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Dew Drop – May 17, 2024 (#4191)

Posted on May 17, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Windows App SDK Version 1.4.6 (1.4.240512000) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Microsoft App Assure helps Opera build Arm-optimized browser (Mike Adams)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Community and content with Android Expert Madona Wambua (Scott Hanselman)
Improve your code quality with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio (Cynthia Zanoni & Laurent Bugnion)
Creating Custom Forms and Validation in a Blazor Hybrid App (Prince Oliver)
The Modern .NET Show – Uno Platform: One UI to Rule Them All with Martin Zikmund (Jamie Taylor)

Web & Cloud Development

Build a Blazor application to manage a custom Viva Learning provider – Part 3 (Matteo Pagani)
ASP.NET Core Basics: Authentication and Authorization with JWT (Assis Zang)
Azure Developer CLI (azd) – May 2024 Release (Grace Kulin)
Beyond CSS Media Queries (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
Using Source Generators to Validate IOptions in ASP.NET Core (Ivan Gechev)
Enhancing Your Application with GraphQL-Based CRUD Operations in React Grid (Maithiliy K.)
Advanced Query Building Techniques in Angular: Queries with Different Connectors and Advanced Query Building techniques: Connecting Tables with Joins using Blazor Query Builder (Satheeskumar S.)
ECMAScript proposal: duplicate named capturing groups for regular expressions (Axel Rauchmayer)
Wasmer’s py2wasm Compiles Python To WebAssembly (Nikos Vaggalis)
5 easy tips to improve your personal website performance (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.4.240512000 Release (NuGet)

Visual Studio & .NET

Wolverine’s Test Support Diagnostics (Jeremy D. Miller)
Pulling a single item from a C++ parameter pack by its index (Raymond Chen)
Agility SDK 1.614.0: R9B9G9E5 support for Render Targets and UAVs (David Cook)
Collection Performance: Exercise Caution When Using Take() with a Basic Count (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

JetBrains Releases Aqua Test Automation IDE (Kay Ewbank)
Scaling accessibility within GitHub and beyond (Ed Summers)
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into ‘ChatGPT and new products’ (Emilia David)
Why Should Business Adopt RAG and migrate from LLMs? (Kevin Comba)
Copilot Pro vs. ChatGPT Plus: Which is AI chatbot is worth your $20 a month? (Lance Whitney)
How Technical Debt Can Impact Innovation and How to Fix It (Sean Michael Kerner)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing: Capacitor Barcode Scanner Plugin (Dallas James)

Screencasts & Videos

Learn How to Migrate Windows Servers to Azure | The Azure Enablement Show (Aaron Stark & Priyanka Rawat)
Should new developers us AI tools like GitHub Copilot? | One Dev Question (Burke Holland)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Tips and Techniques for Improving Retrospectives (Esther Derby & David Horowitz)
Web Rush Episode 281: What You Need to Know About the Proposal for Signals in JavaScript (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Guidance to Self-Governance, Cultivating Autonomous Decision-Making in Agile Teams | Peter Müller (Vasco Duarte)
Made by Google Podcast – Google AI phone at unbeatable value (Rachid Finge)
JS Party Podcast #323 – 3D web game dev jam! (Brian Breiholz, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – OverflowAI and the holy grail of search (Eira May)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #168: What Every Engineer Ought to Know About Middle Management with Jason Gallaugher | VP of Engineering (Max Ahumada)

Community & Events

Join us at Build 2024: Get the latest on Azure Cosmos DB in Seattle or online! (Jay Gordon)
Dave Goes Microsoft (Dave Rupert)
Winamp Is ‘Opening Up’ Its Source Code (BeauHD)
How to Join the freeCodeCamp Discord Server and Chat with Fellow Campers (Quincy Larson)
C++ at VS Code Day 2024 (Alexandra Kemper)

Database

Two Ways To Tune A Slow Query In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Cumulative Update #13 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Grow with Copilot for Microsoft 365 – May 2024 (Angela Byers)
Device Permission Prompt API available for Office Add-ins on the web (Ester Bergen)

Miscellaneous

Opera goes native for Windows on Arm (Opera Team)
Twitter is officially X.com now (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3941 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – May 16, 2024 (#320) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link – Come find me at Microsoft Build for a chance at a free copy.

