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Dew Drop – June 29, 2023 (#3974)

Posted on June 29, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Early Bird Ticket Ends July 4th for TechBash 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
Metalama 2023.1 is Generally Available (Gael Fraiteur)
Xamarin Forms Migration to Uno Platform: Data Binding Techniques (Uno Platform Team)
Blazor unified project design (Steve Sanderson)
Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy v0.9 with over-consenting guidance (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)

Web & Cloud Development

ETags in ASP.NET Core (Peter Ritchie)
Azure portal May 2023 updates (Allison Cordle)
Blazor Basics: Creating a Blazor Component (Claudio Bernasconi)
Custom Error Handling Middleware for Wolverine.HTTP (Jeremy D. Miller)
How to Use CSS background-size and background-position (Ralph Mason)
What can you build with Wasp? (Matija Sosic)
AI based CLI interactive mode (Jeremy Li)
What Is a SOAP API? (Kin Lane)
Why Your OpenAPI Spec Sucks (Sharon Pikovski)
What Is a REST API? Examples, Uses, and Challenges (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Use MultiSelect Input Control for WinForms, WPF, and UWP (Prabhakar Mishra)
Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Column Chart to Visualize the Purchase Revenue of US E-Health and Meditation Apps (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Stack Overflow Dev Survey: VS Code, Visual Studio Still Top IDEs 5 Years Running (David Ramel)
LINQ: Select.Where or Where.Select? (Steven Giesel)
C++ Extension in VS Code 1.16 Release: Call Hierarchy & more (Alexandra Kemper)
How to wait for multiple C++ coroutines to complete before propagating failure, false hope (Raymond Chen)
Test Data Generation With AutoFixture in .NET (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Advanced Installer 20.8 (Advanced Installer Team)
Lightweight Ways to Customize Trello (Britt Joiner)
Using ChatGPT to Create Software Tests (Bruno Lopes)
Three more chapters of my data architecture book are available! (James Serra)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Records in Android Studio Flamingo (Clement Bera)
Flutter UI challenge: rotary passcode (static design) (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 162 – Best Effort (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
5 Code Navigation Tips While Debugging .NET Apps in Visual Studio | On .NET (Leslie Richardson)
How to test GitHub Actions Locally!!! (Isaac Levin)
What are “control plane” and “data plane” APIs? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
What I Wish I Knew… about feeling scared (Tenay Barker)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Going Full Time on Open Source with Shaun Walker (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Yet Another Podcast – De Sanctis on APIs (Jesse Liberty)
Azure Podcast Episode 465 – Functions on Azure Container Apps (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
The Rework Podcast – When to Jump into AI (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reading smiles, the measure of success for Scrum Masters | Bojan Smudja (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 633 – WTF is an ORM (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
How to Build Peer-to-Peer Mobile and Desktop Apps with Socket Supply – JavaScript Jabber 588 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
Complete Developer Podcast – Database Sharding (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 265: WHY and What’s Next? (Carlos L. Chacon)
Practical AI Podcast – Automated cartography using AI (Gabriel Ortiz & Daniel Whitenack)
The Changelog – Don’t make things worse! (Taylor Troesh & Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

Introducing OpenAI London (OpenAI Team)
Register for Google Cloud Next ‘23 and get some sweet perks (Brian Hall & Max Saltonstall)
Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff (Jay Peters)

Database

Installing SQL Server Integration Services (Joe Gavin)
SQL SERVER – Setting Deadlock Priority to Control the Transaction that is Rolled Back (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.18 – First release of upcoming features (Vesa Juvonen)
Yammer.com Rebranded to Viva Engage (Valeria Furlong)

PowerShell & Terminal

Perfectionism vs. Pragmatism in Product Engineering | Warp (Zach Bai)

Miscellaneous

Curiosity unbounded (Mark Downie)
WhatsApp Kills Off the Electron-Based Desktop App (BeauHD) – Long live UWP?
The value of skilling goes far beyond learning (Tess O.)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3737 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – June 28, 2023 (#112) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – June 15, 2023 (#3965)

Posted on June 15, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Syncfusion Sponsors Jeff Fritz’s Web App and Blazor Workshop (Jacqueline Bieringer)
Automatically Install Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio using New Seamless Integration (Sinem Akinci)
.NET Rocks! – Building Apps using OpenAI with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Here’s how a Raspberry Pi, iPhone, Surface Duo, and Linux device can use the same code to render videos (Sean Endicott)
Azure OpenAI Service: 10 ways generative AI is transforming businesses (Kristin Gallagher)
Public Preview : Improve Win32 app security via app isolation (David Weston & Sumit Lahiri)

