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Dew Drop – April 12, 2024 (#4168)

Posted on April 12, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Part 3 – Babylon.js 7.0: One incredible community (Steve Clarke)
TechBash 2024 Early Bird registration is now open! (TechBash Team)
How Microsoft discovers and mitigates evolving attacks against AI guardrails (Mark Russinovich)
Semantic Kernel Hello World Plugins Part 1 (Jason Haley)
Using Handlebars Planner in Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Teresa Hoang)
Introducing MSTest SDK – Improved Configuration & Flexibility (Marco Rossignoli)

Web & Cloud Development

Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library (Tim Deschryver)
Referencing external Docker containers in .NET Aspire using the new custom resources API (Anthony Simmon)
Giving the .NET smart components a try–The Smart Combobox (Bart Wullems)
How to Test gRPC Services in ASP.NET Core (Aneta Muslić)
Effortless AJAX: Simplifying Database Operations with jQuery (Janus Atienza)
Quick Tip: How to Animate Text Gradients and Patterns in CSS (Ralph Mason)
Astro 4.6 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore & Bjorn Lu)
3 simple design tips to improve your Web UI (Jon Hilton)
GitHub GraphQL API Full Screen (Daniel Cazzulino)
Your background images might be causing CLS (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Beyond the Basics: Exploring the Android Manifest in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
.NET MAUI 9.0.100-preview.3.10457 Release (Rui Marinho)

Visual Studio, Win32 & .NET

General Performance Tip: Cloning Various Types (David McCarter)
Why do STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE, and STANDARD_RIGHTS_EXECUTE have the same values? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership (BeauHD)
Using keyless authentication with Azure OpenAI (Pamela Fox)
Building an infrastructure for AI’s future (Meta Careers Team)
You Can Now Edit ChatGPT Images, Photoshop-Style (David Nield)
Managing Technical Debt (Brad Ediger)
Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (Emma Roth)
How to Write Accessible Technical Documentation – Best Practices with Examples (Ezinne Anne Emilia)
How to Use LangChain to Build With LLMs – A Beginner’s Guide (Jacob Lee)
A Coder Perspective: What It’s Like to Develop an AI App (Loraine Lawson)
Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI (Mike Loukides)
Don’t fix that bug…yet! (Matt Lacey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 15’s first beta release is out (Allison Johnson)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Hillel Wayne on TLA+ (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 204 – Privacy First is Citizen First (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
How can I learn C# and get certified as a beginner? | One Dev Question (Katie Savage)
How to Deploy a .NET isolated Azure Function using Zip Deploy in One-Click (Frank Boucher)
Power Apps and Azure SQL Together | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – GitHub Advanced Security with Jacob DePriest (Scott Hanselman)
.NET Rocks! – Domain Control Plane and Azure with Anthony Eden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Svelte 5: Compiler, Signals, and Web App Performance – JavaScript Jabber 627 (Charles M. Wood)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Self-Sustaining Agile Teams, The Art of Letting Go For Scrum Masters | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit 2024 Bar Session 1 (James Petty)
JS Party Podcast – Off to see the Wiz (Minko Gechev, Jatin Ramanathan, Kevin Ball & Jessica Sachs)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Diverting more backdoor disasters (Eira May)
Software Defined Talk Episode 462: Lifting Code (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Web Rush Episode 276: What’s Possible with AI Agents? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
The Breakpoint Show Episode 018 – Beyond Boundaries Network Programming (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)

Community & Events

Microsoft Build 2024 Sessions Listed: Copilots, Copilots & More Copilots (David Ramel)
Announcing Postman has acquired Orbit (Abhinav Asthana)
CfP List Updated 2024-04-11 (Dave Aronson)
Build 2024: Microsoft plans to enhance PowerToys with new AI tools (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Cloud Cultures, Part 6: Accelerating collective growth in Malaysia (Jordan Davis)

Database

SQL Server Query Transformations With ROW_NUMBER And ANY Aggregates (Erik Darling)
#TSQL2sday Roundup: Has AI Helped You with Your SQL Server Job? (Pinal Dave)
Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a Database (Dennes Torres)
Optimize Your Azure Cosmos DB Costs with New Reserved Capacity Tiers (Rodrigo Souza)
General availability: Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Srini Acharya)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Discover embedded Stream links in any SharePoint site and page (Loryan Strant)
Enabling your AI transformation journey with Microsoft Viva (Jared Spataro)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 11 Builds 22621.3520 and 22631.3520 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard (Jess Weatherbed)
DuckDuckGo Announces Privacy Pro Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
Skilling snack: Windows Entra joined devices (Jason Sandys)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3917 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – April 10, 2024 (#295) (Richard Seroter)
Code Maze Weekly #209 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link – Pre-order the 3rd edition!

