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Dew Drop – May 19, 2023 (#3947)

Posted on May 19, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Client Support for Calling WCF/CoreWCF with System.ServiceModel 6.0 Is Here! (Sam Spencer)
Visual Studio Sticky Scroll: Stay in the Right Context (Leah Tran)
Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS (OpenAI Team)
The future of iOS development with Flutter (Leigha Jarett)
Object Detection in ML.NET Model Builder and Get started with ChatGPT in .NET (Luis Quintanilla)
Announcing TypeScript 5.1 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Hot Reload Supports Modifying Generics! (Mikelle Rogers)

Web & Cloud Development

Angular 16 Improves Reactivity (Ian Elliot)
New – Simplify the Investigation of AWS Security Findings with Amazon Detective (Danilo Poccia)
WebStorm 2023.2 EAP #2: Volar Support for Vue, Updates to the New UI, and More (David Watson)
List of Useful JavaScript Shorthands (John Au-Yeung)
Structured Logging in ASP.NET Core With log4net (Muhammed Saleem)
5 Front-End Web Frameworks to Consider Other Than React (Prashant Yadav)
Ignite UI for Angular 16.0.0: See The Exciting Improvements (Radoslav Mirchev)
Preview Files in Blazor File Manager: A Comprehensive Guide (Rajendran R.)
Perform Dynamic Execution of an npm Package (Alexandre Nedelec)
Astro 2.5 (Matthew Phillips, Ben Holmes, Erika Moreau & Bjorn Lu)
WebKit Features in Safari 16.5 (Jen Simmons)
Nested YAML Settings in Statiq and WebKeys in Statiq.Web (Jason Gaylord)
Announcing the Public Preview of Code Optimizations (Ryan Kahng)
A/B test CMS authored content with Netlify Edge Functions (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Lottie animations in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Microsoft.UI.Xaml (WinUI) v2.8.4 Released (Ranjesh)

Visual Studio & .NET

vcpkg is Now Included with Visual Studio (Augustin Popa)
Accelerate API Development in Visual Studio with .http/.rest Files! (Dirk Strauss)
Building the Arm64 Visual Studio experience (Mark Downie)
The Importance of Code Obfuscation for .NET and Android Applications (PreEmptive Team)
Populating the WinForms RadGridView with Data in Unbound Mode (Desislava Yordanova)
Rx.NET v6.0 Now Available (Ian Griffiths)
What is the opposite of LVM_SORTITEMS? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Publish Code Coverage Report in Azure DevOps Services pipeline execution summary. (Chandra Sekhar Viswanadha)
Unit Testing Combine Publishers (Joan Duat)
Adding a virtual directory with your IIS web application manage task in Azure DevOps (Kevin LaBranche)
How Async Practices Can Lead To Better Decision Making (Stella Garber)
DLL and OCX File Registration Methods (Alex Marin)
Grounded ChatGPT (Stephen Cleary)
Achieving Zero-COGS with Microsoft Editor Neural Grammar Checker (Alyssa Hughes)
6 Google Bard enhancements worth exploring (Andy Wolber)
A11y: GitHub Brings Accessibility to 85% of Open Source (Jennifer Riggins)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

JetBrains Releases Compose Multiplatform for iOS (Kay Ewbank)
How to use Swift Package Manager products from Cocoapods (Oswaldo Rubio)
New features in Dart 3.0 (Kanan Yusubov)
Blooming love for Compose animation (Kristen Halper)
How to make killer creatives for your hypercasual game (Rae Steinbach)
How It’s Made: I/O FLIP (Very Good Ventures Team)

Screencasts & Videos

Daniel meets Karl-Henrik Nilsson and talks about Azure Functions design patterns (Daniel Hindrikes)
Xamarin.Essentials is in .NET MAUI! Access platform APIs with a single API | On .NET (James Montemagno)
How do you patch and schedule Azure Kubernetes nodes on VMSS? | One Dev Q&A (Roy Kim)
What’s new in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – Blazor Web Assembly by Example with Toi B. Wright (Scott Hanselman)
Advanced Patterns with Angular Directives Part 2 – Adventures in Angular 381 (Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
What You Should Know About ChatGPT – Adventures in DevOps 163 (Jillian Rowe & Jonathan Hall)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Measuring Success in Agile, Why Story Points Don’t Always Tell the Full Agile Story | Rayyan Karim (Vasco Duarte)
Web Rush Episode 234: OpenAI with React + NextJS with Luca Restagno (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
Rocket 438: Touching Livestock (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
Duke’s Corner Podcast – Professor Isidro: Software is about People! (Jim Grisanzio)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 572 – Building zero tier systems on bare metal (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

