Dew Drop – April 20, 2023 (#3926)

Top Links

• CoreWCF 1.4.0 Preview release (Matt Connew)
• Elevate Your App’s User Experience with the New .NET MAUI Shimmer Control (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)
• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code Update – April 2023 (Junjie Li)
• Orleans – Cloud Native application framework for .NET – Release v7.1.2 (Reuben Bond)
• Introduction to gRPC with Fiddler Everywhere (Nikolay Iliev)
• Visual Studio Git Tooling Preview Features to Enhance Productivity (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript Async – Basic Worker (Ian Elliot)
• How to write type-safe CSS Modules (Alain Perkaz)
• Svelte Furthers Enterprise Readiness with SvelteKit General Availability and Svelte 4 Roadmap (Bruno Couriol)
• Upgrading our CSS habits: aspect-ratio (Chris Heilmann)
• TypeScript in React – How to Manage State with Firebase Cloud Firestore (Olasunkanmi Balogun)
• 4 cloud cost optimization strategies with Microsoft Azure (Paola Annis)
• Launch a React App in a Docker Environment (Suriyakumar Arumugam)
• Next-Level JavaScript File Handling: Advanced Techniques and Patterns (Vision NP)
• Announcing easier API authentication in Postman (Avinash Choudhary)
• Introducing npm package provenance (Brian DeHamer)
• Unleash the power of APIs: Strategies for innovation (Naga Surendran)
• Choosing a container platform (Nikita Dergilev)
• Introduction to Elasticsearch (Rama Krishna Panguluri)
• Jumpstart your work with new collection templates (Shruti Duge)
• Supercharge Your Authorization System with FGA (Vincenzo Chianese)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Simplest dependency injection setup for WPF and Prism 6 (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• Microsoft.UI.Xaml (WinUI) Release v2.8.3 (Ranjesh J.)
• global (and implicit) using directives – but for XAML? (Matt Lacey)
• Part 4: How to Migrate Xamarin.Forms Renderers to .NET MAUI Handlers? Should We? (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Introducing the ‘Super Clean’ Visual Studio – for Mac – extension! (Calvin A. Allen)
• Short Circuit Evaluation of IF Statements with Await in C# (Code Maze)
• Today’s random F# code: Using measures to give types more meaning (Urs Enzler)
• The case of the unhandled exception in a brokered Windows Runtime component (Raymond Chen)
• Exploring .NET 8 Preview 3: The 7 Features You Need to Know (ByteHide)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Diagramming Finite State Machines with Mermaid.js (Matt Eland)
• Turning Azure virtual machines on and off from a GitHub action (Joost van Schaik)
• Create a GitHub Action in Visual Studio to Deploy Your .NET Web App automatically to Azure on Every Commit (Thomas Claudius Huber)
• Snapchat is releasing its AI chatbot to everyone for free (Alex Heath)
• Unifying learning from preferences and demonstration via a ranking game for imitation learning (Alyssa Hughes)
• Monitor your application performance with Prometheus and Grafana (Dennis Fruhauff)
• Private vulnerability reporting now generally available (Eric Tooley)
• Color Mechanics In UI Kits (Adel Khamatov)
• Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’ and ‘a pathological liar’: report (James Vincent)
• How we’re building a culture of respect at Google (Melonie Parker)
• Assembla now allows you to see Travis CI build statuses (Montana Mendy)
• Making the switch: empowering manual testers to automate their API tests (Pooja Mistry)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Image Manipulation with Shaders — Flutter (Karthik Ponnam)
• The Role of the Database in Mobile App Development (Mark Gamble)

Screencasts & Videos

• Agile Transformation Isn’t About Culture Change (Mike Cottmeyer)
• A fireside chat on education, technology, and almost everything in between (Bill Gates)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Continuous Feedback with Roni Dover (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 603 – Can Vanilla CSS Replace Sass Yet? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 123: Negative 10x Developers (Ben Nadel)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How To Help Your Team Embrace Scrum Values and Principles | Harri Tunturivuori and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Success is Fostering a Culture of Continuous Improvement as a Scrum Master | Harri Tunturivuori (Vasco Duarte)
• Web Rush Episode 230: Semantic HTML (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Rework Podcast Episode 59, Season 2 – Listener Questions Part 3 (Kimberly Rhodes)
• Welcoming Our New Adventures in .NET Hosts – Adventures in .NET 142 (Shawn Clabough)
• The Changelog – How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Zach Latta, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Practical AI Podcast – Capabilities of LLMs (Rajiv Shah, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Talk Python to Me #412: PEP 711 – Distributing Python Binaries (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Engineering Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with Vitess (Michael Stonebraker)

Community & Events

• 5 reasons to join us at Securely Migrate and Optimize with Azure (Chhavi Nijhawan)
• Meta’s latest layoffs cut employees in technical roles (Jay Peters)
• The world needs cybersecurity experts – Microsoft expands skilling effort with a focus on women (Kate Behncken)
• Disney Set To Eliminate Thousands of Jobs Starting Next Week (msmash)

Database

• Using JavaScript community modules in Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release (Martin Bach)
• Deploying RavenDB with Helm Chart (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• record the meeting (ThreaddyRex)
• Facebook Users Can Now File a Claim For $725 Million Privacy Settlement (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23440 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25346 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Microsoft is reportedly working on a smaller Surface Pro and Arm-powered Surface Go 4 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3690 (Chris Alcock)
• This Week In React #142: React-Query, Million, OpenNext, Ariakit, Expo-Image, React-Three-Fiber, TS 5.1, Node.js 20, WebGPU… (Sebastien Lorber)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 19, 2023 (#071) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)