Dew Drop – April 11, 2024 (#4167)

Posted on April 11, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

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New .slnx Solution Format in Visual Studio — no more GUIDs! (Martin Zikmund)
Microsoft Build will detail ‘next generation’ of Windows on Arm and new AI features (Tom Warren)
Time Travel Debugging team uses Copilot Chat for C++ (Sinem Akinci)
The Key Ingredient in Every Copilot Conversation. To get the most out of Copilot, give it context. Lots and lots of context. (Microsoft WorkLab)
Silent, brokered authentication on Windows with the Azure Identity libraries (Scott Addie)
Microsoft Build Unplugged, Episode Five: Session catalog is LIVE! (Ed Donahue)

Web & Cloud Development

Browser Security Bugs that Aren’t: JavaScript in PDF (Eric Lawrence)
ASP.NET Core + Razor + HTMX + Chart.js (Howard van Rooijen)
Next-Level Error Handling: How Docker Desktop 4.29 Aims to Simplify Developer Challenges (Kat Tomrushka)
How to Set a Default User-Agent on an HttpClient in ASP.NET Core (Mandar Dharmadhikari)
React E-Commerce App for Digital Products: Part 4 (Creating the Home Page) (Prashant Yadav)
Docker Desktop 4.29: Docker Socket Mount Permissions in ECI, Advanced Error Management, Moby 26, and New Beta Features (Vanessa Fournier)
Meta: Announcing New Developer Platform Resources (Jennifer Lin)
Node v18.20.2 (LTS) and Node v20.12.2 (LTS) and Node v21.7.3 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
BoldSign: How to Create a Template via API (Gopinath Kannusamy)
Do You Need a Component Library? (Peter Vogel)
WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? (Richard Gall)
Optimizing WebKit & Safari for Speedometer 3.0 (Alan Baradlay, Antti Koivisto, Matt Woodrow, Patrick Angle, Ryosuke Niwa, Vitor Ribeiro Roriz, Wenson Hsieh & Yusuke Suzuki)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Creating a Custom .NET MAUI Bar Chart for Global Renewable Energy Employment Trends (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Azure Pipelines YAML file (Brandon Minnick) – Use as an example to create one for your MAUI app!

Visual Studio & .NET

Creating Tests with GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
Your JetBrains Coding Tools are Ready to be Updated to 2024.1 (Aleksandra Krupskaya)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Using data replication in legacy displacement (Martin Fowler)
Evaluating RAG Applications with AzureML Model Evaluation (Aditi Singh)
Azure OpenAI and RAG Security (Dennes Torres)
Build a serverless ChatGPT with RAG using LangChain.js (Yohan Lasorsa)
Forecast Costs Responsibly (JB Rainsberger)
Adding Generative AI to your Power Apps with AI Prompts (April Dunnam)
Running large language models locally using Ollama (Bart Wullems)
What is Apple Planning in the AI Race? (Matthew MacDonald)
Helping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI (Peter Cihon)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The native app install experience (Dave Rupert)

Screencasts & Videos

Why are there two Azure Function .NET models and which one should I use? | One Dev Question (Matthew Henderson)
Build a Podcast Copilot with .NET and Power Apps: Setting up the Azure OpenAI Service | The Low Code Revolution (Gomolemo Mohapi)

Podcasts

Syntax Podcast Episode 754: How to Level Up Your Web Development Career (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Practical AI Podcast – RAG continues to rise (Demetrios Brinkmann, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)

Community & Events

Meet the Judges of the Imagine Cup 2024 Semifinals! (Maddy Epstein)
“Debug Your Thinking” Recommended by MVP Laila Bougria (Rie Moriguchi)
“Highly Technical Talk” with Hanselman and Toub | Microsoft Build 2024 Sessions (Scott Hanselman & Stephen Toub)

Database

Returning A Row When Your Query Has No Results (Erik Darling)