Webinar – Cecil Phillip – Building payment flows with Stripe and Azure (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Register Now for Azure Cosmos DB North America Roadshow Events (Jay Gordon)
Evolving the Swift Workgroups (Swift.org)
GitHub celebrates developers with disabilities on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (Ed Summers)
How Web GDE Martine Dowden approaches web design from an accessibility perspective (Kevin Hernandez)
Join Surface at Microsoft Build (Harshitha Murthy)
Global Accessibility Awareness Day – Accessibility at the heart of innovation (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
Register today for Microsoft Inspire! (Jill Armour)
9 tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference (Rachel Heller)
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day – How LEADTOOLS Makes Applications More Accessible (Ryan Fritz)
GeekWire Awards FAQ: Meet the finalists, and what to know if you’re coming to the big show (Taylor Soper)
25+ Ways to Celebrate Pride Month in Greater Philadelphia for 2023 (Visit Philly)
Celebrating Tech Trailblazers for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, with Tim Scannell (Adrienne Krefft)
Microsoft Learn sparks possibility at Microsoft Build (Allison Kraker)
Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward (BeauHD)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Exploring the Power Platform GPT Prompts: Unleashing the Potential of AI in the Power Platform (Lee Stott)

Miscellaneous

What are the advantages of using a separate partition for Windows and Linux? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows 11 Moment 3 update: What features to expect (Mark W. Kaelin)
Now you can access Bing Chat without a Microsoft account (Sabrina Ortiz)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3709 (Chris Alcock)
Code Maze Weekly #173 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Daily Reading List – May 18, 2023 (#092) (Richard Seroter)
Build5Nines Weekly – May 18, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – May 16, 2023 (#3944)

Posted on May 16, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Xamarin.Forms and Essentials now target Android 13 (in Preview) (Gerald Versluis)
How GPT models work: for data scientists and ML engineers (Bea Stollnitz)
Join Microsoft Build 2023 Community-Led Parties (Rie Moriguchi)
Data Visualization with a Heat Map Using .NET MAUI Scheduler (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)
TechBash Dev Conference 2023 (Nov 7-10) – Early bird tickets on sale May 22nd (TechBash Team)
Get Ready for Visual Studio at Build 2023: Join Tens of Thousands Online! (Jim Harrer)

Web & Cloud Development

Public preview: Azure Container Storage (Azure Team)
Setting Up Real-Time Updates in a Blazor WebAssembly App Using SignalR [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
WebStorm 2023.2 Early Access Program Is Now Open! (David Watson)
Pure Functions in JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Solving Media Object Float Issues With CSS Block Formatting Contexts (Gabriel Shoyombo)
Introducing the Postman VS Code extension (Preetham M.)
Detecting When the User is Offline (Eric Lawrence)
Establishing and monitoring access to different environments (part 1 of 2) (Magnus Mårtensson)
Fiddler Everywhere as a Sandboxed Terminal Proxy (Nikolay Iliev)
Postman: Set up workspaces and collaborate faster with workspace templates (Ramji Enamuthu)
Important Update for Developers Using Adobe APIs (Raymond Camden)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Add a WinForms C# Excel XLSX Viewer to Your Desktop .NET Application (Mackenzie Albitz)
C# Tip: Advanced Switch Expressions and Switch Statements using filters (Davide Bellone)
What are the duck-typing requirements of C++/WinRT com_ptr? (Raymond Chen)
ML.NET – Introduction to Machine Learning With C# (Code Maze)
ReSharper C++ Starts the 2023.2 Early Access Program (Elvira Mustafina)
ReSharper 2023.2 Kicks Off the Early Access Program! and Rider 2023.2 Early Access Program Is Now Open (Sasha Ivanova)
.NET Community Toolkit 8.2 Adds Faster Generators (Kay Ewbank)
What’s New for Makefile Tools in VS Code Version 0.7.0 – Variable Expansion and more… (Sinem Akinci)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

