web workers – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 25, 2024 (#4177)

Top Links

Unit Testing with Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey and Dmytro Struk)
Unlock the Power of Small Language Models with Phi-3 and Azure AI Studio (Lee Stott)
Join us for Azure Developers – .NET Day on April 30! (Jon Galloway)
Thoughts on Primary Constructors in C# (Jeremy Clark)
Introducing .NET MAUI Community Tookit v8: TouchBehavior support is here! (Gerald Versluis)
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 5 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

How to upload a file with Blazor SSR in .NET 8? (Jon Hilton)
What’s New in .NET Aspire Preview 6 (Microsoft Learn)
aspireify.NET collects samples, articles, videos, and podcasts about the coolest discussions in the .NET Aspire community (Jeff Fritz)
Speed up your Angular App with Web Workers (Andrew Peterson)
Node.js 22 is now available! (Node.js Team)
Kubernetes 1.30: Structured Authentication Configuration Moves to Beta (Anish Ramasekar)
Azure SDK Release (April 2024) (Hector Norzagaray)
MudBlazor with Blazor SSR – What You Need To Know (Nick Cosentino)
What’s New in React Query Builder: 2024 Volume 1 (Satheeskumar S.)
Inline Editing in Blazor Rich Text Editor: An Overview (Thangavel E.)
Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore? (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Meet Studio: Your New Favorite Way to Develop WordPress Locally (Wojtek Naruniec)
Securing identity: Exploring application types and authentication flows (Adam Matthews)
Announcing New Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Features in Pulumi Cloud (Joe Duffy)
Going to Cloud? Look at the Shared Responsibility Model (K. Brian Kelley)
Pulumi Launches Scheduled Deployments: Automate Recurring Workflows (Levi Blackstone)
New Pulumi Deployments Free Tier for Everyone: Automate Your Infrastructure Workflows (Meagan Cojocar)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET-Centric Uno Platform Debuts ‘Single Project’ for 9 Targets (David Ramel)
WPF or .NET MAUI—How to Choose (Rossitza Fakalieva) – Or WinUI?
Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Sunburst Chart to Visualize the Most Popular Wikipedia Articles (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)

Visual Studio & .NET

Type pattern matching in C# and TypeScript (Bart Wullems)
Working with IAsyncEnumerable in C# (Camilo Reyes)
C# 13 Params Collections (Fons Sonnemans)
How to Show the Generated SQL Query in EF Core (John Ademola)
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 6 (Raymond Chen)
Code It Any Way You Want: Comparison of Passing Parameters in Methods (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Developers save up to 8 hours per week with JetBrains AI Assistant (Irina Mariasova)
OpenAI Assistant Starter Kit Updated with AssistantStream (Stephen Walther)
Announcing Online.AIStoryBuilders.com: A Step-by-Step Guide (Michael Washington)
Azure AI Studio Preview – Model Catalog – Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct (Azure Team)
Vertical Slice Architecture Myths You Need To Know! (Derek Comartin)
Using AI For Neurodiversity And Building Inclusive Tools (Pratik Joglekar)
Leading in the era of AI: How Microsoft’s platform differentiation and Copilot empowerment are driving AI Transformation (Judson Althoff)
7 Leadership Communication Skills for Managing a Remote Team (Radical Candor Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Apple’s new AI model hints at how AI could come to the iPhone (Emilia David)
Mt32-pi Atari ST | The MagPi #141 (Brian Jepson)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 206 – Train Strike (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Build a Podcast Copilot with .NET & Power Apps: Power Apps and Microsoft Copilot Studio Integration | The Low Code Revolution (Gomolemo Mohapi)
What’s the origin of VS Code? | One Dev Question (Burke Holland)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 175: Overcompensation, Mentoring, And More (Ben Nadel)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Embracing the Stretch Zone, Tools for Personal and Agile Team Growth | Paul Jarvis and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Key Indicators of Success for Agile Teams and Their Scrum Masters That You Can Reflect On | Paul Jarvis (Vasco Duarte)
Jamstack Radio Episode #146 – Help Desks for Modern Teams with Brian Levine of Yetto (Brian Douglas)
Syntax Podcast #760: Pro VS Code Setups (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
.NET Rocks! – Visually Debugging EF Queries with Giorgi Dalakishvili (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Amp Hour #665 – Really long needle nose pliers (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Web Rush Episode 278: Python Web Apps (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Talk Python to Me #458: Serverless Python in 2024 (Michael Kennedy)
Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – Data on the Move—Migrating to OneDrive (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)

