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Dew Drop – February 6, 2023 (#3873)

Posted on February 6, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

.NET Monthly Roundup – January 2023 (Jon Galloway)
ASP.NET Core Dev Team Launches ‘Blazor United’ Push for .NET 8 (David Ramel)
ChatGPT for Bing is almost here – is Google doomed? (Kip Kniskern)
WebStorm announces official support for Astro (Thuy Doan)
Blazor and Azure OpenAI (Michael Washington)

Web & Cloud Development

JavaScript Fundamentals: Variables, Arrays, and Loops (Chris Pietschmann)
Filtering a drop down list using JavaScript with ASP.NET (Paul Michaels)
I tried the Angular Standalone migration, and here is the results (Tim Deschryver)
React in 2023 and Beyond (Adhithi Ravichandran)
WebStorm 2023.1 EAP #3: Astro Support, New UI Enhancements, and Docker Improvements (David Watson)
How to Centre an Element in CSS with Tailwind (Johnny Simpson)
Starchart 0.1! (David Humphrey)
Twitter Should Be Able Charge for Their API Because It Costs Money to Operate and Twitter Is the Most Important API (Kin Lane)
A Definitive Guide to Managing FHIR Projects and Resources (Ardon Toonstra)
Elon Musk says bots with ‘good content’ can use Twitter’s API for free (Emma Roth)
Go 1.20 Improves Compiler Performance and Extends Coverage Support (Sergio De Simone)
A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar (Temani Afif)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Binding in View Models, wire up all the things! (Glenn Block)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Language Mind map (Steven Giesel)
Explicit validation in C# just got simpler! (Oskar Dudycz)
IEnumerable in C# – A Simplified Beginners Guide (Nick Cosentino)
Rider 2023.1 EAP 3 is Available With Docker and Structure View Improvements and a Localization Preview and ReSharper 2023.1 EAP 3 Is Here! (Sasha Ivanova)
Inside C++/WinRT: Coroutine completions: Cancellation propagation (Raymond Chen)
Spice , a spicy cross-platform UI framework! (Jonathan Peppers)
.NET Community Toolkit 8.1 Released (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Introduction to Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in C# (Ivan Matec)
What is Leadership? (J.D. Meier)
TDD: From Katas to Production Code (Matheus Marabesi)
What is an APPX File – How to extract, open and edit one? (Radu Popescu)
Why is Clean Architecture so Popular? (Derek Comartin)
The Market for Lemons (Alex Russell)
Will AI ever replace the need for developers? (James Croft)
TeamCity 2022.10.2 Is Here (Julia Alexandrova)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Assertions in Dart and Flutter tests: an ultimate cheat sheet (Anna Leushchenko)
Google Is Working On Blink-Based iOS Browser, Contrary To Apple’s WebKit Rule (BeauHD)
How to use Android Debug Bridge for advanced troubleshooting (Lewis Cianci)

Screencasts & Videos

FreeCodeSession – Episode 436 (Jason Bock)
Technology & Friends – Jeffrey Miller on Building a Second Brain (David Giard)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict 344: Exploring CoreData and CloudKit (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
OnPodcast Ep.101: 343 Industries gets a reboot, ChatGPT in all the things, and Azure outage (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
Tailwind CSS – Adventures in Angular 368 (Charles Max Wood, Subrat Mishra & Lucas Paganini)
Colin Bowern: Deployments and Ops using Octopus Deploy – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 231 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Owner committee, a serious anti-pattern | Pino Decandia and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Embracing Self-Awareness and Empathy in the Agile Change Process, Insights from Dustin Thostenson | Dustin Thostenson (Vasco Duarte)
Software Defined Talk Episode 399: Two Guys Live in the Southern Hemisphere, with Craig Box (Matt Ray)
Tabs and Spaces Podcast 302 – Dependencies Injected (feat. M. Scott Ford) (James Studdart, Jamie Taylor & Zac Braddy)
.NET MAUI Podcast Episode 117: James and David Pick on Matt (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)
Syntax Podcast Episode 571 – Supper Club × Rust In Action with Tim McNamara (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
CppCast – CppNorth and the Forgotten Developers (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
PPP 375 | Navigating the Fear of Offending: A Guide to Living (and Leading) Unafraid (Andy Kaufman)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Multi-Object Transactions (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
JSParty Podcast – Qwik has just the right amount of magic (Miško Hevery & Kevin Ball)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 070 – Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters with Vin Yu (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #617 – Conference Room Innovation and The Amp Hour #618 – Refrigerators and Robots with Amitabh Shrivastava (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – Career Levels (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
AGL 297: Jen Hope (John Rouda)
Talk Python to Me #401 – Migrating 3.8 Million Lines of Python (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Tech Conferences .NET (Bryan Hogan)
My Mastodon #FollowFriday Postman Collection (Kin Lane)
Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Clark Sell (David McCarter)
Now Blogging at mkennedy.codes (Michael Kennedy)
FTC Prepares Antitrust Suit Against Amazon (msmash)
Meet the Skilling Champion Diana Birkelbach (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

