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Dew Drop – December 12, 2023 (#4087)

Posted on December 12, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Hardware Intrinsics in .NET 8 (Tanner Gooding)
Clark Sell: Developer Education and Networking – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 275 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Build an AI Powered Image App – Microsoft Learn Challenge (Renee Noble)
Azure DevOps for Unreal Engine game development (Matthaus Niedoba)

Web & Cloud Development

Docker whale-comes AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers (Scott Johnston)
Angular Christmas Calendar (Daniel Glejzner, Pawel Kubiak & Ilir Beqiri)
Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams. (Azure Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

Festive Tech Calender – Building a Word Search in C# (John Kilmister)
Redacting sensitive data in logs with Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction (Andrew Lock)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Command Line Tools with Oakton (Jeremy D. Miller)
4 ways to create Unit Tests without Interfaces in C# (Davide Bellone)
Generic Type Construction With Static Virtual Interface Members (Brant Burnett)
Auth0 Templates for .NET: A New Powerful Version Released (Andrea Chiarelli)
The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction (Raymond Chen)
How to Decode JWT Tokens in .NET (Muhammad Afzal Qureshi)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment (Martin Fowler)
Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio (Zachary Cavanell)
Three types of AI-assisted programmers (Isaac Lyman)
GitHub Developer Productivity at 30 Billion Messages per Day (Jennifer Riggins)
Declarative Feature Engineering at PayPal (Marina Lyan)

Screencasts & Videos

Azure AI Search: Generating the right answers, every time | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez & Farzad Sunavala)
Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio | Microsoft Mechanics (Seth Juarez)
Shortcut Keys on Desktop with KeyboardAccelerators – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis)
Armchair Architects: LLMs & Vector Databases (Part 1) (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Jonathan Robinson (Maurice Cherry)
Merge Conflict 388: Developer to Manager, Hybrid Success, & Capacity for Innovation (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Retrospectives Without Blame, The Importance of The Retrospective Prime Directive | Robert Briese (Vasco Duarte)
Productive C# Podcast #26 – Microsoft Semantic Kernel – Integrating AI in your C# applications (Andrea Angella)
The PowerShell Podcast – Code in Action: Embracing Hands-On Learning with Jeff Hicks (James Petty)
Meta Cast – The Power of Labels in Agile Teams (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Syntax Podcast Episode 703: The Observer Pattern (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 152 – Trust, Security and Google’s Annual Transparency Report (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – Open source LLMs are catching up (Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #653 – Benjamin Cabé Nose Zephyr (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – What Gemini means for the GenAI boom (Eira May)
Grammar Girl Podcast – What’s the difference between Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, and Latine? Can something ‘grow’ smaller? Musko. (Mignon Fogarty & Susan K. Herman)
SQL Server Radio Episode 158 – Reverse Engineering Table Relations based on SQL Plans (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)

Community & Events

Beyond the Screen: The Power and Perks of In-Person Tech Conferences (David McCarter)
6 nonprofits shaping AI policy in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America (Doron Avni)
This year’s Black Founders Fund recipients in Africa and Europe (Melanie Eusebe)

Database

The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: Debugging (Erik Darling)
Getting Started with DuckDB for Fast Analytical Query Workloads on Large Datasets (Hristo Hristov)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Removing history versions of a file on OneDrive for Business (Gérald Barré)

Miscellaneous

Arc for Windows (The Browser Company)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3843 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-50 (#102) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #127 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – December 11, 2023 (#221) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #583 (Frank Boucher)
.NET Annotated Monthly | December 2023 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 8, 2023 (#4085)

Posted on December 8, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Conf 2023 Recap – Celebrating Community, Innovation, and the Launch of .NET 8 (Jon Galloway and Mehul Harry)
Visual Studio Code November 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made (Will Douglas Heaven)
Cross-platform Christmas Countdown App in C# (Martin Zikmund)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Education should be Free with FreeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson (Scott Hanselman)
.NET 8 Networking Improvements (Máňa and Natalia Kondratyeva)

Web & Cloud Development

Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints and Azure API Management (Andre Dewes)
Improve your security by hiding your Application Insights instrumentation key from the browser (Sander ten Brinke)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Working with a Database (Assis Zang)
AWS Step Functions in C# – Part 2 (Camilo Reyes)
Azure Communication Services December 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
Blazor WebAssembly Ahead of Time Compilation (Januarius Njoku)
Exploring An Example Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core – What You Need To Know (Nick Cosentino)
Designing a React E-Commerce App for Digital Products—Part 2 (Handling Authentication and Authorization) (Prashant Yadav)
Wham! Authentication broker support lands in the Azure Identity libraries. (Scott Addie)
This Month In Azure Static Web Apps | November & December 2023 (Thomas Gauvin)
Defense Techniques: Blocking Protocol Handlers (Eric Lawrence)
GraphQL vs. REST (Gbadebo Bello)
FHIR Starter #2 (Jeff Helman)
Advancing PDF Handling with Standalone Essential JS 2 PDF Viewer (Sasidharan Karuppiah)
Kotlin for WebAssembly Goes Alpha (Sebastian Aigner)
Maglev – V8’s Fastest Optimizing JIT (Toon Verwaest, Leszek Swirski, Victor Gomes, Olivier Flückiger, Darius Mercadier & Camillo Bruni)

