The Morning Dew

I’m back after a 42-hour power outage due to local storm damage. It’s an XXL edition today!

Top Links

• Three New Premium Visual Studio Subscriber Benefits Announced (Jim Harrer)
• Introducing CoreWCF and WCF Client Azure Queue Storage bindings for .NET (Subhrajit Saha)
• Simplifying your MAUI Styles with StyleClass (Charlin Agramonte)
• Model as a Service (MaaS) Available for Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
• Harnessing the Power of Kotlin Multiplatform: Combining Native and Shared UIs (Richard Woollcott)
• .NET Aspire vs Docker. (Phil Haack)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Defining Developer Relations with Angle Jones (Scott Hanselman)
• Gartner: The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks (Jennifer Collins)

Web & Cloud Development

• Multithreading in Blazor WASM using Web Workers (Kristoffer Strube)
• Interact with Local LLMs with Ollama, Gemma and Kendo UI for Angular (Dany Paredes)
• Highlighting Dynamic Parts Of A Pretty-Printed JSON Value In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Adding Serilog to ASP.NET Core: a practical guide (Metalama Team)
• Seamlessly Switch Between Project and Resource Views in the Blazor Gantt Chart (Alan Sangeeth)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Dealing with Backend Validations (Assis Zang)
• Blazor Basics: Prerendering Server Components in Blazor (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Docker Desktop 4.32: Beta Releases of Compose File Viewer, Terminal Shell Integration, and Volume Backups to Cloud Providers (Deanna Sparks)
• Unconditional Love for Conditional CSS (Geoff Graham)
• WordPress 6.6 Is Here (Jeremy Anderberg)
• Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates with Azure Key Vault and digicert (Joseph Guadagno)
• The Rising Significance of APIs – Azure API Management & API Center (Julia Kasper)
• Understanding Angular Signals: A Comprehensive Guide (Katie Mikova)
• You’ll Write Less Code With Svelte 5.0, Promises Rich Harris (Loraine Lawson)
• ASP.NET8 using DataTables.net – Part4 – Multilingual (Mark Pelf)
• Fine-Tune and Integrate Custom Phi-3 Models with Prompt Flow in Azure AI Studio (Minseok Song)
• How to Deploy Your Node.js App on Azure (Oluwatobi Joshua)
• Array Grouping in JavaScript (Peter Mbanugo)
• Learn JavaScript Reactivity: How to Build Signals from Scratch (Rahul Gupta)
• Announcing the stable release of Azure Event Grid Namespaces HTTP client libraries (Ronnie Geraghty)
• Second Beta of jQuery 4.0.0 (Timmy Willison)
• How to Use React Router to Build Single Page Applications (Timothy Olanrewaju)
• HTMX or React: What Should You Choose? (Anurag Kainth)
• Use Private Key JWTs to Authenticate Your .NET Application (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Node v22.5.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
• Astro 4.12: Server Islands (Erika & Matthew Phillps)
• How to bridge the gap between Web2 skills and Web3 workflows (Jasmine Cooper)
• Private Browsing 2.0 (John Wilander, Charlie Wolfe, Matthew Finkel, Wenson Hsieh & Keith Holleman)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• White Labeling .NET MAUI Apps (Julian Ewers-Peters)
• Mastering Shopping: Enhancing Your Product Search with the .NET MAUI CheckBox (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
• Exploring Long Press in .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Leomaris Reyes)
• How to Zoom and View the Desired Area in a PDF using .NET MAUI PDF Viewer? (Ramkumar Ravy)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Doughnut Chart to Visualize the New European Parliament’s Composition in 2024 (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Auto-document dotnet CLI tool via dynamically generated markdown readme fragments (Daniel Cazzulino)
• WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Secure Backend Web API Service (EF Core with OData) (Dennis Garavsky)
• How to Bind Data in an RDL or Page Report Using C# .NET (Sergey Abakumoff)
• Creating an already-completed asynchronous activity in C++/WinRT, Part 6 and Part 7 and Part 8 (Raymond Chen)
• C# Tip: Mark a class as Sealed to prevent subclasses creation (Davide Bellone)
• How to Create an RDL Report in .NET C# Code (Alec Gall)
• NuGetAudit 2.0: Elevating Security and Trust in Package Management (Andy Zivkovic)
• EF Core – The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value and Automating MassTransit Consumer Registration (Bart Wullems)
• Extension Method: Flatten Forms Fields in PDF Documents using .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• .NET — About NuGet Package Audit and “False-Positive” Security Warnings (Dennis Garavsky)
• Using EF Core Interceptors in .NET (Georgi Georgiev)
• Building a Safer Future – How NuGet is Tackling Software Supply Chain Threats (Jon Douglas)
• C# 13 ref struct interfaces and the ‘allows ref struct’ generic anti-constraint (NDepend Team)
• How To Fix .NET Nullability Warnings For Guarded Members (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Disambiguating types with the same name with extern alias (Andrew Lock)
• Custom config sections using static virtual members in interfaces (Phil Haack)
