bot framework – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 16, 2023 (#3881)

Top Links

Tips & Tricks on Upgrading Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Android to .NET for iOS & Android (James Montemagno)
Upgrading your .NET projects with Visual Studio (Olia Gavrysh)
The new Bing & Edge – Learning from our first week (Bing Team)
Enhance .NET MAUI Desktop Apps with the Menu Bar | On .NET (James Montemagno)
Optimizing Uno Platform WebAssembly Applications for Peak Performance (Uno Platform Team)
Introduction to Azure OpenAI | Training (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework (Azure Team)
Introducing .NET Annotations Lambda Framework (Preview) (Norm Johanson)
What are Server Components and Client Components in React 18 and Next.js 13? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
How To Create Custom React Hooks (John Au-Yeung)
Azure Machine Learning Introduction: Part 1 Overview and prep work (Sanil Mhatre)
Call for Review: CSS Box Model Module Level 3 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)
Backstage Backend System Alpha (Patrik Oldsberg)
Managing Confluent Kafka Clusters with Pulumi (Josh Kodroff)
When Technology Broke and How We Fixed It (The Evolution of APIs) (Ross Moore)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

An overview of Package Identity in Windows apps (Microsoft Learn)
Adding a New Android Permission in a Xamarin App (Junior Saravia)

Visual Studio & .NET

Determine Whether Two Date Ranges Overlap in C# (Code Maze)
Use Raw String Literals to generate TwiML in C# 11 (Niels Swimberghe)
Minecraft’s WSL build time cut in half after working with Visual Studio C++ team (Sinem Akinci)
Myths about F#: F# has too many operators (Urs Enzler)
A (performance) quirk with JsonSerializer (Steven Giesel)
Looking ahead: QuestPDF/Rust demo (Eric Sink)
What are the potentially-erroneous results if you don’t pass NULL as the lpNumberOfBytesRead when issuing overlapped I/O? (Raymond Chen)
MediatR 12.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Retrospectives Antipatterns (Martin Fowler)
Azure DevOps Pipelines: If Expressions and Conditions (Developer Support)
GitHub Copilot Update: New AI Model That Also Filters Out Security Vulnerabilities (Anthony Bartolo)
5 Developer Workstation Security Best Practices (Briana Swift)
Terraform: GitHub Actions Automated Deployment (Chris Pietschmann)
Microsoft shifts to a comprehensive SaaS security solution (Christine Barrett)
What’s enough Complexity for a Domain Model? (Derek Comartin)
Space Q1–Q2 2023 Roadmap and 2022 Retrospective (Evgenia Verbina)
How Leaders and Learners Can Leverage the Skills Economy and Beyond the Bottom Line: Using the People, Planet, Profit Framework to Build a Sustainable Future (JD Meier)
Serverless Architecture – What It Is? Benefits, Limitations & Use cases (Jignesh Solanki)
What Every Developer Should Know About HIPAA and Other US Regulations (Kaitlyn Concilio)
Overly confident AI (Mark Downie)
The 4 Tones of Alert Messages and Notifications (Anthony)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building And Releasing Your Capacitor Android App (Simon Grimm)
Video acceleration API (VA-API) now available on Windows! (Sil Vilerino)
State of React Native (Bartłomiej Bukowski)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Webcast Episode 143 – Hype Fatigue (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
Coding After Work – Valentine’s Day stream 2023 (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
Welcome to Bash for Beginners [1 of 20] | Bash for Beginners (Microsoft Developer)
Ben Mackley, Zoom | Breaking Changes (Postman Team)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – MAUI Panel Discussion from Swetugg! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
CodeNewbie S23:E1 – Psychological Safety in Tech (Taylor Poindexter) (CodeNewbie Team)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 114: Carol Got Laid Off (Ben Nadel)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Scaling Agile Teams, a Proactive Change Management approach | Tinatin Tabidze (Vasco Duarte)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 260: Contained Availability Groups (Carlos L. Chacon)
Azure for Executives Podcast – The Present and Future of AI and Data with Zia Mansoor (David Starr & Paul Maher)
React Native Radio 259 – Tamagui with Nate Weinert (Nate Weinert, Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 551: Vidal Graupera on Manager 1-1 with Direct Reports (Brijesh Ammanath)

