Dew Drop – December 8, 2023 (#4085)

Posted on December 8, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Conf 2023 Recap – Celebrating Community, Innovation, and the Launch of .NET 8 (Jon Galloway and Mehul Harry)
Visual Studio Code November 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made (Will Douglas Heaven)
Cross-platform Christmas Countdown App in C# (Martin Zikmund)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Education should be Free with FreeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson (Scott Hanselman)
.NET 8 Networking Improvements (Máňa and Natalia Kondratyeva)

Web & Cloud Development

Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints and Azure API Management (Andre Dewes)
Improve your security by hiding your Application Insights instrumentation key from the browser (Sander ten Brinke)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Working with a Database (Assis Zang)
AWS Step Functions in C# – Part 2 (Camilo Reyes)
Azure Communication Services December 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
Blazor WebAssembly Ahead of Time Compilation (Januarius Njoku)
Exploring An Example Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core – What You Need To Know (Nick Cosentino)
Designing a React E-Commerce App for Digital Products—Part 2 (Handling Authentication and Authorization) (Prashant Yadav)
Wham! Authentication broker support lands in the Azure Identity libraries. (Scott Addie)
This Month In Azure Static Web Apps | November & December 2023 (Thomas Gauvin)
Defense Techniques: Blocking Protocol Handlers (Eric Lawrence)
GraphQL vs. REST (Gbadebo Bello)
FHIR Starter #2 (Jeff Helman)
Advancing PDF Handling with Standalone Essential JS 2 PDF Viewer (Sasidharan Karuppiah)
Kotlin for WebAssembly Goes Alpha (Sebastian Aigner)
Maglev – V8’s Fastest Optimizing JIT (Toon Verwaest, Leszek Swirski, Victor Gomes, Olivier Flückiger, Darius Mercadier & Camillo Bruni)

Visual Studio & .NET

Dealing with Zip Files in C# (Paul Michaels)
Use Rust or C#, abandon C++: Five Eyes agencies warn about memory safety in programming languages (Alfonso Maruccia)
Announcing Oracle Entity Framework Core 8 (Alex Keh)
Streamlining Developer Productivity with the PayPal Visual Studio Code Extension (Asish Mohanty)
Rider 2023.3: Support for .NET 8 SDK, the Latest From C# 12, Performance Enhancements, Predictive Debugging, and More AI-powered Features. and ReSharper 2023.3: Support For C# 12, Performance Enhancements, and More AI-Powered Features and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2023.3 Release (Sasha Ivanova)
In C++, how can I make a default parameter be the this pointer of the caller? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Enterprise 2023.3: Enriching the Stack Overflow for Teams Essentials (Carrie Koos)
How we’re enriching the Teams essentials to make collaboration easier (Kara Tully)
On the Importance of RFCs in Programming (Matija Sosic)
LLMLingua: Innovating LLM efficiency with prompt compression (Alyssa Hughes)
DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Copilot Adoption Kit (Kurt Shintaku)
Harnessing the power of APIs for AI-powered innovation (Microsoft in Business Team)
Microsoft Readies ‘Groundbreaking’ AI-focused Windows Release (msmash)
What Is Reverse Engineering? (PreEmptive Team)
From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions (Rachel Siemens)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build a watch app using Flutter (Bo Hellgren)

Screencasts & Videos

XAML tools in Visual Studio | .NET MAUI Minutes (Maddy Montequila)
Develop Your AI Coding Skills (Part Two) | Azure Enablement Show (Microsoft Developer)
What is an AI plugin? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)
Securing Your Multicloud Databases with Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – From Atari to Sep: Unleashing the Power of Performance in Programming with Niels Rassmussen (Jamie Taylor)
InfoQ Podcast: Frugal Innovation Saving Lives (Jason Friesen)
Server-Side Rendering in Angular 17 – Adventures in Angular 397 (Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
JS Party Podcast – From WebGL to WebGPU (Gregg Tavares, Jerod Santo & Amal Hussein)
Rocket 467: Turn on Push Notifications (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – One weird trick for teaching users your software (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 262: 0 to Web Developer with Jasmine Greenaway (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
UI Breakfast Episode 277: Designing for Technical Domains with Ridhima Gupta (Jane Portman)
Software Defined Talk Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Building a community of builders (Sarah Rainsberger & Elian Van Cutsem)
Threads has hashtags now (Jay Peters)
Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees in Seattle (Taylor Soper)

Database

The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: Formatting Code (Erik Darling)
Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 (Jiaqi Liu)
Microsoft Fabric Data Ingestion Methods and Tools (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

PowerShell & Terminal

Email, Attachments, Query, and Microsoft Graph PowerShell (Liam Cleary)
Easily open Docker containers in your Warp terminal (David Melvin)

Miscellaneous

ProcDump 3.0 for Linux and Sysmon 1.3.2 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
PowerToys Release v0.76.1 (Clint Rutkas)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23601 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26010 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Skilling Up for the Future: A Guide for Students and Entrepreneur (Lee Stott)
Announcing Rust 1.74.1 (Rust Release Team)
Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3841 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – December 7, 2023 (#219) (Richard Seroter)
Code Maze Weekly #195 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure (Anuraj Parameswaran & Tamir Al Balkhi) – Referral Link

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