Dew Drop – January 18, 2023 (#3860)

Top Links

• Material 3 for Flutter (Eilidh Southren)
• Checking for Overflow in C# (Jeremy Clark)
• Mastering Strictly Typed Reactive Forms in Angular: A Step-by-Step Guide (Ankit Sharma)
• You are not your customer: How to avoid building the wrong product (Glenn Block)
• The truth about CSS selector performance (Patrick Brosset)
• New: Better search in Visual Studio (Leah Tran)

Web & Cloud Development

• Multiple File Drag and Drop Upload with ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Securely store secrets in Git using SOPS and Azure Key Vault (Patrick Van Kleef)
• Implementing Text-As-You-Type Auto Correct Replacements using JavaScript (Bjoern Meyer)
• What’s new in Azure Data & AI: Empowering retailers to streamline operations and accelerate time to value (Jessica Hawk)
• Getting started with NextUI and Next.js (Miracle Onyenma)
• Microsoft launches Azure OpenAI service with ChatGPT coming soon (Tom Warren)
• A Razor Fragments / Single View approach for HTMX (Alexander Zeitler)
• Exploring the model-binding logic of minimal APIs: Behind the scenes of minimal APIs – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)
• Pulumi: Preview of .NET resource providers (Fraser Waters)
• 6 Common SVG Fails (and How to Fix Them) (Mariana Beldi)
• Mastodon Streaming to Apache Pulsar via Python (Timothy Spann)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• say hello to Maui.ColorPicker (Joachim Leonfellner)
• Give Your WPF Application a Fresh Look with New Windows 11 Themes (Jegan Raj M)
• .NET MAUI — Hot Reload Support (Kseniya K.)
• Introducing the New WinUI MaskedTextBox Control (Manivannan Elangovan)
• MOBILENET for On-Device Inference in Uno Platform Applications (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Tip: LINQ’s Enumerable.Range to generate a sequence of consecutive numbers (Davide Bellone)
• Securing Sensitive Information with .NET User Secrets (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• C# 12: Primary Constructors (Steven Giesel)
• C# 11.0: Generic Attributes (Thomas Claudius Huber)
• Create an SMS chatbot using C#, Amazon Lex, and Twilio SMS (Volkan Paksoy)
• Head and Tail using list patterns in C# (Jiri Cincura)
• vcpkg 2023.01.09 Release: Registry Pattern Matching, Documentation Changes, and More… (Augustin Popa)
• How to Resolve Non-nullable Property Must Contain a Non-null Value Warning (Code Maze)
• Create First Application In ChatGPT By OpenAI – ChatGPT Tutorial (Munesh Sharma)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Book Review: DevOps For The Desperate (Kay Ewbank)
• What are deliverables in agile and why do we have them? (Emma Burt)
• 3 common DevOps antipatterns and cloud native strategies that can help (Mark Paulsen)
• The Service / Repository Pattern (Paul Michaels)
• Advanced Installer 20.2.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
• What is the 80/20 rule (Pareto Principle) in business? (David Pereira)
• Developer Docs + GenAI = ❤️ (Dion Almaer)
• Secure your business like you secure your home: 5 steps to protect against cybercrime (Emma Jones)
• Dependabot alerts are now visible to more developers (Eric Tooley)
• Code Documentation, Streamlined (Atila Fassina)
• Git security vulnerabilities announced (Taylor Blau)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Creating inclusive apps with Flutter: Best practices for accessibility (Carlo Loguercio)
• Using Re.pack for large-scale React Native projects (Zain Sajjad)
• Apple reportedly shelved its plans to release AR glasses any time soon (Richard Lawler)

Screencasts & Videos

• SQL Coding Series – Basics Part I (Women Who Code)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 431 (Jason Bock)
• Armchair Architects: Is Big Data Turning into Dark Data? (Eric Charran, David Blank-Edelman & Uli Homann)

Podcasts

• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The story of an Agile team that went from Conflict to Collaboration | Gert Brits (Vasco Duarte)
• RunAs Radio – DevOps in 2023 with April Edwards (Richard Campbell)
• Runtime Security With Gal Weizman – JavaScript Jabber 565 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 528 – Flake it till you make it: how to detect and deal with flaky tests (Ben Popper)
• Practical AI Podcast – Machine learning at small organizations (Kirsten Lum, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• The ReadME Podcast – Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (Frances Coronel, Martin Woodward, Neha Batra & Mike Melanson)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Partner Showcase: Rencore Governance with Mattias Einig (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – The 2023 Stamps Program (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Azure joins Collectives™ on Stack Overflow (Brendan Cleary)
• I, too, have a DREAM (‘Tine Zekis)
• Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Mark Brown (David McCarter)
• Microsoft to Cut Engineering Jobs This Week (Paul Thurrott)
• Tech Moves: Ex-Lululemon chief joins Seattle startup; Microsoft AI ethics leader now at Google (Taylor Soper)
• Layoffs: It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (Victoria Crawford)

Database

• Encrypt SQL Server Stored Procedures to Protect Source Code (Aubrey Love)
• Manage Data Over Time with SQL Server MERGE Statement (Greg Larsen)
• NoSQL vs. relational: Which database should you use for your app? (Michal Toiba)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• How to implement proactive notifications in Microsoft Teams using Power Automate or Azure Logic App (Alexis Kinzelin)

Miscellaneous

• Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1192 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.1515 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• How to quickly run Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 or Windows 11 for added convenience (Dave W. Shanahan)
• MacOS Ventura: Where have I heard this before… (Michael Niehaus)
• A trio of dubious denial-of-service security vulnerability reports which are just style points piled on top of nothing (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3626 (Chris Alcock)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #87 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Wrap Up – January 17, 2023 (#010) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link