Dew Drop – June 20, 2023 (#3968)

Posted on June 20, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Enable Un-typed within ASP.NET Core OData (Sam Xu)
Easily Add Maps to Your Cross-Platform .NET Apps. MAPSUI Adds Support for Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
Azure OpenAI GPT model to review Pull Requests for Azure DevOps (Vinod Soni)
Saving Files with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Leomaris Reyes)
HackTogether: the Microsoft Teams Global Hack ends, but the developer journey continues! (Ayca Bas)
Announcing Create a Pull Request in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

Azure App Configuration and .NET API: a smart and secure way to manage configurations (Davide Bellone)
Implementing Recursive ChatGPT Function Calling in Blazor (Michael Washington)
Introducing Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data in Public Preview (Andy Beatman)
Exploring .NET streaming API scenarios (David Pine)
How to Serve Static Assets with an Efficient Cache Policy on WordPress (Jen Swisher)
Wolverine’s Middleware Strategy is a Different Animal (Jeremy D. Miller)
Parsing websites in C# with Html Agility Pack or AngleSharp (Thomas Ardal)
Responsive Web Design Evolved: Introducing CSS Container Queries (Vidura Senevirathne)
Docker Desktop and Windows – what’s the best option for you? (Vinicius Apolinario)
Cloud Cultures, Part 1: Resilience and innovation lessons from Poland (Kristin Gallagher)

Visual Studio & .NET

Integer compression: Implementing FastPFor encoding in C# (Oren Eini)
How to Use Bulk Updates in Entity Framework Core (Code Maze)
Validating nested DataAnnotation IOptions recursively with MiniValidation (Andrew Lock)
Why am I being told about a signed/unsigned comparison, and why only sometimes, and how can I fix it? (Raymond Chen)
How to use RuntimeHelpers.IsReferenceOrContainsReferences to micro-optimize collections (Gérald Barré)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Worst trait in unskilled scrum masters? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Scarcity Mindset and Work In Process (J.B. Raisberger)
How to repackage your application in Windows Sandbox VM (Radu Popescu)
Azure DevOps – New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 223 (Dan Hellem)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Simulate stylized characters for games with Ziva VFX and machine learning (Brian Anderson)

Screencasts & Videos

Fixing Colors & Implementing Geographical Search in ‘Next Tech Event’ w Blazor & RavenDB | Part 20 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)

Podcasts

Revision Path – David Dylan Thomas (Maurice Cherry)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Docker && WASM, with Justin Cormack (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell Unplugged: A Symphony of Tech and Music with Jim Truher (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 126 – What is Policy as Code and How Can It Help You Secure Your Cloud Environment? (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – An open platform for LLMs, speed matters, imaginary problems, Val Town & how to finish your projects (Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #636 – Discovering Cursed Connectors (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Ep. 581 – Stress test your code as you write it (Eira May)
Greg Leonardo: Responsible AI – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 250 (Jeffery Palermo)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Syntex repository services with Reid Carlberg & Marc Windle (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)

Community & Events

Introducing the Rust Leadership Council (Rust Leadership Council)
Has Reddit Overplayed Its Hand? (Matthew MacDonald)
Reddit hackers demand $4.5 million ransom and API pricing changes (Mia Sato)

Database

Query SQL Server system data about tables and columns (Rick Dobson)
General availability of SSIS Projects for VS 2022 (Chunhua Gu)
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1 and Recent Changes, Part 3 (Erin Stellato)
Detecting Deadlocks in SQL Server Using Trace Flags 1204 and 1222 (Pinal Dave)
List Top Tables in SQL Server Database by Size and What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan? (SQLPals)
Generally Available: Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

New Microsoft Graph APIs for managing Microsoft Teams webinars (Sheri Mehmood)

Miscellaneous

Your comprehensive guide to Aria: Opera’s native browser AI (Arlisa Hamza)
The future of browsing: Opera One, the first AI-powered browser is ready for download (Joanna Czajka)
Developers need the right to challenge junk patents (Mike Linksvayer)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3730 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – April 10, 2019 (#2935)

Posted on April 10, 2019 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

string vs. String is not a style debate (Jared Parsons)
Microsoft Edge preview builds: The next step in our OSS journey (Joe Belfiore)
What to expect in the new Microsoft Edge Insider Channels (Jatinder Mann & John Hazen)
The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are In (Julia Silge)

