Dew Drop – February 24, 2023 (#3887)

Top Links

• Reference GitHub Issues and Pull Requests in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)
• 6 Chrome Extensions Every Web Developer Should Know in 2023 (Nipuni Arunodi)
• A beginner’s guide to learning to code with GitHub Codespaces (Rizel Scarlett)
• eBook: Blazor WebAssembly Succinctly (Michael Washington)
• Announcing Postman’s New GraphQL Client (Sterling Chin)
• Updated Modern Code Generation for WinForm’s InitializeComponent (Klaus Loeffelmann)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Make an Outbound Text-to-Speech Phone Call with Node.js (Michael Crump)
• The Blazor NavigationManager (Kristoffer Strube)
• Add Auth0 Authentication to Blazor Hybrid Apps in .NET MAUI (Andrea Chiarelli)
• eBook: Blazor Hybrid and Web in One Solution (Ed Charbeneau)
• Skilling snack: Intro to Azure Active Directory (Dave Davies)
• Introducing a New Developer Distribution Portal for Listing UXP Plugins in the Creative Cloud… (Agandhi)
• 5 Steps to Modernize Large Websites using OAuth (Gary Archer)
• Getting Started Microsoft Graph SDK (Lee Stott)
• How edge functions move your back end close to your front end (Giridhar Talla)
• Show Your gRPC APIs in Action with Examples (Shobhit Katikia)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Challenge 5: Telerik Barcode and AvatarView in .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Leomaris Reyes)
• WPF Begins its Long Goodbye (Matthew MacDonald)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Reauthenticate Visual Studio Code Access Tokens (C. Meadows)
• Different Types of Comments in C# and Should We Use Them (Code Maze)
• Maximizing Team Collaboration and Productivity with Visual Studio 2022 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why am I getting an unhandled exception from my C++ function that catches all exceptions? (Raymond Chen)
• What To Be Wary of With Iterators and Collections in C# (Nick Cosentino)
• Command Line Diagnostics in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Agile Velocity vs Capacity Planning: A PM’s Handbook for Optimizing Developer Throughput (Tyler Hakes)
• Bean Machine Retrospective, part 8 (Eric Lippert)
• A thought on workplace flexibility and asynchrony and Epistemology of interaction testing (Mark Seemann)
• Getting Pedantic About API Contract Testing (Kin Lane)
• Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet (Adi Robertson)
• OpenAI Use Cases: Adapting to Change (Colin Dvorak)
• The Challenge of Microservices: UI Composition (Derek Comartin)
• What Is Microservices Architecture? (Eric Schabell)
• How to strengthen security by applying DevSecOps principles (Niall Cregan)
• Machine learning and DevSecOps: Inside the OctoML/GitLab integration (Sameer Farooqui)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• The code that wasn’t there: Reading memory on an Android device by accident (Man Yue Mo)
• Building And Releasing Your Capacitor iOS App (Simon Grimm)
• Improving and expanding use cases: Physics changes in Unity 2022.2 (Anthony Yakovlev & Siobhan Fitzgerald-Gibson)
• You Already Have What You Need to Build a Native Mobile App (Jacklin Altman)

Screencasts & Videos

• Why We do Tech Outreach with Coding By Sophy – Hanselminutes Podcast 879 (Scott Hanselman)
• How do I get started with Azure API Management? | One Dev Question (Mike Budzynski)
• RDBMS and Setup [1 of 7] | Programming Databases with T-SQL for Beginners (Marisa Matthews & Buck Woody)
• .NET Systems Programming Learned the Hard Way – Webinar Recording (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Video-Calling React App with Agora and Syncfusion (Prashant Yadav)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Daring to be Different with Raji Rajagopalan (Scott Hanselman)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 072 – AWS Amplify Flutter with Abdallah Shaban (David Isbitski)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Unix Philosophy (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Rocket 426: Cool ISIS Video (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 541 – ML and AI consulting-as-a-service (Eira May)
• UX Podcast #309 – Container queries and design thinking (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Web Rush Episode 222: Micro Front Ends with Manfred Steyer (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• Software Engineering Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions (Kanchan Shringi)

Community & Events

• Google Summer of Code 2023… Here We Come! (Alyssa Tong & Jean-Marc Meessen)
• Get ready for the first week of Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET (Ayca Bas)
• Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Rust Foundation Focusing on Safety and Dev Outreach in 2023 (Loraine Lawson)

Database

• SQL SERVER 2022 and Instant File Initialization for Log File (Pinal Dave)
• How to Install the AdventureWorks Sample Database in Azure SQL Database (Koen Verbeeck)
• Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for SQL Server (Peter Carlin)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Get Started with Microsoft Teams Premium (Margi Desai)
• Power Automate desktop flows in Dataverse updates (Dimitri Bekiropoulos)
• Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.17 – First release of upcoming features (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell

• PowerShell and AI: Using ChatGPT with PowerShell to Automate Tasks (April Edwards)
• PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code February 2023 Update (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Google’s bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users (Mitchell Clark)
• Measuring government policy on open source with a new dataset (Mike Linksvayer)
• Microsoft has been secretly testing its Bing chatbot ‘Sydney’ for years (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3653 (Chris Alcock)
• Build5Nines Weekly – February 23, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

 Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Miri Rodriguez) – Referral Link