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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 – February 22, 2024 (#4134)

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

Top Links

How To Use AI Assistant to Generate Test Data For .NET Applications (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Is GitHub Copilot the new rubber duck? | One Dev Question (Scott Hanselman)
Easily Manage Contacts in Your .NET MAUI App with SQLite and Perform CRUD Actions (Jeyasri Murugan)
.NET Rocks! – CSLA 8 with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
How to stay safe from repo-jacking (Kevin Backhouse)
A Streamlined Extension Manager comes to Visual Studio 17.9 (Maia Kelner)

Web & Cloud Development

Dealing with C# records in ASP.NET Core model binding (Alexander Zeitler)
Bun Announces Cross-Platform Shell Scripting in JavaScript and TypeScript (Agazi Mekonnen)
6 Docker Security Best Practices for Your Application (Ajeet Singh Raina)
A Full-Stack Web App Using Angular and GraphQL: Perform Edit, Delete, and Advanced Filtering (Part 3) (Ankit Sharma)
Using GitHub Copilot and Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core for Enhanced Development (Jefferson S. Motta)
Method Injection in ASP.NET Core: API Controllers vs. MVC Controllers (Jeremy Clark)
Azure API Center: The First Look (Justin Yoo)
Using real-time data in Angular with SignalR (Lewis Cianci)
How to Use the JavaScript Map and Set Objects – Explained with Code Examples (Nathan Sebhastian)
Transcribe and Email Your Voicemails with OpenAI, Node.js, Twilio, and SendGrid (Phil Nash)
Using Azure Python SDK to manage Azure Container Apps – Part 2 (Rachit Tandon)
hypercard Web Component (Zach Leatherman)
Golang Back In TIOBE Top 10 (Sue Gee)
Comprehensive Document Translation Solution (Sreedhar Mallangi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

New MAUI Fixes in 8.0.7 and a Little Bit About the 9.0.0 preview (Iris Classon)

Visual Studio & .NET

MSVC Backend Updates since Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 (Bran Hagger)
The New Terminal (Beta) Is Now in JetBrains IDEs (Anastasia Shabalina)
How to Get the Number of Weekdays Between Two Dates in C# (Martin Chege)
IServiceCollection in C# – Simplified Beginner’s Guide For Dependency Injection (Nick Cosentino)
AddConsole is obsolete: This method is retained only for compatibility (Bart Wullems)
Once your object reaches final_release, you are committed to destructing it (eventually) (Raymond Chen)
Using Serilog with Microsoft’s ILogger API (Zachary Desira)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Introducing Modular Monoliths: The Goldilocks Architecture (Steve Smith)
Empowering all developers to build without barriers (Ed Summers)
Google Gemma: because Google doesn’t want to give away Gemini yet (Emilia David)
Boost your productivity: Use Gemini in Gmail, Docs and more with the new Google One plan (Esteban Kozak)
AI for nonprofits: Taking the first steps (Kim Brooks)
Academics as UX Researchers: Learning to let go. (Michael O’Sullivan)
Copilot Pro – For individuals, creators, and power users looking to take their Copilot experience to the next level. (Microsoft Copilot)
How I’d use generative AI to modernize an app (Richard Seroter)
Get the most out of Microsoft Copilot for Security with good prompt engineering (Rod Trent)
Beyond Productivity: Developer Experience is Business Critical (Sara Huddleston)
Gemma: Introducing new state-of-the-art open models (Tris Warkentin)
From Input to Output: How AI Language Models Process Text (Abhijit Jana)
Tips for Learning When You’re Busy Software Testing (Amy Reichert)
Testing Event-Driven Architectures with OpenTelemetry (Anirudh Ramanathan)
How Moral Values and Ethics Impact Software Delivery (Ben Linders)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Firebase App Distribution Introduces Automated Tester (Beta) (Radhika Advani)

Screencasts & Videos

How to run a local AI chatbot on Windows in 5 min, no cuts, no edits, with Ollama, LMStudio, OpenAI (Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 166: Successful Onboarding (Ben Nadel)
Syntax Podcast Episode 733: Egress, scraping, Safari EU changes, is SetInterval worth it? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The Changelog – Making shell history magical with Atuin (Ellie Huxtable, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Web Rush Episode 269: Taking Your Own Path to Being a Cloud Native Developer (John Papa, Ward Bell & Craig Shoemaker)
Software Engineering Radio 604: Karl Wiegers and Candase Hokanson on Software Requirements Essentials (Gavin Henry)

Community & Events

Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2024 (Jakub Beránek, Jack Huey & Paul Lenz)

Database

Correct SQL Server Transactional Replication Issues with T-SQL and SSMS (Mohammed Moinudheen)
SQL Server to PostgreSQL Database Schema Conversion (John Miner)
Dynamic Tenant Databases in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)
Recent Updates To sp_QuickieStore, sp_HealthParser, And A New Contributing Guide (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Breaking changes in Microsoft Bookings Graph APIs (beta) (Purva Ekatpure)

PowerShell & Terminal

Sudo for Windows – Elevating Command Execution in Windows 11 (Claudio Masolo)