Web & Cloud Development

Squeezing Angular Directives (Aleix Suau)
ReportingCloud: Web API Health Status Page (Bjoern Meyer)
Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications (Calvin Keaton)
How to Create a Sticky Image Effect with Three.js (Daniel Velasquez)
Simplest way to share data between two unrelated Components in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
IdentityServer4 Roadmap (Dominick Baier)
Angular 7 Uploads Backed by Node.js (George Anderson)
Using ASP.NET Core Identity user accounts in integration tests (Gunnar Peipman)
Vanilla.js — Getting Started (Jeremy Likness)
Team Up IT Session: Async Best Practices in ASP.NET Core (Kevin Dockx)
Accepting payments with Stripe and ASP.NET Core (Kristoffer Strube)
Integrating Web Services with KendoGrid, Blazor, and Razor Components (Peter Vogel)
.NET Core 3.0, VS2019 and C# 8.0 for ASP .NET Core developers (Shahed Chowdhuri)
Using Vue CLI Inside an ASP.NET Core Project (Shawn Wildermuth)
Serverless Framework v1.40 (Philipp Müns)
The cloud demystified: How it works and why it matters (Greg Wilson)
Encrypting Identity Tokens in IdentityServer4 (Scott Brady)
NgRx: Action creators redesigned (Alex Okrushko)
Telerik UI for Blazor 0.4.0 Just Released (Carl Bergenhem)
Getting Started with TypeScript for JSInterop in Blazor (Chris Sainty)
Performance Timing in Chrome DevTools: console.time vs performance.mark (Christian Nwamba)
Show the Time to Read Your Markdown in VS Code (John Papa)
How to build V8 on Windows and not go mad (Max Koretskyi)
Opera Web Browser is Reborn (Paul Thurrott)
Continuous Delivery of Microservices – Trunk Based Development and Feature Toggles (Sheroy Marker)
npm Peer Dependencies (Todd Palmer)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

XAML Studio (Bruno Sonnino)
Distributing a .NET Core 3 WPF and WinForms App with MSIX (James Montemagno)
Themes in WPF (Kelley Ricker)
Getting Started With WorkManager (Jon Douglas)

Visual Studio & .NET

(Follow-up to) Attracting more developers to F# (Eric Sink)
Using, using, using with C# 8 (Christian Nagel)
Fixing Random, part 20 (Eric Lippert)
Unit Testing Improvements in Rider 2019.1 (Maarten Balliauw)
Visual Studio Tips – Test Explorer (Jeremy Hutchinson)
C# Job Queues (part 3) with TPL Dataflow and Failure Handling (Michael Shpilt)
Why You Should Prefer a Single Line for C# Properties (Thomas Claudius Huber)
Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession (Part 1) (Andrew Lock)
MSIX: Package Support Framework Part 3 (Brandon Wilson)
A portable way to get GC events in process and no admin privilege with 10 lines of code (and ability to dynamically enable/disable events) (Maoni Stephens)
.NET Core April 2019 Updates – 2.1.10 and 2.2.4 (Vivek Mishra)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Passing execution context to domain probes and Other implementations for domain-oriented observability (Martin Fowler)
GRASP – General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns Explained (Kamil Grzybek)
Test Studio Gains Visual Studio 2019 Support in Latest Service Pack (Iliyan Panchev)
Wise Package Studio vs Advanced Installer (Horatiu Vladasel)
When Cancel Buttons Should Not Say “Cancel” (Anthony)
How To Hack The Anxiety Roadblock And Get More Done (Deanna deBara)
Product Roles, Part 2: The Product Value Team (Johanna Rothman)
Why improving continuously speeds up delivery (John Jeremiah)
TeamCity 2018.2.4 is out now (Julia Alexandrova)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Using GraphQL in Production iOS Applications – Part 3 (Chris Downie & Sam Landfried)
What’s New in the Alexa Skills Kit: March 2019 Release Roundup (Drew Meyer)
PhoneGap Devs: It’s Time to Embrace a UI Framework (Matt Netkow)
Code Deep Dive: Implementing In-Skill Purchasing for Subscriptions with Node.js (Amit Jotwani)
#Hololens – Developer Resources for #Hololens2 (Bruno Capuano)
Flutter: how to build a quiz game (Francesco Mineo)
Building Responsive Apps with NativeScript (Jen Looper)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