Community & Events

Introducing Augment: a company dedicated to empowering developers with AI (Dion Almaer)
VSLive Chicago 2024 – April 29 – May 3 (VSLive Team) – Come see me next week in Chicago!

Database

Why Logical Reads Are A Bad Metric For Query Tuning In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Azure Team)

PowerShell

How To Optimize PowerShell ZIP Handling With the 7-Zip Module (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (Lauren Feiner)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3926 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – April 24, 2024 (#304) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Escape Velocity: Better Metrics for Agile Teams (Doc Norton) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 24, 2023 (#3928)

Top Links

What’s next for the Microsoft Fluent UI library for Blazor? (Vincent Baaij)
How to create a mobile app with .NET MAUI in 10 easy steps (Luis Matos)
Building an Apple I from Parts with SmartyKit.io – Part 2 (Scott Hanselman)
Deep dive – Uno Platform Template Wizard – Projects, Testing and Features (Nick Randolph)
Improving the Syntax Highlighting of JavaScript in Visual Studio (Armando Aguirre)

Web & Cloud Development

Alphabetically Sort Names in an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Kubernetes 1.27: Server Side Field Validation and OpenAPI V3 move to GA (Jeffrey Ying & Antoine Pelisse)
How to Return XML From ASP.NET Core Web API (Code Maze)
What is Basic authentication and how to add in ASP.NET Core (David Grace)
First Look: Azure Open AI Studio, Prompt Engineering. What You Can Do and How. (Jamie Maguire)
Angular Basics: All About Ng Generate Component (John Au-Yeung)
New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
ESLint v8.39.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
The Future of Web3: Why PWAs are the Key to Decentralized Applications (Chris Love)
Exploring the Potential of Web Workers for Multithreading on the Web (Sarah Oke Okolo)
WebAssembly for the Server Side: A New Way to NGINX (Matthew Yacobucci)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 12: Preview of Three New Features Coming (Almir Vuk)
10 Awesome C# Refactoring Tips (Assis Zang)
vcpkg 2023.04.15 Release: vcpkg ships in Visual Studio, Xbox triplets, GitHub Actions Cache Support, and More… (Augustin Popa)
C# 11 features I like the most (Neel Bhatt)
MailMerge Class Performance Benchmark (Bjoern Meyer)
Easy Sorting, Filtering and Pagination in .NET With Sieve Package (Phil Broderick)
Protecting a broker from a failing delegate (Raymond Chen)
Setting an Absolute Output Path for .NET SDK Projects (Rick Strahl)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Replacing Myself: Writing Unit Tests with ChatGPT (Ringo Alfonso)
What’s the “unit” in unit testing and why is it not a class (Dennis Doomen)
How To Handle Setbacks Better and How To Practice Calm to Perform Better Under Stress (J.D. Meier)
Domain events and the “Unit of Work” pattern (Steven Giesel)
From Automation to Robotics and AI: The Transformation of Digital Manufacturing in the Industry 5.0 Era (Abhijit Jana)
Bing Preview Release Notes: LaTeX Support in Bing Chat (Bing Team)
AI for Everyone: ChatGPT Prompts That Anyone Can Use (Chris Love)
Separating cargo from the train (Dimitri Glazkov)
Bill Gates Predicts Within 18 Months, AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read (EditorDavid)
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices (Marcus Herrmann)
GitLab 15.11 released with code suggestions (Melissa Ushakov)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Getting started with Sendbird in React Native (Rupesh Chaudhari)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Ryan Booz on PostgreSQL (David Giard)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 449 (Jason Bock)
Easier, Faster Training for your Hugging Face models | The AI Show Live (Cassie Breviu & Jingya Huang)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Work-life Integration and the Modern Workplace (Peter Miscovich)
CppCast – Native Languages (programming and natural) (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
OnPodcast Ep. 110: Windows vs MacOS, more Activision approvals, and Musk vs Microsoft (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
Merge Conflict 355: Previewing the Preview of C# 12 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Advanced Patterns with Angular Directives – Adventures in Angular 379 (Subrat Mishra & Armen Vardanyan)
Approaches on Cost Effectiveness with Omer Hamerman – Adventures in DevOps 159 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Syntax Podcast Episode 604 – Supper Club × ESLint with Nicholas Zakas (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
JS Party Podcast – Making “safe npm” (Bradley Meck Farias, Jerod Santo, Feross Aboukhadijeh & Christopher Hiller)
Rocket 434: Enpoopificaton (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 080 – A Conversation with Stack Overflow CTO Jody Bailey – Part 2 (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #629 – At least my house isn’t haunted (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
AGL 308: Unmesh Srivastava (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Get ready for fsharpConf 2023! (fsharpConf Team)
World Wide Web Consortium seeking next CEO (Amy van der Hiel)
On being a woman and a data professional (Randolph West)
Can’t-Miss Fest Alert: Philly’s Chinese Lantern Festival Returns This Summer (Visit Philly)

