Dew Drop – June 8, 2023 (#3960)

Top Links

• Integrating eSignatures in Insurance Claim App using .NET (Sahaya Sweetlin Ponmalar)
• Windows 11’s modern File Explorer UI and RGB lighting controls head to testers (Tom Warren)
• Figma: Apple Design Resources – iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 (Apple)
• .NET Rocks! – OpenTelemetry with Laïla Bougriâ (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Android 14 Beta 3 and Platform Stability (Dave Burke)

Web & Cloud Development

• What’s new in Svelte: June 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
• How to Add UI Components to a Blazor WebAssembly Application (Manish Gupta)
• Azure Communication Services June 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
• Better Images in Astro (Fred Schott & Erika)
• New to the Photoshop API — The ActionJSON API (Raymond Camden)
• How Docker Fast Mode Works in Rider (Rival Abdrakhmanov)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Span / Memory / ReadOnlySequence in C# (Steven Giesel)
• An Ultimate Guide to Mail Merge with MS Word Documents in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Should We Use Records With EF Core as Model Classes? (Code Maze)
• F# is the .NET Rust (jkone27)
• JOS.Enumeration – Now using source generators (Josef Ottosson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Octopus UI navigation uplift (Emily Pearce)
• Self-healing code is the future of software development (Ben Popper)
• Software Quality: JustMock and Test Studio Dev Edition Latest Improvements (Iliyan Panchev)
• 10 Best Innovation Frameworks (JD Meier)
• Beginner’s Guide to the Zettelkasten Method | Trello (Kat Boogaard)
• Are In-App Protection, Application Hardening & Application Shielding Different? (PreEmptive Team)
• Octopus Deploy: Deprecating Mono (Robert Erez)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Firebase: Introducing Remote Config real-time updates (Jen Harvey Hugg & Dana Silver)
• Apple’s view of the future is a lonely one (Allison Johnson)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 159- Don’t Close the Door on Your Foot!!! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Building an app with .NET MAUI and Telerik Components – Part 4 – Exporting to Excel and PDF (Daniel Hindrikes)
• How is App Service integrated with Azure and developer tools? | One Dev Question (Yutang Lin)
• Computer Vision vs Custom Vision on Azure (Matt Eland)
• Using source control (1 of 5) | Getting started with GitHub | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green) – All five parts available to view on YouTube
• What I Wish I Knew… about asking questions (Elvis Adorkor)

Podcasts

• Working Code Podcast – Episode 130: Book Club, The Phoenix Project (Ben Nadel)
• Working with Minimal APIs and SignalR – Adventures in .NET 148 (Shawn Clabough & Mark Miller)
• Defining and Learning Web Fundamentals – JavaScript Jabber 585 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 624 – Is JSDoc Better than TypeScript? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
• Complete Developer Podcast – ACID vs BASE Databases (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – What is Microsoft Fabric? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Python Bytes Podcast #339 – Actual Technical People (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Build 2023 Recap: A New Venue & In-Person Experience (Hunter Haaf)
• Google I/O Extended watch parties & upcoming meetups (Komal Sandhu)
• Join our digital event to learn what’s new in Microsoft Entra (Irina Nechaeva)
• Microsoft Build 2023 – Takeaways from Offline Sessions and Experience (Martin Zikmund)

Database

• SQL Server Storage Modes – Choosing Rowstore or Columnstore (Jared Westover)
• Determine if a Specific Path in a JSON Document Exists in SQL Server (Daniel Calbimonte)
• Unmasking SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking – Part 2 – Setting up Masking (Ben Johnston)
• SQL Server Essentials: Using SQL Cross Joins (Michael Otey)
• The Future of AI and Natural Language Processing in Database Management (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• 24 New Verified, 29 New Independent Publisher and 37 Updated Connectors available (Amjed Ayoub)
• Auditing capabilities coming to Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner, and Microsoft To Do (Alexander Lahuerta)

Miscellaneous

• Minecraft, now on Chromebook (John Maletis)
• Playing Diablo IV on macOS (Denis Gladkikh)
• Wasp Beta – May 2023 (Matija Sosic)
• Process Monitor v3.94 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23475 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Pulling sleight of hand tricks in a security vulnerability report, episode 2 (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3722 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – June 7, 2023 (#105) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link