PowerShell

PowerShell Universal v5.0 Beta 2 (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Game hubs now inside Xbox app on PC (Athima Chansanchai)
How can I find out which process has locked me out of the clipboard? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3916 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Projects – Third Edition: Build multi-platform desktop and mobile apps from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2022 (Michael Cummings & Daniel Hindrikes) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 9, 2024 (#4165)

Posted on April 9, 2024 | by Alvin A. | Leave a Comment

Top Links

Connecting Your Windows and Uno Platform App to ChatGPT with Azure.AI.OpenAI (Nick Randolph)
Announcing new Microsoft AI Hub in London (Mustafa Suleyman)
Introducing the New Blazor Timeline Component (Indrajith Srinivasan)
Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready (Oscar Spencer)
Building custom copilots in Microsoft Teams with Teams App Test Tool and Dev Proxy (Garry Trinder & Waldek Mastykarz)
C# Compiler Lead Jared Parsons on 20 Years at Microsoft (David Cassel)

Web & Cloud Development

DIY: Create Your Own Cloud with Kubernetes (Part 1) and Part 2 and Part 3 (Andrei Kvapil)
New in .NET 8: ASP.NET Core Identity and How to Implement It (Assis Zang)
Generating MS Word DOCX and PDF Documents with ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Adding SignalR into ASP.NET (Brian Mullen)
Blazor Basics: Templating Components with RenderFragments (Claudio Bernasconi)
BFF secured ASP.NET Core application using downstream API and an OAuth client credentials JWT (Damien Bowden)
Azure Communication Services April 2024 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
Combine AI with React Using the KendoReact AIPrompt (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
Master Claims Transformation for Flexible ASP.NET Core Authorization (Milan Jovanović)
Introducing ESLint Config Inspector (Anthony Fu)
ESLint v9.0.0 released (Nicholas C. Zakas)
The Technology, Business, Policy, and People of APIs (Kin Lane)
The Threads API is coming soon: get ready for it! (Jesse Chen)
Get Up and Running with the Maps SDK for Unity (Bing Team)
GraphQL Basics: Resolvers (Hassan Djirdeh)
The PWA Data Trap (Scott Kuhl)
APIs Aren’t Just For Devs Pt. 11 – Putting it all Together! (Shannon Kuehn)
ARM Templates for Kusto (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
parseUri 2.0 (Steven Levithan)

Visual Studio & .NET

The Best Way to Assign an Initial Value to Auto-Properties in C# (Kundan Kumar)
Optimizing your code with GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
How to Retrieve the Number of CPU Cores in C# (Lennart Pries)
Regex Options in C#: A Beginner’s Guide to Powerful Pattern Matching and C# Regex Performance: How To Squeeze Out Performance (Nick Cosentino)
Remove git hash from assembly informational version in .NET 8 and Your custom HttpClient delegating handlers should be transient (Anthony Simmon)
Equip 3rd party types with a deconstructor (Steven Giesel)
General Performance Tip: Optimizing Method Returns: Default Keyword vs. Null vs. Empty Collection (David McCarter)
Handling Circular References When Working With JSON in .NET (Georgios Panagopoulos)
Creating ico files from multiple images in .NET (Gérald Barré)
The case of the exception that a catch (…) didn’t catch and How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching? (Raymond Chen)
How to use Moq for mocking objects with xUnit and .NET (David Grace)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Event modelling anti-patterns explained (Oskar Dudycz)
Actually Talking about Modular Monoliths (Jeremy D. Miller)
5 Rules for DTOs (Steve Smith)
What a year building AI has taught Stack Overflow (Ben Popper)
Should designers code? (Brad Frost)
Shifting Left Is Now Mainstream for Developers, or Is It? (Darryl K. Taft)
Better API Testing – A Boxing Match (Gil Zilberfeld)
CRAFT AI Writing Framework for Writing Better Content with AI and Rapid Business Transformation Framework for Better Business Agility (JD Meier)
Comments in code written by AI (Matt Lacey)
Diffusion and Denoising – Explaining Text-to-Image Generative AI (Exxact Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Security Checklist for Swift and Objective-C Developers (Ben Nettleton)
Apple Opens the App Store To Retro Game Emulators (BeauHD)
Bring more players into your game with Unity Multiplayer Services (Benjy Boxer)
The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps (Preethi Sam)

