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Dew Drop – May 9, 2024 (#4185)

Posted on May 9, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – Building Cloud Native in Azure with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 Release (Christopher Nguyen)
Vue Basics: Getting Started with Vue.js and Visual Studio Code (Marina Mosti)
.NET 9 LINQ Performance Edition (Steven Giesel)
Uno Platform 5.2 | Release Webinar (Uno Platform Team)
Refactor your code with C# collection expressions (David Pine)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s Next: The WebStorm 2024.2 Roadmap (David Watson)
Halo Infinite Career Ranks (Den Delimarsky)
Cursor Declarations That Use OPENJSON() Can Bloat Your Plan Cache (Joe Obbish)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Line Chart to Analyze Wage Trends in the Texas Oil Gas Extraction Industry (Nanthini Mahalingam)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Dev Kit Update Helps Wrangle NuGet Packages and More in VS Code (David Ramel)
Referencing a file in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
Count the Number of Vowels in a String in C# (Semir Teskeredžić)
What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024) (Augustin Popa)
Reference Type & Structure Performance: Constant vs. Read-only Property (David McCarter)
gRPC, .NET 8.0 and Kestrel in Easy Samples (Nick Polyak)
Awaiting a set of handles with a timeout, part 7: Just doing it one at a time (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

It’s time to retire the term “user” (Taylor Majewski)
How we developed Chrome’s first AI tools (Molly McHugh-Johnson)
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content (Simon Willison)
A Guide to Open Source Software Security (Aaron Linskens)
Implementing pilot projects: Purpose, process, and best practices (David Pereira)
How Data-Driven Testing Benefits Your Software Quality (Dennis Martinez)
Non-Functional Requirements (K. Brian Kelley)
Microsoft is ‘turning everyone into a prompt engineer’ with new Copilot AI features (Tom Warren)

Screencasts & Videos

What are some things GitHub Copilot is good at the humans are not? | On .NET (Burke Holland)

Podcasts

CodeNewbie S27:E6 – The Crossover of Health, Technology and Art (Daniel Bourke) (CodeNewbie Team)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 177: Infinite Invisibility Timeout (Ben Nadel)
Syntax Podcast #766: React Server Components: Form Actions + Server Actions (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Beyond Teams, Leading Organizational Change | Mike Lyons (Vasco Duarte)
Rework Podcast – A Matter of Ambition (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
Productive C# Podcast – Ask Me Anything – Free Webinar (Andrea Angella)
The Changelog Podcast #590 – Good timing makes great products (Interview) (Paul Orlando, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Practical AI Podcast #268 – Autonomous fighter jets?! (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
The Amp Hour #666 – Good Energy Citizen (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community & Events

Azure Developers – .NET Day 2024 – Recap (Bruno Capuano)
Meet the JetBrains Team at Microsoft Build 2024 (Alexandra Kolesova)
How Women Lead Data Engineering at Slack (Lakshmi Mohan)
Developer Ecosystem Survey Insights: A Comparative Look at Students and Professionals (Raisa Kanischeva)
Building securely: Microsoft Build 2024 (Rod Trent)
Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil (Tom Warren)

Database

Loops, Transactions, and Transaction Log Writes In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Scaling Marten with PostgreSQL Read Replicas (Jeremy D. Miller)
Who’s Changing the Table? Answers and Discussion (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26212 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
I regret to inform you that LinkedIn’s games are very fun (David Pierce)
I made Microsoft Edge my default browser because of these three killer features (Ed Bott)
Awesome Regex: The best regex resources for all major regex flavors (Steven Levithan)
The Xbox app on Windows is getting even more handheld-friendly (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3935 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – May 8, 2024 (#314) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals – Eighth Edition: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 10, 2024 (#4106)

Posted on January 10, 2024 | by Alvin A.

I’ll be taking a few days off this week with family. The Dew Drop posts will resume next Tuesday or Wednesday. Cheers!

Top Links

A Full-Stack Web App Using Angular and GraphQL: Part 2 (Ankit Sharma)
TechBash 2024 Dates, Call for Speakers, and Sponsorship (TechBash Team)
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
2023 – a year of community experiments (Mads Kristensen)
Microsoft PowerToys Version 0.77.0: New Features and Improvements (Kunal Chowdhury)
Add OpenAI chat completions to your WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK desktop app (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

Build a Simple YouTube App with Vanilla JavaScript (George Martsoukos)
Persistent permissions for the File System Access API (Thomas Steiner)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Wolverine HTTP Endpoints (Jeremy D. Miller)
How to Set an Authenticator for a New RestClient in RestSharp (Aneta Muslic)
Experimenting With .NET & WebAssembly – Running .NET Based Slight Application On WASM/WASI Node Pool in AKS (Tomasz Pęczek)
Steps to Take If Your App or Website Violates the ADA (Suzanne Scacca)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

January XAML Fest for .NET MAUI—Uber card UI (Leomaris Reyes)
What’s New in WPF Diagram: 2023 Volume 4 (Prakash Perumal)
What’s new in the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

What’s New in F# 8.0: Simpler, Enhanced Uniformity, and Improved Performance (Almir Vuk)
Windows MIDI Services – Developer Preview 3 Release (Pete Brown)
Using implicit conversion operators in C# to improve readability (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
Encapsulating TX Text Control in Class Libraries (Bjoern Meyer)
MSVC ARM64 optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.8 (Jiong Wang)
.NET Framework January 2024 Security and Quality Rollup (Salini Agarwal)
A brief look at StringValues (Andrew Lock)
Building Distributed Applications With .NET Aspire (Code Maze)
.NET January 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.1, 7.0.15, .NET 6.0.26 (Rahul Bhandari)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

MSIX VFS AppData – Notepad++ disable autoupdate issues (Horatiu Vladasel)
Welcome to the LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework! (LinkedIn Team)
How to Integrate EULA in MSIX-Deployed Applications (Renato Ivanescu)
3 predictions for AI in healthcare in 2024 (Aashima Gupta)
A Global Design System (Brad Frost)
Celebrating 20+ Years of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and EIP (Eric Newcomer)
Putting AI to Work: Systems of Intelligence and Actionable Agency (Kawal Gandhi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s new with Android for cars at CES (Guemmy Kim)
Triangle Collision (2D) (j2inet)
Charting Magic: A Performance Boost with Syncfusion Flutter Charts (Sheik Syed)

Screencasts & Videos

.NET MAUI: How I create a Flyout in compact mode with Shell (Daniel Hindrikes)
Material Design & Free Controls for .NET MAUI with UraniumUI (Gerald Versluis)
Get your app & APIs on Kubernetes fast with Draft | Open at Microsoft (David Gamero & Suneha Bose)
Using GitHub Enterprise as a Visual Studio subscriber | Bits & Pieces ep2 (Visual Studio Team)
Using the Cosmos DB SQL Studio Extension | Visual Studio Toolbox and Creating a Visual Studio Code Extension | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Hasan Savran)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 512 (Jason Bock)
Copilot for Microsoft 365 extensibility – Using Graph connectors & plugins simultaneously (Microsoft Mechanics)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Angie Jones (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

Meta Cast – Agile Coaching Demystified (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
Pursuing Developer Certifications – Adventures in .NET 172 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
RunAs Radio – Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore (Richard Campbell)
Code in Her Veins | Multithreaded Income Episode 24 with Kailee Hamre (Kevin Griffin)
Python Bytes Podcast #366 – Put It in the Backlog (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Humane lays off 4 percent of employees before releasing its AI Pin (Alex Heath)
Amazon’s Twitch To Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff (BeauHD)
Windows device partners display incredible innovations at CES 2024 (Mark Linton)
What we announced at CES 2024 (Sameer Samat)
Honoring the Dream: How to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at school this year with Microsoft Education (Microsoft Education Team)

Database

Free SQL Server Troubleshooting Stored Procedures (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

Sysmon v15.12 (Alex Mihaiuc)
The Mandalorian and Grogu are getting a movie (Andrew Webster)
How Microsoft is helping the Space Force become a Digital Service (Steve Kitay)
Scientists knew 2023’s heat would be historic – but not by this much (Scott Dance, Sarah Kaplan & Veronica Penney)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3856 (Chris Alcock)
Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
Daily Reading List – January 9, 2024 (#235) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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Dew Drop – December 15, 2023 (#4090)

Posted on December 15, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

DirectML: Accelerating AI on Windows, now with NPUs (Chad Pralle)
Windows AI Studio (Microsoft Learn)
OpenAI Assistant functions on Android (Craig Dunn)
Understanding the kernel in Semantic Kernel | Microsoft Learn (Matthew Bolanos)
Google AI SDK for Swift (Google)
Navigate the unexpected: using Copilot in Edge and DevTools (Patrick Brosset)

