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Dew Drop – April 12, 2024 (#4168)

Posted on April 12, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

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 – January 25, 2024 (#4114)

Posted on January 25, 2024 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing the MSTest Runner – CLI, Visual Studio, & More (Amaury Levé, Marco Rossignoli and Jakub Jares)
.NET Rocks! – Uno Update with Nick Randolph (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
WingetCreate: Keeping WinGet packages up-to-date! (Muhammad Danish)
Introducing the New Blazor Dropdown Tree Component (Keerthana Rajendran)
Code Faster and Better with GitHub Copilot’s New Features: Slash Commands and Context Variables (Peter Groenewegen)
Bring virtual connections to life with Microsoft Mesh, now generally available in Microsoft Teams (Nicole Herskowitz)

Web & Cloud Development

Bogosort (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
A holistic comparison of Blazor WASM performance from ASP.NET Core 5 to 8 (Kristoffer Strube)
Using Zod’s schema to render a reusable and dynamic Angular table component (Tim Deschryver)
Blazor Basics: Component Parameters and State Management (Claudio Bernasconi)
Using Azure Load Testing to test Multi-Tenant services (Frederic Le Coquil)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Resiliency (Jeremy D. Miller)
How to Force a Vue Component to Re-Render (John Au-Yeung)
Experimental CSS-Only Carousels with Scroll-Driven Animations (Maxwell Barvian)
What’s New in Angular 17 and for Syncfusion Angular Components (Mydeen S N)
Share user authentication state with interactive WASM components (Jon Hilton)
Why I joined Postman: powering the engine of growth with the API client (Dustin Schau)
Wasp Launch Week #5: Waspnado ️ (Matija Sosic)
Getting Started with Content Collections in Astro (Tamas Piros)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Check if Items of a List Exist in Another List in C# (Martin Chege)
Converting XLS to XLSX Format in Just 3 Steps Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
Visual Studio Code Extensions to Boost Your Productivity in 2024 (Natalie Pina)
ReSharper 2024.1 Roadmap and Rider 2024.1 Roadmap (Sasha Ivanova)
The dangerous implementations of the IMemoryBufferReference.Closed event (Raymond Chen)
Extract QR Codes from PDF Files Using LEADTOOLS (Ryan Fritz)
Real-Time Apps in .NET with SignalR (Roko Kovac)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Onboarding bottleneck: creating a path to effectiveness (Martin Fowler)
Why Kind, Clear, Specific and Sincere Communication In the Workplace is the Secret to Successful Teams (Brandi Neal)
Our Collective Struggle Over Technical Debt (JB Rainsberger)
How GitHub’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development (Belal Taher)
Joe Biden’s big AI science project gets pledges from Microsoft, Nvidia and others (Emilia David)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose January ’24 release (Ben Trengrove)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Jose and Laurel Mojica on Virtual Reality Storytelling and GCast 167: GitHub Actions (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 193: Saving Yourself from Yourself (Stay True to Yourself) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Easily Deserializing JSON Web Requests with System.Net.Http.Json | On .NET (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
What are the secrets to making a great UX with AI? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
The Teaching Accelerator, combining Power Platform and Generative AI to boost education | The Low Code Revolution (Daniel Laskewitz & Elliot Fraser)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Developer Upskilling and Generative AI with Hywel Carver and Suhail Patel (Hywel Carver & Suhail Patel)
Inside the World of React: Server Components, Unidirectional Data Flow, and Frameworks – JavaScript Jabber 617 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
Quantum Computing basics with Q# – Adventures in .NET 174 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Jamstack Radio Episode #141 – Postgres as a Platform with Vignesh Ravichandran of Omnigres (Brian Douglas)

Community & Events

Welcome to the new Nonprofit Community! (Devi Thomas)
The Mac turns 40 — and keeps on moving (Jason Snell)
Ohio Technical User Groups and Conferences (Michael J. Eaton)
Looking back on 40 years of Macintosh (Wes Davis)

Database

Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Fixing An Eager Index Spool (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Introducing API-based message extensions in Microsoft Teams Developer Portal (Srinidy Ravichandran)
Navigating the New Frontier: Information Security in the Era of M365 Copilot (Adeel Ahmed)
Microsoft Mesh is now Generally Available! (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

ProcDump 3.1 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
What’s the next big thing in tech right now? (Bill Reiss)
Jon Stewart’s coming back to The Daily Show, but only on Mondays (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
How Hotpatching on Windows Server is changing the game for Xbox (Orin Thomas & Jeff Woolsey)
Microsoft is now a $3 trillion company (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3867 (Chris Alcock)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #130 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – January 24, 2024 (#246) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – January 25, 2021 (#3366)

Posted on January 25, 2021 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Level up your code with TwilioQuest (Ariel Kanter)
Technology & Friends – Dustin Campbell on Support for WinForms to the Visual Studio Designer (David Giard)
Web Rush Episode 117: Surviving Technical Debt (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin, Craig Shoemaker & Mike Ryan)
Web Development for Beginners – A Curriculum (Azure Cloud Advocates)

