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Dew Drop – April 18, 2024 (#4172)

Posted on April 18, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Building a scalable gateway with .NET for Microsoft AI (Kara Saucerman)
Windows App SDK Version 1.5.2 (1.5.240404000) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
What are your favorite features in the C# Dev Kit? | One Dev Question (Leslie Richardson)
What’s New in the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET (Matt Soucoup)
Single, Short, Specific – Prompting GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
Deep Dive on LINQ with Stephen Toub | On .NET (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes (Amit Dsouza, Frederick Kautz, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy & Natali Vlatko)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Getting Started with LINQ (Assis Zang)
DOCX to HTML: Convert Documents to HTML and Prepare for Shadow DOM Rendering (Bjoern Meyer)
WebStorm 2024.1.1 Is Now Available (David Watson)
Making 43% of the Web More Dynamic with the WordPress Interactivity API (Even Tobiesen)
Converting Plain Text To Encoded HTML With Vanilla JavaScript (Alexis Kypridemos)
Improving Code Quality in JavaScript Projects With Qodana (Maksim Grushchenko)
Top Linters for JavaScript and TypeScript: Simplifying Code Quality Management (Nipuni Arunodi)
Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web (Timmy Willison)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Stacked Area Chart to Visualize Wealth Distribution in the U.S. (Arul Jenith Berkmans)
DrawnUI for .NET MAUI – Skia Rendering Engine: Unleash Design Power with C# and XAML in .NET MAUI (Nick Kovalsky)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.5.240404000 Release (NuGet)

Visual Studio & .NET

Metalama 2024.1 Now Generally Available: Unified Visual Studio Extension, Overriding Constructors, and More (Gael Fraiteur)
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Visual Studio 2022 Getting VS Code ‘Command Palette’ Equivalent (David Ramel)
Baseline Styling in BenchmarkDotNet (Januarius Njoku)
C# String Interpolation Explained (NDepend Team)
The First Set of Bug Fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2024.1 Are Here! (Sasha Ivanova)
Serilog and .NET 8.0 minimal APIs (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Toolbox App 2.3: Toolbox App for Linux ARM 64, Chinese Translation, System Settings for Proxy, and More (Aleksandra Krupskaya)
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
What’s New in .NET 8 for Developers? (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Applying Agile Techniques to AI: Lessons from Amazon Fresh (David Eastman)
Worry about Scalability or Popularity First? (Dave Aronson)
How We Built Slack AI To Be Secure and Private (Kelly Moran)
You can’t stop the signal! But you can ignore it! (Martin Hinshelwood)
Getting a Pulse on the Success of Your Security Program (Renae Kang)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing Flutter Custom Carousel (Jared Bell)
Ionic 8 is here! (Liam DeBeasi)
Robot Etch A Sketch (Ashley Whittaker)

Screencasts & Videos

Build a Podcast Copilot with .NET and Power Apps: .NET APIs and Custom Connectors | The Low Code Revolution (Gomolemo Mohapi)
3 quick steps to deploy Copilot for Microsoft 365 at scale (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 172: Building Your Own Standard and Working Code Podcast – Episode 174: When Good Software Goes Bad (Ben Nadel)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes v1.30 “Uwubernetes”, with Kat Cosgrove (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Under Pressure, Strategies for Effective Organizational Change | Tom Baldwin (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 757: Potluck: Is Gatsby Dead? Shadow Dom, AI Summaries, Self Hosting + More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
.NET Rocks! – Programming with Speech and AI with Karl Geitz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Changelog Podcast #587 – Leading and building Raycast (Interview) (Thomas Paul Mann & Adam Stacoviak)
Cloud Repatriation! A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley)
Jamstack Radio Episode #145 – The Future of Collaborative Docs with Cara Marin of Stashpad (Brian Douglas)

Database

SQL Server–Export varbinary column to disk (Bart Wullems)
A Little About PAGEIOLATCH Waits In SQL Server and Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Equality vs. Inequality Searches (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft Loop Adds New Filtering Capabilities to Tables and Boards (Rabia Noureen)

Miscellaneous

Surface delivers on simplified device repair (Katy Minahan)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3921 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Links 17 Apr 2024 (Malcolm Jack)
Daily Reading List – April 17, 2024 (#299) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – 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

Dew Drop- March 22, 2024 (#4155)

Posted on March 22, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Copilot in Windows and Windows 365: Helping customers advance in the new era of work (Melissa Grant)
Expand the limits of innovation with Azure data (Asad Khan)
Beyond the Basics: Learning About Text-to-Speech in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – March 2024 (Junjie Li)
Introducing Surface Pro 10 for Business and Surface Laptop 6 for Business (Nancie Gaskill)
Image to Text with Semantic Kernel and HuggingFace (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey and Roger Barreto)

Web & Cloud Development

Reading Element Attributes Collection In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Azure Static Web App – API Integration (Bart Wullems)
Asynchronous Loading and Saving in Angular Document Editor with an ASP.NET Core Web API (Bjoern Meyer)
Background Work with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
ASP.NET 8 – Multilingual Application with single Resx file – Part4 –Resource Manager (Mark Pelf)
Blazor Render Mode – How To Avoid Dependency Injection Woes (Nick Cosentino)
11 Years of Docker: Shaping the Next Decade of Development (Scott Johnston)
Learn TypeScript for Practical Projects (Beau Carnes)
How to build an API in Python (Stefan Djokic)
Evolving SEO: Fresh New Features and Updates for Website Owners (Bing Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

Collection Performance: Using ForEachAsync() with List<> (David McCarter)
Logging – Application Insights (Byte217)
How to Benchmark a Method’s Performance Across Different .NET Versions (Januarius Njoku)
Using the DisplayInformation class from a desktop Win32 application, part 2 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Will Generative AI Kill Developer Jobs? (Holly Cummins)
Why Software Developers Should Be Thinking about the Climate (Charles Humble)
AI Data Drop: The 11-by-11 Tipping Point (Colette Stallbaumer)
The WORST Domain Modeling Mistakes! (Derek Comartin)
Pragmatism crushes Dogma in the wild (Martin Hinshelwood)
The Seven Layers of Listening: Unlocking Effective Communication (Peter Smulovics)
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects (Sara Verdi)
GitLab 16.10 released with semantic versioning in the CI/CD catalog (Torsten Linz)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Can a Raspberry Pi Pico act as a GPU for gaming? (Ashley Whittaker)
GDC 2024: Trends, the Unity 6 roadmap, multiplayer, AI, and more (Dustin Burg)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 201 – GPUs Are Eating The World!! (live from GTC 2024) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
What are the origins of the C# Dev Kit? | On .NET (Leslie Richardson)
MassTransit v8.2.0 Update and SQL Transport Partitioning (Chris Patterson)
Meet Microsoft SQL Product Leader – Sanjay Mishra | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Introducing Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business (Microsoft Mechanics)
NOW AVAILABLE: GitHub Copilot in the CLI (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – From .NET to DuckDB: Unleashing the Database Evolution with Giorgi Dalakishvili (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Challenges of Deploying IoT at Scale with John Kattenhorn (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Art of Being Present: Scrum Mastery in Remote Teams | Inga Bergmann (Vasco Duarte)
SQL Server Radio Episode 161 – EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Biggest Innovation for Azure SQL Managed Instances (Codename: Hermes) (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
Web Rush Episode 273: Preparing for the State of JavaScript Survey Results (John Papa, Ward Bell & Craig Shoemaker)
Navigating Web Development Challenges – JavaScript Jabber 624 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Is AI making your code worse? (Eira May)
Talk Python to Me #454: Data Pipelines with Dagster (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Rust Joins Google Summer of Code and The Appeal of Google Summer of Code (Sue Gee)
Threads has entered the fediverse (Christopher Su & Simon Blackstein)
Speaking at the Windows Server Summit 2024 (Thomas Maurer)
Welcome to the Windows Development Community on programming.dev (Smartman Apps)

Database

Fixing Parallel Row Skew With TOP In SQL Server (With A Brief Re-Complaint About CXCONSUMER Waits) (Erik Darling)
Introducing Copilot in Azure SQL Database (Preview) (Joe Sack)
Exploring AI Tools for Writing SQL Queries – Are they reliable? (Rajendra Gupta)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Prompt Like a Pro: Prepare for your week with Microsoft Copilot in Teams (Luca Valadares)

Miscellaneous

DOJ suit over Apple iPhone cites failures of Amazon Fire Phone and Microsoft Windows Phone (Todd Bishop)
US v. Apple: everything you need to know (Adi Robertson)
Spellcheck in Notepad begins rolling out to Windows Insiders and Releasing Windows 11 Builds 22621.3371 and 22631.3371 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Introducing Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6: AI PCs built for business (Chauncey Larsen)
Announcing Rust 1.77.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3908 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – March 21, 2024 (#281) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Apps and Services with .NET 8, Second Edition (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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