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Dew Drop – October 25, 2023 (#4054)

Dew Drop – April 5, 2023 (#3915)

Web & Cloud Development

Load YouTube Embed Videos When Needed With JavaScript (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Improving the Azure OpenAI models in Power Automate to save people time (Stephen Siciliano & Walter Sun)
What’s New in Syncfusion Blazor: 2023 Volume 1 (Rajendran R.)
Let’s Build a React Admin Dashboard Sample App—Part 2 (Thomas Findlay)
Exploring PCx86, an IBM PC emulator written in JavaScript and Playing Alley Cat, a classic MS-DOS game, from your web browser (Tough Developer)
Debugging OpenID Connect claim problems in ASP.NET Core (Tore Nestenius)
How Authentication and Authorization Work for SPAs (Alisa Duncan)
Build Minimal APIs in .NET 7 (Beau Carnes)
Electron 24.0.0 (George Xu)
Improve your time to first API call by 20x (Joyce)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Add C++ Dependencies to Your .NET MAUI MSIX Package (Alex Marin)
Part 2: Things to Consider When Planning Your Migration from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)
Avalonia .NET UI Framework Picks Up Steam as Milestone Release Nears (David Ramel)
Promptdle Mobile (Joachim Leonfellner)

Visual Studio & .NET

Turning off Tracking for Find and FindAsync in Entity Framework (Bryan Hogan)
C# 11.0 new features: Span pattern matching (Ian Griffiths)
Myths about F#: We can’t use F# because we can’t rewrite everything from C#! You don’t have to, use Interop. (Urs Enzler)
Source Generators and Regular Expressions (Steven Giesel)
How to Write Logs From Startup.cs/Program.cs in .NET (Code Maze)
What is the maximum size of a process environment block? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Slack in your plans (Martin Fowler)
Let’s Talk about STRESS, Baby! (‘Tine Zekis)
Introducing the “Visual Studio Marketplace Publisher” GitHub Action (Calvin A. Allen)
Updated Connectors Results in Microsoft in Bing (Bill Baer)
Escape the matrix (Eric Brechner)
What Is Technical Debt? Definitions, Examples, and More (Kate Shapiro)
Community forks: A new, easier way to contribute to GitLab (Lee Tickett)
How Can We Make Identity Accessible for Everyone? (Mallory Sword Glenn)
Detecting AI-Generated Content (Munish Munagala)
Google Bard updates its language model to develop proficiency in Maths and combat ChatGPT (Priya Walia)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Connecting to AWS IoT’s MQTT Server with .Net (j2inet)
Made with Unity Monthly: March 2023 roundup (Unity Community Team)
Test our new Code Editor for young people (Phil Howell)

Screencasts & Videos

Who should be using Azure Functions? | One Dev Question (Melony Qin)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 121: Ben’s Testing Tribulations (Ben Nadel)
React Native Radio 263 – Shopify Goes React Native! (Colin Gray, Robin Heinze, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Helping Scrum Teams by Establishing Trust and Shared Understanding with Product Owners | Oguz Ozyurt (Vasco Duarte)
RunAs Radio – IPv6 and Azure Active Directory with Pierre Roman (Richard Campbell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 511 – From Smalltalk to smart contracts, reflecting on 50 years of programming (Ben Popper)
Practical AI Podcast – Accelerated data science with a Kaggle grandmaster (Christof Henkel, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Nikil Nandagopal (Isaac Levin)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 569 – From cryptography to consensus: Q&A with CTO David Schwartz on building blockchain apps (Ryan Donovan)
Made By Google Podcast – Don’t try this at home: Fall Detection on Pixel Watch (Rachid Finge)

Community & Events

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? April 2023 Edition (Brent Ozar)
Amazon Lays Off About 100 Employees in Its Gaming Divisions (msmash)
Get help with technical questions from experts and peers on Microsoft Q&A (Sandra Aldana)
What’s new with GitHub Sponsors (Jessica Lord)

Database

Cheat Sheet for SQL Server DBA Daily Operations (Eric Blinn)
Introducing Oracle Database 23c Free — Developer Release (Erin Dawson)
5 reasons to use Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer integration (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | April 2023 (Mike Tholfsen)
3 ways to improve productivity and reduce costs with Microsoft Teams Phone (Nicole Herskowitz)
Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint (Vesa Juvonen)

Miscellaneous

An email from my younger self (Bill Gates)
How to elegantly organize async Rust code (DatenLord)
The New Xbox Wireless Controller – Remix Special Edition Is Made Partly from Reclaimed CDs, Water Jugs… and Other Controllers’ Parts (Daniel Ruiz)
Introducing the Microsoft Surface Thunderbolt™ 4 Dock (Yaron Galitzky)

