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Dew Drop – April 3, 2023 (#3913)

Posted on April 3, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Streamline MAUI Projects with the Syncfusion .NET MAUI Template Studio (Ganesan Rengasamy)
Introducing the ‘Open Bin Folder’ Visual Studio extension! (Calvin A. Allen)
Technology & Friends – Guy Royse on Software Defined Radio (David Giard)
How to get in free to the May 10 Technical.ly Developers Conference (Christopher Wink)
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 20 (Sydney Smith)
Bing Preview Release Notes: Image & Video Search (Bing Team)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s new in Svelte: April 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
Programmatically evaluating policies in ASP.NET Core (Karthik Chintala)
WCAG Demystified for the Angular Developer (Peter Vogel)
Using variables for Kubernetes without breaking YAML (Robert Erez)
Manage Pulumi Teams in Bulk with the New CLI Teams Flag (Robbie McKinstry)
Adding Microsoft Graph authentication as a Flask Blueprint (Pamela Fox)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Create Dynamic WPF Charts in .NET C# Apps (Nitin Sharma)
Building a ChatGPT Chatbot App in .NET MAUI Part 2 (Daniel Monettelli)
‘.NET MAUI for C# Developers’ Book Co-Authored by Trailhead’s Rodrigo Juarez (J. Tower)
Advanced .NET MAUI Topics – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)

Visual Studio & .NET

LINQ on steroids with SIMD (Steven Giesel)
Accessing Objects Just After they are Saved by Entity Framework (Bryan Hogan)
Working with Tuple in C# (A. Yohan Malshika)
Null-Conditional Operators in C# and Refactoring Object-Orientation Abusers in C# (Code Maze)
Today’s random F# code: Using Verify to prevent breaking changes in stored data (Urs Enzler)
Metalama Status Update (March 2023) (Gael Fraiteur)
Exporting and importing Live Templates in JetBrains Rider (Alexander Zeitler)
Parsing and Serializing 3rd Party API DateTime JSON Data (Jamie Maguire)
What is this [uuid(…)] in front of my C++ class declaration? (Raymond Chen)
Change the ServiceLifetime after the service has been added to the .NET ServiceCollection (Niels Swimberghe)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

The Future of Senior Developers in an AI-Driven World (Chris Heilmann)
Using Figma Auto Layout with App Builder to speed up Design to Code (George Abraham)
Top 50 High Performance Practices and How To Become a High Performer (JD Meier)
Best Practices for Managing Version Control with Git (Kunal Chowdhury)
An abstract example of refactoring from interaction-based to property-based testing (Mark Seemann)
Facade Pattern: A Beginner’s How-To for Simplified Code (Nick Cosentino)
Microsoft Semantic Kernel Enables LLM Integration with Conventional Programs (Sergio De Simone)
Pre Fix your Code with Prefix (Stackify Team)
CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research (Sylwia Budzynska)
New Repo Tab Focuses on Providing CI/CD Information on Builds (Paul Gerst)
In Praise of Top Down Programming (Mike James)
Intro to typography — what it is, and how to get it right (Alexandra Hemmer)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Using AI tools like ChatGPT to control IoT lights (Ian Douglas)
Using the Navigation Component in Jetpack Compose (Daniel Cook)

Screencasts & Videos

AWS for the .NET Developer – SAM (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict 352: Analyzing The Twitter Algorithm (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: Reclaiming our lives through more mindful use of technology (Todd Bishop)
Meta Cast 245 – Self-Advocacy in Agile Coaching (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Beyond the Hype Podcast: Y2Q – The end of encryption as we know it? (Colin Eberhardt)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 077 – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with Jon Handler and Ashok Thirunarayanan (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #626 – Intelligent Routing with Sergiy Nesterenko (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
OnPodcast Ep.108: Teams 2.0 testing, Windows 12 development, Google Cloud angry with Microsoft (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
Syntax Podcast Episode 595 – Supper Club × Web Components and Lit with Justin Fagnani of Google (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
UI Breakfast Episode 264: Ecommerce Branding with Abbey McGrew (Jane Portman)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Understanding Serial Transactions for Databases like Redis (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw, Joe Zack)
JS Party Podcast – See you later, humans! (Jerod Santo, Amal Hussein, Nick Nisi & Kevin Ball)
AGL 305: The Submarine Way with John and Deb (John Rouda)
Talk Python to Me #409: Privacy as Code with Fides (Michael Kennedy)
Duke’s Corner Podcast – Holly Cummins in the Engine Room of Java (Jim Grisanzio)
Tabs and Spaces Podcast 304 – Conventional Code (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)
Complete Developers Podcast – ChatGPT for Developers (BJ Burns & Will Gant)

