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Dew Drop – October 1, 2024 (#4276)

Top Links

Bridging the Gap Between MVU and MVVM (Uno Platform Team)
What’s New in .NET 9: A Developer’s Perspective (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
Unlocking Future Skills with Microsoft Learning Hubs (Lee Stott)
Dev Proxy v0.21 with simulating authentication and authorization (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)
Announcing the General Availability (GA) of Native Authentication for Microsoft Entra External ID (Kaushik Kislay)
Effortless Instrumentation profiling with Persistent Target Selection (Harshada Hole)

Web & Cloud Development

The Curious “Case” of the Bearer Scheme (Andrea Chiarelli)
Boosting Code Readability and Manageability in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
CSS Masonry & CSS Grid (Geoff Graham)
Scaling Event Projections and Subscriptions with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
Vue Basics: How to Develop Better Vue Applications with Nuxt (Nada Rifki)
Streamlining Jetpack: Enhancements for a Faster WordPress Experience (Osk)
What’s new in Astro – September 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger)
How to use IHttpClientFactory and WireMock.NET together using Moq (Davide Bellone)
Introducing seamless authentication with Power Pages and Microsoft Entra External ID (Arbaaz Abdulwahid)
.NET Aspire and Dapr. Overlap or complementary? (Tommaso Stocchi)
Enhancing the security of Microsoft Edge extensions with the new Publish API (Microsoft Edge Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Breaking Down The Top WPF Datagrids (MESCIUS inc.)
.NET MAUI: Check Grammar within the DevExpress HTML Edit Using OpenAI GPT Models (Anthony Sameishchev)

Visual Studio & .NET

Getting the Running Operating System in C# (Bryan Hogan)
Metalama Status Update, September 2024 (Gael Fraiteur)
Pulling a single item from a C++ parameter pack by its index, remarks (Raymond Chen)
Creating Advanced Tables in PDF and DOCX Documents with C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Loading data with Riverpod: an AsyncValue story (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)

AI

Announcing fine-tuning for customization and support for new models in Azure AI (Asha Sharma)
Using AI to jump-start code samples (Tom Johnson)
AI Chatbot with Message History using LangChain and SQL (Levi Masonde)
OpenAI Is Shattering Big Tech’s Promises of a Better World (Parmy Olson)
Exploring Responsible AI (Matt Graven)
5 Ways AI is Revolutionizing Productivity and Collaboration (Nikita Chandawale)
Sketch and AI (Pieter Omvlee)
What’s New In Copilot | September 2024 (Seth Patton)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps–Update to the v3.x build agents (Bart Wullems)
Exploring Docker for DevOps: What It Is and How It Works (Todd R. Weiss)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Dart and Flutter packages need your Love! (Chris Sells)
Quick introduction to Large Language Models for Android developers (Thomas Ezan)
Gemini in Android Studio: Code Completion Gains Powerful Model Improvements (Sandhya Mohan)
Welcome to AI on Android Spotlight Week (Joseph Lewis)
Rethinking our understanding of Exceptions and Errors in Flutter (Gonçalo Palma)

Screencasts & Videos

Code AI apps on Azure – Python, Prompty & Visual Studio | Microsoft Mechanics (Dan Taylor)
How to persist data for a SQL Server resource in .NET Aspire (Authorised Territory)
GitHub Desktop 101: Adding code to your repository (Christina Warren)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict #430: iOS 18 & Apple Intelligence Preview Hands-On (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Gone Mobile Podcast #121: Jon tries Mediator! Copilot != Autopilot, and the Best iPhone ever! (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
Jeff Sutherland: The History of Agile – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 317 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The PowerShell Podcast – Spectre Console and TUI Magic with Shaun Lawrie (James Petty)
Azure Cloud Talk Podcast 24/9/30 – IAC For Me? (Alec Harrison)
Made by Google Podcast – Pixel Buds Pro 2: Redefining Comfort, Sound, and Hands-Free AI (Rachid Finge)
Syntax Podcast #828: Logging in Verification: Magic Links, 2FA, SMS Codes (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #192 – Confidential + AI: Can AI Keep a Secret? (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – Display custom maps on your website for free (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle (Ben Popper)
Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft Picks Up the Premium Pace With Dynamics 365 (Mary Jo Foley)
Only Malware in the Building Episode 5 – The Dark Arts of Cyber (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
The Amp Hour #678 – All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Python Bytes Podcast #403 – A machine learning algorithm walks into a bar… (Michael Kennedy)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Risk of Investing in Non-Critical Features That Remove Focus From the Core Experience, A Product Leadership Story | Eli Goodman (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

Visual Studio at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024 (David Li)
Philly .NET Meetup: October Placeholder (Bill Wolff)
John Maeda in Conversation with Dean Anijo Mathew (Phillip Bahar)
MySQL Upcoming Meetups Worldwide (Lenka Kasparova)
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025: Call for Papers Now Open! (James Petty)
Ongoing community data protection and Attribution as the foundation of developer trust and The changing state of the Internet and related business models (Ellen Brandenberger & Ryan Polk)
The Future of the Social Web Is in Good Hands (Jeremy Anderberg)
The nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform (Margaret Tucker)
Hacktoberfest 2024 (Mark Waite)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2024 (Pete Daderko)
See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 7) (Ms. Excel)
Using Copilot in Excel to analyze text insights (Gabe Ho)

Miscellaneous

Book Review: Art of ARM Assembly (Vol 1) (Ted Neward)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4291 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1912 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
Keep your online activity safer on public Wi-Fi with Microsoft Defender for individuals (Ashwin PR)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2024-40 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #161 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – September 30, 2024 (#408) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #621 (Frank Boucher)
Windows news you can use: September 2024 (Thomas Trombley)

The Geek Shelf

Packt Unreal 5 eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – September 30, 2024 (#4275)

Top Links

Update on Recall security and privacy architecture (David Weston)
Azure SDK Release (September 2024) (Hector Norzagaray)
Introducing Copilot in OneDrive: Now Generally Available (Arjun Tomar)
Raspberry Pi AI Camera on sale now at $70 (Naush Patuck)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – The next supercomputer with NVIDIA’s Wen-Mei Hwu (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing the Availability of Phi-3.5-MoE in Azure AI Studio and GitHub (martincai)

Web & Cloud Development

Creating a Cluster Growth Animation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Building an Application in Docker while Offline (Bryan Hogan)
Getting Started: Creating an ASP.NET Core Web App with the Document Editor in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) (Bjoern Meyer)
Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll Timelines (Lee Meyer)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Porting the ComputeSharp sample app to UWP again, but with .NET 9 and NativeAOT! This shows the Windows Community Toolkit, Win2D and WinUI 2, all running on .NET 9. Also, note the acrylic blur over the swapchain in the background: this is only possible on UWP! (Sergio Pedri)

Visual Studio & .NET

Optimizing Digital Signature Workflows: Starting with MS Word DOCX Files Instead of PDFs in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Key mappings in Visual Studio Code (Andrew Pruski)
Palindrome Check: Normalize Strings in C# (Ishika Tiwari)
The case of the crash when destructing a std::map (Raymond Chen)
Data Annotations vs FluentValidation: Which should you use? (David Grace)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s Collection Extensions (David McCarter)

AI

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants (Grant Gross)
Feeding AI bots (Daniel Fisher)
GitHub Models and Inference API (Rob Bos)
Tool support in OllamaSharp (Bart Wullems)
Announcing Semantic Kernel for Java 1.3.0 (Derek Keeler)
OpenAI Structured Outputs: How-To Guide for Developers (Oladimeji Sowole)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure DevOps–Sharing service connections (Bart Wullems)
Azure Boards, September Update (Dan Hellem)
My Recommendations for a Test Automation Strategy (Jeremy D. Miller)
xUnit v3 and some stuff about TUnit (Steven Giesel)
Git: Set Up a Local Repository Accessible by LAN (Jack Wallen)
Breaking It Down: How to Migrate Your Modular Monolith to Microservices (Milan Jovanović)
Developer insights: Building resilient end-to-end security (Rohan Kumar)
How to Use SSH to Safely Connect to GitHub: A Simple Guide for Windows OS (Oghenekparobo Stephen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 15 Brings Desktop-like Windowing UX on Tablets (Sergio De Simone)
Meta’s new smart glasses look like the future (David Pierce)

Screencasts & Videos

Building a classic Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico (Christina Warren)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 565 and Random.Code() – Fixing A Bug in Rocks (Jason Bock)
Llama 3.2 is HERE and has VISION (Frank La Vigne)
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11 (ITOpsTalk Crew)

Podcasts

freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #143 – The reality of the developer job market with ex-Googler YK Sugi (Quincy Larson)
How Mastermind Groups Can Transform Your DevOps Career – Adventures in DevOps #216 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
React Native Radio #309 – React Native IDE with Krzysztof Magiera (Krzysztof Magiera, Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
Syntax Podcast #827: Career Development with Topher Martini (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Changelog & Friends Podcast #63 – The wrong place to slap a person (Nick Nisi, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Managing Component State the Sane Way with Freddy Montes – Adventures in Angular #426 (Charles Max Wood)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #188: Sabbatical Secrets – How to Take an Intentional Career Break with Laura Nguyen (Max Ahumada)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Power of a Vision-Driven Product Owner | Richard Coplan (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

The messy WordPress drama, explained (Emma Roth)
What Happened to Tech Jobs? What Will You Do Next? (Debbie Levitt)
Techbash 2024 (Jason Haley)
Threads now lets you tag your location (Jay Peters)

Database

A Bug With Inline Index Creation Syntax In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Time Weighted Average and Value in Azure Data Explorer (Adi Eldar)
A few ways to monitor performance for the geo replica of an Azure SQL Database (Matt Changchien)
Combine Multiple Columns Performance Comparison – SQL UNPIVOT, UNION ALL vs CROSS APPLY (Jared Westover)

Miscellaneous

Let’s go easy on PyPI, OK? (Michael Kennedy)
Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text (BeauHD)
paint.net 5.1 beta (build 9038) (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #39, 2024 – new FAKE, Oxpecker in TechEmpower, Gleam to F# and .NET Days 2024 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – September 27, 2024 (#407) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #867 (Manoela Ilic)
C# Digest – Implementing Blocked Floyd-Warshall algorithm (Jakub Chodounsky)
Reading Notes #620 (Frank Boucher)
Reading List 326 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

O’Reilly Software Architecture 2024 Book Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – September 25, 2024 (#4272)

Top Links

Create Stunning Gym Subscription UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Back in the Pocono Mountains: Meet Text Control at TechBash 2024 (Bjoern Meyer)
How-to: Listening to Keyboard Events and Handling Shortcuts in .NET MAUI (Joachim Leonfellner)
Get AI ready: Inside the Copilot Learning Hub (Rae Lyon)
.NET Terminology (Rocky Lhotka)
Adding Interactive Gestures to Controls in .NET MAUI | On .NET (James Montemagno)
Introducing Verdi, an AI dev platform powered by GPT-4o (OpenAI Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Customizing the combo of Azure Developer CLI and .NET Aspire (Andreas Helland)
How to Create a Reusable Modal Component in React (Grant Riordan)
Encrypting and Decrypting sensitive Information in ASP.NET Core (Hariom Dubey)
Breaking a String by Visual Width in JavaScript (j2inet)
Vue Basics: How to Build Complex Forms in Vue (Nada Rifki)
ASP.NET Core 9 and IAsyncEnumerable – Async Streaming JSON and NDJSON From Blazor WebAssembly (Tomasz Pęczek)
Azure Logic Apps Standard Templates: Pre-built Workflows for Common Integration Scenarios (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Receiving GitHub Webhooks When Using the ASP.NET Core Developer Certificate (Steve Gordon)
Running Docker in an Azure Windows Virtual Machine – Not so fast! (Tore Nestenius)
DS Server 3.5.0 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
Color Mixing With Animation Composition (Geoff Graham)
Integrating the Particular Service Platform with Aspire (Jimmy Bogard)
Human-Readable gRPC Calls with Fiddler Everywhere (Petar Grigorov)
How to Host Your Personal Portfolio Using GitHub Pages (Raiyan Bin Sarwar)
Level Up: Auth0 Plans Just Got an Upgrade (Shiven Ramji)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

AI-Driven Smart PDF Form Filling in .NET MAUI PDF Viewer (Deepak G.)

Visual Studio & .NET

Htmx and Playwright Tests in C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Next-Gen Code Coverage in Visual Studio: Enhanced C++ Support and Security (Jakub Chocholowicz)
The UserConsentVerifier confirms that the user is there, but it doesn’t protect any data (Raymond Chen)
Hot-Reloading C++ with Live++ and JetBrains Rider (Matt Ellis)

AI

5 Ways to Implement Enterprise Security with Azure AI Studio (Meera Kurup)
Using GenAI to build a capability map and translate legacy systems (Martin Fowler)
New GenAI simulation and evaluation tools in Azure AI Studio (Minsoo Thigpen)
Running a fully local AI Code Assistant with Continue–Part 4– Learning from your codebase (Bart Wullems)
Microsoft Launches Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET (Robert Krzaczyński)
Updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more (Logan Kilpatrick & Shrestha Basu Mallick)
Realizing the expanded partner opportunity with the next wave of Copilot (Jill Armour)
Demystifying Fine-Tuning: A Beginner’s Guide (Manjeet Singh)
Microsoft Hackathon: Virtual Customer Success Manager (VCSM) using Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust (Takeshi Numoto)
Customers are putting Gemini to work (Thomas Kurian)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Breaking Down Agile Estimates: Story Point Estimation, T-shirt Sizing and Time (Allison Bokone)
Embracing Vibrant Universality in Fluent Illustrations (Jay Tan & Alexis Copeland)
5 Reasons to Link Code Commits to Tickets (Claudia Fernandes)
My Evolving Approach to Learning Programming Languages (Dan Lew)
Git pull vs. git fetch: What’s the difference? (GitLab Team)
Microsoft Intune support for Apple Intelligence (MS Intune Support Team)
Designing against the deaf tax (Toby Fitch)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Attestation format change for the Android FIDO2 API (Christiaan Brand)
RISC-V on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (Luke Wren)

Screencasts & Videos

Navigating Visual Studio Easily with Feature Search (Leah Tran)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 564 (Jason Bock)
Implementing RAG with SQL Database Vector Search and Semantic Kernel | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Marco Minerva)
Token theft protection with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR & Windows (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Impact of Product Owner Pressure on Agile Team Morale | Richard Coplan (Vasco Duarte)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Spotify AI Platform, with Avin Regmi and David Xia (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
The CSS Podcast #089: View transitions (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience. (Eira May)
Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – In Focus—Designing for Copilot (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
RunAs Radio #951 – Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas (Richard Campbell)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – USPS Tech Innovator Bob Dixon (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

2024 Docker State of Application Development Survey: Share Your Thoughts on Development (Rebecca Floyd)
Microsoft Ignite Sold Out? Not for Security Professionals! Secure Your Spot (Olivia Daniels)
F5 layoffs impact in-house content creation employees (Taylor Soper)
CfP List Updated 2024-09-24 (Dave Aronson)
Authtoberfest 2024 is Here! (Deepu K. Sasidharan)

Database

Why You Shouldn’t Use The Plan Cache To Figure Out CPU Load In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
TRY/CATCH Doesn’t Always Work. (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Excel (September 2024) (Ms. Excel)

PowerShell

PowerShell Screen Captures: How To Automate Screenshots in Your Scripts (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft gives a sneak peek into how Windows may look in the future (Simon Batt)

More Link Collections

Collective #866 (Manoela Ilic)
Daily Reading List – September 24, 2024 (#404) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf (Referral)

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