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Dew Drop – April 15, 2024 (#4169)

Posted on April 15, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into cross-platform .NET applications (Uno Platform Team)
Seamless Navigation in .NET MAUI Hybrid Apps – My .NET MAUI Hybrid Journey (part 1) (Jeff Fritz)
Announcing the Upcoming Deprecation of MSAL.NET for Xamarin and UWP (Den Delimarsky)
Xamarin Forms is dead. Now what? (Simon Bisson)
Building your own copilot – yes, but how? (Part 1 of 2) and Part 2 of 2 (Carlotta Caste)

Web & Cloud Development

Adjusting the Maximum Request Length for ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
Implement a secure Blazor Web application using OpenID Connect and security headers (Damien Bowden)
Client Caching in SvelteKit (Jonathan Gamble)
Syncfusion Blazor Diagram Library Now Supports Swimlane Diagrams (Keerthivasan R.)
How to build an in-memory Message Bus in TypeScript (Oskar Dudycz)
April 2024: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates (Adam Matthews)
New: ConfigGroup, ConfigFile resources for Java, YAML SDKs (Eron Wright)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Integrating SignalR into WPF (Brian Mullen)
Switching AI Models with ChatGPT in a Windows and Uno Platform Application (Nick Randolph)

Visual Studio & .NET

Improvements in the Using Directive for Additional Types in C# (Georgios Panagopoulos)
The New C# Interceptors vs. AOP (Marek Sirkovsky)
A Clever Way To Implement Pessimistic Locking in EF Core (Milan Jovanović)
How to Detect if a Key is Pressed in a C# Console Application (Mohit Kumar)
C# Optional Parameters Explained (NDepend Team)
Fastest Way to Find and Extract a Number From a String in C# (Nitin Kale)
Fluent API to await multiple calls and get their respective results (Steven Giesel)
Linting and Code Formatting in .NET Projects (Hamed Shirbandi)
Reference Type & Structure Performance: Hashing Classes, Records, and Structures (David McCarter)
What is Mocking? Mocking in .NET Explained With Examples (Grant Riordan)
The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory (Raymond Chen)
MSVC Address Sanitizer adoption in .NET’s CoreCLR (Zack Johnson)
10 Advanced C# Tricks for Experienced Developers (Konstantin Federov)
.NET 8 and C# 12 — Interceptors (Henrique Siebert Domareski)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

‘Defeated’ CEO’s Finally Concede Hybrid Working Is Here to Stay (EditorDavid)
AI’s Dark Secret (Ian Kennedy)
Services share schema and contract, not class (Mark Seemann)
Top 5 DocuSign Alternatives 2024 (Meikanda Nayanar I.)
Learn Statistics for Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI – Full Handbook (Tatev Aslanyan)
How to Build a Production-Grade Movie Recommender in Python – A Machine Learning Handbook (Vahe Aslanyan)
Build or buy: Is it really even a choice? (Nick Hodges)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Embeddable Game Engine (Miguel de Icaza)
How to Test Native Features in Flutter Apps with Patrol and Codemagic (Kevin Suhajda)
Apple Vision Pro brings a new era of spatial computing to business (Apple Newsroom)

Screencasts & Videos

NoSQL, YesCosmos: Build that Eventually Consistent Application using Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024 (Teena Idnani)
Blazor Navigation with .NET MAUI Components (Jeff Fritz)
Coding Accessibility: Developing Our Inclusive Future (GitHub Team)
Open Source Friday with Quincy Larson & FreeCodeCamp (Oluwasegun Emmanuel)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 535 (Jason Bock)
No Code Low Code is Software DIY How Do You Avoid a DIY Disaster (endjin)
Why did one solution cause more problems than it solved? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Using Cognitive Science to Improve Developer Experience (Hans Dockter)
Podcast: Spilling The Source (Jamie Maguire)
Merge Conflict #406: Creating Beautiful .NET Console Apps (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society (Todd Bishop)
The .NET on AWS Show, Featuring Dror Helper! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
AngularJS to Angular Migration with Craig Spence – Adventures in Angular 409 and Creating Developer Courses with Taurius Litvinavicius – Adventures in .NET 184 (Charles M. Wood)
Gone Mobile Podcast #102: You should learn some MSBuild (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Ktor, Logging Ideas, and Plugin Safety (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Syntax Podcast Episode 755: Chrome Extensions and Ad Blockers VS Google with Oliver Dunk (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
PPP 410 | How to Grow Excellence In Yourself and Those You Lead, with Ryan Hawk (Andy Kaufman)
CSS Artist Kass Moreno talks Art & Code [freeCodeCamp Podcast #119] (Quincy Larson)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #565 – David Sirota, co-creator of Don’t Look Up and author of Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now–Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
The Changelog Podcast – Replacing Git with Git (Interview) (Scott Chacon, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
AGL 360: Programmed to Fail with Brandon Epstein (John Rouda)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leading with Heart, Empathy and Vision for Product Owners | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

Introducing OpenAI Japan (OpenAI Team)
MVP’s Favorite Content: Defender, Learn, Windows, Blockchain (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
Reduce TCO with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Abinav Rameesh)
Azure Database for MySQL – March 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap (Shreya Aithal)
Can Microsoft Copilot Write Simple SQL Commands for You? (Mark W. Kaelin)
Updates To sp_QuickieStore, sp_HealthParser, and sp_PressureDetector (Erik Darling)

PowerShell & Terminal

Windows Terminal Theme Settings – Experimental: Rainbow Window border (Microsoft Learn)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3495 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
Cheatsheet Collections Every Developer Should Bookmark in 2024 (Mansi Argarwal)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3918 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest – Useful features in Entity Framework Core 8 for your application (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #15, 2024 – F# inside PostgreSQL, Rider 2024.1 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – April 12, 2024 (#296) (Richard Seroter)
Reading List 316 (Bruce Lawson)
Collective #829 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications – Third Edition: An atypical design patterns guide for .NET 8, C# 12, and beyond (Carl-Hugo Marcotte & Nick Cosentino) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – March 18, 2024 (#4151)

Posted on March 18, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

“Partial” Document Updates in Marten 7 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Implementing Subscribing to Your Site Feature with Mastodon/Fediverse Accounts (Maho Pacheco)
Gone Mobile Podcast #98: MAUI Blazor Hybrid Apps (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
March 16 – 22: Global AI Bootcamp Local Event Information (Rie Moriguchi)
Build an OpenAI Assistant App with NodeJS in Less than 15 minutes (Stephen Walther)

Web & Cloud Development

MailMerge with Angular and ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
Adding EntityFramework and Sqlite to ASP.NET Core Web API (Brian Mullen)
WebStorm 2023.3.5 Is Out! (David Watson)
React Basics: Getting Started with React and GraphQL (Hassan Djirdeh)
The Best Blazor Component Libraries to Consider (Katie Mikova)
ASP.NET 8 – Multilingual Application with single Resx file – Part 3 – Form Validation Strings (Mark Pelf)
Microsoft, Oracle Expand Cloud Partnership (Christine Horton)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the 11th Set of New .NET MAUI Controls and Features (Gayathri Ramalingam)
An Update on Xamarin Support in Rider (Matt Ellis)
Sharing ViewModels in .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid (Joachim Leonfellner)