Getting started with SSIS External Configuration File (Hadi Fadlallah)
Quick tips: How to do more with less in Azure SQL Managed Instance (Uros Milanovic)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

A smarter way to integrate your standing desk with Microsoft Teams (Loryan Strant)

PowerShell & Terminal

Windows Terminal 1.17 Preview Released (Alen Genzić)

Miscellaneous

Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks (Aisha Malik)
Google Invests Almost $400 Million in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic (Davey Alba & Dina Bass)
The names of birds, part 4 (Eric Lippert)
ChatGPT Passes Google’s Coding Interview, Answers Question About More Possible Layoffs and Bill Gates Urges High-Voltage, Long-Distance Power Lines for Clean Energy Future (EditorDavid)
PowerToys 0.67.0 adds Quick Access system tray launcher (Kunal Chowdhury)
Free student Fundamentals certifications (Lee Stott)
Using Copilot with Python apps (Pamela Fox)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3638 and The Morning Brew #3639 (Chris Alcock)
C# Digest Issue #440 – February 06, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #5, 2023 – OpenAI-fsharp and F# Backend Web Frameworks (Sergey Tihon)
Reading List 300 (Bruce Lawson)
Daily Wrap Up – February 3, 2023 (#023) (Richard Seroter)
The Overflow #163: Most Loved vs. most questions (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Collective #750 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: An in-depth practical guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, 2nd Ed. (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – November 7, 2022 (#3802)

Posted on November 7, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Bring WCF apps to the latest .NET with CoreWCF and Upgrade Assistant (Sam Spencer)
What If 2 with Randall Munroe on the Hanselminutes Podcast 865 (Scott Hanselman)
MAUI App Accelerator (Preview) (Matt Lacey)
An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon (Noelle Anthony)
Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.1.0 Preview 1 (Sergio Pedri)

Web & Cloud Development

Fundamental ASP.Net Minimal API Integration Tests (Peter Ritchie)
Using Angular Material To Build a Data Grid in Angular (Dany Paredes)
Quickly build React components using Graphir (David M. Ginn)
Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migration of the existing test environment (Jonathan George)
Contextual Feature Filters in ASP.NET Core (Karthik Chintala)
Build a Totally Serverless REST API with MongoDB Atlas (Nic Raboy)
Avoid WebDeploy Locking Errors to IIS with Shadow Copy for ASP.NET Core Apps (Rick Strahl)
Keeping your .NET Lambda Function Warm with Provisioned Concurrency and Polly with .NET 6, Part 6 – Policy Wraps with Minimal APIs (Bryan Hogan)
How Are We Going To Consistently Manage Policies Across Multiple API Gateway Vendors? and GraphQL: First steps (Kin Lane)
ESLint v8.27.0 released (Brandon Mills)
Node v14.21.1 (LTS) and Node v16.18.1 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
Removing the camera overlay icon on images in Microsoft Edge (Chris Heilmann)
A Couple Changes Coming in Chrome 108 (Geoff Graham)
Node v18.12.1 (LTS) (Juan José Arboleda)
How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow (Mark Paulsen)
Breaking changes for the Microsoft Graph Insights API (Microsoft Graph Team)
Node v19.0.1 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Announcing the Astro Tutorial (Sarah Rainsberger, Chris Swithinbank & Dan Jutan)
Using the MS Graph API (David Giard)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Organizing elements with ZIndex in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

