Dew Drop – August 30, 2023 (#4015)

Top Links

• New .NET Upgrade Assistant version with feature updates and .NET MAUI improvements! (Olia Gavrysh)
• Windows Community Toolkit for UWP, WinUI and Uno (Nick Randolph)
• Less than 1 week to go in our Labor Day sale. Register by midnight on Sept 4th. (TechBash Team)
• Easily Build ChatGPT-like App in .NET MAUI using OpenAI APIs (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Adaptive Card-based Loop components are now in preview (Shubham Chauhan)

Web & Cloud Development

• .NET 8 Final Preview Improves ASP.NET Core (Kay Ewbank)
• Identity Management in Azure (From Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID) (Brian Martel)
• 5 Easy Steps to Migrate an ASP.NET MVC Project to an ASP.NET Core (Jefferson S. Motta)
• How to Build a Task Manager CLI Tool with Node.js (Krish Jaiswal)
• .NET on Azure Functions – August 2023 roadmap update (Matthew Henderson)
• Announcing 6.0 of the Pulumi AWS Classic Provider (Monica Rodriguez)
• The 10 Best Managed WordPress Hosting Providers in 2023 (Simon Keating)
• Go for C++ developers: A beginner’s guide (Stan Cox)
• Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery (David Vroom, James Mulcahy, Ling Yuan & Rob Gulewich)
• Form binding in minimal APIs: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 7 (Andrew Lock)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Measuring Unicode String Lengths with C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Reasoning Task, Async & Await in .NET (Bnaya Eshet)
• The New Era of C# Learning: Microsoft’s Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp (Christopher Johnson)
• Dynamically Switching DbContext at Runtime Using Entity Framework Core (Code Maze)
• BearerToken: The new Authentication handler in .NET 8 (Tore Nestenius)
• Ensuring Robustness with Bulletproof Disposable Types in Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Book Review: Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices (Ian Elliot)
• microsoft/git and the Scalar CLI (Microsoft)
• DZone Refcard #008: Design Patterns – Blueprint Solutions to Common Problems in Software (Justin Albano)
• How to Configure, Deploy, and Consume an LLM Model with OpenAI Service and Evaluating Open Source LLMs (Large Language Models): A Practical Guide and Fine-tuning a Custom Large Language Model with Azure OpenAI (Antrixsh Gupta)
• Using AI for tiered cloud platform operation (Alyssa Hughes)
• Turing Bletchley v3 – A Vision-Language Foundation Model (Bing Team)
• A Developer’s Guide to Working with Icons (David Eastman)
• GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 is now generally available (David Jarzebowski)
• How 3 healthcare organizations are using generative AI (Greg Corrado)
• New Ebook: Get Our Free Platform Engineering Guide (Jennifer Riggins)

Screencasts & Videos

• Getting Started with Azure Blob Storage | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman)
• What’s New in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio 17.7 | One .NET (James Montemagno & John Miller)
• Learn about new and old VS tools on Visual Studio Toolbox! (Leslie Richardson)
• 10 Time-Saving Tips in Visual Studio 2022 (with Tim Corey) (Visual Studio Team)
• GitHub Universe is Back! (GitHub Team)
• Working with GraphQL APIs in Postman (Postman Team)
• Support Policy Demystified for .NET and Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Kris Moore (Isaac Levin)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 483 (Jason Bock)
• Chat + Your Data + Plugins | Open at Microsoft (John Maeda & Evan Chaki)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S25:E3 – Self-Taught Coding Stories of a Former Lab Scientist (Vanessa Vun) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Breaking Down Dysfunctional Dynamics between a Scrum team and their Product Owner | Khwezi Mputa (Vasco Duarte)
• Practical AI Podcast – Automating code optimization with LLMs (Mike Basios, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Talk Python to Me #428: Django Trends in 2023 and Python Bytes Podcast #350 – You’ve Got The Stamina For This Episode (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• What to expect from Apple’s iPhone 15 event (Emma Roth)
• Cloud Next 2023: Sharing the best of our AI with Google Cloud (Sundar Pichai)
• Announcing Out in the Garden, a Month-Long LGBTQ+ Celebration on South Street (Visit Philly)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Absolute Beginners 10 Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Using RavenDB from Cloudflare Workers (Oren Eini)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing new SharePoint news for email feature (Sara Cummings)

Miscellaneous

• Where Can I Get Pictures for Talks? (Holly Cummins)
• Microsoft Edge’s competitor Vivaldi 6.2 introduces speedy new Portal Windows (Devesh Beri)
• Microsoft officially adds Bing AI chatbot to Google Chrome (Lance Whitney)
• The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes (Raymond Chen)
• The Top Programming Languages 2023 (Stephen Cass)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3769 (Chris Alcock)
• Educational, Sensational, Inspirational, Foundational Web Development Reading List (Zach Leatherman)
• Discover .NET – Awesome .NET open source & community resources (Dave Glick)
• The Keyword: Cloud Next 2023 (Collection) (Google)

The Geek Shelf

 Git for Programmers (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link