Database

Searching between two date values in SQL Server (Hadi Fadlallah)
Stabilizing Migrations to the Cloud with SQL Baselines (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)

PowerShell

PowerShell 7.4.0-preview.3: What It Means for DevOps and System Administrators (Kunal Chowdhury)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3692 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest Issue #451 – April 24, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #16, 2023 – fsharpConf 2023 (Sergey Tihon)
The Overflow #174: This email could have been a meeting (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Daily Wrap Up – April 21, 2023 (#073) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #761 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Last chance to save 20% on my book with code 20DOTNET2 this week.

Dew Drop – July 29, 2019 (#2999)

Top Links

System.Text.Json and new built-in JSON support in .NET Core (Scott Hanselman)
How to Get Started with Flutter (Nick Randolph)
.NET Core Podcast – Reflections on .NET with Pablo Santos and Phil Haack (Jamie Taylor)
Fixing Random, part 40 of 40 (Eric Lippert)
A Simple Introduction to Web Workers in JavaScript (Matthew MacDonald)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 210 – Working with Azure Blueprints (Michael Crump)
Stairway to Azure Data Factory: Building pipeline dependencies (Fikrat Azizov)
Avoiding ping flood in ASP.NET Core health checks (Gunnar Peipman)
Accelerate Application Delivery with Application Templates in Docker Desktop Enterprise (Jim Armstrong)
Setting up CORS request with Windows Integrated Authentication and ASP.net CORE and Building the ASP.net Core Razor Pages site – CORS tutorial and Building the ASP.net Core WebAPI backend – CORS tutorial and Putting it all together – CORS tutorial (Paul Cociuba)
Creating a Ghost Blog on an Azure App Service (Chris Tjoumas)
Advanced Azure App Service Articles and Videos (K. Scott Allen)
ES proposal: optional chaining (Axel Rauschmayer)
Quickly copy DOM attributes from one element to another (Paul Bakaus)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms: How to Clip Images with Rounded Corners (James Montemagno)
Fixing Xamarin.Forms linker issues (Mikolaj Kieres)
Xamarin.Forms – Working with Firebase Analytics (Delpin Susai Raj)
Xamarin.Forms 4 In Action: Rapid Prototyping (Alejandro Ruiz)
Simple data validation in Xamarin Forms (Pieter Nijs)