Tasks vs Threads in C# (Code Maze)
Visual Studio 2022, NuGet, and Missing Packages (Jamie Maguire)
Top 10 Dotnet Exception Anti-Patterns in C# (Matt Eland)
Implementing TDD in a .NET Application (Assis Zang)
Working with Calendly webhooks in .NET (Maciej Zwierzchlewski)
Why am I getting a RPC_E_WRONG_THREAD exception when I’m on the right thread? (Raymond Chen)
Mutable value types are evil! Sort of… (Steven Giesel)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to Automate App-V 5 to MSIX Conversion (Horatiu Vladasel)
Make 3 Great Decisions a Day (J.D. Meier)
Sentiment Analysis of Mastodon Toots is Very Easy (Larry O’Brien)
DevOps Tooling for Local Development (Joshua Mobley)
DevSecOps on Azure – part10: Detect and respond to security events in Azure with Microsoft Sentinel (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Enterprises must embrace both build and buy in software development (Sunit Parekh)
The Sequence Scope: DALL-E API and the Open Source Model vs. API Debate (Jesus Rodriguez)

Screencasts & Videos

GCast 135: Deploying a Web App to Azure from VS Code and Technology & Friends – Christina Aldan on Brain Performance and Memory and Technology & Friends – Stephen Rose on New Features in Microsoft Teams (David Giard)
Is your “Bro culture” scaring people away? with Heather Wilde and Adam Cogan | NDC Melbourne 2022 and Storing & Processing User Input | .NET MAUI #4 and Clean Architecture in .NET MAUI and ASP.NET Core with Matt Goldman (SSW TV)
OSS Spotlight – Avalonia (.NET Team)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 410 (Jason Bock)
How does Windows manage to build new APIs without breaking existing ones? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
What was Microsoft’s first Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? #Shorts | One Dev Question (Amy Stevenson)

Podcasts

The Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Chris Bensen with a Massive Raspberry Pi Cluster (Bob Rhubart)
React Native Radio 251 – Examining React Native 0.70 (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
Adventures in DevOps 137 (Jillian Rowe & Jonathan Hall)
Syntax Podcast – Supper Club × Coding with ADHD with Dr. Courtney Tolinski (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Yet Another Podcast – C# 11 with Mads Torgersen & Dustin Campbell (Jesse Liberty)
Tabs and Spaces 211 – When will my code begin (feat. Jaap Brasser) (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)
JavaScript Jabber 555 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 503 – Going from engineer to entrepreneur takes more than just good code (Ben Popper)
JS Party – Making sense of production (Maggie Johnson-Pint, Amal Hussein & Divya)
The Changelog – The story of Heroku (Adam Wiggins, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 058 – Serverless and Well Architectured Frameworks with Kristi Perreault (David Isbitski)

Community & Events

Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted (Mia Sato)
Meta’s reportedly planning to lay off ‘thousands’ of workers this week (Emma Roth)
Thoughts on Social Media (Rocky Lhotka)
Report: Many women in tech face harassment and inequality in the workplace (Esther Shein)
Apple Pauses Hiring for Roles Outside Research and Development in Cost-Cutting Move (msmash)
Twitter Turmoil: We Need an Open Protocol for Public Discourse (Richard MacManus)

Database

RavenDB Python client API stable release (Oren Eini)
An Introduction to SQL Triggers (Aubrey Love)

Miscellaneous

Syndicating Posts from Your Personal Website to Twitter and Mastodon (Matthias Ott)
Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server (Maarten Balliauw)
Nation-state cyberattacks become more brazen as authoritarian leaders ramp up aggression (Tom Burt)
Stop treating all of your content as if it were news (Rachel Andrew)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3580 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #44, 2022 – .NET Conf 2022 & F# eXchange CFP (Sergey Tihon)
The Overflow #150: Keystrokes vs. productivity (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
Code Maze Weekly #146 (Vladimir Pecanac)
C# Digest Issue #429 – November 7, 2022 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Reading Notes #528 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – October 5, 2022 (#3779)

Posted on October 5, 2022 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Comparing files in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
RunAs Radio – Manageable Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi with Joe Duffy (Richard Campbell)
Using .NET 7’s Blazor Custom Elements to render dynamic content (Jon Hilton)
.NET Monthly Roundup – September 2022 (Jon Galloway)
Announcing the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit v1.3 (Kym Phillpotts)

