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Dew Drop – April 10, 2024 (#4166)

Posted on April 10, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Cross-Platform Mobile Social Networking App (Uno Platform Team)
Introducing Syncfusion .NET MAUI Visual Studio Code Extension and Introducing Syncfusion .NET MAUI Template Studio for Visual Studio Code (Jose Seeron Anthony Pitchai)
.NET Monthly Roundup – March 2024 – .NET 9 Preview 2, Smart Components, AI fun, and more! (Jon Galloway)
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9.6 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 3 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
Introducing the new Copilot experience in Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2024 Release (Grace Kulin)
Easily Customize the Toolbar in Blazor PDF Viewer (Kameshwaran R.)
React Server Components in a Nutshell (Paul Scanlon)
7 steps for a successful Azure migration (Sonia Cuff)
Get started with the latest updates for Dockerfile syntax (v1.7.0) (Tonis Tiigi)
Understanding WS-Federation: A modern primer for an obsolete protocol (Scott Brady)
Fleet 1.33: Debugging Support for Chrome, Improved Highlighting of Log Files, Fleet Keyboard Shortcuts PDF, and Other Enhancements (Daniela Bentrup)
Changes to Rust’s WASI targets (Yosh Wuyts)
What is Session Duration? A Guide to This Crucial Metric (Simon Keating)

Visual Studio & .NET

ReSharper C++ 2024.1: Slate UI Framework and Better Support for C++20 Modules (Anastasia Kazakova)
Durable Background Processing with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
Inserting MergeBlocks with the DataSourceManager and Applying Table Styles in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Useful features in Entity Framework Core 8 for your application (Dennis Fruhauff)
Rider 2024.1: A Better Experience for Debugging, Performance Monitoring, and Game Development and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2024.1 Are Out! and ReSharper 2024.1: Improved Handling of Collections, Collection Expressions, and Disposable Resources, New Assembly Diff Tool Window, and More (Sasha Ivanova)
C# 12: Default Parameters in Lambda Expressions (Thomas Claudius Huber)
Use .Net CancellationTokens (Kevin Logan)
String Performance: Slicing a String (David McCarter)
.NET April 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.4, 7.0.18, .NET 6.0.29 (Rahul Bhandari)
If I enumerate all the processes and add up all the GetGuiResources, why doesn’t it match the GR_GLOBAL value? (Raymond Chen)
How To: Test Logging when Using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging and Serilog (Sean Killeen)
JetBrains IDE Services: Streamlining Enterprise Management of IDEs and AI Tools to Foster Developer Productivity (Valerie Kuzmina)
The C# documentation hub gets a refresh (Microsoft Learn)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Using Azure AI Document Intelligence and Azure OpenAI to extract structured data from documents (James Croft)
Electronic Signatures for Remote Works (Caroline Dolly)
Harnessing Local AI: Unleashing the Power of .NET Smart Components and Llama2 (Bruno Capuano)
Meta may release smaller Llama AI model before the big version (Emilia David)
4 ways GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot (Holger Staudacher)
Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data (Kevin Xu)
Copilot Use Cases for Research – Copilot for M365 – Starter Series (Mike Gannotti)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Ichigo Jam: a learning platform based around Raspberry Pi Pico (Ashley Whittaker)
Calling a Protected API from an iOS Swift App (Peter Fernandez)
10 Years After Facebook Bought Oculus, What’s Next for Meta’s VR Plans? (Scott Stein)

Screencasts & Videos

MassTransit Message Contract Sharing using NuGet (Chris Patterson)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Anjuan Simmons (Isaac Levin)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 534 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

Azure Podcast Episode 491 – Azure Retirement Workbook (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Double-Edged Sword of Commitment, An Agile Team’s Journey Through Innovation and Despair | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)
Python Bytes Podcast #378 – Python is on the edge (Michael Kennedy)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Climbing the GenAI decision tree (Ryan Donovan)
RunAs Radio – Securing AI with Sarah Young (Richard Campbell)

Community & Events

Google Cloud Next 2024 (Google Cloud Team)
Windows Server Summit Wrap Up (Amy Colyer)
Join Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2024 (Henry Yan)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Paul Simon Umaru (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

Backups for Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra (Wenting Wu)
Using ChatGPT for T-SQL Code Reviews (Brent Ozar)
Release notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – Version 20.1 (Microsoft Learn)

PowerShell & Terminal

Announcing a new login experience with Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI (Damien Caro)

Miscellaneous

Output CSV Results to Console Table in Rust (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Announcing Rust 1.77.2 (Rust Security Response WG)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3915 (Chris Alcock)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #140 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – April 9, 2024 (#294) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #828 (Manoela Ilic)

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) – Referral Link – It’s also part of a Humble Bundle of Packt books right now!

Dew Drop – April 9, 2024 (#4165)

Posted on April 9, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Connecting Your Windows and Uno Platform App to ChatGPT with Azure.AI.OpenAI (Nick Randolph)
Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London (Mustafa Suleyman)
Introducing the New Blazor Timeline Component (Indrajith Srinivasan)
Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready (Oscar Spencer)
Building custom copilots in Microsoft Teams with Teams App Test Tool and Dev Proxy (Garry Trinder & Waldek Mastykarz)
C# Compiler Lead Jared Parsons on 20 Years at Microsoft (David Cassel)

Web & Cloud Development

DIY: Create Your Own Cloud with Kubernetes (Part 1) and Part 2 and Part 3 (Andrei Kvapil)
New in .NET 8: ASP.NET Core Identity and How to Implement It (Assis Zang)
Generating MS Word DOCX and PDF Documents with ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Adding SignalR into ASP.NET (Brian Mullen)
Blazor Basics: Templating Components with RenderFragments (Claudio Bernasconi)
BFF secured ASP.NET Core application using downstream API and an OAuth client credentials JWT (Damien Bowden)
Azure Communication Services April 2024 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
Combine AI with React Using the KendoReact AIPrompt (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
Master Claims Transformation for Flexible ASP.NET Core Authorization (Milan Jovanović)
Introducing ESLint Config Inspector (Anthony Fu)
ESLint v9.0.0 released (Nicholas C. Zakas)
The Technology, Business, Policy, and People of APIs (Kin Lane)
The Threads API is coming soon: get ready for it! (Jesse Chen)
Get Up and Running with the Maps SDK for Unity (Bing Team)
GraphQL Basics: Resolvers (Hassan Djirdeh)
The PWA Data Trap (Scott Kuhl)
APIs Aren’t Just For Devs Pt. 11 – Putting it all Together! (Shannon Kuehn)
ARM Templates for Kusto (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
parseUri 2.0 (Steven Levithan)

Visual Studio & .NET

The Best Way to Assign an Initial Value to Auto-Properties in C# (Kundan Kumar)
Optimizing your code with GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
How to Retrieve the Number of CPU Cores in C# (Lennart Pries)
Regex Options in C#: A Beginner’s Guide to Powerful Pattern Matching and C# Regex Performance: How To Squeeze Out Performance (Nick Cosentino)
Remove git hash from assembly informational version in .NET 8 and Your custom HttpClient delegating handlers should be transient (Anthony Simmon)
Equip 3rd party types with a deconstructor (Steven Giesel)
General Performance Tip: Optimizing Method Returns: Default Keyword vs. Null vs. Empty Collection (David McCarter)
Handling Circular References When Working With JSON in .NET (Georgios Panagopoulos)
Creating ico files from multiple images in .NET (Gérald Barré)
The case of the exception that a catch (…) didn’t catch and How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching? (Raymond Chen)
How to use Moq for mocking objects with xUnit and .NET (David Grace)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Event modelling anti-patterns explained (Oskar Dudycz)
Actually Talking about Modular Monoliths (Jeremy D. Miller)
5 Rules for DTOs (Steve Smith)
What a year building AI has taught Stack Overflow (Ben Popper)
Should designers code? (Brad Frost)
Shifting Left Is Now Mainstream for Developers, or Is It? (Darryl K. Taft)
Better API Testing – A Boxing Match (Gil Zilberfeld)
CRAFT AI Writing Framework for Writing Better Content with AI and Rapid Business Transformation Framework for Better Business Agility (JD Meier)
Comments in code written by AI (Matt Lacey)
Diffusion and Denoising – Explaining Text-to-Image Generative AI (Exxact Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Security Checklist for Swift and Objective-C Developers (Ben Nettleton)
Apple Opens the App Store To Retro Game Emulators (BeauHD)
Bring more players into your game with Unity Multiplayer Services (Benjy Boxer)
The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps (Preethi Sam)

Screencasts & Videos

Passing data in .NET MAUI with Shell to a ViewModel #dotnet #dotnetmaui (James Montemagno)
The Download: GitHub Copilot CLI, Xz Backdoor, Babylon.js 7.0 and more! (Christina Warren)
OpenAI Sora: Beauty And Horror! (Frank La Vigne)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends in 2024 (Eran Stiller, Daniel Bryant, Blanca Garcia Gil, Rafal Gancarz & Thomas Betts)
CppCast – Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution (Phil Nash & Timu Doumler)
Merge Conflict #405: 30 Seconds to Wow (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
InfoQ Podcast: Architecture Does Not Emerge – A Conversation with Tracy Bannon (Tracy Bannon)
Syntax Podcast Episode 752: React vs Vue vs Angular with Corbin Crutchley (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
React Native Radio 293 – Real Life React Native With Benji Lightstone (Benji Lightstone & Jamon Holmgren)
CloudChat Episode 2 – Agile Hobbies (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
Ngrid with Shlomi Assaf – Adventures in Angular 408 and The Future of Database Administration – Adventures in DevOps 195 (Charles M. Wood)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Curiosity and Collaboration, Critical Product Owner Traits That Scrum Masters Can Help Cultivate | Joe Scherler and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Championing Change Without Being a Martyr, A Scrum Master’s Tale | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – From Blogging to DevOps with Jeff Brown Tech (James Petty)
The Work Item #76 – Be OK Talking About Money, With Saron Yitbarek (Den Delimarsky)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 28 : MIDI 2.0 : 40 Years in the Making ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown, Andrew Mee & Gary Daniels)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 167 – Stolen Cards and Fake Accounts: Defending Google Cloud Against Abuse (Anton Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – Consent-Based Leadership with Jessica Katz (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
SQL Down Under Show 89 with guest Erin Stellato (Greg Low)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Want to be a great software engineer? Don’t be a jerk. (Eira May)
Richard Hundhausen: Product Ownership – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 292 (Jeffrey Palermo)
AGL 359: AI Doctor with Dr. Ronald Razmi (John Rouda)
UI Breakfast Episode 281: Designing for Maps with Loren Baxter (Jane Portman)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #163: The Secret of Escaping Stagnation at Work (Max Ahumada)
SQL Server Radio Episode 162 – Backups and Recovery, RTO, RPO, and RCO (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)

Community & Events

Apple Lays Off More Than 700 Workers, Including Apple Car and MicroLED Teams (BeauHD)
MVP’s Favorite Content: DevBlogs, Windows, Defender, OpenAI (Rie Moriguchi)
Microsoft loses key Xbox executive amid continued gaming shake-up (Tom Warren)
VS Code Day Skills Challenge (Abril Urena)
Chris Simon presents Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, & C# from the ground up – livestream (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Milan Jovanović (David McCarter)
ML Olympiad 2024: Globally Distributed ML Competitions by Google ML Community (Bitnoori Keum)
Get ready for AI at the Migrate to Innovate digital event (Jordan Davis)

Database

A Little About sp_getapplock And Error Handling In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Data Management Views (DMVs) comparison for SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database (Michelle Gutzait)
Azure SQL DB Failover Groups (Josephine Bush)
Introducing vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB’s Latest Features (Khelan Modi)
Replace a SQL WHILE Loop with Set Based Logic in T-SQL (Jared Westover)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Easily sign-in to all Microsoft accounts using the Outlook app (Shivani Gupta)
How to Populate SharePoint List with Files from SharePoint Document Library using Power Automate (Rachel Irabor)
OneNote get-pages?search API deprecation (Lauren Go)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3430 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
How to send and receive iMessages on Windows (Jason Cipriani)
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3913 and The Morning Brew #3914 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-15 (Michael Eaton)
F# Weekly #14, 2024 – ionide/FsAutoComplete (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #208 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Reading Notes #596 and Reading Notes #597 and Reading Notes #598 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Reading List – April 5, 2024 (#292) and Daily Reading List – April 8, 2024 (#293) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #827 (Manoela Ilic)
C# Digest – Bing on .NET 8: The Impact of Dynamic PGO (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

Mastery of C# and .NET Awaits | Packt Book Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 5, 2024 (#4164)

Posted on April 5, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

There will be no post on Monday. I’ll be traveling for the solar eclipse. Back on Tuesday with an XL edition!

Top Links

Visual Studio Code March 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
PowerToys Release v0.80.0 (Ethan Fang)
Full Line Code Completion in JetBrains IDEs: All You Need to Know (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Slim Bindings for .NET MAUI, iOS and Android (Jonathan Dick)
Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications (Jordan Davis)
How to use Comments to Prompt GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza & Laurent Bugnion)

Web & Cloud Development

How to securely reverse-proxy ASP.NET Core web apps (Anthony Simmon)
WebStorm 2024.1: Sticky Lines, Quick Documentation Improvements, Full Line Completion, and More (David Watson)
Announcing Java 21 and Tomcat 10.1 on Azure App Service! (Denver Brittain)
Present a List of Files in a Directory With Directory Browsing in ASP.NET Core (Gang Zhu)
Introducing the New React Timeline Component (Senthilarasu Balu)
Pulumi State Management – How to Store & Manage Pulumi State (Sumeet Ninawe)
Where Did My Traffic Go? Hint: It Wasn’t an Algorithm Update (Erik Dietrich)
Golang 1.22 Redefines the For Loop for Easier Concurrency (Joab Jackson)
Windows known issues and product lifecycle in Graph API (Mabel Gomes)
Reverse Searching Netflix’s Federated Graph (Ricky Gardiner, Alex Hutter & Katie Lefevre)
The V8 Sandbox (Samuel Groß)

Visual Studio & .NET

Just for Fun: A Five-Card Poker Library Using C# (David Ramel)
The .NET API ref docs now include links to the source code! We’ve had many requests for this feature over the years and it’s finally here. If the docs don’t tell you what you need to know, now you have a direct link to the implementation. (Genevieve Warren)
Using Slash Commands in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
Convert Excel to PDF in Just 5 Steps Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
Examples of Composition in C# – A Simple Guide for Beginners (Nick Cosentino)
Primary Constructor and Logging Don’t Mix (Adam Storr)
Form Field Compatibility: Work with AcroForms, Legacy MS Word Forms, and Content Controls (Bjoern Meyer)
Code It Any Way You Want: Optimizing Span Operations – Clear vs. Fill and Collection Performance: Finding a Key in a Dictionary (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

JetBrains AI Assistant 2024.1 Updates (Alexandra Charikova)
Azure Maia for the era of AI: From silicon to software to systems (Rani Borkar, Andrew Wall, Prasanth Pulavarthi & Yuan Yu)
Announcing cost-effective RAG at scale with Azure AI Search (Pablo Castro)
dotNetDave Story: The Critical Importance of Addressing Performance Before Product Release (David McCarter)
How to successfully deliver your software development roadmap (David DeSanto)
Building GitLab with GitLab: Expanding our security certification portfolio (Madeline Lake)
Introducing improvements to the fine-tuning API and expanding our custom models program (OpenAI Team)
Security Considerations in the Time of AI Engineering (Shreya Gupta & Calah Vargas)
Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser (Artie Beaty)
How do mixture-of-experts layers affect transformer models? (Cameron R. Wolfe)
AB links on GitHub pull request and scale improvements for large organizations (Dan Hellem)
Extending Semantic Kernel using OllamaSharp for Chat and Text Completion (Bruno Capuano)
What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI? (Nicole Choi)
Customer Case Study: DataStax and Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Advanced Installer 21.6 (Advanced Installer Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

A Comprehensive Kotlin Learning Guide for All Levels (Clara Maine)
Global Gamers Challenge: Top 20 Revealed! (Kelvin Boateng)

Screencasts & Videos

Use Desktop Browser Developer Tools to Debug Web Apps on Android (Martin Zikmund)
What can I make with C#? | One Dev Question (Scott Hanselman)
Error Monitoring & Crash Reporting for .NET MAUI Apps with Raygun (James Montemagno)
Using Open Telemetry with the MassTransit Test Harness? (Chris Patterson)
Building AI ready applications | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – Code, Coffee, and Clever Debugging: Leslie Richardson’s Microsoft Journey and the C# Dev Kit in Visual Studio Code with Leslie Richardson (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Affective Computing with MIT’s Dr. Rosalind Picard (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Self-Driving Team, Signs of a Self-Sufficient Scrum Team | Joe Scherler (Vasco Duarte)
Building Web Apps with Blazor with Daniel Roth – Adventures in .NET 183 and Embracing Web Standards with Owen Buckley – JavaScript Jabber 626 (Charles M. Wood)
.NET Rocks! – GitHub Copilot Update with Michelle Duke (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Changelog – Getting to Resend (Interview) (Zeno Rocha & Adam Stacoviak)
UX Podcast – Sketching workshop with Eva-Lotta Lamm (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Web Rush Episode 275: Web Frameworks of 2024 (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Gone Mobile Podcast #101: Slim Bindings (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
Talk Python to Me #455: Land Your First Data Job (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024: A Deep Dive for Developers and AI Enthusiasts (Ama Kusi)
Microsoft Teams at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Jessie Hwang)
5 Cool Things I Learned in My First Month at Couchbase (Caroline Kerns)
MVP Book Authors shine on Library shelves (Elizabeth Pappalardo)
Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2024 (Henry Yan)

Database

How to Manage SQL Server Deprecated Features (Eric Blinn)
Why INSERT/EXEC Causes Weird Blocking In SQL Server (Erik Darling)

Miscellaneous

PowerToys DSC configuration (Microsoft Learn)
Are Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Fake? (BeauHD)
How to automate tasks in Windows (David Nield)
Microsoft PowerToys v0.80.0 released with Desired State Configuration support (Kunal Chowdhury)
Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (Mozilla Team)
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: System corruption caused by an administrator (Raymond Chen)
Microsoft Edge will let you control how much RAM it uses soon (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – April 4, 2024 (#291) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Escape Velocity: Better Metrics for Agile Teams (Doc Norton) – Referral Link

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