Dew Drop – June 28, 2023 (#3973)

Top Links

• TechBash 2023 early bird registration ends in one week! (TechBash Team)
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3.0 is now generally available (Sébastien Levert)
• Introducing the .NET MAUI Toolbox for Visual Studio (Jose Seeron Anthony Pitchai)
• Popular DevTools Tips (Patrick Brosset)
• Microsoft Store Open Source Series — AppServices library (Sergio Pedri)

Web & Cloud Development

• HTMX Boosts and ASP.NET Core Anti-Forgery Tokens (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Clean Architecture Solution Template for ASP.NET Core (Jason Taylor)
• Public Preview: Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data (Azure Team)
• Docker for Developers: Understanding the Core Concepts (Dan Wahlin)
• Tips for debugging Flask deployments to Azure App Service (Pamela Fox)
• Using WSL and Let’s Encrypt to create Azure App Service SSL Wildcard Certificates (Scott Hanselman)
• How to Build an Enterprise-Ready MVP SaaS App (Alisa Duncan)
• What is an API key? (The Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Incremental Loading (Pagination) with MVVM and MVUX (Nick Randolph)
• Avalonia UI v11 Release Candidate 1: Breaking Changes and API Stabilization (Almir Vuk)
• Dotnet MAUI Google Maps with custom Pins (Samir GC)
• Running iOS Simulator from Windows for .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Avalonia UI new documentation portal is online (Avalonia UI Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace Avoids Decommission (David Ramel)
• Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Always Add Braces in C# (David McCarter)
• 7 Things about C#: Console I/O (Joe Mayo)
• Myths about F#: Code without type annotations is hard to review! No, it’s a relief. (Urs Enzler)
• How to Use Factory Pattern With Dependency Injection in .NET (Ahsan Ullah)
• vcpkg integration with the GitHub dependency graph (Michael Price)
• How to wait for multiple C++ coroutines to complete before propagating failure, unhelpful lambda (Raymond Chen)
• Using the new configuration binder source generator: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Navigating Agile Development: Embracing the Ship of Theseus Philosophy (Chris Lucian)
• Automating Custom VM Image Creation with Azure Image Builder and Azure DevOps (John Kilmister)
• DevOps Practices for Azure Infrastructure – Continuous Delivery & Continuous Deployment (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Wasp: Build Your Own Personal Twitter Agent ⛓ with LangChain (Vinny)
• Choose an image for your organization (Andrew Brenner)
• Figma’s Design Tools Are Now Free On Chromebooks For All US School Students (BeauHD)
• Better Management Training is the Key to Re-Engaging Quiet Quitters (Katie Bartlet)
• The economic impact of the AI-powered developer lifecycle and lessons from GitHub Copilot (Thomas Dohmke)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Agile Architecture in Swift (Manuel Meyer)
• Detecting device type – How to know if a device is foldable or a tablet (Alex Vanyo)

Screencasts & Videos

• Differences in UI Based on Platform with OnPlatform – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis)
• Can I try Azure App Service for free? | One Dev Question (Yutang Lin)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Linda Haviv (Isaac Levin)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 465 (Jason Bock)
• Kyle Spooner: The Economics of IT Conferences (Business Technicalities Team)
• Hello, Semantic Kernel! | Open at Microsoft (John Maeda & Sam Schillace)
• What I Wish I Knew… about who can be a computer scientist (Marc Mascarenhas)
• Can cloud native architectures lower your long-term costs? | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
• Validate Response Data With JSON Schema (Postman Team)
• The Hidden Risk in Undocumented API Behavior | RSA Conference (Bahaa Naamneh)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S24:E8 – A Model’s Journey to Software Development (Madison Kanna) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Atomic React Component Design with Julie Turner (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Conflicts and empathy, helping Project Managers learn the Scrum Master role when adopting Agile | Bojan Smudja and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to break free from the feature factory anti-pattern, and learn to motivate Scrum teams | Bojan Smudja (Vasco Duarte)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 596 – Improving the developer experience in the energy sector (Ryan Donovan)
• RunAs Radio – Patching in 2023 with Sami Laiho (Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio 570: Stanisław Barzowski on the jsonnet Language (Robert Blumen)

Community & Events

• Congratulations to Martina Grom on receiving the Microsoft Power Women in Tech Award (Toni Pohl)
• After the Roadshow… (Bing Team)
• Announcing the Microsoft 365 Developer Technology Adoption Program (TAP) (Brian T. Jackett)
• Google is laying off employees at Waze (Jay Peters)
• Webinar – Joshua Jesper Krægpøth Ryder – The Future Is Here! WebAssembly for .NET Developers (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Microsoft Build 2023 Recap (Zac Ferraresi)
• Meet the Content Creator Microsoft MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

• SQL SERVER 2022 – Persistence and Percentile Memory Grant Feedback (Pinal Dave)
• When do Statistics get updated? (Matthew McGiffen)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Meeting Details in OneNote (Jonathan Cheung, Holly Chan & Liz Heidner)

PowerShell

• Measuring average download time (Francisco Nabas)

Miscellaneous

• Sysmon v15.0, Autoruns v14.1, and Process Monitor v3.95 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• Every Windows Developer Needs a Little Linux (Matthew MacDonald)
• Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3736 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

 Elegant Objects (Yegor Bugayenko) – Referral Link