Dew Drop – July 24, 2023 (#3989)

Top Links

• Merge Conflict #368: Building .NET MAUI User Interfaces in C# (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Markdown Cheat Sheet – A quick reference to the Markdown syntax (Markdown Guide)
• What happened to the source code for The AppleSoft Compiler? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)
• The Download: Meta Unleashes Llama 2, TypeChat, GitHub Copilot Chat for Business and more (Christina Warren)
• VS Code Livestreams – Develop from anywhere with Visual Studio Code (Brigit Murtaugh)

Web & Cloud Development

• Recursive Azure OpenAI Function Calling (Michael Washington)
• 3 Angular App Examples You Can Use Right Away (Katie Mikova)
• Assigning Roles to Principals with Azure.ResourceManager.Authorization (Jason Farrell)
• GoLand 2023.2 Release Candidate Is Available! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)
• Who’s Using Amazon Web Services? [2023] (Mariusz Michalowski)
• Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimization: What Do We Need to Know? (Harry Roberts)
• How to Build a Single Send for Marketing Campaigns with Twilio SendGrid (Sam Agnew)
• Adobe Developer App Builder — Support for Setting Response Headers (Sandeep Paliwal)
• How We Made Phobos 2.4’s OpenTelemetry Usage 62% Faster (Aaron Stannard)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Gracefully Handling Entity Framework Exceptions with EntityFramework.Exceptions (Steven Giesel)
• Saga Pattern With NServiceBus in C# (Code Maze)
• How to Use LoggerFactory and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging for .NET Core Logging With C# (Matt Watson)
• Rider 2023.2 EAP 10 Is Out! and ReSharper 2023.2 EAP 10 Is Here! (Sasha Ivanova)
• .NET UI Virtualization Best Practices – How to Get Offset (Alvaro Rivoir)
• What’s New in Syncfusion 2023 Volume 2: File-Format Libraries (Gunasekaran Thirumoorthy)
• How to clone a Windows Runtime map in the face of possible concurrent modification, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
• How to Color Code Tabs by Regex in Visual Studio 2022 (Sergey Vlasov)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• How to set global setting for XUnit tests (Oskar Dudycz)
• Re-establishing Psychological Safety in Teams (Ben Linders)
• Bing Preview Release Notes: Multimodal Visual Search in Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise (Bing Team)
• Seven Things I Wish I Knew When I Started as a Software Developer (Beth Pritchard)
• What is Modern Application Development? A Guide (Couchbase Team)
• Dr Suess on Constructors (Dave Bush)
• Participation without complicity (Jessica Kerr)
• Microsoft Surface adds another layer to Microsoft’s AI story (Jonna Bell)
• Is software getting worse? (Mark Seemann)
• GitLab 16.2 released with all new rich text editor experience (Tatyana Golubeva)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter plugin in Rust with no prebuilt binaries (Matej Knopp)
• ChatGPT for Android launches next week (Richard Lawler)

Screencasts & Videos

• FreeCodeSession – Episode 472 (Jason Bock)
• Open at Microsoft: Semantic Kernel (John Maeda)
• What I Wish I Knew… about being social in college (Nick Ryan)

Podcasts

• CppCast – Safety, Security and Modern C++, with Bjarne Stroustrup (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• InfoQ Podcast: Whatever the Challenge – it’s Always About the People (Satish Jayanthi)
• GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big bet on the AI economy, and the risks on the road ahead (Todd Bishop)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Team Leadership, TUIs, and AI Lawsuits (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Upgrading an Enterprise App to Angular 16 – Adventures in Angular 385 (Subrat Mishra, Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – What Makes a Great Scrum Master, a Development Manager’s Perspective | Chuck Durfee (Vasco Duarte)
• Giorgi Dalakishvili: Beyond Relational Data with Entity Framework – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 255 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• PPP 385 | How to Say No When You Feel Like You Have to Say Yes, with author Vanessa Patrick (Andy Kaufman)
• Meta Cast #259 – Mastering the Art of Truthful Communication: From Teammates to Executives (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast – Bringing the cloud on prem (Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• UI Breakfast Episode 272: User Respect with Christina Nguyen White (Jane Portman)
• AGL 321: Pete Hunt (John Rouda)
• OnPodcast Episode 122 – Copilot pricing, Surface Laptop Studio 2 details, Call of Duty 2023, and more (Kareem Anderson)

Community & Events

• What is Next for API Evangelist (Kin Lane)
• Risking My Life to Speak at a Tech Conference (‘Tine Zekis)
• Microsoft layoffs: Over 1,000 axed as sales and customer service division undergo transformation (Priya Walia)
• Amazon is asking some employees to move closer to the office (Todd Bishop)
• This September in Philly: The 59 Biggest Events, Festivals & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)

Database

• GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio to Boost Database Development Productivity – Part 1 (Alejandro Cobar)
• 5 programming languages database administrators should learn (Franklin Okeke)
• Version Controlling Database Schema (Paul Michaels)
• Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.2 Preview 3 (David Engel)

Miscellaneous

• String binary search in Zig (Karl Seguin)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2050 and 22631.2050 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Introducing Bing Chat Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and Microsoft Sales Copilot (Colette Stallbaumer)
• A New Book about ‘The Apple II Age’ Celebrates the Users (David Cassel)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3754 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #29, 2023 – .NET Lambda Annotations Framework (AWS) (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – July 20, 2023 (#126) and Daily Reading List – July 21, 2023 (#127) (Richard Seroter)
• C# Digest Issue #464 – July 24, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link