Web & Cloud Development

5 Blazor Improvements in New .NET 8 Preview 5 (David Ramel)
Introduction to Data Structures (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
The Pros and Cons of Kubernetes on Bare Metal (Christopher Tozzi)
How to Add a Global Route Prefix in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
Deploy your Blazor app to Azure now for free! (Dennis Fruhauff)
Azure Communication Services Virtual Rooms is now Generally Available (Farrukh Ghaffar)
Meet Codux: The React Visual Editor That Improves Developer Experience (Geoff Graham)
How To Build Server-Side Rendered (SSR) Svelte Apps With SvelteKit (Sriram Thiagarajan)
Http Services with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
Version after version; how the open source project Kubernetes releases its software (Leonard Pahlke)
Introducing Azure Native 2.0 (Monica Rodriguez)
Implementing Dapr State Management in ASP.NET Core Web APIs (Will Velida)
Treat your .NET Minimal API Endpoint as the application layer (Tim Deschryver)
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 172 (Jon Davis)
A guide to using ts-reset for TypeScript (Chibuike Nwachukwu)
Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely (Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare & Will Emmanuel)
Introducing Postman Assets Scaffolding to automatically build Postman assets (Postman Team)
Have I Been Pwned Domain Searches: The Big 5 Announcements! (Troy Hunt)
Expanding horizons—Microsoft Security’s continued commitment to multicloud (Vasu Jakkal)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Localization in .NET MAUI (Mushtaq M A)
What to Know When Porting a WPF App to .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid (Rossitza Fakalieva)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK version 1.3.230602002 released (Windows App SDK Team)
Xamarin Forms Migration to Uno Platform: Effects and Alternative Approaches (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

Easily Create, Update, and Remove Bookmarks in PDFs Using C# (Sowmiya Loganathan)
C# Dev Kit For VS Code Brings Sign In To FOSS (Mike James)
How expensive is it to create a Windows performance counter? (Raymond Chen)
Version Conflicts with NuGet Packages (Domenic Helfenstein)
How to Implement a Soft Delete Strategy with Entity Framework Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Conventions For Using Variables Groups In Azure DevOps (Kevin LaBranche)
10 Useful ChatGPT Prompts For Developers (Michael Crump)
6 Gmail AI features to help save you time (Carlos Fernández de Lara)
Change Data Capture + Event-Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
Creative Problem Solving (JD Meier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Let’s Post to Bluesky Social easily with Dart and Flutter (Shinya Kato)
How to add VR support to your Universal Render Pipeline project (Ryan Cassell)
Announcing Stencil v3.4.0 (Stencil Team)

Screencasts & Videos

What I wish I knew … about learning enough to keep up (John Kennedy)
Fixes & Reporting | Multicloud Vulnerability Detection with Microsoft Purview (Microsoft Mechanics)
Pure Virtual C++ Videos Available (Sy Brand)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 131: Starting From Scratch (Ben Nadel)
What It Takes To Be A Web Developer: Part 1 – JavaScript Jabber 586 (AJ O’Neal & Dan Shappir)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Owner’s view on Leadership Impact, Priorities, and Stakeholder Management for Scrum Teams | Mirela Mus (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 627 – Electronics for Beginners (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Complete Developer Podcast – Getting the Most From Programming Tutorials (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Talk Python to Me #419: Debugging Python in Production with PyStack (Michael Kennedy)
Software Engineering Radio 568: Simon Bennetts on OWASP Dynamic Application Security Testing Tool ZAP (Priyanka Raghavan)

Community & Events

Sonos lays off 7 percent of employees as demand cools for its speakers (Chris Welch)
Where do tech workers go after layoffs? (Devin Partida)
#WeArePlay | Meet the people creating apps and games in Europe (Leticia Lago)
Microsoft Inspire 2023 Session Catalog (Ville Mononen)

Database

SSIS in Visual Studio 2022 (Andy Leonard)
Unmasking SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking, Part 3, Security Concerns (Ben Johnston)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between ISNULL and COALESCE (Pinal Dave)
Integer compression: The FastPFor code (Oren Eini)
SQL Server Essentials: Installing SQL Server Management Studio and Azure Data Studio (Michael Otey)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Create a SharePoint Page in Less than 10 minutes (Jasmine Hoegh)
Microsoft Teams integration is being removed from Windows 11 (Tom Warren)

Miscellaneous

Apple’s Secret Weapon to Getting PC Games on Mac (Christina Warren)
Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Parental Consent (BeauHD)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23481 (Brandon LeBlanc)
How to Create a CLI in Go? (Gaurav Gahlot)
Comcast Complains To FCC That Listing All of Its Monthly Fees is Too Hard (msmash)
Twitter sued for $250 million by music publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement (Richard Lawler)
It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice (Sean Hollister)
Announcing the availability of consumer replacement components for Surface devices (Tim McGuiggan)
Ongoing Russian cyberattacks targeting Ukraine (Tom Burt)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3727 (Chris Alcock)
PHP Annotated – June 2023 (Roman Pronskiy)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – June 5, 2023 (#3957)