• .NET 6 will reach End of Support on November 12, 2024 (Rahul Bhandari)
• Dealing with Platform Specific Classes and Methods in CrossPlatform .NET (Rick Strahl)
• How to Test IServiceCollection Registrations in .NET (John Ademola)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Platform Engineering vs. DevOps – Key Differences in 2024 (James Walker)
• Semantic Kernel – What is a Planner? (Microsoft Learn)
• Platform Engineering & DevOps Series Kickoff Announcement (Sara Huddleston)
• Microsoft’s Designer app arrives on iOS and Android with AI editing and creation (Tom Warren)
• Figma explains how its AI tool ripped off Apple’s design (Jay Peters)
• A complete guide to sequence diagrams (Jean Huang)
• Story points are pointless, measure queues (Barry)
• Why Do Developers Lose 1 Day a Week to Inefficiencies? (Jennifer Riggins)
• Leveraging phi-3 for an Enhanced Semantic Cache in RAG Applications (Joinal Ahmed)
• Fun Feedback Exercises & Activities to Do With Your Team (Kim Scott)
• OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model (Kylie Robison)
• Get to know the GitLab Wiki for effective knowledge management (Matthew Macfarlane)
• TeamCity 2024.07 Is Here (Olga Bedrina)
• Why aren’t we better at this? (Michael Eaton)
• Using Semantic Kernel to perform RAG Queries (Jason Farrell)
• Introducing Genkit for Go: Build scalable AI-powered apps in Go (Chris Gill & Cameron Balahan)
• Why it took us 11 months to move a single line of text (Jessica Wang & Advait Maybhate)
• Data-driven model improves accuracy in predicting EV battery degradation (Alyssa Hughes)
• Is Vertical Slice Architecture better than Clean Architecture or Ports and Adapters? (Derek Comartin)
• What Senior Developers Do (Nick Hodges)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Understanding FCM Message Delivery on Android (Neil Gu & Andrea Wu)
• What’s Next for Flutter After Layoffs Hit Google Team (Loraine Lawson)
• 3 Easy Steps to Digitally Sign PDFs in Your Flutter App (Ramkumar Ravy)
• Migrating A Flutter Application From GetIt To Bloc (Tomer Pacific)
• D3D12 Preview: Mesh Nodes in Work Graphs (Amar Patel)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 218 – Context Matters!! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• 20 Must-Know Visual Studio Shortcuts for Developers (Visual Studio Team)
• .NET MAUI Development in VS Code – Complete Setup Guide (macOS, Linux, & Windows)! (James Montemagno)
• Building Apps with Visual Studio in the Cloud with Dev Box (Visual Studio Team)
• Three New Capabilities to Modernize your SQL Server Anywhere with Azure Arc | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• Twitch Integration with 7 Lines of Code – ComfyJS | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Raphael)
• Copilot is great – how can I integrate it with my business? | One Dev Question (Mike Francis)
• What’s your favorite thing at Build with Damian Brady | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer Team)
• A Conversation with Windows on Arm Expert Marcus Perryman (Ale Thomas)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Influencing Change, Joy at Work and Protecting Mental Health with Eb Ikonne (Eb Ikonne)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 187: Viability Of The Minimum Viable Product (Ben Nadel)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to Effectively Manage a Tool Transition in an Agile environment | Stella Ihenacho and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Building Self-organizing Agile Teams and Measuring Success Through Delivery Metrics and Team Well-being | Stella Ihenacho (Vasco Duarte)
• Practical AI Podcast #278 – The first real-time voice assistant (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Web Rush Episode 289: VS Code to the Cloud in 60 Seconds (John Papa)
• PPP 425 | Achieving Low-Stress Success in Project Management, with author James Louttit (Andy Kaufman)
• Syntax Podcast #796: Do We Need JS Frameworks × Are You Over-Engineering? × Webview vs Native (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• RunAs Radio #941 – The Power of Data in the Cloud with Arun Ulag (Richard Campbell)
• .NET Rocks! – Basic UX for Developers with Hilary Stohs-Krause (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Directions on Microsoft – Like It Or Not, The New Outlook Is Coming Soon (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Changelog Podcast #600 – What even is the modern data stack (Benn Stancil & Jerod Santo)
• JS Party Podcast #331 – Building LLM agents in JS (Tejas Kumar & Kevin Ball)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024 (Eira May)
• Luck Surface Area | Multithreaded Income Episode 43 with Aaron Francis (Kevin Griffin)
• Python Bytes Podcast #392 – The votes have been counted (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Radio 625: Jonathan Schneider on Automated Refactoring with OpenRewrite (Gregory Kapfhammer)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – How to write about zero. Are your emails accidentally rude? PAPST. (Valerie Fridland & Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 476: Bring a point of view (Brandon Whichard & Cote)

