Dew Drop – August 21, 2023 (#4008)

Top Links

• The TechBash 2023 Schedule Is Now Available (TechBash Team)
• Training: Contribute to Microsoft Learn documentation in your browser (Microsoft Learn)
• What Can Google Bard Do? (Mahesh Chand)
• The latest Windows Community Toolkit 8.0 preview build is on our DevOps NuGet feed (Michael Hawker)
• TechBash Announces 3 Keynotes for TechBash 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows App SDK Version 1.4 Preview 2 (1.4.0-preview2) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript: AG-Grid + ASP.NET MVC Infinite Row Model DataSource with Entity Framework (Chris Pietschmann)
• Kubernetes 1.28: Improved failure handling for Jobs (Kevin Hannon & Michał Woźniak)
• Document Editor and Viewer with Newer Versions of Angular CLI (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Mock IOptions in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
• ASP.NET Core Logging using Serilog and Azure (Damien Bowden)
• React Basics: How and When to Use React Context (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Scroll shadows with animation-timeline (Dave Rupert)
• What Are Embeddings and Vectors (And Why Should I Care?) (Michael Washington)
• Generate Postman Collections from New Relic services (Akshay Deo)
• Adding a “share to mastodon” link to any web site – and here (Chris Heilmann)
• Getting Started with Go: A Quick Guide. (Hazar Nenni)

Visual Studio & .NET

• 20 VS Code Extensions That Will Take Your Productivity to the Next Level (Thomas Sentre)
• Tabnine Unveils AI Assistant for Visual Studio 2022, Chat Beta (David Ramel)
• Expression-bodied members in properties (Steven Giesel)
• Best Plugins For JetBrains IDEs (Bartłomiej Żyliński)
• Compile-time type-checked truth tables (Mark Seemann)
• Phantom and indulgent shared pointers (Raymond Chen)
• Best practices which can improve performance of your .NET core application (Dot Net Office)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Loading XML config file not working in MSIX (Renato Ivanescu)
• Application Security Requirements: Trends and Best Practices (Kayly Lange)
• Application Packaging Interview Questions (Alex Marin)
• Enhance Your eSignature Workflow with BoldSign and Xero Integration (Meikanda Nayanar)
• Work Smarter Not Harder With Your Time Management Logging (Adam Storr)
• What are tenanted deployments? (Andrew Corrigan)
• Do you want to maintain your Bicep Modules Centrally.? (Danidu Weerasinghe)
• 40% of Workers Will Have to Reskill in the Next Three Years Due to AI, Says IBM Study (EditorDavid)
• A Developer’s Guide to Implementing a Design System (Part 2) (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
• Experts weigh in on AI for digital natives (Microsoft in Business Team)
• The Value of Change Management (Sarah Gregorio)
• The Architect’s Guide to Thinking about Hybrid/Multicloud (Ugur Tigli)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• MediaPipe for Raspberry Pi and iOS (Paul Ruiz)
• A new way of listening to the app lifecycle events in Flutter (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)
• Flutter: Communicating with the Native Platform (Safal Shrestha)
• A Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Scalable Folder Structure for Flutter Apps (yatendra2001)
• Cordova Media-Capture Plugin 5.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)

Screencasts & Videos

• Building Graphic Based Apps for IoT Devices with Meadow.Desktop | On .NET (.NET Team)
• Get started with .NET 8 MAUI Preview and Visual Studio on Mac (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Beautiful UI Controls for .NET MAUI with Telerik UI (Sam Basu)
• New Video: Nullable Reference Types and Null Operators in C# (Jeremy Clark)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 480 (Jason Bock)
• The Download: GitHub Universe Tickets, Debian Turns 30, Quake 2 Source Code and more (Christina Warren)

Podcasts

• Developer Tea – Interrogate Your Decision Making Rules (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Merge Conflict 372: Buying a Nintendo Switch in 2023 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The Return of Sync Up: The Official OneDrive Podcast! (Stephen Rice)
• Speeding up Your Angular Apps with Daniel Kreider – Adventures in Angular 387 (Charles Max Wood, Subrat Mishra & Richard Sithole)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Stakeholder Turbulence in Agile And Their Impact On Team Morale | Zach Stone (Vasco Duarte)
• C# and .NET for Developing Modern SaaS Applications – Adventures in .NET 153 (Adam Furmanek, Shawn Clabough & Mark Miller)
• PPP 389 | Your Past as an Asset: How Experiential Intelligence Empowers Leaders and Teams, with author Soren Kaplan (Andy Kaufman)
• ONPOD EP.125: STARFIELD GAMEPLAY UPDATES, DISCORD V. TEAMS, SEPT. SURFACE EVENT, AND MORE (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• The Evolution of Qwik – JavaScript Jabber 594 (AJ O’Neal)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – What is OpenTelemetry? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Changelog and Friends Podcast – An aberrant generation of programmers (Justin Searls, Landon Gray, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 093 – Live, Love, and Learn while Enjoying the Cloud with Matheus Guimaraes (David Isbitski)
• Bob Walker: Painless Operations – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 259 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• AGL 325: Stefanie Krievins (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• Lets #HackTogether: JavaScript On Azure Keynote (Nitya Narasimhan)
• Obituary: Stefan Tilkov (Daniel Bryant)
• Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Bob Reselman (David McCarter)
• Meta Threatens to Fire Workers for Return-to-Office Infractions in Leaked Memo (EditorDavid)
• Hello gRPC Community! The gRPConf 2023 schedule is now live! (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)
• Contributor Stories: John Downs (Megan Nesbitt)
• Adobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock has died — he was 82 (Wes Davis)

Database

• Are you ready for MySQL 10? (Norvald Ryeng)
• Generate Test Data Sets for Testing SQL Server Database Applications (Aseel Al-Laham)
• SQL SERVER – Transaction Logs: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• SUSE To Go Private (Steven-Vaughan-Nichols)
• Elon Musk says (yet again) that X will stop letting you block users (Adi Robertson)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23526 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2199 and 22631.2199 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Attack Techniques: QR Codes (Eric Lawrence)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3763 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #33, 2023 – SponsorLink & Rider F# features (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – August 18, 2023 (#146) (Richard Seroter)
• The Overflow #191: Between product and engineering (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Reading list 308 (Bruce Lawson)
• Collective #778 (Manoela Ilic)
• C# Digest – August 21, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development (Roger Ye) – Referral Link