Dew Drop – February 13, 2023 (#3878)

Top Links

• Announcing TechBash 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
• Generating PDF Documents in WinUI (Diederik Krols)
• Adding Video in .NET MAUI Apps With the New MediaElement (Robert Krzaczyński)
• What’s On Tap for .NET 8 (Preview 1 Coming this Month) (David Ramel)
• Digging Into Nullable Reference Types in C# (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Get easy access to Angular route and query parameters with zod (Tim Deschryver)
• App Builder Release with Grid CRUD Actions, Nested Data-binding Support, Category Chart Aggregations and more (Zdravko Kolev)
• Discovering Primitive Objects In JavaScript (Part 1) (Kirill Myshkin)
• Part 5 | .NET 7 Web API | SQL Database | VueJS (3.0) – Composition API | CRUD Example (Naveen Bommidi)
• Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows (Temani Afif)
• ESLint v8.34.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• The Source of Truth for an API (Kin Lane)
• Comparing OpenAI ChatGPT – Microsoft OpenAI and Microsoft Cognitive Services (Michael Washington)
• How WebAssembly Offers Secure Development through Sandboxing (Jeff Goldman)
• Quick guide for YAML (Maria Marshmallow)
• Microsoft is issuing an update to permanently kill Internet Explorer 11 tomorrow (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI tutorial for Android and iOS (Rupesh Chaudhari)

Visual Studio & .NET

• ReSharper Ending Development for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 (Alexander Kurakin)
• How to Convert JSON to DataTable in C# (Code Maze)
• How to Mock EF Core DbContext (Muhammed Saleem)
• Dot Net DLLs, Droid, Dependencies (Peter Freeman Foot)
• The case of the RPC_E_DISCONNECTED error thrown from await_resume (Raymond Chen)
• Using SRTP-Active Patterns in F# (Domenic Helfenstein)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• What is App Installer? And how to use it to simplify MSIX installation and updating process (Alex Marin)
• Adventures in GitHub Actions: Episode 1 – Goodbye Azure DevOps, Hello GitHub Actions (James Dawson)
• Azure DevOps Customize Email Notifications using Power Automate (Vinod Soni)
• What is Innovation? Exploring the Driving Force Behind Growth and Transformation and Strategic Enterprise Architecture: Building a Strong Foundation for Business Agility, Resilience, and Growth and The Why, the What, and the How of Innovation (JD Meier)
• gh-clone-org – A github-cli extension script to clone all repositories in an organization, optionally filtering by topic. (Matt Bartel)
• Are You a Talkaholic? Kim Scott & Dan Lyons Explore Why Learning to STFU is Actually a Superpower (Brandi Neal)
• How product managers can effectively deal with dependencies (David Pereira)
• An opinionated definition of “maintainable code” (Dennis Doomen)
• How to delegate like a boss (without losing control) (Jordan Mirchev)
• Measuring Testing Times (Juantri Jiménez)
• What are project milestones and how do you set them? (Kat Boogaard)
• Making a website mockup in Figma (Oriol Banús)
• Changes to the default GITHUB_TOKEN permissions (Scott Aquilina)
• 6 Tips to Have More Productive Meetings as a Web Designer (Suzanne Scacca)
• UI/UX Application Modernization: Delivering Exceptional Experiences (Tejas Kaneriya)
• How to avoid common pitfalls with modern microservices testing (Holly Cummins)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Isolates in Flutter (Dhruvam Sharma)
• Appflow adds GitHub Enterprise support (Cecelia Martinez)
• Capacitor: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know (Max Lynch)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 142 – RFPs are Lame! (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Here’s a super easy way to build tables in markdown! (GitHub Team)
• Manage advanced features of Active Directory Domain Services AD DS – (AZ-800 Prep) (IT Ops Talk)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 438 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• OnPodcast Ep.102: Bing+ChatGPT first look, Google’s AI awakened, the CMA blocks Activision deal (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 345: Backwards Compatible .NET (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• GeekWire Podcast: The new Microsoft Bing, and how artificial intelligence is changing the web (Todd Bishop)
• Becoming a Google Developer Expert in Angular – Adventures in Angular 369 (Subrat Mishra & Lucas Paganini)
• Lars Klint: Microsoft Azure State of the Art – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 232 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• A DevOps Engineer’s Insider Guide – Adventures in DevOps 149 (Will Button)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 574 – Supper Club × Qwik framework from Miško Hevery, the Creator of Angular (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Working with great Technical Product Owners, and how they use their technical expertise to help the team | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte)
• PPP 376 | How to Help Your Team Stop Drowning in Work, with author Nick Sonnenberg (Andy Kaufman)
• JS Party Podcast – Generative AI for devs (Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
• The Changelog Podcast – Git with your friends (Mat Ryer, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 071 – Amazon EventBridge Pipes with Nik Pinski (David Isbitski)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode 22 – Music Tech Pioneers IV : Marcus Ryle : 4 Decades of Music Tech Innovation ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 400: Prompt Engineering (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

• Philly .NET Meetup – .NET Maui (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Khalid Abuhakmeh (David McCarter)
• Some Googlers reportedly aren’t happy about Bard’s ‘rushed’ announcement (Emma Roth)
• Microsoft’s Surface, Xbox, and HoloLens divisions affected by the planned layoffs (Kevin Okemwa)
• Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue (msmash)
• Microsoft continues with previously announced layoffs, as Seattle-area total nears 1,500 people (Todd Bishop)
• 20 Hidden Dining & Drinking Spots in Greater Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
• see how we are (Wil Wheaton)

Database

• Performance Problems and solutions when using User Defined Functions in SQL Server (Eric Blinn)
• Event-driven projections in Marten explained (Oskar Dudycz)
• How to connect Azure Data Factory to SQL Managed Instance over private network (Ahmed S. Mahmoud)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft to Reportedly Announce ChatGPT-Like Tools for Office Apps in March (Rabia Noureen)
• Build a Developer newsletter with Power Platform and ChatGPT3 (Someleze Diko)

PowerShell

• Unattended Installation – How to Silently Install your EXE using PowerShell & CMD? (Alex Marin)
• Deploy Arc for Azure VMware Solution Simply Using PowerShell (Trevor Davis)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3644 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #6, 2023 – Exercism’s Functional February (Sergey Tihon)
• Code Maze Weekly #160 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• C# Digest Issue #441 – February 13, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 10, 2023 (#028) (Richard Seroter)
• The Overflow #164: Is software getting worse? (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Collective #751 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link