Dew Drop – August 7, 2023 (#3999)

Dew Drop number 4000 may be delayed a day or two. The Tuesday and Wednesday posts are tentative this week.

Top Links

• Hot Reload in Windows Applications (Nick Randolph)
• XAML Based Navigation in Windows and Multi-Platform Applications with Uno.Extensions (Nick Randolph)
• Beyond the Hype: WebAssembly – from the browser to beyond (Colin Eberhardt)
• Technology & Friends – Craig Shoemaker on Online Course Creation (David Giard)
• Use natural language to execute SQL queries (Chris Rickman)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a WinUI 100% Stacked Column Chart for Global Distribution of Cloud Provider Data Centers (Saiyathalifathimabee Moidhinabdhulkathar)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure Application Insights – Advanced / Lesser Known Features (Paul Michaels)
• Manipulating Data in Angular with Kendo UI Data Query (Dany Paredes)
• Notice of XSS issue affecting Angular Universal 16.1.0–16.1.1 (Emma Twersky)
• Use JavaScript APIs to Get the Current Date and Time (Juliet Ofoegbu)
• How To Improve the Software Performance of Angular Apps? (Konstantin Dinev)
• Using Live SASS Compiler in VS Code (Jason Gaylord)
• Configure dotnet-monitor in an AKS cluster for Managed Grafana (Mark Downie)
• Best Material UI Themes for Stunning Web Applications (Dianne Pena)
• An Introduction to Handlebars (Gabriel Manricks)
• Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 1) (Hannah Milan)
• Installing LibLab into a devcontainer using NPM (Jim Bennett)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Leveraging Existing Web Content to Build Hybrid Apps with .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Why You Should Learn C# and .NET – Top 5 Reasons (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Value vs Reference Types in C# – In Depth Guide and Techniques for Sorting a List in C# (Code Maze)
• Inside STL: The lists (Raymond Chen)
• Programmatically Create SAS tokens in .Net (Andrew Redman)
• Useful Tricks for Working with Tables (Bjoern Meyer)
• Keyed Services in the IServiceProvider in .NET 8 preview 7 (Steven Giesel)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Top 5 Agile Certifications (Enrique Corrales)
• MNW #049: Modular Monolith Communication Patterns (Milan Jovanović)
• Azure MLOps Challenge Blog: Part 1 (Ben Roberts)
• How to deploy Azure Container Apps (Shawn Sesna)
• A simple way to configure integration tests pipeline (Oskar Dudycz)
• Key Differences Between Game & App Testing (Amy Reichert)
• What is multi-tenancy? (Andrew Corrigan)
• Bots Usage in Artificial Intelligence (Jagdish Mohite)
• A checklist and guide to get your repository collaboration-ready (Jon Peck)

Screencasts & Videos

• FreeCodeSession – Episode 476 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict 370: The Rise of LK-99 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Motivating Teams With a Proactive and Inspirational Product Owner | Rohit Ratan Mani (Vasco Duarte)
• PPP 387 | How to Face Project Uncertainty and Still Deliver, with Decision Sprint author Atif Rafiq (Andy Kaufman)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Software in Audio and How to Lead (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• AGL 323: Daily Leadership with Antonio Garrido (John Rouda)
• The Cloud Show with guest star Alex Mang (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Talk Python to Me #425: Memray: The endgame Python memory profiler (Michael Kennedy)
• OnPOD EP.123: Goodbye Cortana, Surface Go Updates, more handheld gaming PC devices (Podcast OnMSFT Team)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Troubleshooting Common CSV Import Issues (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Logical Operators ALL, AND, ANY, BETWEEN, EXISTS, IN, LIKE, NOT, OR, SOME and Not Equal in SQL WHERE Clause Examples (Joe Gavin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Adds MIDI 2.0, Researches AI Text-to-MIDI in 2023 (Ezra Sandzer-Bell)
• The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent, who view flexible work as equivalent to an 8% raise (Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25921 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Welcome to the New Have I Been Pwned Domain Search Subscription Service (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #31, 2023 – .NET Conf and .NET 8 – Nov 14-16 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – August 4, 2023 (#136) (Richard Seroter)
• The Overflow #189: OverflowAI! (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Collective #776 (Manoela Ilic)
• C# Digest Issue #466 – August 07, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)