Dew Drop – January 19, 2023 (#3861)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3 is here! (Anthony Cangialosi)
• EFCore.VisualBasic – Adds VB design-time support to EF Core – Release v7.0.0 (Brice Lambson)
• Announcing PostSharp 2023: Support for .NET 7.0 and C# 11 (Gael Fraiteur)
• .NET Rocks! – Fusion Development with Vishwas Lele (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? Stanford scholar explains (Melissa de Witte)
• Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1! Better, faster MVVM source generators, .NET 7 support, and more! (Sergio Pedri)

Web & Cloud Development

• GraphQL & Azure Functions – Part 1 (Poornima Nayar)
• ASCII String to Lowercase in Go (Karl Seguin)
• Azure OpenAI is now generally available (Carlotta Caste)
• Progress Telerik REPL for Blazor – The best place to play, experiment, share & learn using Blazor (Progress Telerik Team)
• Efficient way to Update Azure VM Data Disks Using Bicep (Danidu Weerasinghe)
• New storage providers for Azure Durable Functions now generally available (Lily Ma)
• Generate images with DALL·E 2 and Twilio SMS using ASP.NET Core (Volkan Paksoy)
• It’s 2023, You Should Be Using Typescript! (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Web resilience is about users – not a shortcut for developers (Chris Heilmann)
• How the Web Enables Building Superapps (Jacklin Altman)
• How to Review Postman Test Results (Joyce)
• On-Scroll Typography Animations (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical Cryptography with Go (Schmuio)
• Leverage Go workspaces for multi-module local development (Solomon Esenyi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Add ML-Assisted Handwritten Digit Recognizer with C# to your Mobile Apps (Uno Platform Team)
• Styling Apps with CSS in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Create an RDL Report in .NET C# Code (Mateen Firoz)
• How to Get The List of Properties in C# (Code Maze)
• Deconstruction in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
• .NET Native AOT and Libraries and Trivial example and Multiplying two integers from Rust and Silly (Eric Sink)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The new DevOps performance clusters (Steve Fenton)
• New in Sketch: Annotations, Templates, Document Libraries and more (Sketch Team)
• The Full-Stack Developer Fallacy (Ted Neward)
• Bringing editing into the modern era: A revitalized experience for all (Chris Kaundart)
• McDonald’s Journey to Event-Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
• 5 key benefits of a microservice architecture (Lee Brandt)
• GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions (Sergio De Simone)
• Jay Cincotta: Focus on people instead of tools (Steven Hicks)
• 6 Success Stories Where Application Modernization Helped Reduce Tech Debt (Tejas Kaneriya)
• Lift and Shift vs. Refactoring vs. Rewriting: Prioritize Modernization Efforts (Tejas Kaneriya)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Build an Animated Soccer Rating Hexagon in Flutter (Prateek Sharma)
• Screenshots and automated publishing for pub.dev (Jonas Finnemann Jensen)

Screencasts & Videos

• .NET MAUI – Working with images (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Vite-Powered SPAs in ASP.NET Core Projects (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts

• Azure for Executives Podcast – Rebooting the podcast with Paul Maher and David Starr (David Starr & Paul Maher)
• Azure for Executives Podcast – Moving to the cloud using Azure Landing Zones with Jeff Mitchell and Dom Allen (David Starr)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Implementing OKR’s in a distributed Agile organization | Gert Brits (Vasco Duarte)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 110: Measuring Impact At Work (Ben Nadel)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Everyone Listening Is Fired (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Liquid Templates With Martin Tirion – Adventures in .NET 139 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 259: T-SQL Snapshot Backups (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – On Product Management and Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – Being Product-Led (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
• Talk Python to Me #399: Monorepos in Python (Michael Kennedy)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 540 – How Intuit improves security, latency, and development velocity with a service mesh (Ryan Donovan)
• Women in Technology Podcast – Building Yourself from the Ground Up (WiT Team)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 547: Nicholas Manson on Identity Management for Cloud Applications (Kanchan Shringi)

Community & Events

• Filing: Amazon layoffs will impact at least 2,300 employees in Seattle region (Kurt Schlosser)
• Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity (Satya Nadella)
• Amazon Kicks Off Round of Job Cuts Affecting 18,000 People (msmash)
• Xbox boss Phil Spencer honored at the New York Game Awards 2023 (Robert Collins)
• Office Insider is now Microsoft 365 Insider! (Susan Cockrell)
• Microsoft and Amazon job cuts mark new phase for tech industry after decade of massive growth and Amazon axing charity program AmazonSmile in latest shutdown (Taylor Soper)
• Microsoft says it has changed its ‘hardware portfolio’ amid layoffs (Tom Warren)
• Share your feedback about developing with Go (Alice Merrick)

Database

• Public Preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for SQL Server 2022 and Public Preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases via Azure Arc (Azure Team)
• Query SQL Server Data Based on Various Date and Time Functions (Joe Gavin)
• Announcing Microsoft Azure Support for Couchbase Capella™, Our Industry-Leading Database-as-a-Service (Tim Rottach)
• The 20th Anniversary of the SQL Slammer Worm (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Building an Application for Microsoft Teams with Blazor (Sivakumar R.)
• First impressions on the new Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

• Logistic Regression from Scratch Using Raw Python (James McCaffrey)
• The Importance of Open Source Street Map Data (Bing Team)
• Mailchimp Says It Was Hacked – Again (msmash)
• It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking a user by modifying that user’s files (Raymond Chen)
• Supercharge Your Social Media With a New Link in Bio Page (Semiha Kocer)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3627 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – January 18, 2023 (#011) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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