Blazor Web App using .NET 8 (Bjoern Meyer)
Microsoft Dev Box – Make it your own (Brandon H.)
MapControllers vs MapControllerRoute Routing in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman)
JavaScript Array Methods: Map vs Filter vs Redux (Sh Raj)
What I Mean When I Say That APIs Reduce Everything to a Transaction and New API to Profile Bookmarklet (Kin Lane)
Go 1.22 is released! (Ed Bendersky)
Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Check in preview (Ankur Patel)
Statement regarding “runAsNode” CVEs (Felix Rieseberg)
What is API encryption? (Melinda Gutermuth)
Using Object.fromEntries to make a new Object (Pam Selle)
Jetpack 13.1- New Engagement Blocks (Sami Falah)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

From Stars to Hearts: Explore Creative Rating Designs in WinUI (Manivannan Elangovan)
Expand Your Maui Paradise with the .NET MAUI TreeView (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
OpenSilver 2.1 Adds F# Support (Alex Denham)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Clean Architecture with MediatR: How To Build For Flexibility (Nick Cosentino)
How to Pass Complex Parameters to Theory in xUnit (Code Maze)
Using ildasm to view IL code (Paul Michaels)
General Performance Tip: Null Coalescing Assignment (David McCarter)
On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency (Raymond Chen)
.NET 8–It’s time to get rid of these flaky tests! (Bart Wullems)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Azure OpenAI service is now available in Azure Government (Candice Ling)
Announcing OpenAI text-to-speech voices on Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech (Dave Jacobs)
Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI (Matthew Anderson)
Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible and Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship (pcloadletter)
Assemble Your Hype Squad (‘Tine Zekis)
OpenAI Releases New Embedding Models and Improved GPT-4 Turbo (Anthony Alford)
On-Device Training: Training a model in browser (Caroline Zhu)
Lines of code – how to not measure code quality and developer efficiency (Chris Heilmann)
Critical Security Issue Affecting TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2024-23917) – Update to 2023.11.3 Now (Daniel Gallo)
A guide to dogfooding (David Pereira)
OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (Emilia David)
Empowering employees with generative AI at their fingertips (Microsoft in Business Team)
AI for Developers (Matt Graven)

Screencasts & Videos

Getting started with the Fluent UI Blazor library | Open at Microsoft (Pablo Lopes & Vincent Baaijnn)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 517 (Jason Bock)
Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen: Designing Trust with Sarah Gold (John Maeda)
Helping GitHub Copilot help you with prompt crafting and How to code more securely with AI (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

Generally AI Episode 3: The Founders of CS and AI (Anthony Alford & Roland Meertens)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leadership Lessons, Managing Agile Team Anxiety Sparked by Rumors | Viktor Didenchuk (Vasco Duarte)
RunAs Radio – Managing Cloud Native with Brendan Burns (Richard Campbell)
Practical AI Podcast – Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Karan Malhotra, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Python Bytes Podcast #370 – Your Very Own Heroku (Michael Kennedy)
Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – From Waterfalls to Weekly Releases—Engineering Excellence with Steven Bailey and John Selbie (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
Software Engineering Radio 602: Nicolas Carlo on Improving Legacy Code (Sam Taggart)

Community & Events

Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) (Bluesky Team)
Glowforge lays off more employees after funding round falls through at 3D laser engraver maker (Kurt Schlosser)
DocuSign To Lay Off 6% of Workforce, or About 440 Jobs (msmash)

Database

SQL Server Clustered Index Seek Operation Generates Poor Query Performance (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
Performance Tuning Batch Mode HTDELETE and HTBUILD Waits In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 6: Event Sourcing (Jay Gordon)
Semantic Kernel introduces SQLPlugin and UploadPlugin for efficient data insights. (Pascal Burume)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft to add Copilot AI to OneDrive, but it will cost you (Lance Whitney)
How SharedTree supercharges and simplifies Fluid Framework 2.0 (Nick Simons)

Miscellaneous

ProcDump 3.2 for Linux, ZoomIt v8.0, and Autoruns v14.11 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Copilot in Windows to Launch in a Wider Sidebar Pane by Default (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft’s Universal Print App Now Available for macOS Users (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3876 (Chris Alcock)
dotInsights | February 2024 (Rachel Appel)
Daily Reading List – February 6, 2024 (#255) (Richard Seroter)
Daily Links – 6 Feb 2024 (Malcolm Jack)
Collective #810 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3 (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link

Mastodon
github.com/alvinashcraft