Dew Drop – April 26, 2023 (#3930)

Top Links

• Supercharge your Teams app development: New integration for Teams Toolkit & Developer Portal (Ji Dong)
• Microsoft Graph .NET SDK: New organization name for NuGet packages (Maisa Rissi)
• Can ChatGPT modernize my VB6 app? (John Browne)
• GitHub Copilot for CLI for PowerShell (Scott Hanselman)
• Drawing Elements on Maps with .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)
• Let’s Learn .NET Virtual Events – All Around the World (Matt Soucoup)

Web & Cloud Development

• Angular and React Component Inception (Kevin Logan)
• #30DaysOfAzureAI 23. Data Science for Beginners (Bethany Jepchumba)
• How to check the status of an Angular Reactive Form’s Control (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Unit Test 11ty Pages With Vitest and Typescript and Introduction to ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Choose the best global distribution solution for your applications with Azure (Mahip Deora)
• Will JavaScript Become the Most Popular WebAssembly Language? (Mary Branscombe)
• How to convert Figma components to Next.js with Tailwind CSS (Murat Yüksel)
• Maximize Performance with Load-on-Demand and Virtualization Features in Essential JS 2 TreeGrid (Alan Sangeeth)
• Search Relevance for Microsoft Graph Connectors – A look under the hood (Bill Baer)
• These top database APIs make working with data easy (Khushboo Goel)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Part 5: Tip & Tricks for Migrating from Xamarin to .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Migrating Animations from Xamarin Forms to Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
• Contributing to Windows Community Toolkit Now Easier (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Fast Inserts With Entity Framework (EF Core) (Code Maze)
• New Sample: Implementing a Dark Mode for the Document Editor (Bjoern Meyer)
• ScriptDOM .NET library for T-SQL parsing is now open source (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• A code comment noting the steps to take when a 256th enum field is added (Raymond Chen)
• How to End-to-End Test SMS Applications with C# .NET and Twilio (Niels Swimberghe)
• .NET Framework April 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates (Salini Agarwal)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT With Custom Knowledge Base (Timothy Mugayi)
• Amazing! I Created My Own Image-Based Chatbot Powered By ChatGPT API + Azure (Yeyu Huang)
• 10 Best AI Tools for Creatives (Simon Sterne)
• Finding Your Peace (‘Tine Zekis)
• Tiny gems: Sketch improvements you might have missed (Alexandra Hemmer)
• Super-charging ‘git rebase’ with ‘git absorb’ (Andrew Lock)
• Pulumi Rocks AI-Infused Infrastructure as Code Platform (Darryl K. Taft)
• OpenAI will let you turn off your chat history in ChatGPT (Emma Roth)
• How to Use the Space Git Flow With TeamCity (Evgenia Verbina)
• Apple is reportedly building a paid AI health coach (Jay Peters)
• Codeless API Testing: Definition, Importance and Tools (John Iwuozor)
• The Power of Persistent Memory with Semantic Kernel and Qdrant Vector Database (Tara Walker)
• Git security vulnerabilities announced (Taylor Blau)

Screencasts & Videos

• Managing Connections in Azure Data Studio, Part 2 | Open at Microsoft (Erin Stellato & Cheena Malhotra)
• GitHub Copilot: Using Voice to Code (GitHub Team)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 450 (Jason Bock)
• Bring your SQL expertise to the Data Lake with Serverless SQL Pools | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Rie Irish & Andy Cutler)

Podcasts

• Made by Google Podcast – Inside the Pixel: A Conversation with Google’s Product Director (Rachid Finge)
• Practical AI Podcast – Causal inference (Paul Hünermund, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• RunAs Radio – Building Your Data Analytics Team at SQLBits! (Maria Zakourdaev, Falek Miah, Anupama Natarajan & Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast #333 – Live From PyCon (Michael Kennedy)
• Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Digital Is The Battlefield with Dr. Alethea Duhon (Rob Slaughter)

Community & Events

• An update on Twitter Transparency Reporting (Twitter)
• Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse (Fedi.Directory Team)
• Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May! (Abby Cabunoc Mayes)
• #WeArePlay | Meet Maria, AnnMaria and Dennis from the USA. More stories from around the world (Leticia Lago)
• Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO (Kyle Daigle)
• Microsoft Project and Planner Ask Me Anything on TechCommunity – Wednesday, May 10, 2023 (Microsoft Project Team)
• Meet the Skilling Champion Frank Carius (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

• Learn about SQL NULL values and how SQL Server handles NULL in Queries (Joe Gavin)
• Book Review: SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices (Ian Stirk)
• Adding microseconds to a timestamp in Azure Data Factory (Rayis Imayev)
• Fight for every byte it takes: Variable size data (Oren Eini)
• 7 ways businesses can improve the quality and speed of database releases (Tony Davis)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s new for security in the new Microsoft Teams? (Andrey Belenko)

Miscellaneous

• GM is ending Chevy Bolt EV and EUV production at the end of the year (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• Microsoft stock rises 4% as tech giant beats expectations with $52.9B in Q3 revenue (Taylor Soper)
• Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing and Microsoft Q3 2023: Windows, devices, and Xbox down again (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3694 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 25, 2023 (#075) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications (Jesse Liberty & Rodrigo Juarez) – Referral Link – Kindle edition is under $20 today!