The Geek Shelf

Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 28, 2021 (#3369)

Web & Cloud Development

The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid (Chris Coyier)
Implement OAUTH Device Code Flow with Azure AD and ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
WebStorm 2021.1 Early Access Program Is Now Open! (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Using Roles in Blazor WebAssembly Hosted Applications (Marinko Spasojevic)
Deploying AWS Lambdas across environments (Matthew Casperson)
PhpStorm 2020.3.2 is released (Roman Pronskiy)
It’s Time to Support CSS Dark Mode (Steve Fenton)
How to prepare for a Microsoft Azure Certification Exam (Thomas Maurer)
HTML Review Draft — Published 29 January 2020 is a W3C Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)
Building a social media platform without going bankrupt: Part III–Reading posts (Oren Eini)
Using fetch with TypeScript (Kent C. Dodds)
undefined vs. null revisited (Axel Rauschmayer)
7 places to host your Jamstack site (Jeremy Morgan)
ARM Template Specs now Public Preview! (Ángel Pérez)
Web Document Editor: Using Document Permissions (Bjoern Meyer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Replicating Talent Casting UI in Xamarin.Forms (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

OSC mixer control in C# (Jon Skeet)
Syncfusion Visual Studio Extensions are Compatible with .NET 5.0 (Kannan)
ReSharper 2021.1 roadmap (Matt Ellis)
Seamlessly Accelerate CMake Projects in Visual Studio with Incredibuild (Nick Uhlenhuth)
Akka.NET Dependency Injection Best Practices (Aaron Stannard)
.NET GC Internals – the Mark phase (Konrad Kokosa)

Design, Methodology & Testing

MSIX Downgrades (Alex Marin)
On the importance of a Team Manifesto (Chris Kurzeja)
Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 303 – How to use GitHub Actions from Azure App Service (Michael Crump)
Avoiding a Big Ball of Mud (Derek Comartin)
Who’s testing in your team? (Emma Lilliestam)
An Illustrator 25.1 Update for Plugin Developers (Erin Finnegan)
Quick Fixes (George Stocker)
Learning from Incidents (Jessica DeVita & Nick Stenning)
7 Tools for Testing Software Without Code in 2021 (Karl Hughes)
TeamCity 2020.2.2 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
The Ultimate Experience: A Guide to the Principles of Sensory Design (Micah Bowers)
How to Put Ethical Design Front and Center in 2021 (Suzanne Scacca)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Apple’s next iOS 14 beta will begin forcing developers to ask for permission to track you (Nick Statt)
Azure Data Explorer Dashboards for IoT Data (Basim Majeed)
Humans of Mixed Reality: It Is No Longer A Science Fiction (Adityo Setyonugroho)
Unity 2021.1 beta is available for feedback (Andrew Bowell)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – The Deno Show (Wes Bos)
GCast 101: Azure Resource Groups (David Giard)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 007: Origin Stories, Part I (Ben Nadel)
Using AzureAD B2C for authenticating users | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Christos Matskas & Christer Ljung)
Wisconsin .Net User Group Advanced Debugging for .NET Applications Build on Docker Microservices (Ozcode)
Ascend | Accelerating Data Engineering with Azure | Tech Exceptions (Golnaz Alibeigi, Adi Polak & Sheel Choksi)
8 Bits with Taylor Sternberg! (Brandon Minnick & Chloe Condon)
Design Details 382: Designing Phygital Experiences (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
Web Rush Episode 118: Fails, Wins, and The Future of the Web (John Papa Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)

Community & Events

The Dev Talk Show (Feb 3rd) – “Developers have a high tolerance for pain” with Jess Chadwick and The Dev Talk Show (Feb 10th) – What is Snowflake? The Cloud Database with the Huge IPO (Andy Schwam, Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
Take part in the Developer Ecosystem 2021 survey! (Anastassiya Sichkarenko)
Reconnect Series: Ken Marlin (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)

Database

SQL Server LIKE Examples (Ben Snaidero)
Transfer Schema of Table – SQL in Sixty Seconds #152 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Scripting languages on Windows: a broader view (Michael Niehaus)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete (David Ramel)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21301 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Microsoft cut carbon emissions 6% last year, predicts climate investments will pay off in long run (Lisa Stiffler)
Bill Gates calls for ‘mega testing’ and global disease alert system to prevent the next pandemic (Todd Bishop)

The Geek Shelf

Righting Software (Juval Löwy) – Referral Link

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