Web & Cloud Development

Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic (Azure Team)
New JavaScript Interop improvements in .NET 7 RC 1 (Alen Genzić)
Creating a Generic Tree View Blazor Component (MJ Schanne)
React Router vs. React Router DOM (Nishani Dissanayake)
The Missing Math Methods in JavaScript (Olivia Gibson)
Azure Synapse Link support for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API now in preview (Rodrigo Souza)
Redirect to a custom login page when securing your Angular app with MSAL (Waldek Mastykarz)
I changed my mind about writing new JavaScript frameworks (Salma Alam-Naylor)
Animating Tiny Triangles with Three.js (Yuriy Artyukh)
Simple Dependency Injection for .NET Lambda Functions (Bryan Hogan)
Bring Microsoft Search to where your users are (Bill Baer)
Improve and Measure Developer Productivity with Postman’s API-First Features (Carson Hunter)
Alternative Sorting in Golang (Kuldeep Singh)
Pearls: Microsoft Orleans Reader and different binary inputs (Szymon Kulec)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Full customizable Tabs for MAUI (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Ready for a Round With the New CircularProgressBar (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
What’s New in 2022 Volume 3: WinUI and WPF (Mohamed Samsudeen)

Visual Studio & .NET

Path Class in C# (Code Maze)
How to build a URL Shortener with C# .NET and Redis (Niels Swimberghe)
.NET Class Diagrams In JetBrains Rider with PlantUML (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Adding validation to strongly typed configuration objects in .NET 6 (Andrew Lock)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Unit testing has yet to conquer the world. Here is why. (Eli Lopian)
Demystifying software architecture patterns (Rahul Garg)
The 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (Steve Fenton)
Real Life TDD Example (Jeremy D. Miller)
The 10 Immutable Laws of Testing (Peter Vogel)
The Trello resource management tools and features you need now (Daniel Kenitz)
How to Adapt to the New World of Work (Dr. Natalie Baumgartner)
CLI: Git Checkout Recent Branch with Search & Preview (Elijah Manor)
The moment is now: shaping the future of accessible technologies (Mary Bellard)

Screencasts & Videos

GCast 133: Configuring an Azure App Service Identity Provider (David Giard)
Use App Center Analytics, Crashlytics and more with .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
Learn To Test Your React Apps (Women Who Code)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 401 (Jason Bock)
NDC Melbourne 2022 – Richard Campbell – Quantum Computers (SSW TV)
Microsoft’s early Windows 8 concepts shown in new video (Tom Warren)

Podcasts

Developer Tea – 5 Powerful Questions To Design Your Time More Effectively (Jonathan Cutrell)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 95: Unpopular Opinions (Ben Nadel)
Dan Shappir’s Failed Predictions – JavaScript Jabber 552 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
Cross-Platform .NET – Adventures in .NET 135 (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)
Talk Python to Me #384: Python Data Visualization – Where To Start? (Michael Kennedy)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 255: Automate Complex CRUD with sp_CRUDGen (Carlos L. Chacon)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Meet the AI helping you choose what to watch next (Ben Popper)

Community & Events

State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open (Geoff Graham)
VS Code Community Discussions for Extension Authors (Olivia Guzzardo)
Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022 (Abby Cabunoc Mayes)
Impressions from NDC Oslo 2022 (Bjoern Meyer)
Spookyfest is back: Trick your friends, treat yourself with Minecraft adventures (Steve Clarke)
Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Bhavuk Kalra (MS Student Developer Team)

Database

SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 1 is now available on Linux (Amit Khandelwal)
The Basics of Inserting Data into a SQL Server Table (Greg Larsen)
Mini book: The InfoQ eMag: Modern Data Architectures, Pipelines, & Streams (InfoQ)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

How to use React hooks with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

From power to pee, this new school is innovating a more sustainable future (Bill Gates)
‘The Onion’ Files a Supreme Court Brief and Basic Rust Support Merged For Upcoming Linux 6.1 (BeauHD)
Rolling out new features for Windows 11, version 22H2 in the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Meet Saves: the tool to help you organize your favorite content on Stack Overflow (Jeff Tan)
Microsoft PowerToys v0.63.0 – What’s new and improved? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Why can’t I get Windows 11 22H2 yet? (Mary Jo Foley)
Link unfurling public preview in Outlook (Namrata Khubchandani)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3557 (Chris Alcock)
[Last Week in .NET #103] – .NET OS/12 Warp Speed (George Stocker)
Build5Nines Weekly – October 4, 2022 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

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