Screencasts & Videos

Passing data in .NET MAUI with Shell to a ViewModel #dotnet #dotnetmaui (James Montemagno)
The Download: GitHub Copilot CLI, Xz Backdoor, Babylon.js 7.0 and more! (Christina Warren)
OpenAI Sora: Beauty And Horror! (Frank La Vigne)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends in 2024 (Eran Stiller, Daniel Bryant, Blanca Garcia Gil, Rafal Gancarz & Thomas Betts)
CppCast – Heterogeneous Computing and C++ Language Evolution (Phil Nash & Timu Doumler)
Merge Conflict #405: 30 Seconds to Wow (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
InfoQ Podcast: Architecture Does Not Emerge – A Conversation with Tracy Bannon (Tracy Bannon)
Syntax Podcast Episode 752: React vs Vue vs Angular with Corbin Crutchley (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
React Native Radio 293 – Real Life React Native With Benji Lightstone (Benji Lightstone & Jamon Holmgren)
CloudChat Episode 2 – Agile Hobbies (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
Ngrid with Shlomi Assaf – Adventures in Angular 408 and The Future of Database Administration – Adventures in DevOps 195 (Charles M. Wood)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Curiosity and Collaboration, Critical Product Owner Traits That Scrum Masters Can Help Cultivate | Joe Scherler and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Championing Change Without Being a Martyr, A Scrum Master’s Tale | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – From Blogging to DevOps with Jeff Brown Tech (James Petty)
The Work Item #76 – Be OK Talking About Money, With Saron Yitbarek (Den Delimarsky)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 28 : MIDI 2.0 : 40 Years in the Making ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown, Andrew Mee & Gary Daniels)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 167 – Stolen Cards and Fake Accounts: Defending Google Cloud Against Abuse (Anton Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – Consent-Based Leadership with Jessica Katz (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
SQL Down Under Show 89 with guest Erin Stellato (Greg Low)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Want to be a great software engineer? Don’t be a jerk. (Eira May)
Richard Hundhausen: Product Ownership – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 292 (Jeffrey Palermo)
AGL 359: AI Doctor with Dr. Ronald Razmi (John Rouda)
UI Breakfast Episode 281: Designing for Maps with Loren Baxter (Jane Portman)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #163: The Secret of Escaping Stagnation at Work (Max Ahumada)
SQL Server Radio Episode 162 – Backups and Recovery, RTO, RPO, and RCO (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)

Community & Events

Apple Lays Off More Than 700 Workers, Including Apple Car and MicroLED Teams (BeauHD)
MVP’s Favorite Content: DevBlogs, Windows, Defender, OpenAI (Rie Moriguchi)
Microsoft loses key Xbox executive amid continued gaming shake-up (Tom Warren)
VS Code Day Skills Challenge (Abril Urena)
Chris Simon presents Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, & C# from the ground up – livestream (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Milan Jovanović (David McCarter)
ML Olympiad 2024: Globally Distributed ML Competitions by Google ML Community (Bitnoori Keum)
Get ready for AI at the Migrate to Innovate digital event (Jordan Davis)

Database

A Little About sp_getapplock And Error Handling In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Data Management Views (DMVs) comparison for SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database (Michelle Gutzait)
Azure SQL DB Failover Groups (Josephine Bush)
Introducing vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB’s Latest Features (Khelan Modi)
Replace a SQL WHILE Loop with Set Based Logic in T-SQL (Jared Westover)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Easily sign-in to all Microsoft accounts using the Outlook app (Shivani Gupta)
How to Populate SharePoint List with Files from SharePoint Document Library using Power Automate (Rachel Irabor)
OneNote get-pages?search API deprecation (Lauren Go)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3430 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
How to send and receive iMessages on Windows (Jason Cipriani)
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3913 and The Morning Brew #3914 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-15 (Michael Eaton)
F# Weekly #14, 2024 – ionide/FsAutoComplete (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #208 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Reading Notes #596 and Reading Notes #597 and Reading Notes #598 (Frank Boucher)
Daily Reading List – April 5, 2024 (#292) and Daily Reading List – April 8, 2024 (#293) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #827 (Manoela Ilic)
C# Digest – Bing on .NET 8: The Impact of Dynamic PGO (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

Mastery of C# and .NET Awaits | Packt Book Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

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