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Dew Drop – April 12, 2024 (#4168)

Posted on April 12, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Part 3 – Babylon.js 7.0: One incredible community (Steve Clarke)
TechBash 2024 Early Bird registration is now open! (TechBash Team)
How Microsoft discovers and mitigates evolving attacks against AI guardrails (Mark Russinovich)
Semantic Kernel Hello World Plugins Part 1 (Jason Haley)
Using Handlebars Planner in Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Teresa Hoang)
Introducing MSTest SDK – Improved Configuration & Flexibility (Marco Rossignoli)

Web & Cloud Development

Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library (Tim Deschryver)
Referencing external Docker containers in .NET Aspire using the new custom resources API (Anthony Simmon)
Giving the .NET smart components a try–The Smart Combobox (Bart Wullems)
How to Test gRPC Services in ASP.NET Core (Aneta Muslić)
Effortless AJAX: Simplifying Database Operations with jQuery (Janus Atienza)
Quick Tip: How to Animate Text Gradients and Patterns in CSS (Ralph Mason)
Astro 4.6 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore & Bjorn Lu)
3 simple design tips to improve your Web UI (Jon Hilton)
GitHub GraphQL API Full Screen (Daniel Cazzulino)
Your background images might be causing CLS (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Beyond the Basics: Exploring the Android Manifest in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
.NET MAUI 9.0.100-preview.3.10457 Release (Rui Marinho)

Visual Studio, Win32 & .NET

General Performance Tip: Cloning Various Types (David McCarter)
Why do STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE, and STANDARD_RIGHTS_EXECUTE have the same values? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership (BeauHD)
Using keyless authentication with Azure OpenAI (Pamela Fox)
Building an infrastructure for AI’s future (Meta Careers Team)
You Can Now Edit ChatGPT Images, Photoshop-Style (David Nield)
Managing Technical Debt (Brad Ediger)
Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (Emma Roth)
How to Write Accessible Technical Documentation – Best Practices with Examples (Ezinne Anne Emilia)
How to Use LangChain to Build With LLMs – A Beginner’s Guide (Jacob Lee)
A Coder Perspective: What It’s Like to Develop an AI App (Loraine Lawson)
Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI (Mike Loukides)
Don’t fix that bug…yet! (Matt Lacey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 15’s first beta release is out (Allison Johnson)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Hillel Wayne on TLA+ (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 204 – Privacy First is Citizen First (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
How can I learn C# and get certified as a beginner? | One Dev Question (Katie Savage)
How to Deploy a .NET isolated Azure Function using Zip Deploy in One-Click (Frank Boucher)
Power Apps and Azure SQL Together | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – GitHub Advanced Security with Jacob DePriest (Scott Hanselman)
.NET Rocks! – Domain Control Plane and Azure with Anthony Eden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Svelte 5: Compiler, Signals, and Web App Performance – JavaScript Jabber 627 (Charles M. Wood)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Self-Sustaining Agile Teams, The Art of Letting Go For Scrum Masters | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit 2024 Bar Session 1 (James Petty)
JS Party Podcast – Off to see the Wiz (Minko Gechev, Jatin Ramanathan, Kevin Ball & Jessica Sachs)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Diverting more backdoor disasters (Eira May)
Software Defined Talk Episode 462: Lifting Code (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Web Rush Episode 276: What’s Possible with AI Agents? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
The Breakpoint Show Episode 018 – Beyond Boundaries Network Programming (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)

Community & Events

Microsoft Build 2024 Sessions Listed: Copilots, Copilots & More Copilots (David Ramel)
Announcing Postman has acquired Orbit (Abhinav Asthana)
CfP List Updated 2024-04-11 (Dave Aronson)
Build 2024: Microsoft plans to enhance PowerToys with new AI tools (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Cloud Cultures, Part 6: Accelerating collective growth in Malaysia (Jordan Davis)

Database

SQL Server Query Transformations With ROW_NUMBER And ANY Aggregates (Erik Darling)
#TSQL2sday Roundup: Has AI Helped You with Your SQL Server Job? (Pinal Dave)
Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a Database (Dennes Torres)
Optimize Your Azure Cosmos DB Costs with New Reserved Capacity Tiers (Rodrigo Souza)
General availability: Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Srini Acharya)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Discover embedded Stream links in any SharePoint site and page (Loryan Strant)
Enabling your AI transformation journey with Microsoft Viva (Jared Spataro)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 11 Builds 22621.3520 and 22631.3520 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard (Jess Weatherbed)
DuckDuckGo Announces Privacy Pro Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
Skilling snack: Windows Entra joined devices (Jason Sandys)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3917 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – April 10, 2024 (#295) (Richard Seroter)
Code Maze Weekly #209 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link – Pre-order the 3rd edition!

