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Dew Drop – September 17, 2024 (#4266)

Top Links

TechBash 2024 is One Week Away; Tickets Still Available (Jason Gaylord)
Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes (Peter Spada)
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents (Jared Spataro)
Announcing Copilot Pages for multiplayer collaboration (Megan Dohnal)
Building Retrieval Augmented Generation on VS Code & AI Toolkit (Vinayak Hegde)
How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices (Mark Downie)

Web & Cloud Development

Blazorise 2.0: Plans and Vision for the Future (Mladen Macanović)
Blazor – Drag and Drop Modal (Byte217)
ASP.NET Core 9 RC 1: Keep-alive Timeouts for Websockets, Improved SignalR Tracing, and More (Arthur Casals)
5 ways Microsoft Azure can reimagine student experiences and streamline operations (Microsoft Education Team)
Vue Basics: Deep Dive into Nuxt DevTools (Nada Rifki)
React Styling: Essential Tips and Tricks for Designers (Prashant Yadav)
How to Avoid These Common Deceptive Design Mistakes in Your Cookie Consent Banner (Sammi Reinstein)
ESLint v8.57.1 released (Milos Djermanovic)
TypeScript 5.6 Tightens Truthy And Nullish Checks (Ian Elliot)
WebKit Features in Safari 18.0 (Jen Simmons)
A Smarter Search Dropdown with HTMX (Scott Galloway)
Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure (Archie Gunasekara)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Xamarin Forms Exported Needs to Be Explicitly Specified for Element and ClassNotFoundException Didn’t Find Class SplashActivity on Path (Iris Classon)

Visual Studio & .NET

Logistic Regression with Batch SGD Training and Weight Decay Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 2 release notes (Microsoft Learn)

AI

Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure (Steve Sweetman)
An Update on Our Safety & Security Practices (OpenAI Team)
DuckDuckGo Joins AI Chat, Promises Enhanced Anonymity (Andy Wolber)
Article Series: Practical Applications of Generative AI (Anthony Alford)
Major updates to the Copilot Success Kit (Cynthia Johnson)
GenAI tools don’t increase coding efficiency (Ian Barker)
Embracing AI: Transforming the Future of Design and Creativity (Jeff Mielke)
Grab Your Board and Catch a Wave… Copilot Wave 2 That Is (Michael Gannotti)
Slack is Adding AI Agent Capabilities (Paul Thurrott)
Secure by Design for AI: Building Resilient Systems from the Ground Up (Rachel Taylor)
Llama 3 in Action: Deployment Strategies and Advanced Functionality for Real-World Applications (Tingyi Li)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Can you make us agile? (Ben Linders)
Prioritizing deployments (Susan Pan)
Introducing Reporting and Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing (Vansh Singh)
Boosting Azure DevOps Security with GHAS Code Scanning (Debjyoti Ganguly)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

iOS 18 is a smart upgrade, even without the AI (Allison Johnson)
Boost your Flutter app with the newest Dart version (Exxeta Team)
10 amazing Raspberry Pi Zero projects | #MagPiMonday (Rob Zwetsloot)
Exploring New Dimensions: The Release of visionOS 2 for Apple Vision Pro (Peter Smulovics)
Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA clearance (Emma Roth)

Screencasts & Videos

Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher (Geoff Graham)
Windows UI Frameworks with Alvin Ashcraft | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 562 (Jason Bock)
Looking Ahead: GenAI is a Journey | The Azure Enablement Show (Uli Homann & Vijay Mital)
Don’t Build Windows Apps Without This! (Michael Jolley)
How to add .NET Aspire to existing an project (Authorised Territory)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: A Primer on AI for Architects with Anthony Alford (Anthony Alford)
Merge Conflict #428: Our Favorite VS Code Extensions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Jim Bennett! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
Syntax Podcast #822: Receipt Printer with JavaScript (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The PowerShell Podcast – Building Modern PowerShell Solutions: Justin Grote on TUIs, .NET, and Module Magic (James Petty)
The Changelog News Podcast #112 – Why GitHub actually won (Jerod Santo)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #190 – Unraveling the Security Data Fabric: Need, Benefits, and Futures (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – GitHub Actions – With Scott Sauber (Dan Clarke)
Gone Mobile Podcast #119: In App Purchasing Pain (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Do words like ‘mandate’ and ‘cockamamie’ come from words for men? Grammatical dopplegangers. A pair of teeth. (Samantha Enslen & Edwin L. Battistella)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI (Eira May)