Community & Events

• Connect With Our Developer Advocate: WebStorm Open Hours (Jan-Niklas Wortmann)
• Microsoft Focuses on .NET Aspire, ‘Modern SQL’ with AI at Dev Conference (David Ramel)
• CfP List Updated 2024-07-16 (Dave Aronson)
• GitLab Explores Sale (msmash)
• Microsoft Will Likely Avoid EU Antitrust Charges for Cloud Licensing (Paul Thurrott)
• Share to Make a Change: MVP Emily van Putten’s Journey (Rie Moriguchi)
• 25 Years of Redgate (Steve Jones)
• Introducing the new file attachment scanner for Microsoft Tech Community (Allen)

Database

• Reduce SQL Server Blocking with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT (Jared Westover)
• Auditing SQL Server – Part 2 – Hardware Audit (Ben Johnston)
• A Little About Index Design Patterns In SQL Server and A Little About Parameter Sensitivity And Startup Expression Predicates In SQL Server and Performance Tuning GREATEST And LEAST Functions In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Latest NoSQL Java Ecosystem Updates 2024 Q1 & Q2 (Theo van Kraay)
• CockroachDB and Postgres SELECT FOR UPDATE and SKIP LOCKED (Bryan Hogan)
• Databricks and Microsoft Fabric: Understanding Their Strengths and Capabilities (Jordan Lampe)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing Coauthoring for SharePoint Pages and News (Melissa Torres)

PowerShell

• Creating custom PSScriptAnalyzer rules (Adam Driscoll)
• Things I Learned #23: History of commands in PowerShell (Michael Eaton)

Miscellaneous

• Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (Sumit Chandel & Eldhose Mathokkil Babu)
• J.D. Vance is anti-Big Tech, pro-crypto (Alex Heath)
• Microsoft Photos introduces even more AI editing capabilities with Microsoft Designer (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Error handling in Rust: A comprehensive tutorial (Eze Sunday)
• Microsoft Surface: Secure by Design (Niraj Parthasarathy)
• Why FTC Needs to Rethink Tech Regulation (Om Malik)
• What’s New With the Just-Released Linux 6.10 Kernel (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
• Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3983 and The Morning Brew #3984 and The Morning Brew #3985 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – July 16, 2024 (#356) and Daily Reading List – July 17, 2024 (#357) and Daily Reading List – July 18, 2024 (#358) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)