Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 191 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Dew Drop – June 21, 2023 (#3969)

Top Links

Introducing the New T4 Command-Line Tool for .NET (Mike Corsaro)
How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases (Rizel Scarlett)
How to Hide Your Angular Properties – # vs private Explained (Deborah Kurata)
Improved .NET Debugging Experience with Source Link (Patrick Smacchia)
7 Things about C#: Running Apps (Joe Mayo)

Web & Cloud Development

Run OpenTelemetry on Docker (B. Cameron Gain)
How Much Will It Hurt? The 10 Things You Need to Do to Migrate Your MVC/Web API App to ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
Node v16.20.1 (LTS) and Node v20.3.1 (Current) and Node v18.16.1 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Service to check if application browser tab is active or not (silfversparre)
New W3C website deployed (Coralie Mercier)
How to persist Postman variables (Joyce)
Dependent Stack Updates with Pulumi Deployments (Komal Ali)
Detecting Scene Changes in Audiovisual Content (Avneesh Saluja, Andy Yao & Hossein Taghavi)
Exploring the Exciting New Features of TypeScript 5.0 and 5.1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
What is an API endpoint? (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI + GitHub Actions + Commas in Certificate Names (Mitchel Sellers)

Visual Studio & .NET

Integer compression: Implementing FastPFor decoding in C# (Oren Eini)
Permutations of a String in C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
Using StringBuilder To Replace Values (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Create your own Mediator (like Mediatr) (Steven Giesel)
Microsoft Forms Service’s Journey to .NET 6 (Ray Yao)
Why is Windows using only even-numbered processors? (Raymond Chen)
JetBrains Toolbox App 2.0 Beta Streamlines Installation and Improves Integrations (Victor Kropp)

Design, Methodology & Testing

One critical skill for a Scrum Master and why? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Top 6 AI Coding Assistants in 2023 (Fimber Elemuwa)
Big-O Notation and Complexity Analysis (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Cleaning up files changed by a GitHub Action that runs in a container (Rob Bos)
To improve as an engineer, get better at requesting (and receiving) feedback (Chelsea Troy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Get started developing mixed reality for Meta Quest 3 with Unity (Kevin Semple)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Alex Mattoni on Cycle.io (David Giard)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 463 (Jason Bock)
What I Wish I Knew… about interviewing for jobs (Leslie Richardson)

Podcasts

CodeNewbie S24:E7 – Navigating Layoffs with Intention (Natalie Davis) (CodeNewbie Team)
The Rework Podcast – Buckets of Time (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
What It Takes To Be A Web Developer: Part 2 – JavaScript Jabber 587 (AJ O’Neal & Dan Shappir)
Python Bytes Podcast #341 – Shhh – For Secrets and Shells (Michael Kennedy)
Tools and Weapons Podcast – First Vice President Nadia Calviño: Architecting Spain’s AI future (Brad Smith)
RunAs Radio – Windows Update for Business with Aria Carley (Richard Campbell)
Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Learning from Your Peers with Tracy Gregorio (Rob Slaughter)

Community & Events

Juneteenth Conference Comes to Chicago (David Giard)
Celebrating Tech Trailblazers for Juneteenth (Daniel Ikem)
Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey: Are developers using AI? (Esther Shein)
What Does Gen Z Want at Work? The Same Things You Wanted Once Upon a Time (Katie Bartlet)
Meet the Skilling Champion Priyesh Wagh (Rie Moriguchi)
Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project (Zach Leatherman)

Database

SQL SERVER – Resolving Deadlock by Accessing Objects in the Same Order (Pinal Dave)
The Right Tools for Optimizing Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance (Rie Merritt)
Latest features in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra (Theo van Kraay)
T-SQL Tuesday #163 – Career Advice I received (Tracy Boggiano)

Miscellaneous

Electronic Signatures: 2023 Legal Aspects (Bjoern Meyer)
Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1926 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Windows 11 Moment 3 Heads to the Release Preview Channel (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and many Xbox executives are set to defend its FTC case (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3731 (Chris Alcock)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #108 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – June 20, 2023 (#107) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – June 20, 2023 (#3968)

