Dew Drop – April 13, 2023 (#3921)

Top Links

• Boost Productivity with High-Fidelity Figma Designs and Clean XAML Code. Preview 5 is here! (Uno Platform Team)
• Android 14 Beta 1 (Dave Burke)
• Introducing a new way to verify your workplace on LinkedIn with Microsoft Entra Verified ID (Ankur Patel)
• Windows App SDK 1.3.0 (1.3.230331000) Released (Gabby Bilka)
• .NET Rocks! – Making a Copilot with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Get started with OpenAI in .NET (Luis Quintanilla)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public preview: Azure Functions V4 programming model for Node.js (Azure Team)
• Creating an ASP.NET Minimal Web API to Generate PDF Documents from HTML Template Dynamically (Sowmiya Loganathan)
• Wasp Auth UI: The simplest way to a full-stack auth! (Matija Sosic)
• Node v18.16.0 (LTS) (Danielle Adams)
• DS Server 3.1.1 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
• Build a Twilio Flex ChatGPT Plugin (Dimitris Sotiriou)
• Dapr extension for AKS is available in 7 new regions (Hannah Hunter)
• TLS 1.3—What is It and Why Use It? (Nikolay Iliev)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Introducing the New .NET MAUI Popup Control (Jayaleshwari N.)
• Introducing the New WinUI AvatarView Control (Manivannan Elangovan)
• Part 3: Migration of Telerik Xamarin ERP App to .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Upcasting and Downcasting in C# (Code Maze)
• .NET 8 Performance Edition (Steven Giesel)
• How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 2: Via a buffer (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Figma cheat sheet for developers using inspect mode (Christian Reich)
• Mapping User Journeys with Mermaid.js and Illustrating git Branching with Markdown & Mermaid.js (Matt Eland)
• Innovation frontier (Dimitri Glazkov)
• Best Flowchart Software for Developers (Enrique Corrales)
• Recipes For Product Failure: Obsess Over Competitors (Den Delimarsky)
• Are meetings making you less productive? (Ryan Donovan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Bring your IOT apps to cars (Brad Hinkel)
• Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds (James Ward & Boris Farber)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 151 – Almost Everclear IoT! (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Live Coding – Uno Platform – Android TV support (Martin Zikmund)
• Automate document analysis with Azure Form Recognizer using AI and OCR | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)

Podcasts

• Complete Developer Podcast – Explaining Agile To Non Technical CoWorkers (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• Syntax Podcast – 600th Episode! Major Announcement + SWAG Giveaway! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – SCaLE20x (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• The Rework Podcast – Listener Questions Part 2 (Kimberly Rhodes)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 264: Verified Backups (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Practical AI Podcast – Computer scientists as rogue art historians (Amanda Wasielewski, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Python Bytes Podcast #331 – Python From the Future (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Radio 559: Ross Anderson on Software Obsolescence (Priyanka Raghavan)

Community & Events

• You’re Invited! Microsoft AI, Data & Modern App – In Person Event (Shelly Avery)
• Google Dev Library Newsletter: 20th Edition (Google Dev Library Team)
• GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next (Kara Sowles)

Database

• Optimize Costs in Azure SQL Managed Instance (Niko Neugebauer)
• That weird slow benchmark and its root cause (Oren Eini)
• Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023 (Azure Team)
• Announcing General Availability of Azure Data Studio extension SQL Database Projects (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
• Announcing Azure Data Studio 1.43 (Erin Stellato)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Enabling billing for Microsoft Teams APIs in Microsoft Graph (Ajit Kalele)
• Microsoft enhances Together mode experience in Teams (Kevin Okemwa)

Miscellaneous

• Sysmon v14.16 (Alex Mihaiuc)
• LinkedIn and Microsoft Entra introduce a new way to verify your workplace (Christine Barrett)
• PBS also stops tweeting after being hit with ‘Government-funded Media’ label (Jon Porter)
• The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down (Kim Lyons)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3685 (Chris Alcock)
• Bits and Bytes – 2023-1 (Joe Brinkman)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 12, 2023 (#066) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link