Dew Drop – February 16, 2023 (#3881)

Top Links

• Tips & Tricks on Upgrading Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Android to .NET for iOS & Android (James Montemagno)
• Upgrading your .NET projects with Visual Studio (Olia Gavrysh)
• The new Bing & Edge – Learning from our first week (Bing Team)
• Enhance .NET MAUI Desktop Apps with the Menu Bar | On .NET (James Montemagno)
• Optimizing Uno Platform WebAssembly Applications for Peak Performance (Uno Platform Team)
• Introduction to Azure OpenAI | Training (Microsoft Learn)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework (Azure Team)
• Introducing .NET Annotations Lambda Framework (Preview) (Norm Johanson)
• What are Server Components and Client Components in React 18 and Next.js 13? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• How To Create Custom React Hooks (John Au-Yeung)
• Azure Machine Learning Introduction: Part 1 Overview and prep work (Sanil Mhatre)
• Call for Review: CSS Box Model Module Level 3 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)
• Backstage Backend System Alpha (Patrik Oldsberg)
• Managing Confluent Kafka Clusters with Pulumi (Josh Kodroff)
• When Technology Broke and How We Fixed It (The Evolution of APIs) (Ross Moore)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• An overview of Package Identity in Windows apps (Microsoft Learn)
• Adding a New Android Permission in a Xamarin App (Junior Saravia)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Determine Whether Two Date Ranges Overlap in C# (Code Maze)
• Use Raw String Literals to generate TwiML in C# 11 (Niels Swimberghe)
• Minecraft’s WSL build time cut in half after working with Visual Studio C++ team (Sinem Akinci)
• Myths about F#: F# has too many operators (Urs Enzler)
• A (performance) quirk with JsonSerializer (Steven Giesel)
• Looking ahead: QuestPDF/Rust demo (Eric Sink)
• What are the potentially-erroneous results if you don’t pass NULL as the lpNumberOfBytesRead when issuing overlapped I/O? (Raymond Chen)
• MediatR 12.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Retrospectives Antipatterns (Martin Fowler)
• Azure DevOps Pipelines: If Expressions and Conditions (Developer Support)
• GitHub Copilot Update: New AI Model That Also Filters Out Security Vulnerabilities (Anthony Bartolo)
• 5 Developer Workstation Security Best Practices (Briana Swift)
• Terraform: GitHub Actions Automated Deployment (Chris Pietschmann)
• Microsoft shifts to a comprehensive SaaS security solution (Christine Barrett)
• What’s enough Complexity for a Domain Model? (Derek Comartin)
• Space Q1–Q2 2023 Roadmap and 2022 Retrospective (Evgenia Verbina)
• How Leaders and Learners Can Leverage the Skills Economy and Beyond the Bottom Line: Using the People, Planet, Profit Framework to Build a Sustainable Future (JD Meier)
• Serverless Architecture – What It Is? Benefits, Limitations & Use cases (Jignesh Solanki)
• What Every Developer Should Know About HIPAA and Other US Regulations (Kaitlyn Concilio)
• Overly confident AI (Mark Downie)
• The 4 Tones of Alert Messages and Notifications (Anthony)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building And Releasing Your Capacitor Android App (Simon Grimm)
• Video acceleration API (VA-API) now available on Windows! (Sil Vilerino)
• State of React Native (Bartłomiej Bukowski)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Webcast Episode 143 – Hype Fatigue (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Coding After Work – Valentine’s Day stream 2023 (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• Welcome to Bash for Beginners [1 of 20] | Bash for Beginners (Microsoft Developer)
• Ben Mackley, Zoom | Breaking Changes (Postman Team)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – MAUI Panel Discussion from Swetugg! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• CodeNewbie S23:E1 – Psychological Safety in Tech (Taylor Poindexter) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 114: Carol Got Laid Off (Ben Nadel)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Scaling Agile Teams, a Proactive Change Management approach | Tinatin Tabidze (Vasco Duarte)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 260: Contained Availability Groups (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Azure for Executives Podcast – The Present and Future of AI and Data with Zia Mansoor (David Starr & Paul Maher)
• React Native Radio 259 – Tamagui with Nate Weinert (Nate Weinert, Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 551: Vidal Graupera on Manager 1-1 with Direct Reports (Brijesh Ammanath)

Community & Events

• EVENT: Azure CosmosDB Conf – March 28, 2023 (Kurt Shintaku)
• Welcome Tyler Mandry to the Rust language team! (Josh Triplett & Niko Matsakis)
• Microsoft TechSpark: Growing economic opportunity across the United States (Kate Behncken)
• 2022 GitHub Transparency Report (Kevin Xu)

Database

• Overlooked Reason SQL Server Ignores Your Filtered Indexes (Jared Westover)
• Easily migrate SQL Server applications to the cloud with Azure (Rashida Hodge)
• VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database – preview (Pieter Vanhove)
• ODBC Driver 18.2 for SQL Server Released and OLE DB Driver 19.3 for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
• Patch your SQL Server instance today (Randolph West)
• Public preview: Serverless Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database (Azure Team)
• Running SQL Server Best Practices Check with Azure Data Studio to Assess your SQL Servers (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Where is my Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial account? and Working with Postgres Extensions in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL while Scaling Nodes (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t (Stanimira Vlaeva & Fred Favelin)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | February 2023 (Mike Tholfsen)
• Microsoft Teams apps are now generally available on Microsoft 365 Android app (Sanjay Joshi)
• Power Automate: Starting the year of 2023 with 11 New Verified Connectors and 18 Updates (Amjed Ayoub)

Miscellaneous

• Why is building a UI in Rust so hard? (Aloke Desai)
• Small Mighty Updates: Introducing 10+ New Features in Warp (Jess Wang)
• Switch to the New Jetpack Mobile App (Automattic)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25300 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Publishing an RSS feed through follow.it and how to subscribe to it (ThisCouldBeUseful)
• Here’s why you’re still waiting for Bing AI (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3647 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 15, 2023 (#031) (Richard Seroter)
• Build5Nines Weekly – February 15, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)

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