Dew Drop – April 4, 2023 (#3914)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Core Route Tooling Enhancements in .NET 8 (James Newton-King)
• Behind-the-Design: Meet Copilot (Jon Friedman & Kurtis Beavers)
• Fluent UI Insights Episode 05: Theming in v9 (Fluent UI Team)
• How WebAssembly is accelerating new web functionality (Thomas Nattestad)
• Looking at C# 12 Proposals and Beyond (Michael Shpilt)

Web & Cloud Development

• Adding client-side validation to ASP.NET Core, without jQuery or unobtrusive validation (Andrew Lock)
• WebView2 end-user FAQ (Microsoft Learn)
• Distributed training with PyTorch and Azure ML (Bea Stollnitz)
• Mammoth – A cross-platform Mastodon Client (PWA) (Justin Willis)
• Azure Communication Services April 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
• CSS text-wrap: balance (Adam Argyle)
• WebKitGTK accelerated compositing rendering (Carlos Garcia Campos)
• Skype for Business usage reports deprecation in Microsoft Graph production and beta endpoints (Microsoft Graph Team)
• Automating Image Workflows with the Photoshop API (Raymond Camden)
• GoLand 2023.1 Is Out! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Introducing the ‘Super Clean’ Visual Studio extension! (Calvin A. Allen)
• How to Remove All Whitespace Characters From a String in C#? (Code Maze)
• This is Probably My Last LINQ to Twitter Post (Joe Mayo)
• Custom UI: Drag and Drop Merge Fields into the Document Editor (Bjoern Meyer)
• Listing all available ETW events in a .NET application (Gérald Barré)
• C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator (Raymond Chen)
• What Is The Difference Between An Array, ArrayList And A List? (Mahesh Chand)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• My Journey to Agile (David Giard)
• Unpacking the SAFe Debate. Is it Agile, or Something Else? (Dave Prior)
• “Data driven” decisions aren’t innovative decisions (Chelsea Troy)
• Quick Tip: Pull Data from an API into a Figma Layer (Daniel Schwarz)
• Tracing Notifications (George Luong)
• Outlining the structure of your open source software project (Leonard Pahlke)
• Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise (Jim Boyle)
• Managing Large Repositories with Git LFS (Kunal Chowdhury)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Google’s Nearby Share arrives on Windows to let you transfer files between PC and Android (Tom Warren) – Built with Flutter
• Introducing Unity Industry: Create and scale your real-time 3D vision (Tony Faccenda)
• Ionic & Capacitor: The Best Path For Performance (Logan Brade)
• Kotlin 1.8.20 Released (Danil Pavlov)
• What’s new in WindowManager 1.1.0-beta01 (Jon Eckenrode)

Screencasts & Videos

• The Basics of Prompt Engineering with Azure OpenAI Service | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez & Marco Casalaina)
• Live Coding – Uno Platform Android keyboard and TV remote input (Martin Zikmund)
• The Download: GitHub Actions VS Code Extension, Developer Conference Season, LEGO GameCube and more (Christina Warren)
• Inclusive Coding Unlocked: Visual Studio’s Powerful Accessibility Features (Anna White & Dante Gagne)
• Take Pictures in .NET MAUI with the Camera.MAUI CameraView! (Gerald Versluis)
• Flutter, Dart, and WASM-GC: A new model for Web applications @ Wasm I/O 2023 (Kevin Moore)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Fungi Dube (Maurice Cherry)
• Kubernetes with Thomas Vitale – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 239 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Importance of Defining Done and Partnering with the Product Owner, to help the Scrum team deliver | Oguz Ozyurt (Vasco Duarte)
• The PowerShell Podcast – The Just Us League With Andrew and Jordan (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 115 – How to Approach Cloud in a Cloudy Way, not As Somebody Else’s Computer? (Anton Chuvakin)
• Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – Leadership Principles (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Partner showcase: Syskit with Hrvoje Bagaric (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)

Community & Events

• Calling all open source maintainers (Abby Cabunoc Mayes)
• Become a Google Developer Student Club lead (Rachel Francois)
• Apple has reportedly started a small number of corporate layoffs (Mitchell Clark)

Database

• New ways to bring MongoDB data and apps to Azure Cosmos DB (Simon Bisson)
• Azure SQL News Update: 2023 Q1 (Anna Hoffman)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: April 2023 (Mark Kashman)

PowerShell

• Public preview update: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks (Azure Team)
• Installing PnP PowerShell 2.x On Windows 10 (Vinay Ayinapurapu)

Miscellaneous

• Multi-Class Classification Using a scikit Neural Network (James McCaffrey)
• Outside (Brandon Sanderson)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23424 (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3680 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-14 (#66) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #97 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 3, 2023 (#059) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #549 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft)