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Dew Drop – November 9, 2023 (#4065)

Posted on November 9, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing Angular v17 (Minko Gechev)
Key feature releases ahead of our annual conference, Microsoft Ignite! (Adam Matthews)
Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023 (Kyle Daigle)
What to expect from Microsoft Learn at Microsoft Ignite (Allison Kraker)
Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform (Thomas Dohmke)

Web & Cloud Development

Introducing Kafka transport support in CoreWCF (Guillaume Delahaye)
Optimize on the go with the Bing Webmaster Tools Android App (Bing Team)
DS Server 3.2.0 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
Manage element tags programmatically with the Postman API (David Espi Hernandez)
One or multiple packages? (Juantri Jiménez)
Offline Mode in Fiddler Everywhere (Simona Yaneva)
TypeScript Generics: Striking the Right Balance (Suprotim Agarwal)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Level up Your UI with the New Telerik RadSvgImage Control for WPF (Maria Hadzhieva)
.NET Conf 2023 – .NET 8, Uno Platform 5.0 and prizes to be won (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Import and Export CSV Files Using WinForms C# and VB.NET (Kevin Ashley)
Event-Driven Architecture in C# (Code Maze)
Discovering The Features Of DotNetFiddle – How To Compile C# Online (Nick Cosentino)
ReSharper 2023.3 EAP 6: Code Analysis Performance Improvements, Support for C# 12 Interceptors, and Much More. (Sasha Ivanova)
Single() or First()? Understand the Abstractions you use! (Derek Comartin)
How can I get information about media playing on the system, and optionally control their playback? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Introducing AI-powered application security testing with GitHub Advanced Security (Asha Chakrabarty)
OpenAI Launches App Store (Ian Kennedy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

You Won’t Believe How We Enabled In-App Purchases for PWAs on iOS (Gleb Khmyznikov)
On-Crash Backtraces in Swift (Swift.org Team)
Introducing the Superapp SDK (Jacklin Altman)

Screencasts & Videos

Dev Database to go! The perfect database for developer (Frank Boucher)
Universe 2023 Day 1 Keynote and GitHub Universe 2023 Day 1 Recap (GitHub Team)
How are LLMs revolutionizing UX design? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
What I Wish I Knew… about what interviewers want to hear (Microsoft Developer)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 152: Crontab, AI, And Book Publishing (Ben Nadel)
The Work Item #63 – Beyond Just Engineering Skills, with Adrienne Braganza Tacke (Den Delimarsky)
The Rework Podcast – Speaking Gigs, Attending Conferences, and the Importance of Gathering (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 147 – Special: 2024 Google Cloud Security Forecast Report (Anton Chuvakin)
Directions on Microsoft – Executive Focus: Microsoft’s Seismic Shift to AI (Mary Jo Foley)
The Breakpoint Show Episode 008 – Exploring .NET’s Hidden Gems (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)

Community & Events

See what’s new & what’s possible with Firebase at Demo Day (Annum Munir)
Ignite 2023 – A look ahead (Jed Brown)

Database

Why Common Table Expressions Don’t Fix Performance Problems In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
SQL SERVER – Aligned and Non-Aligned Indexes for Partitioning (Pinal Dave)
Azure Data Studio 1.47 is now available (David Levy)
Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 2: Data Binning (Jay Gordon)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Get ready for the future of work with Microsoft Teams at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (Jennie Cady)
New web parts available in the SharePoint Web UI kit! (Nicole Woon)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25992 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23585 (Dev Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Reports of The Marvels being good have not been greatly exaggerated (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
Windows 11 will now allow you to uninstall more built-in apps (Kunal Chowdhury)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3820 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – November 8, 2023 (#200) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 4, 2023 (#4039)

Posted on October 4, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

The Hanselminutes Podcast – Better Technical Writing for Everyone with Pam Hurley, PhD (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing TypeScript 5.3 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen: AI-copiloted Design Thinking with guest Ben Sheppard (John Maeda)
Unveiling the Next Generation of OneDrive (Jason Moore)
Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 8 (Kunal Pathak)

Web & Cloud Development

.NET 8 and Blazor United / Server-side rendering (Steven Giesel)
Introducing AWS SQS binding extension support in CoreWCF and WCF Client (Abhi Gujjewar, Biroj Nayak & PJ Pittle)
Access internal applications with Entra Application Proxy (Patrick van Kleef)
Announcing Docker Compose Watch GA Release (Han Yu)
Docker Desktop 4.24: Compose Watch, Resource Saver, and Docker Engine (Kat Tomrushka)
Telerik Blazor Data Grid Performance Optimization (Ultimate Checklist) (Petar Grigorov)
Secure Your APIs with Defender for Azure API Management (Vinod Soni)
5 Essential KendoReact Components That Will Make Sure You Never Ask ‘How Do I Build That’ Again (Violeta Manolova)
resize-asaurus Web Component (Zach Leatherman)
Governing the Title of Your APIs With Spectral Rules (Kin Lane)
Why you shouldn’t use access tokens in your front-end any more (Albert Starreveld)
Can you use the .NET 8 Identity API endpoints with IdentityServer? (Andrew Lock)
Unlocking global government innovation with Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty – public preview available today (Corey Sanders)
Announcing the Web Component Engineering Course Presale! (Rob Eisenberg)
What is OpenID Connect? (Gbadebo Bello)
Serverless architecture and the feasibility of serverless APIs (Ian Douglas)
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet. (Sarah Vasquez)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Syncfusion Update Improves Cross-Platform Development with .NET MAUI, Blazor (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Applying the smart constructor pattern in C# (Bart Wullems)
Refactoring Dispensables in C# (Code Maze)
Make use of colored braces in Visual Studio (Kris van der Mast)
Explore the Possibilities of the What-If Analysis Scenario Manager in Excel Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
Vertical Slice Architecture in C# – Examples on How To Streamline Code (Nick Cosentino)
How To Display .NET Collections with the Oxford Comma (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 6.5.4 – Release Date April 27, 2023 (Brij Mohan)
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Boost Your Code Performance with Concrete Types (David McCarter)
Open Sourcing IFC SDK for C++ Modules (GDR)
Empowering Real-World Solutions the Synergy of AI and .NET (Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

DALL·E 3 system card (OpenAI Team)
How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship (Cory Doctorow)
Accelerate Foundation Models Research: Supporting a global academic research ecosystem for AI (Alyssa Hughes)
DALL-E 3 now available in Bing Chat and Bing.com/create, for free! (Bing Team)
LinkedIn to introduce OpenAI powered AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales (Devesh Beri)
Make with MakerSuite Part 2: Tuning LLMs (Pranay Bhatia)
Multimodal ChatGPT: Working with Voice, Vision, and Images (Matt Duffin)
Living Color: Designing through synesthesia (Annice Jumani)
The Relationship Between Culture and Performance (Mike Cottmeyer)
3 strategies to expand your threat model and secure your supply chain (Mike Hanley)
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future (Nilay Patel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Heating and cooling Raspberry Pi 5 (Alasdair Allan)
James Adams and Eben Upton on designing Raspberry Pi 5 (James Adams)
GPT 4 Flutter — Chat Summarization (Olivier Brand)
BatchRendererGroup sample: Achieve high frame rate even on budget devices (Arnaud Carré)

Screencasts & Videos

Simplifying Development Experience and Deployment with Azure Kubernetes Service Extension in VS Code | Open at Microsoft (Rong Zhang & Tatsat (Tats) Mishra)
From ZX Spectrum to Blazor | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
What I Wish I Knew… about applying to internships (Leslie Richardson)
#MSIgnite Coffee Break with Rick Claus (ITOpsTalk)

Podcasts

MongoDB Podcast: Visual Storytelling (David Neal)
CodeNewbie S25:E8 – Empowering Developers of All Abilities (Judith Lung) (CodeNewbie Team)
The Rework Podcast – Hiring Senior Leaders, Getting Started with Six-Week Cycles, and Other Listener Questions (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning Decision-Making without Explicit Leadership, A Key Skill For Scrum Teams | Aki Salmi (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast – Generative models: exploration to deployment (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
RunAs Radio – Episode 900! (Dana Epp & Richard Campbell)
How to Find Freelance Software Work | Multithreaded Income Episode 4 with Giorgi Dalakishvili (Kevin Griffin)
Python Bytes Podcast #355 – Python 3.12 is Out! (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Hacktoberfest 2023 with SvelteKit (Willow (Ghost) & Braden Wiggins)
Announcing Docker AI/ML Hackathon (Jennifer Kohl)
Book Talk: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow (Chris Freeland)
Building the Best Infrastructure as Code with $41M Series C Funding (Joe Duffy)
Join Our Cloud Skills Challenges Before October Ends! (Sherry List)
GitHub Sponsors is expanding (Stormy Peters)

Database

Running MySQL Tests With GitHub Actions (Scott Stroz)
Minimize the downtime when migrating SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance (Zoran Rilak)
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk (Azure Team)
Invoking REST APIs with SQLCLR (for Azure SQL MI) (Mihailo Joksimovic)
A Beginners Guide to getting started with the Kusto Query Language in Azure (John Kilmister)
Something’s Up with Parallelism in Azure SQL DB Serverless (Brent Ozar)
What are Lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)
The Intricacies of T-SQL String Comparison: LIKE VS ‘=’ (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | October 2023 (Mike Tholfsen)
Find what you need with Microsoft Graph connectors (Waldek Mastykarz)

PowerShell

Collecting metrics from PowerShell Universal with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus (Adam Driscoll)
PSReadLine 2.3.4 GA Release (Steven Bucher)

Miscellaneous

Seeing Everyone (ThreddyRex)
A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant (Raymond Chen)
Microsoft’s PowerToys v0.74.1: Fixes stability issues that deemed important (Kunal Chowdhury)
6 things to know about the new Surface devices (Yasmine Boukerma & Linnet Banda)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3794 (Chris Alcock)
Links from around the web (Oct 3, 2023) (Tom Johnson)
Daily Reading List – October 3, 2023 (#174) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Git for Programmers (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 2, 2023 (#4037)

Posted on October 2, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Controls for WinUI and the Uno Platform (Nick Randolph)
TechBash 2023 Friday the 13th Savings Countdown (TechBash Team)
Add your own data to an LLM using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (Bea Stollnitz)
Introducing the New .NET MAUI TreeView Control (Piruthiviraj Malaimelraj)
Photoshop’s journey to the web (Thomas Nattestad & Nabeel Al-Shamma) – Photoshop in the browser with WebAssembly

Web & Cloud Development

Handling Query Parameters in Next.js 13 React Server Components (Peter Kellner)
What’s new in Svelte: October 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
Creating a Scrollable DIV Area (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Integrate Biometric Authentication in a Next.js App Using the SimpleWebAuthn Package—Part 1 (Chinedu Imoh)
Implement a secure web application using Vue.js and an ASP.NET Core server (Damien Bowden)
Re-Creating The Pop-Out Hover Effect With Modern CSS (Part 1) (Temani Afif)
Hosting ASP.NET Core application in AKS in Linux Container with Troubleshooting and Data Collection (Ujala Jha)
Pulumi Release Notes: AI in the CLI, Go generics, AWS 6.0, Review Stacks and so much more! (Monica Rodriguez)
10 Best Practices & Pro Tips When Using Angular CLI (Vyom Srivastava)
How to use jQuery with Astro (Salma Alam-Naylor)
CQRS Validation with MediatR Pipeline and FluentValidation (Milan Jovanović)
table-saw Web Component (Zach Leatherman)
W3C Issues Web Sustainability Guidelines (Kay Ewbank)
An Emphasis on the Politics of APIs (Kin Lane)
Breach to Barrier: Strengthening Apps with the Sandbox (Felix Rieseberg)
Secure Go APIs with Decentralized Identity Tokens, Part 3 (Robert Kimani)
Converting Bicep code to Pulumi (Zaid Ajaj)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Monitoring your apps with Sentry in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Range Column Chart to Compare Average Temperature Variations in Rome (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

CoreWCF 1.4.0 Released: RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka Support Added (Almir Vuk)
How to Add Comments to Excel Documents Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
Difference between .Net7 and .Net8 | Between .NET 7 and .NET8 Which version we should prefer in programming (Dot Net Office)
The Builder Pattern in C#: How To Leverage Extension Methods Creatively (Nick Cosentino)
Metalama Status Update, September 2023 (Gael Fraiteur)
Testing Time-Dependent Code With TimeProvider in .NET (Code Maze)
Nullable Type Performance: Retrieving a Nullable Value (David McCarter)
Build Reliable and Secure C++ programs — Microsoft Learn (Herb Sutter)
Template meta-programming: Avoiding saying a type before it is complete (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Generative AI and the software development lifecycle: much more than coding assistance (Birgitta Böckeler & Ryan Murray)
How To Build High-Performing Innovation Teams and From Imagination to Reality: The Essence of Innovation (JD Meier)
Is the Strategy Pattern an ultimate solution for low coupling? (Oskar Dudycz)
Bad Documentation, Bad Documentation (B. Cameron Gain)
Bing Preview Release Notes: New AI-powered features with DALL-E 3 (Bing Team)
Best Change Management Tools and Software (Daniel Lock)
Ghost in the IDE: Testing Replit’s AI Helper, Ghostwriter (David Eastman)
How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals (Martin Hinshelwood)
The Builder Pattern: What It Is And How To Use It Effectively (Nick Cosentino)
Oh My Git (in your browser!) (bleeptrack & blinry)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Running a YoloV8 model on a Magic Leap 2 to recognize objects in 3D space and Using a Spatial Mesh with MRTK3 on Magic Leap 2 (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Israel Ekpo on Vector Databases and GCast 159: Building and Editing an Azure Application Insights Dashboard and Technology & Friends – Eric Leonard on Kubernetes and Platform Engineering (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 176 – Do Events Make Sense Anymore? (Live from MWC LV 2023) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict 378: Debugging MacOS Control Center & SwiftUI CPU Usage (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
InfoQ Podcast: Adam Jacob Discusses DevOps, Modelling Infrastructure, and Increasing Collaboration (Adam Jacob)
Syntax Podcast Episode 673: Getting Hired, Interviewing, and Why Recruiters Suck with Taylor Desseyn (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
RiYL Episode 605: Laurie Berkner (Brian Heater)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Code Confidence using NASA’s Ten Simple Rules (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Changelog & Friends Podcast – #define: a game of fake definitions (Amal Hussein, Taylor Troesh, Lars Wikman, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
React Native Radio 276 – Announcing Ignite v9 – Exp[ress]o With Frank Calise (Frank Calise, Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
Jay Harris: Overcoming Tough Problems in Software Projects – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 265 (Jeffrey Palermo)
AGL 332: Cancer Thriver, Jeffrey Deckman (John Rouda)
The Breakpoint Podcast Episode 005 – Asserting Success: Navigating .NET Testing (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
Talk Python to Me #431: Visualizing CPython Release Process (Michael Kennedy)
Duke’s Corner Podcast – Sam Brannen: Hard Core Software Developer (Jim Grisanzio)
Tabs and Spaces Podcast 310 – Kickin butt then putting rockets under them (Zac Braddy, James Studdart & Jamie Taylor)

Community & Events

The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit CFP is OPEN (James Petty)
Google Pixel event: how to watch and what to expect (Emma Roth)

Database

Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 3 (Hemantgiri S. Goswami)
SQL SERVER – Performance: Optimizing High Volume OR Conditions through TempTable (Pinal Dave)
Postgres 16 available in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, powered by Citus (Nik Larin)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Deprecation of Teams live events API on Microsoft Graph (Sam Chung)
Top 5 AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions – September 2023 (Elizabeth Samuel)
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2023 (Steve Stein)

PowerShell

PowerShell Universal Reverse Proxy and VS Code in the Browser (Adam Driscoll)
Announcing template-based previews of Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell for Key Vault deployments (Nori Zhang)
Quick Tip: Get CPU temperature (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

ProcDump 2.2 for Linux, Sysmon 1.3 for Linux, Process Monitor v3.96, and SDelete v2.05 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Here’s What’s New in Python 3.12 (EditorDavid)
paint.net 5.0.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
Fixing VBScript Support in Windows ADK SEP 2023 Update (Build 25398) (Johan Arwidmark)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3792 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #39, 2023 – New Fable Release! (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – September 29, 2023 (#172) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #784 (Manoela Ilic)
C# Digest Issue #474 – October 02, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link for pre-order

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