CodeNewbie S8:E1 – From police recruit to developer (Tim Heuer) (CodeNewbie Team)
Technology & Friends – Melanie Adcock on TechMonthChicago (David Giard)
Revision Path 289: Dave Hall (Maurice Cherry)
Flutter From Scratch – Workshop | Photos Info App | Instagram Clone & More (MTechViral)
Software Engineering Daily – Machine Learning Joins with Arun Kumar (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Focusing Career Progress (Jonathan Cutrell)
What can I build today with Azure Mixed Reality Services? | One Dev Question and What techniques were used to make Windows 95 more performant? | One Dev Question (Ross Heise & Eliot Cowley)
The 6 Figure Developer Episode 086 – Software Quality vs Grade ()
DevOps For ASP.NET Developers Pt.1 – What is DevOps? | On .NET (Donovan Brown, Cecil Phillip, Jeremy Likness & AbelSquidHead)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 298 | Weee’rrreee baaack! Azure Updates and More (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
AiA 234: Control Value Accessors on Reactive Forms with Jennifer Wadella (Alyssa Nicoll, Aaron Frost & Joe Eames)
Using the new Basic Process in Azure DevOps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
Using Ethereum Logic Apps to monitor SQL server databases | Block Talk (Blocktalkadmin)
Redis Edge On Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Anthos Migrate, with Issy Ben-Shaul (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
ID10T Podcast – David Harbour (Chris Hardwick)
PPP 251 | Why Your Company Culture Sucks (and What To Do About It), with author Mike Rognlien (Andy Kaufman)
Countdown for Microsoft Build: Things to Do Part 1 | The Countdown to Microsoft Build 2019 (Cecil Phillip & Seth Juarez)
Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node: QnA Maker Generate Answers on Score (Michael Szul)
RunAs Radio – Physical and Virtual Machine Security with Ned Pyle (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 56 (Jason Bock)
Real Talk JS Episode 27: Doguhan Uluca Demystifying CI and Delivering Web Apps to the Cloud (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)

Community & Events

Introducing the Node.js Enterprise Focus Group and The OpenJS Foundation is Official! Now What? (Node.js Foundation)
Porting old posts, part 1 (Eric Lippert)
JetBrains .NET Day Online – A virtual .NET event on Thursday, May 16, 2019 (Maarten Balliauw)
Around the World with MVPs: Microsoft Three Musketeers! (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

SSRS ReportServer Database Overview and Queries (Eric Blinn)
Using MERGE in SQL Server to insert, update and delete at the same time (Arshad Ali)
Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Adaptive Memory Grants (Brent Ozar)
Create SQL Server Notebooks in Azure Data Studio (Eduardo Pivaral)
How to Connect SQL Server Database in Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio (Asma Khalid)
X509 Certificates vs. API Keys in RavenDB and Shared database in microservices is a problem, yep (Oren Eini)
Easing the transition from shared to dedicated database development with Redgate tools (James Murtagh)
Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures (Samir Behara)

SharePoint & MS Teams

12 SharePoint and Teams Integration Points Infographic and Webinar (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

PowerShell Exit Function & Code Execution (Adam Bertram)
Hear, Hear for Here-Strings (Chris Liquori)
PowerShell Basics: How to Install MySQL on a Nano Server (Anthony Bartolo)

Miscellaneous

A Tutorial Introduction to Privacy-Centric Deep Learning in PyTorch (Exxact Team)
Windows 10 Tip: Snip & Sketch (Athima Chansanchai)
Releasing the May 2019 Update to the Release Preview ring (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #2722 and The Morning Brew #2723 (Chris Alcock)
.NET App Developer Links – 2019-04-09 and .NET App Developer Links – 2019-04-10 (Dan Rigby)
Interesting links of the week (2019 #13) (Michael Eaton)
Double Shot #2317 and Double Shot #2318 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: April 8, 2019 (Chris Pietschmann)
Collective #506 (Pedro Botelho)
XamarinBites 6 (Nigel Ferrissey)
Professional Development – 4/01/2019 – 4/08/2019 (Cameron Presley)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step (9th Ed.) (John Sharp)

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