Community & Events

EVENT: Azure CosmosDB Conf – March 28, 2023 (Kurt Shintaku)
Welcome Tyler Mandry to the Rust language team! (Josh Triplett & Niko Matsakis)
Microsoft TechSpark: Growing economic opportunity across the United States (Kate Behncken)
2022 GitHub Transparency Report (Kevin Xu)

Database

Overlooked Reason SQL Server Ignores Your Filtered Indexes (Jared Westover)
Easily migrate SQL Server applications to the cloud with Azure (Rashida Hodge)
VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database – preview (Pieter Vanhove)
ODBC Driver 18.2 for SQL Server Released and OLE DB Driver 19.3 for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
Patch your SQL Server instance today (Randolph West)
Public preview: Serverless Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database (Azure Team)
Running SQL Server Best Practices Check with Azure Data Studio to Assess your SQL Servers (Edwin Sarmiento)
Where is my Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial account? and Working with Postgres Extensions in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL while Scaling Nodes (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t (Stanimira Vlaeva & Fred Favelin)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | February 2023 (Mike Tholfsen)
Microsoft Teams apps are now generally available on Microsoft 365 Android app (Sanjay Joshi)
Power Automate: Starting the year of 2023 with 11 New Verified Connectors and 18 Updates (Amjed Ayoub)

Miscellaneous

Why is building a UI in Rust so hard? (Aloke Desai)
Small Mighty Updates: Introducing 10+ New Features in Warp (Jess Wang)
Switch to the New Jetpack Mobile App (Automattic)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25300 (Brandon LeBlanc)
Publishing an RSS feed through follow.it and how to subscribe to it (ThisCouldBeUseful)
Here’s why you’re still waiting for Bing AI (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3647 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Wrap Up – February 15, 2023 (#031) (Richard Seroter)
Build5Nines Weekly – February 15, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: An in-depth practical guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, 2nd Ed (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 6, 2022 (#3679)

Top Links

Babylon.js 5.0: Beyond The Stars – Part 1 (Jason Carter)
Visual Studio on an ultra-wide monitor (Mads Kristensen)
Upgrading a WCF service to .NET 6 with CoreWCF (Mike Rousos)
Azure Samples – Deploy an Orleans Cluster on Azure Container Apps (Brady Gaster)
Visual Studio Code April 2022 (Visual Studio Code Team)
Accessibility in a dual-screen application (Bianca Miron)

Web & Cloud Development

Just jQuery The Core UI – The DOM (Ian Eliot)
Kubernetes Microservices on Azure with Cosmos DB (Andrew Hughes)
Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus (Azure Team)
Storage Capacity Tracking reaches GA in Kubernetes 1.24 (Patrick Ohly)
Master Higher-Order Functions in JavaScript (Chinedu Imoh)
Can the Composition API Replace Vue Mixins? (Isuri Devindi)
ASP.NET Core CRUD with NoSQL: Part 3 (Matthew Groves)
Top 10 Angular Component Libraries for 2022 (Nipuni Arunodi)
OpenSSL update assessment, and Node.js project plans (Rafael Gonzaga)
Vue 3 Reactivity Composition API Using Reactive() And Ref() (Saurabh Dashora)
Babylon.js 5.0 Release and MR developers (Thomas Lucchini)
Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code V2 – new browser preview with emulation and sourcemap support (Chris Heilmann)
Tips of building Custom Action in Bot Framework Composer V2 (Freist Li)
Styling elements for real (Patrick Brosset)
FHIR and Interoperability in Digital Health Care — Part 1 (Mifan Careem)
Part-2 Generate Dynamic Email Template And Send Email In The NestJS Application (Naveen Bommidi)
30 Days of SWA #04: Configuring Static Web Apps (Joseph Lin & Nitya Narasimhan)
Micro-Frontend—Why and How? (Prashant Yadav)
Exception Handling in Logic Apps (Sujith Komma)