Top Links

Enable Un-typed within ASP.NET Core OData (Sam Xu)
Easily Add Maps to Your Cross-Platform .NET Apps. MAPSUI Adds Support for Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
Azure OpenAI GPT model to review Pull Requests for Azure DevOps (Vinod Soni)
Saving Files with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Leomaris Reyes)
HackTogether: the Microsoft Teams Global Hack ends, but the developer journey continues! (Ayca Bas)
Announcing Create a Pull Request in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure App Configuration and .NET API: a smart and secure way to manage configurations (Davide Bellone)
Implementing Recursive ChatGPT Function Calling in Blazor (Michael Washington)
Introducing Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data in Public Preview (Andy Beatman)
Exploring .NET streaming API scenarios (David Pine)
How to Serve Static Assets with an Efficient Cache Policy on WordPress (Jen Swisher)
Wolverine’s Middleware Strategy is a Different Animal (Jeremy D. Miller)
Parsing websites in C# with Html Agility Pack or AngleSharp (Thomas Ardal)
Responsive Web Design Evolved: Introducing CSS Container Queries (Vidura Senevirathne)
Docker Desktop and Windows – what’s the best option for you? (Vinicius Apolinario)
Cloud Cultures, Part 1: Resilience and innovation lessons from Poland (Kristin Gallagher)

Visual Studio & .NET

Integer compression: Implementing FastPFor encoding in C# (Oren Eini)
How to Use Bulk Updates in Entity Framework Core (Code Maze)
Validating nested DataAnnotation IOptions recursively with MiniValidation (Andrew Lock)
Why am I being told about a signed/unsigned comparison, and why only sometimes, and how can I fix it? (Raymond Chen)
How to use RuntimeHelpers.IsReferenceOrContainsReferences to micro-optimize collections (Gérald Barré)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Worst trait in unskilled scrum masters? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Scarcity Mindset and Work In Process (J.B. Raisberger)
How to repackage your application in Windows Sandbox VM (Radu Popescu)
Azure DevOps – New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 223 (Dan Hellem)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Simulate stylized characters for games with Ziva VFX and machine learning (Brian Anderson)

Screencasts & Videos

Fixing Colors & Implementing Geographical Search in ‘Next Tech Event’ w Blazor & RavenDB | Part 20 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)

Podcasts

Revision Path – David Dylan Thomas (Maurice Cherry)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Docker && WASM, with Justin Cormack (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell Unplugged: A Symphony of Tech and Music with Jim Truher (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 126 – What is Policy as Code and How Can It Help You Secure Your Cloud Environment? (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #636 – Discovering Cursed Connectors (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Ep. 581 – Stress test your code as you write it (Eira May)
Greg Leonardo: Responsible AI – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 250 (Jeffery Palermo)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Syntex repository services with Reid Carlberg & Marc Windle (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)

Community & Events

Introducing the Rust Leadership Council (Rust Leadership Council)
Has Reddit Overplayed Its Hand? (Matthew MacDonald)
Reddit hackers demand $4.5 million ransom and API pricing changes (Mia Sato)

Database

Query SQL Server system data about tables and columns (Rick Dobson)
General availability of SSIS Projects for VS 2022 (Chunhua Gu)
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1 and Recent Changes, Part 3 (Erin Stellato)
Detecting Deadlocks in SQL Server Using Trace Flags 1204 and 1222 (Pinal Dave)
List Top Tables in SQL Server Database by Size and What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan? (SQLPals)
Generally Available: Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

New Microsoft Graph APIs for managing Microsoft Teams webinars (Sheri Mehmood)

Miscellaneous

Your comprehensive guide to Aria: Opera’s native browser AI (Arlisa Hamza)
The future of browsing: Opera One, the first AI-powered browser is ready for download (Joanna Czajka)
Developers need the right to challenge junk patents (Mike Linksvayer)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3730 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – June 19, 2023

Top Links

Speakers and Workshops for TechBash 2023 Announced! (TechBash Team)
Introduction of System.ServiceModel 6.0 for Calling WCF/CoreWCF (Robert Krzaczyński)
Automate eSignature Requests for New RowShare Entries with Zapier (Jayavigneshwaran)
Writing an OpenAI plugin for ChatGPT using ASP.NET Core (Tim Heuer)
Wolverine 1.0 is Out! (Jeremy D. Miller)