Dew Drop – February 15, 2024 (#4129)

Posted on February 15, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 1 is Here! (Mark Downie)
Angular v17.2 is now available (Minko Gechev)
What’s new in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio 17.9 (Yu Zhang)
.NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 Preview 1 (David Ortinau)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.4.240211001 Released (NuGet)
Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8 (James Newton-King)

Web & Cloud Development

Blazor Basics: HTML Forms and Capturing User Data (Claudio Bernasconi)
Material 3 Experimental Support in Angular 17.2 (Miles Malerba)
Unlocking Success: The Need for Quick Web Service Creation (Donovan Brown)
Signal queries in Angular – what can I do with them? (Connie Leung)
JavaScript and TypeScript Trends 2024: Insights From the Developer Ecosystem Survey (David Watson)
Getting started with Azure’s Hybrid and Embedded Text-to-Speech (Dean Hume)
Enhancing the Blazor File Manager Performance with Virtualization (Keerthana Rajendran)
Mastering State Maintenance in Blazor Tabs (Mahesh Palanisamy)
Important changes coming for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.5 targets of the AWS SDK for .NET (Norm Johanson)
Node v18.19.1 (LTS) and Node v20.11.1 (LTS) and Node v21.6.2 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Step by Step Practical Guide to Architecting Cloud Native Applications (Abdullah Abu Hassan)
Creating the right Postman workspace for your needs just got easier (Akshay Kulkarni)
A Passwordless Future! Passkeys for Developers (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
Reasons to Fall in Love with Passkeys (Juan Cruz Martinez)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Bar Chart for the US’s Most Traded Goods with China (Arul Jenith Berkmans)
WindowsApps folder getting out of hand? (Michael Niehaus)
Telerik RichTextEditor for .NET MAUI—Display Any HTML Text in Your Cross-Platform App (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Entity Framework Core Query Plan Visualizer (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
How to Add a .NET Spreadsheet Ribbon Bar Control using C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
Weak Events in C# – How to Avoid Nasty Memory Leaks (Nick Cosentino)
.NET Framework February 2024 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Salini Agarwal)
How to Create a Desktop Shortcut for a Windows Forms Application? (Renato Ivanescu)
Collection Performance: Iterating Through Reference Value, and Record Types and String Performance: String Compression (David McCarter)
Rider Splash Screens for EAPs (Early Access Pets) (Rachel Appel)
Why Should You Care About Lambda Lifecycle As A .NET Developer? (Rahul Nath)
Functions that return the size of a required buffer generally return upper bounds, not tight bounds (Raymond Chen)
Enumerating over Select’s index (Jiří Činčura)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

How to publish your MSI and EXE setup applications in the MS Store (Radu Popescu)
Reqnroll – Migrating from SpecFlow (Max Hamulyák)
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors (OpenAI Team)
US Patent Office Confirms AI Can’t Hold Patents (BeauHD)
How signers can add form fields before eSigning a document? (Evans Omondi Otieno)
How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design (Kent Eisenhuth)
Will Generative AI Kill DevSecOps? (Jennifer Riggins)
Abstraction and Testing – Intro (Gil Zilberfeld)
Drive customer engagement with the power of AI (Jill Armour)
HIPAA Compliant Electronic Signature (Meikanda Nayanar)
Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
Configuration as Code for TeamCity Using Terraform (Olga Bedrina)
Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI (Tiferet Gazit)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building a Flutter SDK Part 1: Breaking Down a Flutter Package (Deven Joshi)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 196 – Open (The most overused term in tech) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Rene Schulte on the Evolution of AI and Its Impact Across Industries (Frank La Vigne)
What advice do you have for people who want to get started in AI? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
Develop Your Copilot Skills (Part 1) (Microsoft Developer Team)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Azure Podcast Episode 486 – Azure Savings Plans (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Assessment to Action, How Scrum Masters Can Start Their Engagement With A New Team | Freddie Brown Jr (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 730: Own Your Own PaaS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Practical AI Podcast #256 – Gemini vs OpenAI (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Subscriptions! A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley)
Jamstack Radio Episode #142 – Decoupled Authorization with Alex Olivier and Emre Baran of Cerbos (Brian Douglas)
Software Engineering Radio 603: Rishi Singh on Using GenAI for Test Code Generation (Kanchan Shringi)

Community & Events

MSSQLTips.com Authors and Rookie of 2023 (MSSQLTips Team)
Cisco Layoffs Hitting More Than 4,000 Workers (Edward Gately)
Welcoming Progress Champions 2024 (Sam Basu)
100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born (James W. Cortada)
Boston Code Camp – Session Submissions are open until Friday, February 23 (Robert Hurlbut)
Explaining Open Source to My Doctor (Jitendra Choudhary)

Database

When SQL Server Isn’t Smart About Aggregates Part 2 (Erik Darling)
4 Rules to follow on Microsoft Fabric Source Control (Dennes Torres)
Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc and Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Azure Team)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Azure Metrics in Teams with Azure Functions and Adaptive Card Tables (John Kilmister)
Visually group shapes in your diagrams with containers in Visio for the web (Karan Malik)

PowerShell

How to digitally sign an MSI installer using PowerShell command line (Radu Popescu)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058 (Canary and Dev Channels) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Marvel has found its Fantastic Four (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
DuckDuckGo Browser Adds Private Bookmark and Password Sync (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3882 (Chris Alcock)
dotInsights | February 2024 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

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

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