Visual Studio & .NET

Challenge: Spot the optimization (Oren Eini)
Mail Merge MS Word Office Open XML (DOCX) Templates in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
On awaiting a task with a timeout in C# (Raymond Chen)
JetBrains Toolbox App 1.24 Adds a New “Services” Tab (Aleksei Dievskii)
You Probably Don’t Need to Worry About MediatR (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Setting the vision for Unity DevOps (Stacey Haffner)
How Developer Enablement Brings Benefits to Software Organizations (Ben Linders)
How To Give Effective Feedback Remotely (Joshua Mauldin)
Security needs to shift left into the software development lifecycle (Michael Chenetz)
How To Make A Hybrid Workplace Less Exhausting | Trello (Sam Milbrath)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Microsoft teams up with VW to make HoloLens work in cars (Jon Porter)
Kotlin 1.7.0-Beta Released (Danil Pavlov)
20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50 (Lee Reilly)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Design Details 438: Dissecting Substack’s Podcast Player (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
Hanselminutes – You’re not gonna need it with AppSmith’s Arpit Mohan (Scott Hanselman)
.NET MAUI Dependency Injection – Full explanation and beginner’s tutorial (James Montemagno)
Template Driven Approach vs. Reactive Form Approach with Hossein Mousavi – Adventures in Angular 346 (Charles Max Wood)
How to Scale Your Apps in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Davide Mauri & Anna Hoffman)
Building Code More Responsibly: A Mental Model Shift – Adventures in DevOps 112 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Hackathon Team Builder – MS Teams Tab App (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos)
UX Podcast #288 – Native emojis ‍❄️ (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Web Rush Episode 182: GitHub Actions with Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Windows Weekly 755: Shuffleboard at 3 (Paul Thurrott)
What’s new for GitHub Issues April 2022 (Damian Brady)
Less Boilerplate Code with Metalama by PostSharp | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Gael Fraiteur)

Community & Events

Webinar Invite | The Installer Testing Guide (Alexandra Stoienescu)
Blizzard hires a vice president of culture to fix its culture (Richard Lawler)

Database

The Top Feature Requests for SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
Maximize performance and scale with new SQL Managed Instance capabilities – Part 3 (Vladimir Ivanovic)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Using Microsoft Teams Adaptive Cards to enhance incident response in Microsoft Sentinel (Benjamin Kovacevic)

Miscellaneous

Speaking Tips: Mistakes happen; get over it (Ted Neward)
RiffTrax: The Game Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S (Larry Hyrb)
Windows Insiders can now try out an early preview of controller bar and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22616 (Brandon LeBlanc)
The ReadME Project Q&A: What you need to know about teaching technical skills (Klint Finley)
Microsoft PowerToys 0.58.0 focuses on native ARM64 (Kunal Chowdhury)
What We Can Learn From Switzerland’s Sustainability (Madeleine Gregory)
Microsoft Surface in 2022: What do we want, and what do we expect? (Simon Bisson)
Writer’s Block is Just an Excuse (Stephen Haunts)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3465 (Chris Alcock)
PHP Annotated — 2022 Spring Catch-up (Roman Pronskiy)
Code Maze Weekly #122 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Wolf Report – May 6th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
Collective #710 (Mary Lou)

The Geek Shelf

Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Miri Rodriguez) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 21, 2022 (#3646)

Top Links

Tutorial: Hosting Microsoft Orleans Application on Azure App Service with Cosmos DB (Nick Randolph)
Create a Weather Forecast Bot with Azure LUIS and Maps Services in Bot Framework Composer and Improve the Weather Forecast Bot App in Bot Framework Composer (Freist Li)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 032 – What Every Developer Should Know about Web3 with Nader Dabit (David Isbitski)
Announcing Petabridge.Templates 2.0 – Professional Akka.NET Application and Library Templates (Aaron Stannard)
Sam Nasr on Azure AI & ML – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 185 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

Cascading Material AutoComplete’s in Angular (Kevin Logan)
Using Oracle Database with ASP.NET Core Identity (Alex Keh)
WebStorm 2021.3.3 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
Stop Overcomplicating Web Development – Try Svelte (Emmanuil B.)
How To Make A Drag-and-Drop File Uploader With Vue.js 3 (Joseph Zimmerman)
Using V-For for Looping in Vue (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
Go from the beginning – using maps and Go from the beginning – using interfaces (Chris Noring)
Quick-Start Guide to Using VMware Tanzu Mission Control and vSphere with Tanzu Services (Corey Dinkens)
Part 3 – Create A Microservice For The Orders Endpoint [.NET 6 Microservice Series] (Naveen Bommidi)
Building REST APIs in Golang go-gin with persistence database Postgres (Ramu Mangalarapu)
Go 1.18 Stabilizes Generics, Fuzzing, Multi-module Support, and Improves Performance (Sergio De Simone)
Writing efficient markdown using GitHub Pages (Simon Jackson)
Get ready for the death of Internet Explorer 11 (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