Web & Cloud Development

Announcing SvelteKit 2 (Svelte Team)
What are Kubernetes Manifest Files? Examples & Best Practices (James Walker)
Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components (Michael McCune & Andrew Sy Kim)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Understanding Dependency Injection (Assis Zang)
Unit Testing of Azure Sphere Applications (Azure Sphere Team)
How to Test JavaScript Code with Jest and Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900) – Pass the Exam With This Free 8-Hour Course (Beau Carnes)
How to Get an Access Token from HttpContext in ASP.NET Core (Dona Pejnovic)
Announcing the new (more performant!) Beta release of Azure Storage client libraries for JavaScript (Rohit Ganguly)
Building for the Future: Next.js and KendoReact Integration Unveiled (Wissam Merhi)
V8 is Faster and Safer than Ever! (Victor Gomes)
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty now generally available, opening new pathways for government innovation (Corey Sanders)
Integrating Auth0 with Screenly (Viktor Petersson)
App Builder Release: Financial Chart, Variables Management UI, and More (Zdravko Kolev)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Telerik UI for .NET MAUI NavigationView—Achieve Adaptive Layout in a Cross-Platform Application (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Entity Framework – Storing complex objects as JSON (Steven Giesel)
Primary Constructor in C# (Mahesh Chand)
What’s New for Makefile Tools in Visual Studio Code Release 0.8: Post-Configure Scripts and more… (Sinem Akinci)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Asynchronous Processing with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
All Purpose Object Updater (James Curran)
Solving Major Database Contention Problems with Throttling and Akka.NET Streams (Aaron Stannard)
.NET 8– Upgrade warnings (Bart Wullems)
How do I specify an optional parameter to a Windows Runtime method? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Updates to Azure DevOps Demo Generator and Labs (Gloridel Morales)
VBScript Deprecation impact and solution on installer packages (Renato Ivanescu)
Bulk Text Analytics with Azure AI Language (Matt Eland)
Combine Semantic Kernel with Azure Machine Learning prompt flow (Roman Mullier)
Secure Install Properties (Radu Popescu)
Advanced Installer 21.3 (Advanced Installer Team)
Weak-to-strong generalization (OpenAI Team)
How AI helps make public health truly public (Dr. Garth Graham)
How LinkedIn Levels up Your Skillset … with AI (Joab Jackson)
DiffEdit: Editing Images using Generative AI (Jonny Spruce)
Managing Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) access for Faculty and Higher Education 18+ student (Jethro Seghers)
DZone Trend Report – Enterprise Security – Securing Applications Across the Software Supply Chain (Vishwa Ratna, Akanksha Pathak, Apostolos Giannakidis, Ochuko Onojakpor, Pratik Prakash, Jihana Barrett & G. Ryan Spain)
Setup an Environment for Copilot Studio (Shantha Kumar T.)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building Modern Angular Apps with Ionic and Standalone Components (Simon Grimm)
SwiftUI Tutorials – Introducing SwiftUI (Apple Developer Docs) – All new and updated tutorials
Salesforce: What’s New in Mobile SDK 11.0 and 11.1 (Galen Lewis)

Screencasts & Videos

Azure SQL DB High Availability & Disaster Recovery overview | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
GPT-4 Turbo with Vision + Azure AI Vision | Microsoft Mechanics (Seth Juarez)
Customizing borders & corners | .NET MAUI Minutes | On .NET (Maddy Montequila)
Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Work On (Microsoft 365 Team)
2023: Year of AI (Satya Nadella)
SNEAK PEAK – new custom M1 macOS runners with Christina Warren (GitHub)
The Download: DIY Split-Flap Display, OSS Steam Deck Resources, GTA VI Trailer and more (Christina Warren)
Why would you want to use an AI plugin? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Developer Experience for the 99% (Jean Yang)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Building a better internet with Cloudflare’s Rita Kozlov (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Measuring Autonomy, A Scrum Master’s Success Metric | Robert Briese (Vasco Duarte)
Jamstack Radio Episode #138 – What’s New with Next.js Featuring Nick Taylor of OpenSauced (Brian Douglas)
Authorization in Software Podcast – Fine Grained Authorization, Open Source and Topaz (Damian Schenkelman & Omri Gazitt)
Rocket 468: This One Was Epic (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can an AI get depressed? (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 263: Stories Every Developer Can Relate To (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Talk Python to Me #442: Ultra High Speed Message Parsing with msgspec (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group (W3C Team)
Cruise lays off nearly a quarter of the company after GM slashes driverless spending (Andrew J. Hawkins)
Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Jodie Burchell (David McCarter)
Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (Jon Porter)
Webinar – Chris Woodruff – Mastering OData: An In-Depth Developer’s Guide (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Database

Grant SQL Server Permissions to a Folder for Backups or Database Files (Levi Masonde)
Cumulative Update #24 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
What is OneLake in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)
Documenting What Microsoft Won’t: The sys.sp_configure_automatic_tuning Stored Procedure (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Effective file management with the next generation of OneDrive app for Microsoft Teams (Noga Ronen)
Web content in Microsoft Mesh, powered by WebView (Sean Kerawala)
Announcing updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability (TJ Devine)

Miscellaneous

DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection for Android is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2915 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1 (Vitaly Bragilevsky)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3846 (Chris Alcock)
Code Maze Weekly #196 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Daily Reading List – December 14, 2023 (#224) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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