How and why to run a scrum of scrums (David Pereira)
Run EXE files as Administrator in Windows (Alex Marin)
Using Pact and Quarkus to Tame Microservices Testing (Holly Cummins)
The Industrial Hammer Complex (Rob Eisenberg)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing a smarter algorithm in Crashlytics (Alex Singer)
Rebuilding Mobile Apps at Talk Python (Michael Kennedy)
Capacitor SSL Pinning: The Extra Layer of Security Your Mobile App Needs (Conner Simmons)

Screencasts & Videos

Live Coding – Uno Platform – Android Proximity Sensor (Martin Zikmund)
Monitor Your Mobile App Health with Sentry and .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
Building “Next Tech Event” using Blazor and RavenDB, Part 17 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Enstrom)
The AI Chronicles #1 (James Shore)
What’s next for Entity Framework Core Power Tools? | Open at Microsoft (Jeremy Likness & Erik Ejlskov Jensen)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Akeem Roberts (Maurice Cherry)
InfoQ Podcast: From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native with Rosemary Wang (Rosemary Wang)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.27 Chill Vibes, with Xander Grzywinski (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – Steve Judd, Poshwolf (Anthony Howell), Phil Bossman, Dan Hill, and Geoff Schram (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 121 – What Happens Here Stays Here: Confidential City (and Space) (Anton Chuvakin)
Meta Cast 251 – Exploring Generational Differences in AI Technology – How Do Bob and Josh View It? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Changelog News Podcast – Syncthing, Thunderbird, Baseline & vector databases (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 571 – Great code isn’t enough. Developers need to brag about it (Eira May)
Talk Python to Me #415: Future of Pydantic and FastAPI (Michael Kennedy)
PowerShell News Podcast Episode 052 – Interview with OnRamp Attendee Simrah Shaik and PowerShell News Podcast Episode 053 – Interview with Jeff Hicks (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – ICYMI: Why is Trader Joe’s a Bricks and Mortar Store (Trader Joe’s Team)
Women in Technology Podcast – Reach for the Stars (WiT Team)
Syntax Podcast Episode 614 – WTF Are Signals and Why Is Everyone So Hot on Them All of a Sudden? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Made by Google Podcast – Google I/O 2023: Introducing Pixel’s Newest Devices (Rachid Finge)

Community & Events

Firebase: What’s new at Google I/O 2023 (Dmitry Lyalin)
Building a more inclusive gaming community with GitLab (Bryan Behrenshausen)
Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Carl Franklin (David McCarter)
Red Hat’s Layoffs Included Fedora Program Manager (EditorDavid)
Stories from our survey: Salary in the time of pandemic (Erin Yepis)
Discover Ways to Make Open Source Contributions to Microsoft (Kiran Amin Panjwani)
Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet four inspiring organizations using tech for good (Lisa Stiffler)
JetBrains GameDev Day 2023 – Call for Speakers (Matt Ellis)
Announcing Postman’s projects and accepted contributors for Google Summer of Code 2023 (Vinit Shahdeo)

Database

Changing log growth strategy in SQL Server 2022 (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL SERVER 2022 – Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO) and Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization in SQL Server 2022 – SQL in Sixty Seconds #200 (Pinal Dave)
Using Docker on Windows with Persistent SQL Server Settings and Databases (Josephine Bush)
Azure Cosmos DB at Build 2023: Everything you need to know (Michal Toiba)
Azure DataBricks talking to Azure SQL Database using Private Endpoints (Gregor Suttie)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

OneNote Webhooks API deprecation (Bea Villanueva)

PowerShell

Scan LoL drivers with AutoRuns PowerShell Module (Emin Atac)
Measuring script execution time (Francisco Nabas)

Miscellaneous

Classification Using the scikit k-Nearest Neighbors Module (James McCaffrey)
Windows 11 users can now link their iPhones and use iMessage from a PC and Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition approved by EU regulators (Tom Warren)
Microsoft will pay to capture carbon from burning wood (Justine Calma)
The Next Step for the Occupied App (Peter Foot)
Trends you should look out for the rest of 2023 (Tessa Wolhuter)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3706 (Chris Alcock)
Awesome Uno Platform – List of resources for developers building cross-platform .NET apps with Uno Platform (Marin Zikmund)
Interesting links of the week 2023-20 (#72) (Michael Eaton)
.NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #54 (davita8)
Daily Reading List – May 15, 2023 (#089) (Richard Seroter)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #103 (Sam Basu)
Reading Notes #555 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 21, 2023 (#3904)