Community & Events

The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update (Fred Schott)
Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (Jay Peters)
Announcing the New Pulumi Partner Program (Tejitha Raju)
Philly’s 100+ Biggest Events & Fests for Fall 2024 & Beyond (Visit Philly)
Microsoft will make 50 grants of $50k each in Washington state for its 50th anniversary (Todd Bishop)

Database

What is Change Management and the SQL Server DBAs Role (Terry Hurley)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive (Adam Harmetz)
Unlock the power of Copilot in Excel, now generally available (Catherine Pidgeon)
See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 5) and Python in Excel – Available Now (Ms. Excel)
Microsoft 365 Copilot onboarding hub—where onboarding AI is as intuitive as using it (Julie Hersum)

PowerShell & Terminal

Warp’s SOC 2 Type 2 report is available now (John Rector & Jeff Lloyd)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files v3.7.7 (Files Team)
Return to Office (Threddy)
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.4955 to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
Important changes to the Windows enrollment experience coming soon (Intune Support Team)
Microsoft Has Scrapped Edge’s Big UI Refresh With Rounded Tabs and Linux Kernel 6.11 is Out (msmash)
Some notes on Win32 carets (Raymond Chen)
Enhanced data protection with Windows and Microsoft Copilot (Reanne Wong)
Windows 12.1 is everything Windows 11 should be — and the Microsoft operating system we need! (Wayne Williams)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2024-38 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #159 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – September 16, 2024 (#398) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #619 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Dew Drop – September 10, 2024 (#4261)

Top Links

Announcing the Office Add-ins Development Kit for Visual Studio Code (public preview) (Mingjia Liu)
Alternate Lookup for Dictionary and HashSet in .NET 9 (NDepend Team)
Boost Blazor WebAssembly Performance with Publish-Time Prerendering | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
Announcing TypeScript 5.6 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Supercharge C++ Debugging with AI-Generated breakpoint expressions (Harshada Hole)
Why is F# code so robust and reliable? (Shchur Vladimir)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s New in JavaScript: ECMAScript 2024 (Edition 15) (Sathish Kumar Rajendran)
Microsoft Fabric and the Blazor Data Sheet and Import Data Fast into Fabric Using Parquet Files (Michael Washington)
Caching Strategies in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
CQRS Command Handlers with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
Time Travelling CSS With :target (Lee Meyer)
Vue Basics: How to Use Vue Router (Marina Mosti)
Effectively Visualize Data: Add Grids and Charts in JavaScript Pivot Field List (Sastha Prathap)
Easily Create Interactive Floor Planner Diagrams in Vue (Vivisa Ganesan)
Where Do I Go To Learn About APIs? (Kin Lane)
Microsoft Releases .NET Aspire 8.2 (Kay Ewbank)
Share your feedback about developing with Go (Alice Merrick)
What’s New for OpenAPI with .NET 9 (Martin Costello)
More than serverless: Why Cloud Run should be your first choice for any new web app. (Richard Seroter)
How the Comma Ok Idiom and Package System Work in Go (Temitope Oyedele)
WebAssembly and Containers: Orchestrating Distributed Architectures with .NET Aspire (Thorsten Hans)

Visual Studio & .NET

Autofixture and IOptions – A Winning Combination (Adam Storr)
Askia, an Ipsos company, achieved faster, reproducible builds with vcpkg (Augustin Popa)

