Dew Drop – March 8, 2023 (#3895)

Top Links

• Introducing the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET (Matt Soucoup and Nish Anil)
• Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET week 1 recap and what’s coming (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Drawing graphs in GitHub comments with Mermaid diagrams (Andrew Lock)
• Windows App SDK Release Notes – Version 1.3 Preview 1 (1.3.0-preview1) (Microsoft Learn)
• File editing on GitHub Mobile keeps leveling up (Alfredo Cerezo Luna)

Web & Cloud Development

• Streamline Your Okta Configuration in Angular Apps (Alisa Duncan)
• Auto-Generate HTML Forms from PDF AcroForms in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly (Channy Yun)
• Top 5 Cloud Architecture Design Patterns to use in Microsoft Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
• Blazor component: Razor tutorial and example (David Grace)
• Dynamically Rendering a Sound in HTML/JavaScript (j2inet)
• Using React 18 Features in NextJS (Lakindu Hewawasam)
• Vue (3.0) Composition API | Bootstrap (v5) | JSON Server | CRUD Example (Naveen Bommidi)
• Build a ChatGPT SMS bot with the OpenAI API and ASP.NET Core (Niels Swimberghe)
• Creating a Mendix Application with Syncfusion React Components (Ragunath Sukumaran)
• How to create a wavy background using CSS and SVG (Saleh Mubashar)
• Call Azure Function App using AAD OAuth certificate (Tareq Saifi)
• 2023 Web Framework Performance Report (Fred Schott)
• Now I am become the Destroyer of Threads (Roberto Vidal)
• The TLS Handshake Explained (Arthur Bellore)
• Node v18.15.0 (LTS) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs & Juan José Arboleda)
• Why You Should Consider Graphs For Your Next GraphQL Project (Adam Cowley)
• What Is an API and How Does It Work? Definition and Features (John Iwuozor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• The Future of the DevExpress Xamarin.Forms Controls (Anthony Sameishchev)
• Three thousand .NET MAUI Developers can’t be wrong! (Matt Lacey)
• Drastic.Tools – Maui.DebugRainbows (Tim Miller)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Manage PDF Document Fonts Using .NET C# (Sean Deegan)
• Compound Handlers in Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Performance benchmarks of PostgreSQL .NET with Npgsql, Dapper, and Entity Framework Core (Michael Shpilt)
• EF Core Mapping with Generic Types, Value Conversion, and JSON Columns (Christian Nagel)
• How to Serialize a List to JSON in C# (Januarius Njoku)
• Visual Studio 2022: The Ultimate Tool for Building Cross-Platform Apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How To Use The yield break Statement In C#? (Muhammed Saleem)
• .NET Upgrade Assistant Extension for Visual Studio Now Available (Almir Vuk)
• Validating Connection Strings on .NET Startup (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Integrate Azure Load Testing into Azure DevOps (April Edwards)
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule (Paul Graham)
• 7 Steps to Improve Code Quality (Amrapali Rai)
• New Boards Hub, Sprint 218 Update (Dan Hellem)
• GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8 is now generally available (David Jarzebowski)
• Mocking instances created within the tested class (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• Data ingestion pipeline with Operation Management (Varun Sekhri, Meenakshi Jindal & Burak Bacioglu)
• Do you know what good code looks like? (Matt Lacey)
• Microspeak: Baseball card (Raymond Chen)
• When a Development Team Is Having Trouble Delivering, It Could Be a Sign of Bad Planning (Tyler Hakes)
• How Microsoft bakes accessibility into everything it touches (Amy Farley)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 6 Project Ideas to Get Started with IoT (Charles Mahler)
• Introducing Unity DevOps for game development (Stacey Haffner)

Screencasts & Videos

• Successful DevOps in Web3 | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Donovan Brown)
• Unleash the Power of Azure OpenAI Service with AI Builder | The Low Code Revolution (Daniel Laskewitz & Ashish Bhatia)
• How Azure Remote Rendering differs from other cloud rending services | One Dev Question (Andrew London)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 445 (Jason Bock)
• PWA Demos [17 of 17] | PWA for Beginners (Beth Pan & Diego Gonzalez)
• How to Use JWT Authorization (Postman Team)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S23:E4 – Practical A/B Testing (Leemay Nassery) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Build Your Game Using JavaScript with Andrzej Mazur- JavaScript Jabber 572 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Conflicts Escalate, Lessons Learned from a Scrum Master’s Story of an Agile Team’s Self-Destruction | Kirill Golubev (Vasco Duarte)
• Made by Google Podcast – Spatial Audio: Hear, There, Everywhere (Rachid Finge)
• Practical AI Podcast – End-to-end cloud compute for AI/ML (Erik Bernhardsson, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Coffee & Open Source Podcast – Dejan Miličić (Isaac Levin)
• RunAs Radio – FIDO2 and Passwordless with Kyle Kotowick (Richard Campbell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 545 – From writing code to teaching code (Ryan Donovan)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Consumer Protection Week (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

• Tune in on Thursday to watch #TheAndroidShow (Jetpack Compose Team)
• JetBrains Is Looking for a Web and JavaScript Developer Advocate (Anna Protsenko)
• Discover the latest innovations at Azure Open Source Day 2023 (David Dennis)
• Let’s go. It’s Google I/O 2023 (Jeanine Banks)
• Meet the Experts – Hack Together with Microsoft Graph SDK and .NET – March 8th 4PM GMT (Lee Stott)
• Uncovering overlooked stories of women (Leonie Shinn-Morris)
• Upgrading and updating Windows Server AMA coming March 9 (Ned Pyle)
• International Women’s Day: Celebrating our Women in Tech (Sara Huddleston)
• Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 at Couchbase (Isheeta Lad)

Database

• Microsoft Drivers 5.11 for PHP for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
• 5 Reasons Why Students Should Learn Azure Cosmos DB for a Competitive Edge in the Tech Industry (Lee Stott)
• Announcing new security and observability features in Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Sunil Agarwal)
• Azure Open-Source Day: Announcing new integrations with Azure Database for MySQL (Parikshit Savjani)
• Performance Considerations with SQL MERGE vs INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE (Jared Westover)
• Storage Explorer 1.28 New Features (Meera Haridasa)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• How to Enable Public Live Events in Microsoft Teams (Mohamed El-Qassas)

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell To Scan Network for Connected Devices (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• #Rust – Using #OpenAI ChatGPT APIs from Rust. Demo Chat console App (Bruno Capuano)
• The documentation system (Divio)
• Whatever, I do the vacation I want (Eric Brechner)
• PowerToys v0.68.1 ships with bug fixes (Kevin Okemwa)
• Microsoft pushes Bing Chat’s daily turn limit to 120 (Kevin Okemwa)
• 10 ways to be a better (technical) interviewer (Michael Eaton)
• Bing’s gendered translations tackle bias in translation (Microsoft Translator Team)
• Three ways to learn in-demand technical skills on Microsoft Learn (Ryan Currie)

More Link Collections

• Daily Wrap Up – March 7, 2023 (#042) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link