Visual Studio & .NET

Build Continuous Integration with Jenkins in C# (Charlie Holland)
NuGet Support in Visual Studio for Mac 8.2 (Matt Ward)
JWT Signing using RSASSA-PSS in .NET Core (Scott Brady)
How to handle concurrency in Entity Framework Core (Joydip Kanjilal)
WinForms and .NET Core 3.0 (Vyacheslav Batushin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The Service Layer in Software Development Doesn’t Exist (Peter Vogel)
Quantifying UX: Positioning the clone button (Matej Latin)
DevOps and Mental Models (Ron Vincent)
Introduction to Transformers Architecture (Nikola Živković)
How to Grab a Pull Request Locally with Git Command Line (Steve Smith)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s New in the Alexa Skills Kit: June 2019 Release Roundup (Leo Ohannesian)
Build Azure IoT Apps with .NET Core IoT targeting Raspberry Pi Linux (Dave Glover)
Make text styling more effective with RichText widget (Darshan Kawar)
Writing a Flutter data entry form app for a rental agency (Steve Zwart)
Flutter Animations Cheat Sheet (Tomek Polański)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S9:E4 – What is workplace burnout and how can you stop it (Jeffrey Liebert) (CodeNewbie Team)
Technology & Friends – Ruth Yakubu on Machine Learning tools in Azure (David Giard)
Software Engineering Daily – Data Mesh with Zhamak Deghani (Jeff Meyerson)
Merge Conflict 160: Infrastructure as Code, Signing Packages, & 1 Million Downloads (James Montemagno)
Developer Tea – 3×3 – Uncovering Hidden Information (Jonathan Cutrell)
Weekly Dev Tips – Liskov Substitution (Steve Smith)
Azure API for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and Accelerating HPC Storage with the Azure FXT Edge Filer (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
JSJ BONUS EPISODE: Observables and RxJS Live with Aaron Frost (Charles Max Wood)
AGL 114: Great Big Agile with Jeff Dalton (John Rouda)
TWC9: .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7, Visual Studio 2019 Updates, TypeScript 3.6 Beta and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
Codepunk 049: 20 Years of the Matrix (Bill Ahern)
Coding After Work Podcast Episode 44 – Microsoft Ignite, Call for Content, and developer focus with Anna Chu (Jessica Engström & Jimmy Engström)
Developer on Fire Episode 434 | Enrique López Mañas – Tribe of Programming Titans (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #452 – An Interview with Kieran O’Leary (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Talk Python to Me #222 – Interactive graphs with Bokeh and Python (Michael Kennedy)
Serverless Chats Episode #7: Serverless Laravel using Vapor with Taylor Otwell (Jeremy Daly)

Community & Events

Xamarin and Azure Office Hours Recap: Mid-2019 (Matt Soucoup)

Database

What Is A NoSQL Database (Mahesh Chand)
Integrating Cosmos DB with OData (Part 1) (Hassan Habib)
Winners and Solution – DELETE Qualified Rows From Multiple Tables (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Add A Meetings Calendar to Microsoft Teams (Mike Gannotti)

PowerShell

Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 211 – Working with Azure Functions using PowerShell (Preview) (Michael Crump)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18945 (Brandon LeBlanc)
What’s new for WSL in Insiders Preview Build 18945 (Craig Loewen)
How to Be Fearless In A Technical Interview (Mahesh Chand)
How To Mentally And Physically Prepare For An Interview (See Girl Work)
Microsoft unveils new Cortana app for Windows 10 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2797 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2395 (Mike Gunderloy)
XamarinBites 12 (Nigel Ferrissey)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #269 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #30, 2019 – Fantomas 3.0, new Saturn, .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 and new VS. (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #389 (Frank Boucher)
GameDev News – July 26, 2019 (Brian Peek)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.07.26 (Sasha Rosenbaum)

The Geek Shelf

Flutter in Action (Eric Windmill)

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