Community & Events

Celebrating the Innovators of Tomorrow: Announcing the Top 3 teams of the 2023 Imagine Cup (MS Student Developer Team)
That’s a Wrap! Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023 Developers Highlights (Ricky Diep)
Prague Comes To Boston (Jesse Liberty)
Inaugural Designed for Surface award winners announced (Surface Team)
Improving™ myself: 10-year Celebration (Cori Drew)
Things to Do in Greater Philadelphia for Memorial Day Weekend 2023 (Visit Philly)
The people most affected by the tech layoffs (Eira May)

Database

Best way to monitor high worker thread on SQL Server (Dharmendra Keshari)
Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL vs. Azure Database for PostgreSQL: When to choose which (Michal Toiba)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s new in Microsoft Teams (free) | March 2023 (Miikka Oksanen)
Top five AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions – March 2023 (Office Add-ins Team)

Miscellaneous

Tax Preparation Industry Alarmed Over Plan For IRS Free Tax-Filing System (BeauHD)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1537 and 22624.1537 (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3679 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest Issue #448 – April 03, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #13, 2023 – Fantomas 6 (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #167 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Daily Wrap Up – March 31, 2023 (#058) (Richard Seroter)
The Overflow #171: The tech toolbox (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Collective #758 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications (Jesse Liberty & Rodrigo Juarez) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 20, 2022 (#3841)

Posted on December 20, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Build Your Own Podcast App with .NET 7, Blazor, and .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)
Use your own user @ domain for Mastodon discoverability with the WebFinger Protocol without hosting a server (Scott Hanselman)
Directions on Microsoft – Microsoft Teams: What’s Next for the Platform (Mary Jo Foley)
Introduction to MVVM Source Generators for C# .NET (Julian Ewers-Peters)
A Simple To-Do App Using JS Interop with HTML5 Drag and Drop in Blazor WebAssembly (Rajendran R.)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Angular Testing Library with Test Harnesses (Tim Deschryver)
Reflecting on Azure App Service’s innovations and triumphs in 2022 (Mayunk Jain)
Document information extraction with Azure Form Recognizer. (Samuel Gomez)
Introduction to the GraphQL Schema (Alexis Reina)
How to build a secure foundation for identity and access (Christine Barrett)
Creating a Cross-Domain Capable ML Pipeline for Image Classification (Felix Krause)
HTTP Client CLI – Run Requests and Tests on CI (Yuriy Artamonov)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Android Splash Screen Logos and Animations with Xamarin (Walter Aguilar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Extreme LINQ Performance Boost in .NET 7 (Ivan Matec)
Error-accumulating composable assertions in C# (Mark Seemann)
12 Days of Bluetooth – #7 Bluetooth Low Energy (Peter Freeman Foot)
On the large number of ways of expressing Microsoft Visual C++ compiler versions (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Agile or Traditional Testing—Is There Truly a Difference? (Amy Reichert)
An Ode to Unit Tests: In Defense of the Testing Pyramid (Guilherme Ferreira)
Alternatives To Microsoft Project (Enrique Corrales)
How do You Fit Observability within Testing & QA? We have Got Answers! (Hiren Dhaduk)
Structure and order your DI container (Steven Giesel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Unity in 21 Days (Uroš Miletić)
Dart 3 Will Be Fully Sound And Null Safe (Kay Ewbank)
Havok Physics for Unity is now supported for production (Isaac Seah & Lydia White)

