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Dew Drop – November 21, 2023 (#4073)

Posted on November 21, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Improvements & Changes in Android resource generation in .NET 8 (Dean Ellis)
Create a Pull Request with Summary Difference View Available in GA (Jessie Houghton)
Scott Hunter: .NET8 – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 272 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Highlights from Git 2.43 (Taylor Blau)
Announcing TypeScript 5.3 (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

Evolving Core Stack of Azure SDK for JS: A Tale of Enhanced Performance, Usability, and Convenience (Harsha Nalluru)
Creating a React App From Scratch (Magnus Montin)
Run collections in the Postman VS Code extension (Pankaj Khandelwal)
Visit the new Chrome Web Store (Hafsah Lakhany Ismail)
Connect to localhost from inside a dev container (Jim Bennett)
gRPC vs. REST (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Migrating Page Navigation Apps from Xamarin Forms (Uno Platform Team)
Toolkit Tuesdays: NavigationBar (Steve Bilogan)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# .NET Report Data Binding With Stored Procedures and Parameters (Alec Gall)
Introduction to .NET and C# – Differences, Structure, SDK, Runtime, Compilation (Code Maze)
Embedding additional files in an MSBuild binary log file (Gérald Barré)
Announcing NuGet.exe and NuGet Client SDK Packages Support Policy: Keeping You Informed and Secure (Kartheek Penagamuri)
Visualize Entity Framework Relationships and Additional Query Analysis in ReSharper 2023.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
Signature Soft Pad Customization (Bjoern Meyer)
If you’re going to crash on an unhandled exception, you may as well do it sooner rather than later (Raymond Chen)
Exploring Examples Of The Mediator Pattern In C# (Nick Cosentino)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Validate JSON files against schema in Azure DevOps build (Thomas Ardal)
Embedded Speech is now generally available (Hasya Shah)
Copilot coming to Windows 10 (Alan Meeus)
Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason (Alyssa Hughes)
Microsoft CEO Nadella Says OpenAI Governance Needs To Change (BeauHD)
Trimming a Fake Object (Mark Seemann)
Amazon’s offering free courses on generative AI (Umar Shakir)

Screencasts & Videos

Ned Pyle – Windows Server vNext Hotpatches – Microsoft Ignite 2023 On the Ground (ITOpsTalk Crew)
Armchair Architects: LLMs and Architects (Part 1) (Microsoft Developer)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Phillip J. Clayton (Part 1 of 2) (Maurice Cherry)
Syntax Podcast Episode 695: 5 New CSS Features You Should Know (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The PowerShell Podcast – In Code We Trust: Being Thankful for PowerShell (James Petty)
Meta Cast – Leading Agile Transformations: Unpacking the Leadership Circle (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 149 – Canned Detections: From Educational Samples to Production-Ready Code (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time (Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #651 – Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – A Copilot for your OneDrive (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – A Happy Thanksgiving Wish from Trader Joe’s (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

20+ Years of .NET and Me (Jeremy D. Miller)
Syncfusion Essential Studio: Black Friday Deals 2023 (Jollen Moyani)
Your Journey Continues: 2024 Imagine Cup Next Steps (Maddy Epstein)
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft and Is Sam Altman joining Microsoft? Satya Nadella doesn’t seem to know (Tom Warren)
What’s New in Philly for the 2023 Holiday Season (Visit Philly)
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 (JetBrains)

Database

How To Fix Performance Problems With Optional Parameters In SQL Server Stored Procedures Part 1 (Erik Darling)
Embracing SQL Server 2022 with SSDT 17.8: Unveiling Key Updates (Subhojit Basak)
Importing Flat Files into Azure SQL DB (Josephine Bush)

PowerShell

Automate Text Summarization with OpenAI and PowerShell (Piyush Tripathi)

Miscellaneous

Great books, courses, and music for the holidays (Bill Gates)
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.3757 to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3828 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-47 (#99) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #124 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – November 20, 2023 (#208) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #580 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – November 14, 2023 (#4068)

Posted on November 14, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Pursuit of wicked smartness in VS Code (Chris Dias)
Introducing v1.0.0 Beta6 for the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK (Matthew Bolanos)
Creating Empty State for your .NET MAUI Apps (Leomaris Reyes)
Cake v3.2.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
Explore .NET and AI Integration at .NET Conf 2023 with Semantic Kernel (Evan Chaki)

Web & Cloud Development

Public Preview: Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-Hosted Gateway and Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway (Azure Team)
dtSearch Enhances ASP.NET Core Functionality (David Ramel)
How to Secure your PDF Documents with ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
WebStorm 2023.2.5 Is Now Available (David Watson)
Configuration of Data Movement between On-prem or private network to Azure Cloud (Yanzhong Liang & Todd Shain)
Telerik UI for Blazor and ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 and Beyond (Lyubomir Atanasov)
How to Build An ASP.NET Core Web API: A Practical Beginner’s Tutorial (Nick Cosentino)
What is gRPC? (Postman Team)
Why You Should Migrate to OAuth 2.0 From API Keys (Alisa Duncan)
Goland 2023.3 Beta Is Out! (Ruslan Akhmetzianov)
Setting Up a Blog with Astro (Timur Badretdinov)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to extract, create, and navigate Zip Files in C# (Davide Bellone)
.NET and C# Versions – 8/12 Update (Niels Rasmussen)
How to Use Interceptors in C# 12 (Code Maze)
Creating an API for reading memory values in a C# GameBoy emulator (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 7.0.0 – Release Date October 03, 2023 (Brij Mohan)
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Utilize Pattern Matching to Eliminate the Need for an ‘is’ Check and Analyzing Performance Issues in Microsoft .NET 8 (David McCarter)
Removing allocations by reducing closure scopes using local variables (Gérald Barré)
What is the difference between UuidToString, StringFromCLSID, StringFromIID, and StringFromGUID2? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