AI

Unlocking the Power of Responsible AI with Microsoft Azure (Lee Stott)
Run Llama 3 on your laptop: An introduction to Ollama for beginners (Kris Ograbek)

Design, Methodology & Testing

20+ Most Popular DevOps Monitoring Tools for 2024 (James Walker)
Octopus Cloud architecture (Pawel Pabich)
Testcontainers for Integration Testing in .NET – Introduction (Merwan Chinta)
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Setting up and securing your profile (Kedasha Kerr)
GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

SwiftUI’s Observable macro is not a drop-in replacement for ObservableObject (Jesse Squires)
Apple Intelligence comes to iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next month (Apple Newsroom)
Roblox Announces Open Source AI Tool That Builds 3D Environments From Text (BeauHD)
Jetpack Compose APIs for building adaptive layouts using Material guidance now stable (Alex Vanyo)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict #427: It’s Glowtime! Rumor Edition (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Micro Frontends and Zoneless Angular: Bridging Framework Interoperability – Adventures in Angular #424 (Subrat Mishra, Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
The PowerShell Podcast – Behind the Code: Adam Driscoll on PowerShell Universal and Work-Life Balance (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #189 – How Google Does Security Programs at Scale: CISO Insights (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast #111 – Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? (Jerod Santo)
Syntax Podcast #819: Fun & Profitable Side Projects for Developers (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
CloudChat Episode #13 – What is the Cloud☁️? (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – The evolution of full stack engineers (Ben Popper)
PPP 435 | The Power of Gracious Assertiveness, with Yasmin Davidds (Andy Kaufman)
Meta Cast – Why Reflection is the Key to Effective Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – We’re Back! Also, Generative AI (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
The Breakpoint Show Episode #028 – Chris is Required – Validation (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #185: Facing Economic Uncertainty and Fear in Your Career (Max Ahumada)
Python Bytes Podcast #400 – Celebrating episode 400 (Michael Kennedy)
Behind the Tech Podcast – Ben Laude, Professor of Music (Piano Literature & Aural Skills) at Utah State University (Kevin Scott)
SQL Server Radio Episode #167 – Let’s Troubleshoot SQL AG Synchronization Latency (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #78 – Fall Into the Season with a Shopping List from Trader Joe’s (Trader Joe’s Team)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Pitfalls of Traditional Project Management in Software Development | Johann Botha (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

IBM to acquire Accelalpha, a Seattle-area firm that helps companies manage Oracle Cloud products (Taylor Soper)
Progress to Acquire Document-Based Collaboration Leader, ShareFile (Loren Jarrett)
DevITJobs Developer Event Calendar (DevITJobs)

Database

Working with XML data in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
Couchbase Devs, we heard you and we are excited to announce… Free Tier is here! (Stephanie Rogers)
Uniqueness, Keys, and Identity (Joe Celko)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 4) (Microsoft Excel Team)

Miscellaneous

TIOBE Programming Language Index News (September 2024): C Loses Its Crown (Megan Crouse)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2024-37 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #158 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – September 9, 2024 (#393) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #618 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf (Referral)

Dew Drop–September 3, 2024 (#4256)

Top Links

Debugging T-SQL using Visual Studio (Erin Stellato)
Developing Modern WinForms Applications | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelman)
Faster Dictionary in C# (NDepend Team)
How PowerToys Decides What To Build and The PowerToys Team Is A Fireteam (Den Delimarsky)
Evaluate Fine-tuned Phi-3 / 3.5 Models in Azure AI Studio Focusing on Microsoft’s Responsible AI (Minseok Song)
What’s your favorite performance testing story? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)