Visual Studio & .NET

Dealing with Zip Files in C# (Paul Michaels)
Use Rust or C#, abandon C++: Five Eyes agencies warn about memory safety in programming languages (Alfonso Maruccia)
Announcing Oracle Entity Framework Core 8 (Alex Keh)
Streamlining Developer Productivity with the PayPal Visual Studio Code Extension (Asish Mohanty)
Rider 2023.3: Support for .NET 8 SDK, the Latest From C# 12, Performance Enhancements, Predictive Debugging, and More AI-powered Features. and ReSharper 2023.3: Support For C# 12, Performance Enhancements, and More AI-Powered Features and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2023.3 Release (Sasha Ivanova)
In C++, how can I make a default parameter be the this pointer of the caller? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Enterprise 2023.3: Enriching the Stack Overflow for Teams Essentials (Carrie Koos)
How we’re enriching the Teams essentials to make collaboration easier (Kara Tully)
On the Importance of RFCs in Programming (Matija Sosic)
LLMLingua: Innovating LLM efficiency with prompt compression (Alyssa Hughes)
DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Copilot Adoption Kit (Kurt Shintaku)
Harnessing the power of APIs for AI-powered innovation (Microsoft in Business Team)
Microsoft Readies ‘Groundbreaking’ AI-focused Windows Release (msmash)
What Is Reverse Engineering? (PreEmptive Team)
From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions (Rachel Siemens)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build a watch app using Flutter (Bo Hellgren)

Screencasts & Videos

XAML tools in Visual Studio | .NET MAUI Minutes (Maddy Montequila)
Develop Your AI Coding Skills (Part Two) | Azure Enablement Show (Microsoft Developer)
What is an AI plugin? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)
Securing Your Multicloud Databases with Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – From Atari to Sep: Unleashing the Power of Performance in Programming with Niels Rassmussen (Jamie Taylor)
InfoQ Podcast: Frugal Innovation Saving Lives (Jason Friesen)
Server-Side Rendering in Angular 17 – Adventures in Angular 397 (Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
JS Party Podcast – From WebGL to WebGPU (Gregg Tavares, Jerod Santo & Amal Hussein)
Rocket 467: Turn on Push Notifications (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – One weird trick for teaching users your software (Eira May)
Web Rush Episode 262: 0 to Web Developer with Jasmine Greenaway (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
UI Breakfast Episode 277: Designing for Technical Domains with Ridhima Gupta (Jane Portman)
Software Defined Talk Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Building a community of builders (Sarah Rainsberger & Elian Van Cutsem)
Threads has hashtags now (Jay Peters)
Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees in Seattle (Taylor Soper)

Database

The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: Formatting Code (Erik Darling)
Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 (Jiaqi Liu)
Microsoft Fabric Data Ingestion Methods and Tools (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

PowerShell & Terminal

Email, Attachments, Query, and Microsoft Graph PowerShell (Liam Cleary)
Easily open Docker containers in your Warp terminal (David Melvin)

Miscellaneous

ProcDump 3.0 for Linux and Sysmon 1.3.2 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
PowerToys Release v0.76.1 (Clint Rutkas)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23601 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26010 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Skilling Up for the Future: A Guide for Students and Entrepreneur (Lee Stott)
Announcing Rust 1.74.1 (Rust Release Team)
Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3841 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – December 7, 2023 (#219) (Richard Seroter)
Code Maze Weekly #195 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure (Anuraj Parameswaran & Tamir Al Balkhi) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 7, 2023 (#4084)

Posted on December 7, 2023 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing JetBrains AI and the In-IDE AI Assistant (Jodie Burchell)
How to Debug LINQ queries in C# (Michael Shpilt)
.NET Native AOT Explained (NDepend Team)
How to Send eSignature Request with your Custom Signing Link (Karthick Ramasamy)
Learn .NET 8 with New Beginner Videos (Katie Savage and Jayme Singleton)

