Dew Drop – July 6, 2023 (#3979)

Top Links

• Tutorial: Expand the Reach of your Existing C# WinUI 3 App (Uno Platform Team)
• Pronouns settings path and scope change in Microsoft Graph (Aymen Mohammed)
• On-Device Training with ONNX Runtime: A deep dive (Ashwini Khade & Kshama Pawar)
• Microsoft PowerToys v0.71.0 – What’s New and Improved (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is available now (Emma Roth)
• Improved F# hints in Visual Studio (Petr Semkin)

Web & Cloud Development

• Rockford Lhotka Introduces Blazor (David Ramel)
• Jetpack 12.3 – Introducing AI-Assisted Content Editing and More (Sami Falah)
• Confidential Kubernetes: Use Confidential Virtual Machines and Enclaves to improve your cluster security (Fabian Kammel, Mikko Ylinen & Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum)
• JavaScript closest (David Walsh)
• Implement Single Sign-On in React (Remix) in Under 10 Minutes (Peter Mbanugo)
• Node v20.4.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• What Is GraphQL: Comprehensive Guide (Arsalan Mlaik)
• 11 best practices for securing data in cloud services (Pramiti Bhatnagar & Abbas Kudrati)
• Best headless CMS platforms for Astro (Hamsa Harcourt)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Create the Perfect Data Editing Experience for Your App with Telerik’s DataForm for .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Solving heap corruption errors in managed applications (Oren Eini)
• Preparing Documents for Electronic Signatures using MailMerge in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Discriminated Unions in C# With OneOf (Ryan Miranda)
• Customizing Return Value Behavior in Wolverine for Profit and Fun (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to wait for multiple C++ coroutines to complete before propagating failure, preallocating the coroutine frame (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: UTF-7 Encoding Is Insecure (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Introducing Superalignment (Jan Leike & Ilya Sutskever)
• Celebrating 50 Million Downloads of Cake.Tool (Mattias Karlsson)
• what is nor0x.Playwright.BrowserDownloader?! (Joachim Leonfellner)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Set Up Firebase Cloud Messaging in Flutter Using Firebase (Arunachalam B.)
• Happy Harvest demo: See the latest 2D techniques (Eduardo Oriz & Shanti Zachariah)

Screencasts & Videos

• Wired for Hybrid – What’s New in Azure Networking – June 2023 Edition | ITOpsTalk (Pierre Roman & Michael Bender)
• Pluralsight Spotlight: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework and the power of simplicity (Julie Lerman)
• What I Wish I Knew… about prepping for tech interviews (Nick Ryan)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Scaling a Monolith with Derek Comartin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Million.js with Aiden Bai and Tobiloba Adedeji  – JavaScript Jabber 589 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Mastering the Art of Agile Leadership, The Building Blocks of a Successful Scrum Master | Gregory (Greg) Miller (Vasco Duarte)
• The Rework Podcast – Two-Person Teams: Listener Questions (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Extending Microsoft Teams with ChatGPT with Joey Glocke (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 636 – What are Headless Components? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Complete Developer Podcast – SMART Feedback (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Directions on Microsoft – When Should You Walk Away from a Microsoft Product? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Software Engineering Radio 571: Jeroen Mulder on Multi-Cloud Governance (Robert Blumen)

Community & Events

• Announcing the HackTogether: Microsoft Teams Global Hack winners (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Announcing gRPConf 2023! (gRPC Team)
• During Disability Pride month, Xbox reinforces commitment to inclusive gaming (Athima Chansanchai)
• Register for Microsoft Inspire and start making your schedule! (Cecilie Bergendorff)
• Purchase and Manage Domains Directly Through Bluesky and Our Plan for a Sustainably Open Social Network (Bluesky Team)
• Announcing the Harness the Weather Hackathon with Tomorrow.io (Kyle Calica)
• Twitter is being sued by its ex-employees again (Wes Davis)

Database

• New Command Line Tool go-sqlcmd for SQL Server (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Convert Cursor to Set Based Insert (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Rust: Announcing regex 1.9 (Andrew Gallant)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3742 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – July 5, 2023 (#115) (Richard Seroter)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | July 2023 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link – Win a copy on LinkedIn (enter thru July 7, 2023)