Web & Cloud Development

Adding a Comment System Part 2 – Saving Comments and Seq for ASP.NET Logging – Tracing with SerilogTracing (Scott Galloway)
What’s new in Astro – August 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger)
What’s new in Svelte: September 2024 (Dani Sandoval)
Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect OAuth PAR client with Keycloak using .NET Aspire (Damien Bowden)
StringValues in ASP.NET Core (Karthikeyan N S)
Deploy a container to Azure App Services Using a system-assigned Identity (Tore Nestenius)
VS Code Fork ‘Cursor’ – the ChatGPT of Coding? (EditorDavid)
The Digital API Supply Chain (Kin Lane)
eShopSupport Series: DataGenerator Project (Jason Haley)
How to test HttpClient inside API Tests (Steven Giesel)
HotChocolate 13 – Schema comparison (Bart Wullems)
Using the Document Editor in SPA Applications using the removeFromDom Method (Bjoern Meyer)
Dive into ARM template from a Function App (Ringe Chen)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI 9 Preview 7: Introduction of HybridWebView and Other Improvements (Almir Vuk)
Sneak Peek at 2024 Volume 3: .NET MAUI (Paul Anderson)

Visual Studio & .NET

The Definitive Guide to C# .NET Subreports in Your Web and Desktop Apps (Alec Gall)
The Complete Guide to 80+ C# .NET Chart Types (Greg Lutz)
Easily Create PDF Tables with Advanced Customization in C# (Chinnu Muniyappan)
Connect a WinForms Data Grid to an Arbitrary ASP.NET Core WebAPI Service Powered by EF Core (Oliver Sturm)
Broadcasting Messages with Apache Kafka and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
Metalama Status Update, July-August 2024 (Gael Fraiteur)
Keeping cross-cutting concerns out of application code (Mark Seemann)
Introduction to Event Sourcing for .NET Developers (Milan Jovanović)
Announcing the Proxy 3 Library for Dynamic Polymorphism (Mingxin Wang)
In the Windows kernel, what is a LUID, and what makes it loo-ey? and The CoInitializeSecurity function demands an absolute security descriptor (Raymond Chen)

AI

Bring Your Organizational Data to Azure AI Services with Microsoft Graph (Ravi Sharma)
Introducing Azure AI Inference Connector for Azure AI Studio Models (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Easily deploy an Azure Open AI instance with Documents (Werner Rall)
Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained (Duen Horng Chau)
Claude Engineer Amplifies Your Code (Nikos Vaggalis)
Tech Worker Builds Free AI-Powered Tool For Fighting US Health Insurance Denials (EditorDavid)
AI Studio End-to-End Baseline Reference Implementation (Freddy Ayala)
Semantic Kernel: Implementing 100% Local RAG Using Phi-3 With Local Embeddings (Jamie Maguire)
What is the Vision, Value, Velocity AI Framework? (JD Meier)
Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development (Robert Krzaczyński)
What’s New in Copilot | August 2024 (Seth Patton)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Unit Testing Umami.Net – Testing UmamiClient and Unit Testing Umami.Net – Testing UmamiBackgroundSender (Scott Galloway)
Operational limits when using Azure DevOps (Bart Wullems)
What I use for interacting with Git and Time is a Flat Circle (Jeremy D. Miller)
Streamlined CICD for Azure Infrastructure with Bicep (Danidu Weerasinghe)
My Architecture Drivers (Oskar Dudycz)
One Company Rethinks Diff to Cut Code Review Times (David Cassel)
Surviving and Thriving in Tech: Timeless Advice from Three Decades in Software Engineering (David McCarter)
The Problem With Sprinting (George Stocker)
Engineering with Empathy: My Journey to Understanding the User Experience (Kaili Liang)
The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 3 (Microsoft Incident Response Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android Studio Koala Feature Drop is Stable! (Sandhya Mohan)
A Simple Archive Format for Self-Contained Executables (Dominic Szablewski)
The New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5: Another Option for Linux Sysadmins (Damon M. Garn)