Web & Cloud Development

CSS Media Query Support for Video Elements (Stephanie Stimac)
Vertiq – Blazor Application Framework – An Introduction (Manuel Grundner)
Fleet 1.28 Is Now Available With AI Assistant, Improvements to the Run and Debug Tool, and Other Updates (Roman Prokashev)
JavaScript: How to Print to Console, console.log, console.error, console.debug (Chris Pietschmann)
Announcing Builds View in Docker Desktop GA (Colin Hemmings)
WebStorm 2023.3: Improvements for Angular, Vue, and Svelte, AI Assistant, New Testing Functionality, and More (David Watson)
Empowering Data-Driven Development: Docker’s collaboration with Snowflake and Docker AI Advancements (Deanna Sparks)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Wolverine’s Aggregate Handler Workflow FTW! (Jeremy D. Miller)
HTML5 Boilerplate v9.0.0 Released (Rob Larsen)
API Discovery is Hard (Kin Lane)
Sentry: Our Official Monitoring Partner (Thuy Doan & Fred Schott)
Public preview: Node autoprovision support in AKS (Azure Team)
Scaling Applications Across Multiple Regions (Adora Nwodo)
Programmatically manage your Postman assets with the Postman API (David Espi Hernandez)
Mozilla VPN Update: New privacy features, plus independent security audit results (Mozilla Team)
GoLand 2023.3 Is Available! (Ruslan Akhmetzianov)
Fiddler Everywhere Price Changes (Simona Yaneva)
Docker Desktop 4.26: Rosetta, PHP Init, Builds View GA, Admin Enhancements, and Docker Desktop Image for Microsoft Dev Box (Vanessa Fournier)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Using Keyboard Accelerators in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
MacOS guide to Developing for .NET MAUI (Paul Usher)
Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Column Chart to Visualize Top Insurance Companies (Sowndharya Selladurai)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Rename Files in a Folder in C# (Caleb Okechukwu)
Hexagonal Architectural Pattern in C# (Code Maze)
How Keyed Service Dependency Works in .NET 8 (ByteHide)
How .NET 8.0 boosted JSON Schema performance by 20% (Matthew Adams)
In C++, how can I make a member function default parameter depend on this? (Raymond Chen)
Easily Convert Organizational Chart Diagrams to PowerPoint Presentations (Shyam G.)
Seasons of Love – Ode to C# (Jeffrey A. Miller)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure AI Custom Translator Neural Dictionary: Delivering Higher Terminology Translation Quality (Microsoft Translator Team)
Can ChatGPT Reason? A Real-Life Example, You Decide (Peter Kellner)
Leveraging Developer Knowledge for QA Testing (Amy Reichert)
Electronic Signature Buying Guide (Caroline Dolly)
Behind the scenes building IBM watsonx, an AI and data platform (Darrell Reimer & Trent Gray-Donald)
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model (Demis Hassabis)
DDD is just giving a about your Domain (Derek Comartin)
Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework (Emilia David)
The 12 Days of Copilot – Day 3 Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word – HLS Show Me How (Mike Gannotti)
How we’re experimenting with LLMs to evolve GitHub Copilot (Sara Verdi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

A New Foundation for AI on Android (Dave Burke)

Screencasts & Videos

Why Use XAML and MAUI? (1 of 18) | Building Apps with XAML and .NET MAUI (Leslie Richardson, Robert Green & Paul Sheriff)
.NET MAUI . Use the Shell and the SearchHandler to implement search in your apps (Daniel Hindrikes)
Customizing your labels with FormattedText | .NET MAUI Minutes (Maddie Montequila)
Advent of Code 2023 Day 6: Wait For It in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
Identity-centric Internet Access protections | Microsoft Entra (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Polly V8 with Joel Hulen and Martin Costello (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #145: Secret Guide to Communicating with Business Teams with Chris Fenning | Award-Winning Author of The First Minute (Max Ahumada)
Syntax Podcast Episode 702: New + Proposed JS APIs for 2024 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
The Rework Podcast – Calendar Tetris (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
The Well Podcast – The Drop – Part 18 (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
The Changelog – Hare aims to be a 100 year language (Drew DeVault, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Azure for Executives Podcast – GitHub copilot with Scott Densmore (David Starr)
The CSS Podcast 78: Season 4 wrap! (Uno Kravets & Adam Argyle)
Talk Python to Me #441: Python = Syntactic Sugar? (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

The Seven Character Classes of Advent of Code Players (Tim Sneath)
Microsoft Learn Contributor Guide – Create, contribute, share (Microsoft Learn)
Global AI Conference 2023 (Bethany Jepchumba)

Database

Performance Impact of SQL Server Check Constraints (Jared Westover)
SQL Server: Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads – use or not use (Dennes Torres)
The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: How To Leave Good Comments (Erik Darling)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3840 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – December 6, 2023 (#218) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

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