Visual Studio & .NET

The t-SNE Data Visualization Technique from Scratch Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Why Should We Avoid Using Await in a Loop in C# (Anaedobe Nneka)
How to Resolve IOptions Instance Inside Program Class in C# (Georgi Georgiev)
Difference Between await and Task.Wait in C# (Georgios Panagopoulos)
Implementing Soft Delete With EF Core (Milan Jovanović)
ConstructorInfo – How To Make Reflection in DotNet Faster for Instantiation (Nick Cosentino)
Different Methods for Computing the Size of a Directory in C# (Rachel Okorie)
Not So Stupid Question 330: What’s the Difference Between Binary and Source Compatibility? and Not So Stupid Question: 331: Net Aspire, What Does an Opinionated Stack Mean (Iris Classon)
NCronJob – Scheduling made easy (Steven Giesel)
How well does WRL ComPtr support class template argument deduction (CTAD)? (Raymond Chen)
Collection Performance: Comparing Byte Array’s with SequenceEqual() (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Code samples for the opening chapter of Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
Demystifying LLMS From Zero to Raccoon-Hero, with Azure and DotNet, Part 2: Adding the OpenAI magic with Semantic Kernel (Maho Pacheco)
The Importance of Finding a Career Mentor (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Deploying Win32 Applications via Microsoft Intune (Alex Marin)
Software developers don’t need performance reviews (Nick Hodges)
Today’s AI is unreasonable (Anil Dash)
A Modest Model Proposal (Andrew Mowe)
Apple Acquires Startup DarwinAI As AI Efforts Ramp Up (BeauHD)
RAFT: A new way to teach LLMs to be better at RAG (Cedric Vidal)
From GitHub Copilot to Your Coding Companion: Meet Devin, the First AI Software Engineer (Munish Munagala)
Homo sapiens 1.0 (Mark Downie)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Watch the earth move with Raspberry Shake (Ashley Whittaker)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Kashif Qureshi and Nick Simons on Fluid Framework (David Giard)
Enums and Constants – C# in the Cards Episode 11 (Jeff Fritz)
Not So Stupid Question 329 Video Is Up (Iris Classon)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 528 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

Adaptable Databases and Effective Data Integration in Modern DevOps Environments – Adventures in DevOps #193 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Culture Clash, Ownership vs. Approval, a Key Difference That Affects PO’s | Dave Smith (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 743: JavaScript Figma Plugins & Working at GitHub With Cameron McEfee (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The .NET on AWS Show, Featuring Norm Johanson! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
The Work Item #74 – Books, Remote Work, and Q&A, with Adrienne Tacke (Den Delimarsky)
The Changelog – We have a right to repair! (Kyle Wiens & Adam Stacoviak)
Changelog & Friends Podcast – The Oban Pros (Shannon Selbert, Parker Selbert, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
React Native Radio #291 – RNR Explains: The Dev Menu (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #160: Build a Legacy You Can Be Proud Of with Shawn Dalcour & Keshia Robinson (Max Ahumada)
AGL 356: John Fisher (John Rouda)

Community & Events

Tech Layoffs Highest Since Dot-Com Crash (BeauHD)
Dell Workers Can Stay Remote – But They’re Not Going to Get Promoted (EditorDavid)

Database

SQL Server DDL Trigger to Capture for Create, Alter and Drop Commands (Muhammad Kamran)
The How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly Cheat Sheet: Common Table Expressions (Erik Darling)
Data Science & DevTools: Visual Studio Code (Renee Noble)

Miscellaneous

retrowin32: Minesweeper and the four month bug (Evan Martin)
Python: If You Don’t Know Conditional Statements, Then Read This (Jack Wallen)
Extracting data from a small CSV file with Python (Mark Seemann)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3904 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #11, 2024 – F# 8: the new while! keyword (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – March 15, 2024 (#277) (Richard Seroter)
Reading List 315 (Bruce Lawson)
C# Digest – Behind the implementation of .NET’s PriorityQueue (Jakub Chodounsky)
Collective #821 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Networking eBook Bundle from Packt Publishing – Level up your IT skills (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – February 27, 2024 (#4137)

Posted on February 27, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023) (Jason Chlus)
Microsoft and Mistral AI announce new partnership to accelerate AI innovation and introduce Mistral Large first on Azure (Kristin Gallagher)
On .NET Live Topic – Building great WinUI 3 apps with WinUIEx (Morten Nielsen)
From IoT to the Cloud: A .NET Ecosystem Showcase with GitHub, Raspberry Pi, and Azure (Jeff Fritz)
Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation and competition in the new AI economy (Brad Smith)
Parallel.ForEachAsync and Exceptions (Jeremy Clark)

