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Dew Drop – February 13, 2023 (#3878)

Posted on February 13, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Announcing TechBash 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
Generating PDF Documents in WinUI (Diederik Krols)
Adding Video in .NET MAUI Apps With the New MediaElement (Robert Krzaczyński)
What’s On Tap for .NET 8 (Preview 1 Coming this Month) (David Ramel)
Digging Into Nullable Reference Types in C# (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web & Cloud Development

Get easy access to Angular route and query parameters with zod (Tim Deschryver)
App Builder Release with Grid CRUD Actions, Nested Data-binding Support, Category Chart Aggregations and more (Zdravko Kolev)
Discovering Primitive Objects In JavaScript (Part 1) (Kirill Myshkin)
Part 5 | .NET 7 Web API | SQL Database | VueJS (3.0) – Composition API | CRUD Example (Naveen Bommidi)
Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows (Temani Afif)
ESLint v8.34.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
The Source of Truth for an API (Kin Lane)
Comparing OpenAI ChatGPT – Microsoft OpenAI and Microsoft Cognitive Services (Michael Washington)
How WebAssembly Offers Secure Development through Sandboxing (Jeff Goldman)
Quick guide for YAML (Maria Marshmallow)
Microsoft is issuing an update to permanently kill Internet Explorer 11 tomorrow (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI tutorial for Android and iOS (Rupesh Chaudhari)

Visual Studio & .NET

ReSharper Ending Development for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 (Alexander Kurakin)
How to Convert JSON to DataTable in C# (Code Maze)
How to Mock EF Core DbContext (Muhammed Saleem)
Dot Net DLLs, Droid, Dependencies (Peter Freeman Foot)
The case of the RPC_E_DISCONNECTED error thrown from await_resume (Raymond Chen)
Using SRTP-Active Patterns in F# (Domenic Helfenstein)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What is App Installer? And how to use it to simplify MSIX installation and updating process (Alex Marin)
Adventures in GitHub Actions: Episode 1 – Goodbye Azure DevOps, Hello GitHub Actions (James Dawson)
Azure DevOps Customize Email Notifications using Power Automate (Vinod Soni)
What is Innovation? Exploring the Driving Force Behind Growth and Transformation and Strategic Enterprise Architecture: Building a Strong Foundation for Business Agility, Resilience, and Growth and The Why, the What, and the How of Innovation (JD Meier)
gh-clone-org – A github-cli extension script to clone all repositories in an organization, optionally filtering by topic. (Matt Bartel)
Are You a Talkaholic? Kim Scott & Dan Lyons Explore Why Learning to STFU is Actually a Superpower (Brandi Neal)
How product managers can effectively deal with dependencies (David Pereira)
An opinionated definition of “maintainable code” (Dennis Doomen)
How to delegate like a boss (without losing control) (Jordan Mirchev)
Measuring Testing Times (Juantri Jiménez)
What are project milestones and how do you set them? (Kat Boogaard)
Making a website mockup in Figma (Oriol Banús)
Changes to the default GITHUB_TOKEN permissions (Scott Aquilina)
6 Tips to Have More Productive Meetings as a Web Designer (Suzanne Scacca)
UI/UX Application Modernization: Delivering Exceptional Experiences (Tejas Kaneriya)
How to avoid common pitfalls with modern microservices testing (Holly Cummins)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Isolates in Flutter (Dhruvam Sharma)
Appflow adds GitHub Enterprise support (Cecelia Martinez)
Capacitor: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know (Max Lynch)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 142 – RFPs are Lame! (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
Here’s a super easy way to build tables in markdown! (GitHub Team)
Manage advanced features of Active Directory Domain Services AD DS – (AZ-800 Prep) (IT Ops Talk)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 438 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

OnPodcast Ep.102: Bing+ChatGPT first look, Google’s AI awakened, the CMA blocks Activision deal (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
Merge Conflict 345: Backwards Compatible .NET (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: The new Microsoft Bing, and how artificial intelligence is changing the web (Todd Bishop)
Becoming a Google Developer Expert in Angular – Adventures in Angular 369 (Subrat Mishra & Lucas Paganini)
Lars Klint: Microsoft Azure State of the Art – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 232 (Jeffrey Palermo)
A DevOps Engineer’s Insider Guide – Adventures in DevOps 149 (Will Button)
Syntax Podcast Episode 574 – Supper Club × Qwik framework from Miško Hevery, the Creator of Angular (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Working with great Technical Product Owners, and how they use their technical expertise to help the team | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte)
PPP 376 | How to Help Your Team Stop Drowning in Work, with author Nick Sonnenberg (Andy Kaufman)
JS Party Podcast – Generative AI for devs (Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
The Changelog Podcast – Git with your friends (Mat Ryer, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 071 – Amazon EventBridge Pipes with Nik Pinski (David Isbitski)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 22 – Music Tech Pioneers IV : Marcus Ryle : 4 Decades of Music Tech Innovation ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
Software Defined Talk Episode 400: Prompt Engineering (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Philly .NET Meetup – .NET Maui (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Khalid Abuhakmeh (David McCarter)
Some Googlers reportedly aren’t happy about Bard’s ‘rushed’ announcement (Emma Roth)
Microsoft’s Surface, Xbox, and HoloLens divisions affected by the planned layoffs (Kevin Okemwa)
Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue (msmash)
Microsoft continues with previously announced layoffs, as Seattle-area total nears 1,500 people (Todd Bishop)
20 Hidden Dining & Drinking Spots in Greater Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
see how we are (Wil Wheaton)

Database

Performance Problems and solutions when using User Defined Functions in SQL Server (Eric Blinn)
Event-driven projections in Marten explained (Oskar Dudycz)
How to connect Azure Data Factory to SQL Managed Instance over private network (Ahmed S. Mahmoud)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft to Reportedly Announce ChatGPT-Like Tools for Office Apps in March (Rabia Noureen)
Build a Developer newsletter with Power Platform and ChatGPT3 (Someleze Diko)

PowerShell

Unattended Installation – How to Silently Install your EXE using PowerShell & CMD? (Alex Marin)
Deploy Arc for Azure VMware Solution Simply Using PowerShell (Trevor Davis)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3644 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #6, 2023 – Exercism’s Functional February (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #160 (Vladimir Pecanac)
C# Digest Issue #441 – February 13, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Daily Wrap Up – February 10, 2023 (#028) (Richard Seroter)
The Overflow #164: Is software getting worse? (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Collective #751 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – February 8, 2023 (#3875)

Posted on February 8, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web (Yusuf Mehdi)
Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why (Nilay Patel)
Build a meetings app with Azure Communication Services, Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams – Part 2 (Daysha Carter, Tomas Chladek and Dan Wahlin)
Porting Custom Controls from Xamarin Forms to Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
10 Tips and Tricks to Handle JavaScript Objects (Charuka Herath)

Web & Cloud Development

How to use Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Multi-Tenancy with RavenDB and ASP.NET Core (Steven Giesel)
Modularizing React Applications with Established UI Patterns (Martin Fowler)
Build a Simple CRUD App with Spring Boot and Vue.js (Andrew Hughes)
Environment Variables in JavaScript: process.env (Dmitri Pavlutin)
Introducing Twilio For Node.js v4 (Gareth Paul Jones)
The truth about CSS selector performance (Geoff Graham)
Introducing the New Blazor Spline Range Area Chart (Gowrimathi S)
Introducing Blazor Signature (Jon Hilton)
Getting Started with Accessibility for React (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
Generating the response writing expression for RequestDelegate: Behind the scenes of minimal APIs – Part 6 (Andrew Lock)
Using the TypeScript generic type to create reusable components (Ishan Manandhar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Accelerating EF Core with Compiled Queries (Chris Woodruff)
How to Insert a Key Value Pair Into an Existing JSON in C# and How to Clone a List in C#? (Code Maze)
How to customize Conventional Commits in a .NET application using GitHooks (Davide Bellone)
Importing Excel XLSX Spreadsheets into TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
WiFi Scanning Part 1:Scanning on Windows (j2inet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The cost of timing out (Oren Eini)
How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Can Assist Developers (Erkki Muuga)
What Is API-First Design? (Arnaud Lauret)
Writing is Designing: Three Principles for Writing Effective UX Copy (Matt Raufman)
Advanced cat herding (Eric Brechner)
Do I need a mentor to succeed in tech? (Japhlet Nwamu & Olanrewaju Oyinbooke)
Building a Sustainable Future: Implementing the 5 R’s Framework (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Report, Record) and Greening the Future: The Power of Digital Transformation for Sustainability (JD Meier)
How to Apply Radical Candor to Your Hiring Process to Build and Retain a Great Team and Make Firing People Less Awful for Everyone by Doing These 4 Things (Kim Scott)
Setting up your GitHub Student and GitHub Copilot as an authenticated Github Student Developer (Lee Stott)
The frustration of finding a suitable time to hold a meeting when the participants are evenly spaced around the globe (Raymond Chen)
Enabling CodeQL on GitHub Enterprise Server (Rob Bos)
Advanced Installer 20.3.1 (Advanced Installer Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Best practices for mobile UI design – part 2 (Adam Axler)
Hundreds of thousands of developers are learning Jetpack Compose (Android Developers Team)

Screencasts & Videos

Resolving Azure Data Studio’s Identity Crises | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Erin Stellato)
Develop .NET MAUI Apps in VS Code with .NET Meteor (Gerald Versluis)
Under Ctrl – Episode 1: Administrative basics & beyond (Xavier & The Visual Studio Team)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 437 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

The “Until the Ice Cream Truck” Podcast (Howard Dierking)
Smashing Podcast Episode 56 With Veerle Pieters: How Has The Design Industry Changed? (Drew McLellan)
Azure Podcast Episode 453 – In the Real World – How Azure Networking Support uses Azure to support Azure customers (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Midlife Fulfilled Podcast Episode 53 – Your Path to Self-Discovery: Uncover Your Ancestry and DNA for a Fulfilled Life (Bernie Borges & Miri Rodriguez)
PowerShell News Podcast Episode 046 – ChatGPT, PowerShell Global Summit and More (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Overcoming fear of failure and embracing experimentation in Agile teams | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast – MLOps is alive and well (Demetrios Brinkmann, Mihail Eric, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Python Bytes Podcast #322 – Python Packages, Let Me Count The Ways (Michael Kennedy)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – A Day in the Life: Mail Carrier (United States Postal Service)
RunAs Radio – dbatools Update with Rob Sewell (Richard Campbell)
A Developer Experience Podcast – Pavlos Vinieratos: Keyboards, theme switchers, and automating repetitive tasks (Steven Hicks)

Community & Events

Ready to make your GitHub profile README rock? Display what you’ve been listening to on Spotify with this handy helper (GitHub Team)
The webcast for today’s “new Bing” announcement is up, watch it now (Kip Kniskern)
What’s New in Microsoft EDU webinar – February 2023 (Mike Tholfsen)
Google CEO Issues Rallying Cry in Internal Memo: All Hands on Deck To Test ChatGPT Competitor Bard (msmash)
Microsoft and Google are about to Open an AI battle and All the news from Microsoft’s February AI event (Tom Warren)

Database

SQL Server ROW_NUMBER for Ranking Rows (Jared Westover)
Create SQL Constraints – Null, Check, Default, Unique, Primary Key, Foreign Key (Joe Gavin)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Using JavaScript Gantt Chart in SharePoint Web Part for Effective Project Management: Part 2 (Alan Sangeeth)

Miscellaneous

We Had ChatGPT Coin Nonsense Phrases—And Then We Defined Them (Nick Norlen)
How to undo send in Gmail for up to 30 seconds (Ivy Levine)
Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories are a tradeoff (Joe Stanganelli)
Roundup of AI breakthroughs by Microsoft and NVIDIA (John Lee)
Microsoft PowerToys 0.67.1 addresses crash in FancyZones, Power Toys Run, and more (Kunal Chowdhury)
Pivot (Mark Downie)
Why password managers are your safety net during a data breach (Mark Risher)

More Link Collections

Daily Wrap Up – February 7, 2023 (#025) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 31, 2023 (#3869)

Posted on January 31, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

The State of WebAssembly – 2022 and 2023 (Gerard Gallant)
Seven things you should know about Microsoft Learn (Gita Sharma)
C# ValueTuple (Patrick Smacchia)
Philip Japikse: Professional C# in .NET – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 230 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Action needed for GitHub Desktop and Atom users (Alexis Wales)
Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy v0.4 with improved output, more guidance, and plugins (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)

Web & Cloud Development

Manage your Power Automate Desktop flows using Web APIs (Jay Padimiti)
Getting Started: Document Editor with Angular CLI and Getting Started: Loading and Saving Documents using Angular (Bjoern Meyer)
WebStorm 2023.1 EAP #2: TypeScript Updates, Performance and Version Control Improvements, and More (David Watson)
Mocking an HttpClient using ASP.NET Core TestServer (Gérald Barré)
A Breakdown of the React useEffect Hook (Hassan Djirdeh)
Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure (Kevin Ferguson)
JavaScript vs. Wasm: Which Is More Energy Efficient and Faster? (Loraine Lawson)
Assess ASP.NET web apps at scale to accelerate your app migration strategy on Azure (Mayunk Jain)
Using Amazon Polly to read a Dialogue from Julius Caesar (Bryan Hogan)
Fleet Preview update 1.14 includes UI-related changes and more (Eugene Toporov)
Accessing .NET gRPC Endpoints from Anywhere via JSON Transcoding (Fiodar Sazanavets)
Easy SVG Customization And Animation: A Practical Guide (Adrian Bece)
How to watermark, annotate, and digitally sign a PDF with IronPDF (Jeff Fritz)
Automating Pulumi Import with Manually Created Resources (Josh Kodroff)
How to use breadcrumbs for clear website navigation (Ross Dillon)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Uno Platform 4.7 Sports New Project Template (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