AI in DevOps | AI Talks for DevOps Overview (Scott Lowe)
A Console Refresh with Flexibility for Night and Day (Przemek Abratowski)
Building AI Applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search (Anaiya Raisinghani)
Fakes are Test Doubles with contracts (Mark Seemann)
Detecting Speech and Music in Audio Content (Iroro Orife, Chih-WeiWu & Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build a file server with Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday (Ashley Whittaker)
Building an iterator in Swift (Patrik Svensson)
GameDev jamming with MonoGame (Simon Jackson)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Kristina Swanson on Microsoft Partner Programs (David Giard)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Tj Hughes (Maurice Cherry)
The .NET on AWS Show, Featuring Cecil Phillip! (Brandon Minnick)
The PowerShell Podcast – Emil Larsson: Creating Communal Tech Waves with PowerShell (James Petty)
Meta Cast – Navigating Your Identity with Jeff Davis (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Changelog News Podcast – Share your terminal with anyone on the web (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Trust as a service for validating OSS dependencies (Eira May)
Martin Thwaites: Building Software for Production – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 271 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community & Events

.NET Conf 2023 is Here – Celebrate .NET 8 and All Things .NET! (Katie DeSantis)
Failure suuuuucks (Phil Haack)
Announcing the MonoGame Foundation (MrHelmut)

Database

Array Based Snapshots for the SQL Server DBA (MSSQLTips Team)
How To Fix Performance Problems With Sorts Without Changing Indexes (In SQL Server) (Erik Darling)
Improving Extended Events in Azure SQL (Dimitri Furman)
Modernizing Legacy Data Technology: Challenges and Solutions (Pinal Dave)
Getting Started with MongoDB (Robert Sheldon)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Use Microsoft Graph connectors to securely bring external content into Microsoft 365 (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

Don’t let grim headlines obscure the progress on climate change (Bill Gates)
Sysmon v15.11 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Why Low Code? (G. Andrew Duthie)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3823 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-46 (#98) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #123 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – November 13, 2023 (#203) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #579 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – October 13, 2009

Posted on October 13, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

Get Time Zone Information (Richard Carr)
Code Only – Further Enhancements (Alex James)
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (Eric Lippert)
LINQ Programming (Jim Kohli)
How to edit code when debugging a 64-bit application (Habib Heydarian)
VSTS 2010 TMap process templates infographic (Clemens Reijnen)
Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
Targeting earlier .NET frameworks 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
Using .NET 4.0 Tasks with the AsyncEnumerator (Jeffrey Richter) – Link of the Day
Export to CSV using Reflection and IQueryable (Michael Ceranski)
Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – ThumbnailToolbarButton and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

Expression Encoder 3 – Free and on Web Platform Installer (Mike Ormond)
HttpContext.Items[] vs Session[] (Dave M. Bush)
Do you know about this undocumented Google CDN feature? (Dave Ward)
Server specific Web.config sections replacement with WDP (Vishal Joshi)
Dead Simple Geolocation… (Scott Galloway)
BOOK: Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting Training and Reference (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

We can’t all use duct tape (Steve Jones)
"Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" (Ted Neward)
I use Balsamiq Mockups and So Should You (Rob Bazinet)
Architecture Journal – Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow (Mike Walker)
What does the M in MVC actually mean? (Michael Wagg)
DSLs: Violating the builder pattern (Mark Needham)
Mocks versus stubs and fakes (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF

CoreMVVM – A Simple MVVM Framework on CodePlex (Mike Ormond)
how to work with animations in Silverlight in the mvvm pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)
Five minute recipe for a decent BoolToVisibilityConverter (Josh Twist)
Saving images (.bmp, .png, etc) in WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode) (Koen Zwikstra)
Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3 (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Shawn Wildermuth on Declarative UI (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV – How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture and Architect Innovation Cafe – Perspectives on Silverlight 3 and Architect Innovation Cafe – Deploying Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
Ping 33: Windows Phones are here, Windows 7 party kit, hacking & phishing (Laura Foy)
Thirsty Developer 75 – Sparking a Business into Divot Dog (Dave Bost)
The SharePoint Ecosystem Part 1 Episode 34 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
Microsoft Network Monitor Experts Day: Part 5 – Advanced API (Michael Hawker)

Community / Events

Save the date: Google I/O 2010 (Joyce Sohn)
Events This Week – October 12th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

Generate Lots of Test Data with CROSS JOIN (Joe Webb)
Interview With Rod Colledge About The Book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

Engineering SharePoint (Jeff Teper)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell RPN Calculator (Lee Holmes)
Microsoft Releases Windows 7 90-Day Eval VHD (Blake Handler)
Adobe Photo Uploader for Facebook is a full-blown Facebook app (Jason Clarke)
Scala: Code Kata #2 – Karate Chop – Array Slicing Attempt (Mark Needham)
Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)
Microsoft’s Windows 7, as viewed by the Mac faithful (Todd Bishop)
Sneak preview of my new book (Scott Berkun)
FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7 (Nigel Parker)
No, Windows 7 isn’t slower than Vista, even at booting up (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010 (Office Team)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: October 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #453 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Tweets for 12-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Interesting Finds: 2009 10.09 ~10.13 (yuanjian)
CloudNews for 12th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Double Shot #559 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Unit Test Frameworks (9780596006891): Paul Hamill: Books

ISBN: 0596006896
ISBN-13: 9780596006891

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