Web & Cloud Development

gRPC & ASP.NET Core 5: Add a gRPC service reference from a remote protobuf over Route-To-Code (Anthony Giretti)
Using Bootstrap 5 with Vue.js (Carol Skelly)
Integration Tests for ASP.NET Core Web APIs using MSTest (Changhui Xu)
React Server Components in 5 Minutes (Cory House)
Cars Island ASP .NET Core API – integration with Azure Service Bus Queue – part 5 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
JavaScript Wake Lock API (David Walsh)
Top 7 Trends in JavaScript and Its Frameworks for 2021 and Beyond (Kotryna Kairyte)
My Top CSS Tips As Shared on Twitter – Part 1 (Stephanie Eckles)
Analyzing Audio and Video with Azure Media Services (David Giard)
Building a social media platform without going bankrupt: Part I–Laying the numbers (Oren Eini)
Installing the DS Server Local Trial Version (Bjoern Meyer)
Personal notes on Go’s language (Brandon Villa)
Creating a Fitbit clock face with VSCode and TypeScript (Bruno Sonnino)
Using Pulumi with multiple accounts (Damian Hickey)
How to connect microservices: Part 1 Types of communication (Piotr Martyniuk)
Use YARP to host client and API server on a single origin to avoid CORS (Niels Swimberghe)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

My WinUI 3.0 Book Is Available for Pre-Order (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

Python in VS Code Adds Data Viewer for Debugging (David Ramel)
F# and Functional Programming (Dan Clarke)
Windows ARM64 support for CMake projects in Visual Studio (Erika)
Using ValueTask to create methods that can work as sync or async (Jon P. Smith)
.NET 5: How to enable .NET 5 runtime on console apps instead of .NET Core 3.1 ? (Anthony Giretti)
JsonEnvelopes .NET Standard Library (Dane Vinson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Requirements (James Shore)
How to do GitLab merge request reviews in VS Code (Tomas Vik)
GitHub Ships Enterprise Server 3.0 Release Candidate (David Ramel)
4 Easy Ways For Managers To Boost Their Team’s Morale (Deanna deBara)
Record/Playback/Code—The Fastest Road to Efficient Test Automation (Ivaylo Todorov)
Some opinions about effective software development after 20+ years (Roy Osherove)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC (Phill Williams & Vijay Gondi)
Manage Game User Profiles with MongoDB, Phaser, and JavaScript (Nic Raboy)
Game Development Platform – Getting Started and Soft Launch – Game Development Platform (Cody Merritt Anhorn)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Core Podcast – Xamarin Catch-Up with Luce Carter (Jamie Taylor)
OnPodcast Episode 18: Surface Laptop 3+ or 4 rumors, Edge gets big updates, Xbox Live Gold drama (Arif Bacchus & Kareem Anderson)
Merge Conflict 238: Island Tracker – The Final Chapter (James Montemagno & Frank Krueger)
Meta Cast Episode 186 – Agile Buzzwords (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Agile for Humans 113: CBA – 2020 Scrum Guide Update (Ryan Ripley)
Optimizing Cross-Platform Images to Avoid Android Errors (David Ortinau)
Ladybug Podcast – Coding Bootcamps: What You Should Consider Before Signing Up (Sidney Buckner, Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel & Emma Bostian)
The Changelog – The rise of Rocky Linux (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Productive C# Podcast 15 – Leadership is Language (Andrea Angella)
Asp.Net Monsters – Contributing to HTBox/TwoWeeksReady (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
Do I Need To Be Technical To Be A Product Manager? (Den Delimarsky)
The Amp Hour #527 – Measuring Current with Matt Liberty (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 232 (Jason Bock)
Architectures for 2021 and Beyond – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 125 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Serverless Chats Episode #85: Serverless at IBM with Michael Behrendt (Jeremy Daly)
Talk Python to Me #300 – Building a data science startup (panel) (Michael Kennedy)
Webinar Recording: What’s New in TeamCity 2020.2 (Yegor Naumov)

Community & Events

14th Anniversary of the iPhone Launch (Steven Sinofsky)
Java 1.0 Turns 25 (Alex Blewitt)
Docker Captain Take 5 – Elton Stoneman (William Quiviger)
Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: Kendra Havens (David McCarter)
The Story So Far (Rich Turner)
Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C Programming Language, Dies At 76 (BeauHD)
After 28 Years, Tucows Finally Closes Its Downloads Site (David)
Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success (Kurt Schlosser)
What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Jan. 25-31 (Visit Philly)
Transcript: Brad Smith’s remarks at an employee meeting Thursday (Microsoft)

Database

SQL server Linux and SQLCMD (Arun Sirpal)
What SQL Server Feature Do You Wish Would Go Away? (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Find a Table in Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

New Training: Perform Automated Infrastructure Testing using Pester and PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)

Miscellaneous

4 ways the U.S. can reassert leadership on climate change (Bill Gates)
Intermediate representation for quantum computing (Esther Cruz Rico)
Crypto Related GPU Shortage? Check out These AMD FirePro Alternatives! (Exxact Team)
Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions (Mark Harris)
paint.net 4.2.15 is now available (Rick Brewster)
What the Biden administration means for tech, from the future of work to regulatory crackdowns (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3155 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2021-01-25 (Dan Rigby)
C# Digest Issue #347 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 293 – 24th Jan 2021 (Luce Carter)
Friday Five: Azure Data Factory, Teams Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
F# Weekly #4, 2021 – Octonav, Fantomas & Avalonia (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #61 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Reading Notes #458 (Frank Boucher)
The Overflow #57: /dev/null on demand (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.01.22 (Zachary Deptawa)
The .NET Stacks #33: A blazing conversation with Steve Sanderson (Dave Brock)

The Geek Shelf

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches (Don Jones & Jeffery Hicks) – Referral Link

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