Miscellaneous

Rivian says it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce as EV woes deepen (Andrew J. Hawkins)
Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip deal that could be worth billions (Wes Davis)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3887 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – February 21, 2024 (#263) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Atari 2600+ (Atari) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 23, 2024 (#4112)

Posted on January 23, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio productivity features in 2023 (Leah Tran)
Microsoft and Trevor Noah: A Partnership for Asking Questions (Kim Brooks)
C++ in VS Code: Getting Started & Configuring IntelliSense (Alexandra Kemper)
Seven Tips for Having a Great Conversation with Copilot (Microsoft Worklab)
New Microsoft Graph callRecords API capabilities (Matthew McGrath)

Web & Cloud Development

Auto-notifying cascading values in Blazor (Daniel Cazzulino)
ASP.NET Core: Deploying the TX Text Control 32.0 SP2 Document Editor to Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
Kubernetes and beyond: a year-end reflection with Kelsey Hightower (Dotan Horovitz)
.NET 8: Blazor Render Modes Explained (Peter De Tender)
Demystifying Loaders and Actions in React Router 6 (Part 2) (Thomas Findlay)
Improving ASP.NET Core Security By Putting Your Cookies On A Diet (Tore Nestenius)
WebKit Features in Safari 17.3 (Jen Simmons)
Node v21.6.1 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Unveiling Exciting Features in Essential JS 2 Gantt Chart: 2023 Volume 4 (Alan Sangeeth)
Layouts in Astro (Tamas Piros)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing .NET MAUI Generic Item Templates for Visual Studio 2022 (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Calculate the Number of Days Between Two Dates in C# (Ellie Zubrowski)
How to get assembly code generated by the JIT for a C# method (Gérald Barré)
AI Tools You Can Use in Visual Studio Code Besides GitHub Copilot (Ijeoma Igboagu)
A Range kata implementation in C# (Mark Seemann)
Another Set of Bug-fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2023.3 Is Here! (Sasha Ivanova)
WinForms Development Best Practices for 2024 (Greg Lutz)
SerilogTracing (Nicholas Blumhardt)
MassTransit–.NET 8 upgrade warnings (Bart Wullems)
Collection Performance in Microsoft .NET: Converting Byte Array to Span (David McCarter)
Accessing a block of memory represented by a Windows Runtime IMemoryBuffer (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Agile Use Widespread but Scaling Remains a Challenge (Sean Michael Kerner)
The Proper Care and Feeding of LLMs: Q&A with Programmer Michael Washington (Gladys Rama)
Create AI Assistants with OpenAI’s Assistants API (Beau Carnes)
Using ChatGPT for Amplifying Software Testing Practices and Assist Software Delivery (Ben Linders)
Walking and chatting with ChatGPT (Tom Johnson)
MicroAgents: Exploring Agentic Architecture with Microservices (Chris Rickman)
Beyond the Hype: Was the threat the CRA seemed to pose to open source just hype? (Colin Eberhardt)
How to get in the flow while coding (and why it’s important) (Gwen Davis)
Nuke: Update on IDE Extensions (Alexej Liebenthal)
10 unexpected ways to use GitHub Copilot (Kedasha Kerr)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Progress of the Flutter Package Ecosystem (Ander Dobo)

Screencasts & Videos

Add Screen Recording to Your .NET MAUI App in 2 Lines of Code (Gerald Versluis)
How to get ready for Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Updates for 2024 (Microsoft Mechanics)
Tab Management | Postman Level Up (Postman Team)
Building an Apple 1 Computer – Part 6 (Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Kyra Wells (Maurice Cherry)
Merge Conflict #394: 1BRC, Getting Spatial, & Importance of Source Control (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Against the Odds, Navigating Resistance and Leading Agile Change | Isshai Kamara (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – From Python to PowerShell: A Developer’s Perspective with Jordan Borean (James Petty)
Meta Cast – Transforming Team Dynamics: Handling Difficult Members Effectively (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Syntax Podcast Episode 720: Where Does Time Come From? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinkski)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 156 – Living Off the Land and Attacking Critical Infrastructure: Mandiant Incident Deep Dive (Anton A. Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer (Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #656 – Pneumatic Tubes, Straight To The Home (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Hacking the hamburger: How a pentester exposed holes in hundreds of fast-food chains (Eira May)
Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 70: Trader Joe’s 15th Annual Customer Choice Awards (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

Riot Games cuts more than 500 jobs (Richard Lawler)
Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Jared Parsons (David McCarter)
Partner Blog | Grow with Microsoft: unlock new benefits packages and program updates (Jill Armour)
Stack Gives Back 2023! (Sasha)

Database

Moving SQL Prompt History to Another Machine (Steve Jones)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3865 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-4 (Michael Eaton)
Reading Notes #587 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Reading List – January 22, 2024 (#244) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

The clock’s ticking. It’s the final week of Packt’s Amazon New Year Sale! (Packt) – Get my latest book, Learn WinUI 3 2nd Edition, and lots more before the sale ends!

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