Dew Drop – March 7, 2023 (#3894)

Top Links

• How to Synchronize Outlook Calendar Events with Syncfusion WinUI Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
• The TechBash 2023 Call for Speakers Is Now Open! (TechBash Team)
• Required Keyword, Checked Operators, nameof Operator Scope – Using C# 11 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
• Azure’s approach to versioning and avoiding breaking changes (Mike Kistler and Jeffrey Richter)
• Five tips for successfully managing dependencies (Tyler Aldrich)
• What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2023 (Amanda Langowski)

Web & Cloud Development

• Text an AI Assistant with GPT-3 using AWS Lambda and Twilio (Alina Libova Cohen)
• PhpStorm 2022.3.3 RC2 (Brent Roose)
• Part 4 | ASP.NET Core Identity Series [.NET 7] | Sending Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Code To Phone (Naveen Bommidi)
• What’s new in the Twilio helper library for ASP.NET (v8.0.0 – March 2023) (Niels Swimberghe)
• Astro: Welcome, World (Mark Peck)
• Npm install fails in node-gyp (Kevin Logan)
• Software Engineering Report Ranks TypeScript Among Top Skills to Learn/Know (David Ramel)
• How to Setup Integration Tests in .NET Without a WebApplicationFactory (Paul DeVito)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Manage Text Options in PDF Documents Using .NET C# (Sean Deegan)
• What’s New in Entity Framework Core 8 (Alen Genzić)
• I can create a read-only page, but why not a write-only page? (Raymond Chen)
• Wolverine 0.9.13: Contextual Logging and More (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Health Checks in .NET: 2 ways to check communication with MongoDB (Davide Bellone)
• vcpkg 2023.02.24 Release: Default Triplet Changes, RISC-V support, Bug Fixes, and More… (Augustin Popa)
• Testing Exceptions in MSTest, NUnit, and xUnit (Code Maze)
• Testing Roslyn Incremental Source Generators (Gérald Barré)
• std::string now supports Address Sanitizer (Nicole Mazzuca)
• Keep Your Users Notified with the Brand-New WinForms TaskbarButton (Todor Vyagov)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Revamped: Authentication with Playwright (Tim Deschryver)
• How to automate your dev environment with dev containers and GitHub Codespaces (Kedasha Kerr)
• Warnings-as-errors friction (Mark Seemann)
• Can ChatGPT be your next Technology Writer? (Matt Hilbert)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Keeping Android and Google Play safe with our key 2023 initiatives (Bethel Otuteye)
• Announcing Ionic v6.6 (Liam DeBeasi)
• Protecting Android clipboard content from unintended exposure (Dimitrios Valsamaras & Michael Peck)
• Announcing Auth Connect 4 (Dallas James)
• Deploying Mobile Apps to Test Devices (Cecelia Martinez)
• Building Native Mobile apps with React DOM (Max Lynch)

Screencasts & Videos

• .NET MAUI using Blazor Syntax with BlazorBindings.Maui – NO XAML! (Gerald Versluis)

Podcasts

• The PowerShell Podcast – Reaching New Users with Jeff Hicks (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 111 – How to Solve the Mystery of Application Security in the  Cloud? (Anton Chuvakin)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 544 – “Move fast and break things” doesn’t apply to other people’s savings (Eira May)
• Duke’s Corner – Grace Jansen on her Passion for Java and Developer Diversity (Jim Grisanzio)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 404: Sargun Kaur on Technical Interviews (Brandon Whichard)

Community & Events

• Dev Diaries: Stories from Inspiring Women Developers (MariaLuisa Polimeni)
• Healthcare company Accolade lays off workers and closes offices (Charlotte Schubert)
• Skill up at Tech Accelerator: Microsoft Intune Suite! (Rachelle Blanchard)
• Five Stack Exchange sites turned ten years-old this quarter! (Rosie)
• Filings: Microsoft job cuts in Seattle area reach 2,184 people, as part of 10,000 layoffs globally (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft to detail the ‘future of work with AI’ during March 16th event (Tom Warren)
• 3 reasons why Unity at GDC is all about you (Unity Technologies)
• Unleash your potential with GitHub Octernships: a path to a thriving tech career (Arkodyuti Saha)

Database

• CREATE VIEW SQL Server Tutorial (Rajendra Gupta)
• Optional Code in T-SQL Scripts using SQLCMD (Louis Davidson)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft Viva Suite – The Employee Experience that delivers more… for less (Mike Gannotti)
• Microsoft Visio Viewer app for iOS will be retired from the App Store (Abhinav Chatterjee)
• Outlook Mac for All (Jeremy Perdue)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft PowerToys 0.68.0: A breakdown of two new applications (Mark W. Kaelin)
• Microsoft will now preview the future of Windows with new Canary channel (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3660 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-10 (#62) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #94 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Wrap Up – March 6, 2023 (#041) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #545 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)