Web & Cloud Development

ASP.NET Core 8: Better contextual debugging experience (Anthony Giretti)
CSS :has() & Responsive Design (Chrystal Lantink)
Reset passwords in ASP.NET Core using delegated permissions and Microsoft Graph (Damien Bowden)
WebStorm 2023.2 EAP #5: Svelte LSP Support, Watch Mode in the Run Tool Window, and More (David Watson)
A History of JavaScript Modules and Bundling, For the Post-ES6 Developer (Devlin Glasman)
Collecting And Analyzing Halo Stats – With Azure, SQLite, Python, And GitHub (Den Delimarsky)
Types of Events in JavaScript: Common Keyboard and Mouse Events (Juliet Ofoegbu)
Kubernetes mutating admission webhook for dotnet-monitor? (Mark Downie)
Role-Based Authorization in Blazor File Manager: An Overview (Rajendran R.)
What Are The Top 4 Angular Grid Data Manipulation Features? (Zdravko Kolev)
ESLint v8.43.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
GoLand 2023.2 EAP #5 Is Out with an Intention Action to Update Dependencies in go.mod (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Upgrading Xamarin Forms to .NET MAUI (Mitchel Sellers)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 12: Collection literals (Steven Giesel)
C# Struct vs Class: Decoding Key Differences and Use Cases and Var Keyword in C#: Understanding Its Use and Benefits and Ref Keyword in C#: A Comprehensive Guide (Anoop Kumar)
Working With Guid in C# and Differences Between ExpandoObject, DynamicObject and dynamic (Code Maze)
ReSharper C++ 2023.2 EAP: Support for the C++23 Standard Library Modules (Elvira Mustafina)
Learn how to mock your HttpClient in C# now with 2 simple methods (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
ReSharper 2023.2 EAP 5: Improved Control Over Object Disposal, Support for Default Lambda Parameters, and C++23 Standard Library Modules. and Rider 2023.2 EAP 5: Improved Support for C#, Better Performance Profiling, and More. (Sasha Ivanova)
The case of the invalid handle despite being managed by an RAII type, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
Hello MIDI 2.0 – We’re opening the repo! (Pete Brown)
C# Source Code Generators (Bruno Sonnino)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Improving Subseasonal Forecasting with Machine Learning (Alyssa Hughes)
Seamless Integration Testing With WireMock.NET (Code Maze)
Exploring the Power of AI Builder: Empowering Students and Educators (Lee Stott)
Identify with the customer problem (Mark Downie)
When is an implementation detail an implementation detail? (Mark Seemann)
GitHub Push Protection Moved to General Availability (Matt Campbell)
Less code is often better (Nate McMaster)
Why is UX Suddenly Vital? (Peter Vogel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Sneak Peek at 2023 Volume 2: Flutter (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
OpenGL® on DX12 enables STEEL ASSAULT to launch on Xbox (David Cook)
Accessing and recording eye tracking data with MRTK3 (Joost van Schaik)
DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices (Microsoft Research)

Screencasts & Videos

Use AI in the Command Line with GitHub CoPilot CLI (Isaac Levin)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 462 (Jason Bock)
What I wish I knew… about what’s fun about software engineering (Microsoft Developer)
Microsoft Store Developer & Publisher Testimonials | Build 2023 (Windows Developer)

Podcasts

Directions on Microsoft – Microsoft EA Negotiation Podcast Series — Discovery (Mary Jo Foley)
Merge Conflict 363: Getting Serious About Upgrades (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
React Native Radio 269 – React Native VisionCamera v3 with Marc Rousavy (Marc Rousavy, Mazen Chami & Jamon Holmgren)
Meta Cast 256 – UnFUBAR Your Agile Journey: Exploring the Impact of Being Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Syntax Podcast Episode 629 – AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
Made By Google Podcast – There’s No App Like Google Home (Rachid Finge)
Changelog & Friends Podcast – “Mat Depends” (Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 087 – Architecting the Big Dev Theory Show with Du’An Lightfoot and Stuart Clark (David Isbitski)
AGL 316: Importance of Health and Nutrition with Tony Castillo (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Safia Abdalla (David McCarter)
More layoffs at Zulily: E-commerce company trims headcount after private equity acquisition (Taylor Soper)

Database

SQL Server slow performance troubleshooting documentation expanded (Joseph Pilov)
Understanding SQL Server Deadlocks: A Beginner’s Guide (Pinal Dave)
Secure your AI using SQL Server Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Services (Buck Woody)
Integer compression: Adapting FastPFor to RavenDB (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

Bing Preview Release Notes: Bing Chat iOS Widget and more (Bing Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3729 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-25 (#77) (Michael Eaton)
F# Weekly #24, 2023 – fsharpConf 2023, Jun 26 (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #562 (Frank Boucher)
C# Digest Issue #459 – June 19, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Code Maze Weekly #177 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Overflow #182: Self-healing code (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Collective #769 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Ed (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

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