VS Code C++ Extension January Update: Create Definitions and Declarations (Alexandra Kemper)
Native DateOnly and TimeOnly support in Entity Framework 8 in SQL Server (Steven Giesel)
Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: COM without COM (Raymond Chen)
Tracking Application Health With OpenTelemetry Metrics in .NET (Phil Broderick)
Intel oneDAL Available in ML.NET (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology & Testing

The DevOps Automation Guide (Shanika Wickramasinghe)
A Brief DevOps History: The Road to CI/CD (Kat Cosgrove)
Advanced Installer 20.3 (Advanced Installer Team)
New series: Sitting, standing, and walking (Tom Johnson)
Get started with on-Canvas annotations in Sketch (Sketch Team)
Top Best Practices to Build High Quality Software (Adhithi Ravichandran)
The tension between growth and control and Growth and control biases (Dimitri Glazkov)
Turning ambitions into action: Lessons from our sustainability journey (Grace Clack)
Is software getting worse? (Isaac Lyman)
The Future of Remote Work and its Effects on the Workforce (Kunal Chowdhury)
Do these five things to be “effectively decisive” (Richard Seroter)
Mastering the (steppable) pipeline (Ronald Bode)
New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture & Reference Implementations (Sébastien Stormacq)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

El Preservador: SSHing Responsibly on iOS (La Terminal Team)
Everything you need to know about Memory Profiler 1.0.0 (Agnese Caglio)
How I achieved my dream career with Unity Learn Pathways (Rebekah Hadman & Jennifer Pyne)

Screencasts & Videos

SQL Coding Series – Intermediate Part I (Women Who Code)
Supporting Millions of Developers: My Role at Stack Overflow (Microsoft Developer)
Deploy to Azure API Gateway From Postman (Postman Team)
100 million developers (GitHub)
FreeCodeSession – Special Episode 7 – Raw String All the Strings! (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Domonique Brown (Maurice Cherry)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – A problem we all have with the “traditional” Scrum Master role vision | Pino Decandia (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 569 – CSS Wishlist (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 106 – Beyond BeyondProd – How Do You Zero Trust Your Workloads? (Anton Chuvakin)
Radical Candor S5, Ep. 2: Are You ‘Helping’ or Micromanaging? Here’s How to Tell (Brandi Neal)
The Changelog – News: Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn’t exist & ALPACA (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 532 – What do the tech layoffs really tell us? (Eira May)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Partner Showcase: Kudzu with Rob D’Oria (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)

Community & Events

Workshop: 17 Ways to Undo Mistakes with Git (Assembla Team)
2023 Tech Forecast – Build a recession-proof tech workforce (Pluralsight) – Interesting coming from a company that recently had big layoffs.
Celebrating Our First Graduating Class of Postman Student Leaders (Ali Mustufa)
PyDev of the Week: Matthias Kestenholz (Mike Driscoll)
Did you know that GitHub sponsors can be Private? (Matt Lacey)
GitHub hit by hackers; code signing certificates for GitHub Desktop and Atom applications stolen (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

Database

Microsoft Drivers 5.11.0 Beta 1 for PHP for SQL Server Released (David Engel)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

A new look for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows (Matt Taylor)
Do More with Less with Microsoft Viva (Laura Becker)
Google to Offer Microsoft 365 Integration on Chromebooks (Paul Thurrott)

Miscellaneous

Exxon smashes Western oil majors’ earnings record with $59 billion profit (Sabrina Valle) – There seems to be some wiggle room for gas prices to come down further.
Foldable iPad Could Arrive as Early as Next Year (msmash)
The names of birds, part 2 (Eric Lippert)
How to Create a Diff of Two Images (David Walsh)
Help test Cargo’s new index protocol (Eric Huss)
Three customer experience trends that will shape financial services in 2023 and beyond (Lisa Nicholson)
All coding languages, except one, grow up (Mark Downie)
Windows Audio Encoding Failure after Settings Change (Rick Strahl)
Minecraft Legends coming to multiple platforms on April 18 (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3635 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-5 (#57) (Michael Eaton)
.NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #46 (davita8)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #89 (Sam Basu)
Daily Wrap Up – January 30, 2023 (#019) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #540 (Frank Boucher)
Build5Nines Weekly – January 30, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience (Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle) – Referral Link

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