Dew Drop – March 2, 2023 (#3891)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – The Next C# with Mads Torgersen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio Code February 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code v5.0 pre-release (Ji Dong)
• Announcing TypeScript 5.0 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Microsoft Store Developer Command Line Interface (CLI) (Alexandre Chohfi)
• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 (Mads Kristensen)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Handle Numbers Represented as Strings in the Input to a .NET AWS Lambda Function (Bryan Hogan)
• JavaScript Devs Knowledge of Features (I Programmer Team)
• Part 1 | ASP.NET Core Identity Series [.NET 7] Introduction & Project Setup (Naveen Bommidi)
• Announcing the end of Windows Installer support for AWS Tools for Windows (Norm Johanson)
• First Public Working Draft: CSS Animations Level 2 (Xueyuan Jia)
• Behind the scenes of the Nightscout API (Mark W.)
• OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech (Mitchell Clark)
• 2. You say Low, I say Code! (April Dunnam & Matt Soucoup)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Managing Tokens in .NET MAUI (Andrea Chiarelli)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5: 15 New Features (Claudio Bernasconi)
• C# Basics: A Guide for New Programmers (Nick Cosentino)
• Myths about F#: Imperative code is simpler than functional code! No, not at all, but you are more used to it. (Urs Enzler)
• How To Deploy EF Database Migrations (Lee Richardson)
• If you want to sort a Windows Runtime collection, you may first want to capture it into something a bit easier to manipulate (Raymond Chen)
• IEnumerable, ICollection, IList and List – Which One To Use? (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Useful Tricks with Lamar for Integration Testing (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Automating Application Installation with Configuration Manager: Deploying Software using Package vs Application Model (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Embracing “Old” Tech (Ted Neward)
• The Humble Object Pattern (Steven Giesel)
• GitHub Actions: Introducing faster GitHub-hosted x64 macOS runners (Stephen Glass)
• Functional Testing: Definition, Types and Importance (John Iwuozor)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Improve your simulations with Ziva VFX 2.1 (Chengdong Gui)

Screencasts & Videos

• Subramanian Krishnan, Citrix | Breaking Changes (Postman)

Podcasts

• Working Code Podcast – Episode 116: State Of Developer Conferences (Ben Nadel)
• The Changelog Episode 529 – You’re just a devcontainer.json away (Brigit Murtaugh, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – A new Scrum Master’s journey to agility, a real-life story | Alina Thapliyal (Vasco Duarte)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 582 – AI and Coding with ChatGPT (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Social Engineering (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Software Engineering Radio 553: Luca Casonato on Deno (Jeremy Jung)

Community & Events

• Save the Date for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023! (Ricky Diep)
• New pricing for Stack Overflow for Teams (Joy Liuzzo)
• Developer Journey – Women’s History Month: March 2023 (Lyanne Alfaro)
• Meet the 2023 Imagine Cup World Finalists (MS Student Developer Team)
• Join Postman at Google Summer of Code 2023 (Vinit Shahdeo)

Database

• Oracle NoSQL Database 22.3 Release (Tim Goh)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: February 2023 (Mark Kashman)

PowerShell

• Step-By-Step: How to Create a Windows 11 VM on Hyper-V via PowerShell (Anthony Bartolo)
• Learn PowerShell in 30 Minutes a Day, Free, Starting Now. (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• The imperative for digital development and public private partnerships in Least Developed Countries (Brad Smith)
• Security Bulletin: Recommended Actions for Free, Premium, and Families Customers (LastPass)
• What’s your learning style? Find your fit with Microsoft Learn. (Gita Sharma)
• New PowerToys alert! Microsoft releases update adding Mouse Jump and Paste As Plain Text utilities (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
• LastPass Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions (Karim Toubba)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3657 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 1, 2023 (#038) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link