The easiest and best MVVM toolkit also for .NET MAUI. (banditoth)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to use Google.Protobuf without code generation in C# (Mike Hadlow)
Building a NuGet Packages Architecture Part 5 – Service Registration Methods (Imar Spaanjaaars)
Merge Sort in C# and Using Variables Inside Strings in C# and How to Sum Up Elements of an Array in C# (Code Maze)
How to prevent email HTML injection in C# and .NET (Niels Swimberghe)
Legal Documents: Combining Line Numbering, Form Fields and Document Protection (Bjoern Meyer)
Making our multiple-interface query more C++-like, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
Hello Podman using .NET (Tom Deseyn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What is a design prototype? The complete guide (Sketch Team)
Lighthouse meet GitHub Actions (John Reilly)
Learning YAML and a Small Challenge (Peter Kellner)
How To Rein In Shadow IT At Your Enterprise With Trello (Vivian Lopez)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Hyperview Brings CI/CD to Mobile Using React Native (Mike Melanson)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Creating Culture that Doesn’t Suck – Good Comes First (Chris Edmonds, Mark Babbitt)
CodeNewbie S19:E7 – How freeCodeCamp has evolved over time (Quincy Larson) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer Tea – Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part One (Jonathan Cutrell)
Merge Conflict 298: The Great M1 Conspiracy (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Azure Podcast Episode 416 – Azure Purview (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – Razor Pages – with Mike Brind (Dan Clarke)
The Amp Hour #582 – The Same Wavelength (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 351 and Random.Code() – Analyzers Fun in Transpire and (Maybe) Improving Rocks (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #129: What To Do When the Servers Go Away with Tom McLaughlin (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
AGL 252: Josh Saterman (John Rouda)
Live Coding – Uno Platfrom WebAssembly – PowerManager API (Martin Zikmund)
React Native Radio 229 – Building an Expo App for Mobile and Web with Josh Justice (Mazen Chami, Jamon Holmgren, Robin Heinze & Josh Justice)
PPP 351 | How To Deal With the Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces, with Kimberly Wiefling (Andy Kaufman)
The Usual SaaS-pects 30 – Rob Walling: How To Price Your SaaS (Ch Daniel)
JS Party – Going full-time on Eleventy (Zach Leatherman, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)

Community & Events

Creating a Database in C#: Interviewing the CEO of RavenDB Oren Eini (Michael Shpilt)
Looking for a Developer Advocate for RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Zela Taino: iOS Engineer (Spotify Engineering)
Humble Bundle organizes Stand With Ukraine charity bundle (Ash Parrish)
Mentorship for GOL Winners (Donovan Brown)

Database

COALESCE(), ISNULL() , NULLIF() and alternatives in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL (Andrea Gnemmi)
Ordering a result set in SQL Server (Greg Larsen)
Oracle subquery caching and subquery pushing (Jonathan Lewis)
SQL Server Graph Tables – Cross Database Surprises (Louis Davidson)
SQL SERVER – Sample Script for Compressed and Uncompressed Backup (Pinal Dave)
Server-side Encryption in Azure Cosmos DB (Leonard Lobel)

Miscellaneous

Windows Needs a Change in Priorities (Den Delimarsky)
Ohio ad campaign targets Seattle ‘tech bros’ — questions why someone would want to stay in a big coastal city (John Cook)
Accelerating opportunities for academic researchers (Lydia Smyers)
Xbox Cloud Gaming now supports Steam Deck through Microsoft Edge (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3434 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest Issue #407 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #12, 2022 – .NET 7 Preview 2, Fable for Flutter! (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #115 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Reading Notes #499 (Frank Boucher)
The Wolf Report – March 21st, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)

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