Screencasts & Videos

Automatically Refresh OAuth2.0 Access Tokens | Postman Level Up (Postman Team)

Podcasts

Revision Path: Lauren Brown (Maurice Cherry)
No Dogma Podcast #169 – Mads Torgersen, C# 11 Part 2, Listener Questions (Bryan Hogan)
“Who Is Agile” Interview (James Shore)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to step back, and help Scrum teams adopt Agile at their own pace | Stacey Taurah (Vasco Duarte)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 102 – Sunil Potti on Building Cloud Security at Google (Anton Chuvakin)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 532 – Let’s talk about our favorite terminal tools (Ben Popper)
Meta Cast 232 – Beefing up your resiliency (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Eduardo Maltez: Full-system testing using Selenium – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 224 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Women in Technology Podcast – The Low-Down on Cyber Security (WiT Team)

Community & Events

Getting started as a Security MVP (Most Valuable Professional) (Ben Harris)
Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe steps down as W3C CEO; Ralph Swick appointed Interim CEO (Coralie Mercier)

Database

SQL Server 2022: How Auto-Drop Statistics Work (Dennes Torres)
What’s New in Visual Studio Extensions for SSAS and SSRS (Subhojit Basak)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Most Valuable M365 Features of 2022 (Dustin Hodges)
Top 5 AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions (Office Add-ins Team)

PowerShell

Best Practices for PowerShell Testing (Kunal Chowdhury)
Removing Connect-MgGraph Permissions (Liam Cleary)

Miscellaneous

Twitter Followings OPML ExportGet websites and RSS Feeds of the people you follow (Scott Watermasysk)
Research @ Microsoft 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AI (Brenda Potts)
Traveling in 2023? Here’s the vacation planner template to help you pack, prioritize, and play (Lauren Moon)
Resolving to Write in the New Year (Louis Davidson)
Gatekeeper’s Achilles heel: Unearthing a macOS vulnerability (Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Team)
IRS Accidentally Releases 112,000 Taxpayers’ Private Data Again (msmash)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3611 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week (2022-51) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #85 (Sam Basu)
Reading Notes #535 (Frank Boucher)
Reading List 298 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 2, 2021 (#3570)