Web & Cloud Development

Using the Document Editor in an ASP.NET Core React Application (Bjoern Meyer)
Vue 3.4 Released, Minimizes Reactive Computations, Speeds up Template Parsing (Bruno Couriol)
Fetching and Sharing Data Between Components with Blazor’s Auto Render Mode (Jon Hilton)
Advanced CSS Selectors – How and When to Use Them (Ophy Boamah)
Blazor — Accessibility Enhancements and Options (Svetlana Nikulina)
The FAST and the Fluent: A Blazor story (Vincent Baaij)
A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit (Yichan Wang)
GraphQL interview questions (Melinda Gutermuth)
“Secret” elmah.io features #2 – Correlate messages from apps (Thomas Ardal)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Tip: IFormattable interface, to define different string formats for the same object (Davide Bellone)
EF Core – Cannot convert from ‘string’ to ‘System.FormattableString’ (Bart Wullems)
Reflection in C#: 4 Code Simple But Powerful Code Examples (Nick Cosentino)
A C# LINQ one-liner to check if exactly one of a set of conditions is met (Raymond Chen)
Lock statement patterns (Steven Giesel)
LINQ Query Features With .NET 9 Alpha (Bora Kaşmer)
First .NET 9 Preview Emphasizes Cloud-Native Development, AI Apps (David Ramel)
Creating Intelligent Apps on App Service with .NET (Jeff Martinez)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Unit Test, API Test, Web Test: “The Best Test” Recording (Gil Zilberfeld)
Devops: Supercharging your mobile app CI/CD Pipeline with Bitbucket & Expo Application Services (Joe Meyer)
Microsoft Copilot for Security: The great equalizer for government security (Alvaro Vitta)
Reading Righting Software (Kevin Logan)
Advanced Installer 21.5 (Advanced Installer Team)
Software Architecture, In Practice (Ted Neward)
Remote Work/Life Balance and Productivity (Dave Aronson)
How to Learn Generative AI with Microsoft’s Free Course (Lee Stott)
Baseline OpenAI end-to-end Chat Reference Architecture (Robert Krzaczyński)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New goodies from Android, Wearables at Mobile World Congress + tune in to a new episode of #TheAndroidShow next week! (Anirudh Dewani)
A note on iOS 17.4 and PWAs (Mike Hartington)
Wear OS hybrid interface: Boosting power and performance (Kseniia Shumelchyk)

Screencasts & Videos

.NET Developers should be using dotnet-outdated to update their project’s references (Scott Hanselman)
Uno Platform Live Coding: Spacing in StackPanel (Martin Zikmund)
Optimizing Teamwork: Harnessing Collections & Workspaces for Collaboration | Postman Intergalactic (Postman Team)
Fluent UI Trainings: Core concepts, state management & Triggers API (Oleksandr Fediashov)
Microsoft JDConf 2024: Java, Cloud, and AI – Sneak Peek (Microsoft Developer Team)
Armchair Architects: The Danger Zone (Part 2) (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
Microsoft Copilot personal and work experiences explained (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Mike Nicholls (Maurice Cherry)
React Native Radio 289 – Real Life React Native: David Leuliette Talks Retail Shake Scanner (David Leuliette & Mazen Chami)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Using NoEstimates to Help Agile Teams Focus On Value, And Create Transparency – NoEstimates Unplugged Week | Lee Beckett (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – From Admin to Defender: Jake Hildreth’s Security Evolution (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 161 – Cloud Compliance: A Lawyer – Turned Technologist! – Perspective on Navigating the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – Unlocking Leadership Strength Through Vulnerability (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Changelog News Podcast #83 – Natural Language Programming (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – How to convince your CEO it’s worth paying down tech debt (Eira May)

Community & Events

Octopus Deploy acquires Codefresh (Paul Stovell)
Expedia Group cutbacks will impact 1,500 roles this year, more than 8% of workforce (Todd Bishop)
Building a Developer Community in Five Steps (Keith Casey)

Database

SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc, now assists in selecting the best Azure SQL target (Venkata Raj Pochiraju)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Word JavaScript API 1.7 requirement set now available (Yun Wang)
Improved hybrid meeting experience in Outlook (Giovanni Basso)

Miscellaneous

Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year (Andrew Cunningham)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3212 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3890 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-9 (Michael Eaton)
Reading Notes #592 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Reading List – February 26, 2024 (#266) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

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