Screencasts & Videos

Create and Deploy .NET Aspire project using Visual Studio and Azure Developer CLI (AZD) (Learn with Jon)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 557 (Jason Bock)
Advanced Paste in PowerToys is About to Change Your Productivity Forever (Windows Developer Team)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict #426: Designing, Developing, Testing, & Productizing a Board Game with Ben Ruiz (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: New Starbucks CEO’s supercommute, SeaTac cyberattack, more on AI music (Todd Bishop)
The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Laïla Bougriâ (again!) (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
Syntax Podcast #815: Deno 2 with Ryan Dahl and Syntax Podcast #816: Why Your CSS Sucks (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Accessibility in Angular with Vitalii Bobrov – Adventures in Angular #423 (Alyssa Nicole, Chris Ford & Eddie Hinkle)
PPP 433 | The Power of Curiosity and Learning with Michelle LaBrosse (Andy Kaufman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: A Masterclass in Product, Process, and Leadership | Alexander Grosse and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Role of Business Knowledge in Effective Product Ownership | Pooja Gupta and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Output to Outcome, The Customer-Focused OKRs | Jeff Gothelf (Vasco Duarte)
Achieving Engineering Excellence: Training, Innovation, and the Cloud – Adventures in DevOps #213 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Matt Gordon: Database DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode #313 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The PowerShell Podcast – Being a Lazy Administrator with Bradley Wyatt (James Petty)
Changelog & Friends Podcast #59 – #define: piggyback (Carol Lee, Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert, Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Made by Google Podcast – Pixel 9 Pro Fold: The Next Generation of Foldable Phones (Rachid Finge)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #188 – Beyond the Buzzwords: Identity’s True Role in Cloud and SaaS Security (Anton A. Chuvakin)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – At scale, anything that could fail definitely will (Ben Popper)
Meta Cast – Building a Culture of Agility by Addressing Sunk Costs (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Building a Seamless Image Zoom Feature – React Round Up #265 (Chris Frewin, Lucas Paganini & Peter Osah)
Only Malware in the Building Episode 4 – RATs in the tunnel: Uncovering the cyber underworld (Selena Larsen, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
The Amp Hour #676 – Moving House (And Lab) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #184: Give Me 90 Days and I’ll Give You a Career Transformation with Bruno Yoshioka | Principal Manager at Microsoft (Max Ahumada)
Grammar Girl Podcast – The language of liars. ‘Legendary,’ ‘famous,’ or ‘notorious’? Fish shapes. (Valerie Fridland)

Community & Events

Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams webinar registration now generally available (Annie Wang)
MVP’s Favorite Content from Azure MVP and AI Platform MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)
Join Us for JetBrains .NET Days Online 2024 (Alexandra Kolesova)
Speaking at TechBash 2024 on Windows UI Framework Choices (Alvin Ashcraft)
Hachyderm’s Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: The Report Feature and Moderator Actions (Hachyderm Moderators)

Database

Identify CPU Intensive SQL Server Queries from an Implicit Conversion (Edwin Sarmiento)
New Couchbase Capella Advancements Fuel Development (Mark Gamble)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2024 (Pete Daderko)
Elevating Efficiency: How Microsoft Customer Experience & Success streamlines operations with process mining in Power Automate (Harysh Menon)
Accessibility and Usability Improvements in the new Outlook for Windows (Jayla Williams)

Miscellaneous

iPhone 16 Pro specs predictions: what we expect from Apple’s most powerful phones (Jamie Richards)
Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages and Apple AirTags Track ‘Recycled’ Plastic to Unprocessed Piles in an Open-Air Lot (EditorDavid)
How to place or lift a security freeze on your credit report (USAGov)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4145 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27695 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
SSN Data Breach and Securing Your Data (Jason Gaylord)
Trump forgets he tried to have Mike Pence killed (Jason Weisberger)
Abolish the Penny? (msmash)
What’s New in Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2024-36 (Michael Eaton)
F# Weekly #35, 2024 – |> for Google SQL and FSI diagnostics (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – August 30, 2024 (#388) (Richard Seroter)
Developer Toolbox (Matt Graven)
Collective #860 (Manoela Ilic)
C# Digest – Understanding .NET stack traces (Jakub Chodounsky)
Reading List 324 (Bruce Lawson)
Reading Notes #616 and Reading Notes #617 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf