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Dew Drop – December 15, 2023 (#4090)

Posted on December 15, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

DirectML: Accelerating AI on Windows, now with NPUs (Chad Pralle)
Windows AI Studio (Microsoft Learn)
OpenAI Assistant functions on Android (Craig Dunn)
Understanding the kernel in Semantic Kernel | Microsoft Learn (Matthew Bolanos)
Google AI SDK for Swift (Google)
Navigate the unexpected: using Copilot in Edge and DevTools (Patrick Brosset)

Web & Cloud Development

Announcing SvelteKit 2 (Svelte Team)
What are Kubernetes Manifest Files? Examples & Best Practices (James Walker)
Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components (Michael McCune & Andrew Sy Kim)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Understanding Dependency Injection (Assis Zang)
Unit Testing of Azure Sphere Applications (Azure Sphere Team)
How to Test JavaScript Code with Jest and Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900) – Pass the Exam With This Free 8-Hour Course (Beau Carnes)
How to Get an Access Token from HttpContext in ASP.NET Core (Dona Pejnovic)
Announcing the new (more performant!) Beta release of Azure Storage client libraries for JavaScript (Rohit Ganguly)
Building for the Future: Next.js and KendoReact Integration Unveiled (Wissam Merhi)
V8 is Faster and Safer than Ever! (Victor Gomes)
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty now generally available, opening new pathways for government innovation (Corey Sanders)
Integrating Auth0 with Screenly (Viktor Petersson)
App Builder Release: Financial Chart, Variables Management UI, and More (Zdravko Kolev)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Telerik UI for .NET MAUI NavigationView—Achieve Adaptive Layout in a Cross-Platform Application (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Entity Framework – Storing complex objects as JSON (Steven Giesel)
Primary Constructor in C# (Mahesh Chand)
What’s New for Makefile Tools in Visual Studio Code Release 0.8: Post-Configure Scripts and more… (Sinem Akinci)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Asynchronous Processing with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
All Purpose Object Updater (James Curran)
Solving Major Database Contention Problems with Throttling and Akka.NET Streams (Aaron Stannard)
.NET 8– Upgrade warnings (Bart Wullems)
How do I specify an optional parameter to a Windows Runtime method? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Updates to Azure DevOps Demo Generator and Labs (Gloridel Morales)
VBScript Deprecation impact and solution on installer packages (Renato Ivanescu)
Bulk Text Analytics with Azure AI Language (Matt Eland)
Combine Semantic Kernel with Azure Machine Learning prompt flow (Roman Mullier)
Secure Install Properties (Radu Popescu)
Advanced Installer 21.3 (Advanced Installer Team)
Weak-to-strong generalization (OpenAI Team)
How AI helps make public health truly public (Dr. Garth Graham)
How LinkedIn Levels up Your Skillset … with AI (Joab Jackson)
DiffEdit: Editing Images using Generative AI (Jonny Spruce)
Managing Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) access for Faculty and Higher Education 18+ student (Jethro Seghers)
DZone Trend Report – Enterprise Security – Securing Applications Across the Software Supply Chain (Vishwa Ratna, Akanksha Pathak, Apostolos Giannakidis, Ochuko Onojakpor, Pratik Prakash, Jihana Barrett & G. Ryan Spain)
Setup an Environment for Copilot Studio (Shantha Kumar T.)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building Modern Angular Apps with Ionic and Standalone Components (Simon Grimm)
SwiftUI Tutorials – Introducing SwiftUI (Apple Developer Docs) – All new and updated tutorials
Salesforce: What’s New in Mobile SDK 11.0 and 11.1 (Galen Lewis)

Screencasts & Videos

Azure SQL DB High Availability & Disaster Recovery overview | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
GPT-4 Turbo with Vision + Azure AI Vision | Microsoft Mechanics (Seth Juarez)
Customizing borders & corners | .NET MAUI Minutes | On .NET (Maddy Montequila)
Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Work On (Microsoft 365 Team)
2023: Year of AI (Satya Nadella)
SNEAK PEAK – new custom M1 macOS runners with Christina Warren (GitHub)
The Download: DIY Split-Flap Display, OSS Steam Deck Resources, GTA VI Trailer and more (Christina Warren)
Why would you want to use an AI plugin? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Developer Experience for the 99% (Jean Yang)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Building a better internet with Cloudflare’s Rita Kozlov (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Measuring Autonomy, A Scrum Master’s Success Metric | Robert Briese (Vasco Duarte)
Jamstack Radio Episode #138 – What’s New with Next.js Featuring Nick Taylor of OpenSauced (Brian Douglas)
Authorization in Software Podcast – Fine Grained Authorization, Open Source and Topaz (Damian Schenkelman & Omri Gazitt)
Rocket 468: This One Was Epic (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can an AI get depressed? (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 263: Stories Every Developer Can Relate To (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Talk Python to Me #442: Ultra High Speed Message Parsing with msgspec (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group (W3C Team)
Cruise lays off nearly a quarter of the company after GM slashes driverless spending (Andrew J. Hawkins)
Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Jodie Burchell (David McCarter)
Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (Jon Porter)
Webinar – Chris Woodruff – Mastering OData: An In-Depth Developer’s Guide (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Database

Grant SQL Server Permissions to a Folder for Backups or Database Files (Levi Masonde)
Cumulative Update #24 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
What is OneLake in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)
Documenting What Microsoft Won’t: The sys.sp_configure_automatic_tuning Stored Procedure (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Effective file management with the next generation of OneDrive app for Microsoft Teams (Noga Ronen)
Web content in Microsoft Mesh, powered by WebView (Sean Kerawala)
Announcing updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability (TJ Devine)

Miscellaneous

DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection for Android is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2915 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1 (Vitaly Bragilevsky)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3846 (Chris Alcock)
Code Maze Weekly #196 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Daily Reading List – December 14, 2023 (#224) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 27, 2015 (#2022)

Posted on May 27, 2015 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

A LightSwitch Turn Based Multi-User Game (Proof Of Concept) (Michael Washington)
A different copy-paste error (Eric Lippert)
Integrating NUnit into Visual Studio Test Explorer and Testing for Exceptions with NUnit (Jeremy Clark)
Xamarin Podcast – This Week in Xamarin, Plugins for Xamarin with James Montemagno (Mike James & Pierce Boggan)

Web Development

Parsing Various Units-Of-Measurement As Bytes In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
Your First Meteor Application, OData Server, ItemSlide.js (Alex R. Young)
Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Load Testing (David Paquette)
The Cons of AngularJS (Itay Herskovits)
WordPress School: HTML and CSS References and Resources (Lorelle VanFossen)
On writing real CSS (again) (Robin Rendle)
Small Grunt.js examination (Sacha Barber)
Isolated Scope in Angular.js Directive (Shaun Xu)
React and Flux with DuoCode (Dan)
Twitatron: Building a production web app with Node – User Accounts (Scott K. Smith)
Twitter REST API Now Supports Native Video Upload (Eric Carter)
Announcing Dolby Audio for high performance audio in Microsoft Edge (Jerry Smith)
Is Microsoft Changing Azure Too Much? (Paul Ballard)
ASP.NET 5 How to Easily Add New Bower Dependencies (Matt Smith)
Product Comparison Layout & Effect (Mary Lou)

XAML

Windows App Studio Beta for Windows 10 Insider Preview (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

Miscellaneous .NET

The tadpole operators explained (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: Yagni (Martin Fowler)
Early Release of Agile and Lean Program Management Available (Johanna Rothman)
Event sourcing revisited (Gabriel Schenker)
Single Responsibility Principle (Michael Burns)
Accessibility, Part 4: Operable (Stephen Harris)
Natural Evolution of Application Performance Management (Victor Mushkatin)

Other Mobile Platforms

Modifying the Xamarin Listbox with Custom Controls (Jesse Liberty)
Google’s Roboto font for Android and Chrome is now open source (Nathan Ingraham)
Mono for Minnow Board Max (x86) and Windows IoT Core (Jeremiah Morrill)
Telerik Platform and a Solutions Approach to App Development (Lori Maupas)
Updating Mixed Notification Hubs Namespace Type (Mimi Xu)
Developing for HoloLens using Unity (Per-Olof Bondesson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Practical IoT with Josh Holmes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
AAWP Insight #140: Phone Companion and voice assistants (Rafe Blandford)
16 ngAir – Angular with Web Components (Todd Motto & Kent C. Dodds)
The Nerdist Podcast – Stephen Tobolowsky (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 079 | Cloud Reports (Gartner and Nasuni) and Office 365 as ePaaS (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – PAL Update and More with Clint Huffman (Richard Campbell)
Talk Python to Me #9 Docker for the Python Developer (Michael Kennedy)
RiYL Episode 109: Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) (Brian Heater)
Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video) (Roblimo)
Announcing the Simple Programmer Podcast (John Sonmez)

Community / Events

Get ready for Google I/O 2015 (Gary Lewis)
Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 is just 7 Weeks Away (Steve Guggenheimer)
Transforming the Future of NASA with CodeConf’s Ariel Waldman (Kelsey Schimmelman)
Talking to a Windows Developer About the App Market (Kiril Stanoev)

Database

Row Numbers and Running Totals in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
SQL Server 2016 features I’m interested in (Andrew Pruski)
Protecting Yourself from SQL Injection in SQL Server – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
Do Foreign Keys Matter for Insert Speed (Jeremiah Peschka)
Import Sample Data to Azure DocumentDB (Stephen Baron)

PowerShell

Monitoring SQL Server Transactional Replication Latency via PowerShell and RMO (Jeffrey Yao)
system.environment OSVersion property (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Chef – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
My sister abandons Windows Phone (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1510 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1868 (Chris Alcock)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (5/18-5/24) (Dara Monasch)
The Daily Six Pack: May 27, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-27 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 26th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js (Develop and Design): Jeff Dickey: 9780133930153: Books

ISBN: 0133930157
ISBN-13: 9780133930153

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Dew Drop – September 18, 2014 (#1858)

Posted on September 18, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

WinJS Everywhere (Windows Apps Team)
New Dev Center lifetime registration benefits program (Todd Brix)
Amazon’s new Family Library feature lets you share purchases as a household (Josh Lowensohn)
Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms (Daniel Vaughan)

Web Development

WordPress -> Ghost -> Harp (part 1) (Remy Sharp)
Walkthrough: Login with Twitter Account in ASP.NET MVC 5 APP using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
gcloud-node – a Google Cloud Platform Client Library for Node.js (Gary Lewis)
Loading JavaScript and CSS Resources from Nested ASP.NET Partial Views (J. Tower)
AngularJS Snippets for Sublime, Visual Studio and WebStorm (John Papa)
Declarative Physics with PhysicsJS and AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
The Future of AngularJS (Shyam Seshadri)
Querying Orchard in HQL (Bertrand LeRoy)
Releasing Memory Pressure on Memory Intensive #Azure Roles (Alexandre Brisebois)
A Quick Introduction to BrowserSync (Cory Simmons)
Quick tips for adapting to the cloud (Ron Schindler)

XAML

Miscellaneous .NET

Implementing F#-inspired “with” updates for immutable classes in C# (Dan)
Application Insights tools in Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update (Dimah Zaidalkilani)
Introducing the LINQ Provider for Couchbase (Elena Pundjeva)
My Visual Studio Toolbox (Dave M. Bush)
Splitting Tables in Entity Framework 6 to Improve Performance (Peter Vogel)
ATBG: randomness (Eric Lippert)
Entity Framework 6.0: NGen.exe and Startup Performance (Jignesh Trivedi)
2000 C# Things #1,185 – Managing using Directives, part II (Sean Sexton)
Survey on API Consumption and Tooling (Heinrich Wendel)
Office 365 APIs Starter Project for Windows (Office Dev Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrumdamentals Part 1: Team Roles and Scrumdamentals 101 (Michael Burns)
iThoughts Keyboard Shortcuts for Faster iPad Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
Be a squeaky wheel, but always bring oil (Jenn Webb)
Container Usage Guidelines (Jimmy Bogard)
Article: Creating a Culture of Quality (Jonathan Levene)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin.Forms.Behaviors v.1.1.0 (Corrado Cavalli)
A Xamarin Project and iOS 8 is the biggest release since… iOS (Jesse Liberty)
iOS 8: Integrating Touch ID (Josh Sephton)
Telerik AppBuilder September Release: Xcode iOS Simulator Access, Verified Plugins Marketplace Integration and More (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Cold Fusion GeekOut and .NET Rocks! 1036 – Making a Disconnected Web Client with Ward Bell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Yet Another Podcast #133 – Jon Galloway on ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
Boagworld – 10 gadgets every digital professional should own (Paul Boag)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 210: Stefan Tilkov on Architecture and Micro Services (SE-Radio Team)
SSW TV – Reactive Extensions with Nick Hodge (SSW Team)

Community / Events

Join Microsoft Research Program to Help Shape Future Products (Michael Crump)
Geek of the Week: Aaron Chapin, Game Developer (Nicole Kline)

Database

User Instance login flag is not allowed when connecting to a SQL Server instance: Solved (Dhananjay Kumar)
Azure Data Factory (ADF) leaks – Microsoft’s ETL-in-the-cloud offering is coming and Day 2 – DAC Framework (10 days of SSDT) (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Using the SSIS Term Extraction for Data Exploration – Notes from the Field #046 (Pinal Dave)
What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Query diagnostics and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Queries improvements (Oren Eini)
You Can Reference Your Derived SELECT Columns In Your ORDER BY Clause In SQL (Ben Nadel)
Splunk, Big Data and Healthcare Analytics in the Federal Government – Part 3 DHMSM (Mark Seward)

Miscellaneous

It’s time for a Microsoft smartwatch (Adam Doud)
Amazon’s Kindle Voyage Is Its Lightest E-reader Ever (Lance Ulanoff)
University Recruiters’ Top 7 Tips to Land a Job (Michelle Feder)
Amazon Announces New Fire Tablets, E-Ink Kindles And A Special Fire For Kids (John Biggs)
OneNote announces the Share extension for iOS 8 (Avneesh Kohli)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1412 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-18 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #1697 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 9/18/2014 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Kindle Voyage Touch Screen E-Reader with Light

ASIN: B00IOY8XWQ

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