Posted on March 21, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day (Mehul Harry)
Build a Viva Connections card to display stock prices – Part 1: the backend (Matteo Pagani)
GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models (Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin & Daniel Rock)
go-sqlcmd – Native go implementation of sqlcmd (Microsoft Open Source)
Nuance and Microsoft Announce the First Fully AI-Automated Clinical Documentation Application for Healthcare (Nuance Communications Team)
File and Folder dialogs in .NET MAUI with CommunityToolkit (Vladislav Antonyuk)

Web & Cloud Development

Training your PyTorch model using components and pipelines in Azure ML (Bea Stollnitz)
Integration testing an ASP.NET Core 7 app with ASP.NET Identity using Alba (Alexander Zeitler)
Use PDF.js to Render PDF Documents within the Document Viewer (Bjoern Meyer)
Using ASP.NET Core 7 Minimal APIs: Request Filters, Parameter Mapping, and More (Fiodar Sazanavets)
The React useContext Hook (Hassan Djirdeh)
Rich Harris Talks SvelteKit and What’s Next for Svelte (Loraine Lawson)
Why doesn’t my ASP.NET Core 7 web app launch on HTTPS? (Mike Brind)
Configuring .NET Garbage Collection for Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda (Norm Johanson)
Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components—An Overview (Piumi Liyana Gunawardhana)
React.js Quick Refresher Guide (Suprotim Agarwal)
TypeScript 5 – Smaller, Simpler, Faster (Kay Ewbank)

Visual Studio & .NET

Implementing React’s UseState in C# (Ricardo Peres)
DataTable Class in C# (Code Maze)
Why is ReSharper suggesting this? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Caching in .NET with MemoryCache (Steven Giesel)
Too many timers in .NET? (Gérald Barré)
On the proper care and feeding of the enigmatic GetDistanceOfClosestLanguageInList function (Raymond Chen)
The Sentence Similarity Scenario in ML.NET Model Builder (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to write strong sprint goals in agile (Bart Krawczyk)
Breaking new ground in healthcare with the next evolution of AI (Tom McGuinness & Diana Nole)
Using Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Exxact Team)
A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions (Grygoriy Gonchar)
Automated Content Sync for Better Quality & Performance (Irina Chirita)
On trust in software development (Mark Seemann)
TeamCity Q1–Q2 2023 Roadmap Update (Olga Bedrina)
Future-proofing Git repository maintenance (Patrick Steinhardt)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Enabling the Inspection of Web Content in Apps (Patrick Angle)
Evolution of Crash Management: Behind the Scenes with Android App Quality Insights (Rebecca Gutteridge)

Screencasts & Videos

Live Coding – Uno Platform Android keyboard and TV remote input (Martin Zikmund)
Next-Generation Computer Vision Capabilities with Project Florence | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez & Adina Trufinescu)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Sean DallasKidd (Maurice Cherry)
Azure Podcast Episode 455 – Azure ML in the real world (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Meta Cast 244 – Agile Fakes (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Overcoming Dysfunction and Harnessing Constructive Conflict in Agile Teams | Mike Salogub (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – Using PowerCLI with Dale Hassinger (James Petty)
Syntax Podcast Episode 590 – HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost – Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Made by Google Podcast – Real Talk About Real Tone (Rachid Finge)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 113 – Love it or Hate it, Network Security is Coming to the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 547 – What our engineers learned building Stack Overflow (Eira May)
Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – An Interview with Jessica Tucker, from engineering to Product entrepreneur (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
Toni Solarin-Sodara: Developer Tools for Test Automation – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 237 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – Add to OneDrive (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)

Community & Events

Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Including at AWS (Bloomberg News)
Becoming a Remote Worker – 3 years (Adam Storr)
Tech Job Market Cools, Demand Still Robust (Nathan Eddy)

Database

Evaluate SQL Server configuration using Best practices assessment for Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server (Ganapathi Varma Chekuri)
A Deeper Dive Into Couchbase Capella™ (Tim Rottach)
Paging Data in T-SQL (Greg Larsen)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Announcing Copilot in Viva Engage (Jason Mayans)

PowerShell

Opening new PowerShell Windows from PowerShell and Running Commands in them (Bryan Hogan)

Miscellaneous

Going Electric – Solar (Eric Lawrence)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3670 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-12 (#64) (Michael Eaton)
Reading Notes #547 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Wrap Up – March 20, 2023 (#049) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link – Second edition coming this year!

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