Posted on December 2, 2021 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Introducing the new Razor editor in Visual Studio 2022 (Mika Dumont)
Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out (Tim Anderson)
Visual update in Office for Windows now available! (Kori Loomis)
XAML inline RowDefinitions and ColumnDefinitions (Fons Sonnemans)
New Microsoft Teams Essentials is built for small businesses (Jared Spataro)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s new in Svelte: December 2021 (Daniel Sandoval)
How to Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters With Best Practices (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
How to Send Recurring Emails in Node.js with SendGrid (Dhruv Patel)
How To Protect Your API Key In Production With Next.js API Route (Caleb Olojo)
React, Svelte or Angular: Which one to pick of the three? (Janus Atienza)
How to safely apply an EF Core migrate on ASP.NET Core startup (Jon P. Smith)
‘defineComponent’ in Vue 3 Is Pure Magic! Do You Know How It Works? (Plamen Zdravkov)
How to change the Jupyter Notebook default directory (Donovan Brown)
Building a chat bot in 2022 (Andreas Botsikas)
Node v16.13.1 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
Exploring Go v1.18’s Generics (Big Nerd Ranch Team)
Microsoft Edge’s Many Processes (Eric Lawrence)
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 0 (James Dawson)
Grid Zoom Layout (Mary Lou)
Different HttpClient Techniques to Consume API Calls in Minimal API [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
Check Out Our New Developer Resources, Plus a New Plugin Showcase Page on Behance (Sharayoo Jog)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Save Memory by Exporting and Importing Annotations in WPF PDF Viewer (Deepak G)
Top 10 Must-Have Features in a WinUI Event Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
Here We Are: WinUI Report Viewer for Desktop (Sia Aleksieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Using C# and Auto ML in ML .NET to Predict Video Game Ratings (Matt Eland)
Simulated Annealing Optimization Using C# or Python (James McCaffrey)
How can my C++/WinRT component pass a std::vector back to the caller? and How can I transfer ownership of a C-style array to a Windows Runtime component? (Raymond Chen)
Lamar v7 meets .Net 6, Minimal APIs, and IAsyncDisposable (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Put most of your energy into building clean interfaces and A thinking and recording tool: Decision Records (Martin Fowler)
Agile Book Club: Scaling Agility (James Shore)
Should you use the Repository Pattern? With CQRS, Yes and No! (Derek Comartin)
Octopus Deploy Config as Code: early access preview (Rob Pearson)
Design Patterns for Serverless Systems (Tridib Bolar)
Introducing Canvas view in the web app, now in beta (Sketch Team)
Modularity – The Shared Future of Computer Science and Space Travel (Ilyana Smith)
The Burgeoning Need for Focus (Allen Pike)
Page Object Model Design Pattern Using xUnit Part 8 (Anton Angelov)
Going from Coder to Slack Engineer (Chaitanya Ravula)
Create Merge Requests, Code Reviews, and Other Space Updates in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 (Maarten Balliauw)
Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers (Yaswanth Anantharaju)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Goes Public And For Profit? (I Programmer)
Release v3.29 – Dart Code – Dart & Flutter support for Visual Studio Code (Dart Code Team)
Develop watch faces with the stable Jetpack Watch Face library (Alex Vanyo)
Try the new LookDev Studio prototype today (Emma Vig & Daniel Todorov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Syntax Podcast – Everything in web dev is Amazing! (Wes Bos)
.NET Rocks! – Thinking WAAAY Outside the Box with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Developer Tea – The Focus IS the Work (Jonathan Cutrell)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 51: You Are Replaceable (Ben Nadel)
Microsoft Mechanics – Microsoft Teams Essentials: The Setup, Intro & Tutorial (Jeremy Chapman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Introducing the Kanban method to Agile teams in a complex project | Lucia Alarcon (Vasco Duarte)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episodes 237 and 238: Getting Started with Power BI (Carlos L. Chacon)
The Changelog – Returning to GitHub to lead Sponsors (Jessica Lord, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Web Rush Episode 162: Life outside code with Mark Thompson (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)

Community & Events

UnoConf (2021) – Quick reactions (Matt Lacey)
New AWS Scholarship Program Helps Underrepresented and Underserved Students Prep for Careers in AI and ML (Antje Barth)
Meet the Splunktern: Anna Nosek (Helen O’Keeffe)
Time To Open Advent of Code (Sue Gee)
Check out the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old in Q4 (Juan M.)

Database

How to Enable and Configure SQL Server Agent for SQL Server 2019 on RHEL 8.1 (Manvendra Singh)
Avoiding SQL Server plan cache pollution due to unparameterized Contains queries generated by Entity Framework 6 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
SQL SERVER – Is Query from Cache? Execution Plan Property (Pinal Dave)
Dealing with complex hierarchies in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Merry Graphmas: Working with Cosmos DB Gremlin API (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

SharePoint & MS Teams

Microsoft launches Teams Essentials, built for small businesses (Jimmy Ward)
Developing Enterprise-Ready Microsoft Teams Apps with Teams Toolkit v3.0 (Tomomi Imura)
Microsoft Teams Essentials: The Setup, Intro & Tutorial (Zachary Cavanell)

Miscellaneous

How acoustics experts turned down the volume on the Space Needle’s makeover (Alan Boyle)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 (Brandon LeBlanc)
What the Future Developer Will Look Like (DeveloperMedia)
OneNote on Microsoft Surface Duo, the perfect match! (OneNote PM)
PowerToys 0.51 brings new mouse highlighter tool for presentations (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3366 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-12-02 (Dan Rigby)
The Wolf Report – December 2nd, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

New Apple AirPods Pro – Referral Link

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