Posted on June 5, 2023 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Enhancing .NET Hot Reload with CreateNewOnMetadataUpdate, MetadataUpdateHandler and MetadataUpdateOriginalType Attributes (Nick Randolph)
Merge Conflict – Teaser: WWDC 2023 Predictions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Creating RESTful APIs with Minimal APIs and Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET (Bruno Sonnino)
Vector Similarity Search with Azure SQL database and OpenAI (Davide Mauri)
Demystifying WebAssembly: What Beginners Need to Know (Robert Kimani)

Web & Cloud Development

Hashtables: A Deep Dive into Efficient Data Storage and Retrieval (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Document Editor Deployment with Docker and Windows Server Core 2019 and 2022 including Fonts (Bjoern Meyer)
How to Pass Parameters With a GET Request in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
ASP.NET Core authorization using Entra External ID CIAM and Azure AD security groups (Damien Bowden)
Apple Passes Asp Net Core Web Api (Samir gc)
Debugging JwtBearer Claim Problems in ASP.NET Core (Tore Nesentius)
ESLint v8.42.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
The many ways to select the n-th character from a string. (Chris Heilmann)
4 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Cloud Native App Platform (Guilherme Alvarenga)
Creating Your Own Reports in Your Applications: Getting Started with the Telerik Web Report Designer (Peter Vogel)
GitLab Integration, Improved Main Toolbar Customization, Text Search in Search Everywhere, and More in GoLand 2023.2 EAP #3 (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

SSO and Xamarin forms Implementation (Divikiran)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1: Productivity, Cloud and Game Development Enhancements (Almir Vuk)
C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
Refactoring Change Preventers in C# (Code Maze)
Convert a JSON object into a string in C# (Mahesh Chand)
Time abstraction in .NET 8 (Steven Giesel)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Bing Preview Release Notes: Increasing Chat Turns to 30/300 (Bing Team)
Applying GitOps principles to your operations (Chris Reddington)
Donald Knuth Asked ChatGPT 20 Questions. What Did We Learn? (David Cassel)
The Git repository that vanished (Mark Seemann)
ChatGpt Experiments–Getting Documentation (Steve Jones)
Biases and Fallacies Lead to Smol Thinking (Charlie Kindel)
Monoliths, Microservervices and Mainframes – Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move (Ian Miell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Introducing Firebase and Android Basics with Compose course (Marina Coelho)
Developing “Pew Pew Pew: Danger Zone!” (Gina Häußge)
Using ARPlaneManager as an alternative to Scene Understanding with MRTK3 on HoloLens 2 (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

Coding After Work – Refining Themes & Introducing Contextual Search in ‘Next Tech Event’ with Blazor & RavenDB | Part 19 (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
Cecil Phillip – Building payment flows with Stripe and Azure – Webinar Recording (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
What’s new in .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Q&A | DIS202H | Microsoft Build 2023 (Microsoft Developer)
Technology & Friends – Pete Rodriguez on a Career in Technology (David Giard)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 458 (Jason Bock)
What I wish I knew… about being a product marketing manager (Divya Venkataramu)

Podcasts

React Native Radio 267 – React Native Windows With Chiara Mooney (Chiara Mooney, Mazen Chami & Jamon Holmgren)
Syntax Podcast Episode 622 – Supper Club × Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit on Github Next (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
PPP 381 | How to Make Wiser Decisions, with Human Performance Expert Dr. Jim Loehr (Andy Kaufman)
AGL: 314 Jeffrey Deckman (John Rouda)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 085 – Cloud Cost Optimization at Avalara with Lindbergh Matillano (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #635 – Low Power Connected Devices with Andrea Longobardi (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Cloud Show with guest star Rik Hepworth (Magnus Mårtensson)
Talk Python to Me #418: How To Keep A Secret in Python Apps (Michael Kennedy)
Tabs and Spaces #306 – Security Schemecurity (feat. Tanya Janca) (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)

Community & Events

Private Beta Update & Roadmap (Bluesky Team)
Meta Requires Office Workers To Return To Desks Three Days a Week (msmash)

Database

SQL Server Database Backup and Restore Failure Notifications (Jeremy Kadlec)
SQL SERVER – Reclaiming Space and Performance: Database Backup History (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Build more connections with new communities in Microsoft Teams and GroupMe features (Amit Fulay)

PowerShell

How to enable App Service Proactive Tools via PowerShell (Calvin Cai)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25381 (Brandon LeBlanc)
YouTube will stop removing false presidential election fraud claims (Emma Roth)
Amazon reportedly in talks to bundle mobile phone service as Prime perk (Jon Porter)
Microsoft to kill Cortana app for Windows 10 and 11 later this year (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3719 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #22, 2023 – fsharpConf 2023, June 26 (Sergey Tihon)
Code Maze Weekly #175 (Vladimir Pecanac)
Daily Reading List – June 2, 2023 (#102) (Richard Seroter)
The Overflow #180: The battle for your attention at work (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
C# Digest Issue #457 – June 05, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

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

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