Dew Drop – April 28, 2023 (#3932)

Top Links

• Developing Android Apps on Windows Arm Devices (James Montemagno)
• Jetchat with OpenAI on Android (Craig Dunn, Kristen Halper and Parker Schroeder)
• Windows client roadmap update (Jason Leznek)
• Exploring JavaScript and TypeScript Development in Visual Studio (Jiayan Chen)
• Part 2 – Babylon.js 6.0: Key Rendering Advancements (Jason Carter and Thomas Luccini)
• Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.2! Faster generators, code fixers, performance improvements and more! (Sergio Pedri)

Web & Cloud Development

• CSS content-visibility (David Walsh)
• WebContainers now run on Safari, iOS, and iPadOS (Sylwia Vargas)
• Moving Angular CLI to Jest and Web Test Runner (Doug Parker)
• Write Better CSS By Borrowing Ideas From JavaScript Functions (Yaphi Berhanu)
• HTML, XML, JSON, and JWT Visualizers in Rider 2023.1 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How to Add SSO to a Next.js App Using Clerk (Peter Mbanugo)
• Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? (Robin Guldener)
• Wasp Auth UI: The first full-stack auth with self-updating forms! (Matija Sosic)
• Introducing informative and actionable tooltips for the PWABuilder Action Items list! (Jaylyn Barbee)
• Consistent API designs make people feel outrageously smart (Arnaud Lauret)
• Interface Segregation Principle in TypeScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Cloud Native Basics: 4 Concepts to Know (Khallai Taylor)
• Getting Up and Running with Google Analytics 4 (Luke Hay)
• Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval (Ruchir Jha, Brian Harrington & Yingwu Zhao)
• Exploring Zoom’s REST and GraphQL APIs with Postman (Pooja Mistry)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• WPF MessageBox – Text Selection, Button Images, Closing Timer (v22.2) (Anzhelika Andronova)
• VisualTransition and State Animations in WinUI and the Windows App SDK (Nick Randolph)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Use Case: Blood Pressure Report with Charts in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Store JSON in an Entity Field With EF Core (Code Maze)
• What’s New for CMake Tools 1.14 in VS Code – Test Explorer (Sinem Akinci)
• Building a CRUD API with Dapper (Assis Zang)
• Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 6.5.4 – Release Date April 27, 2023 and Support Corner: Using Obfuscation Attributes With Dotfuscator (PreEmptive Team)
• What’s up with this new memory_order_consume memory order? (Raymond Chen)
• JetBrains Toolbox App 1.28 Is Out! (Victor Kropp)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• MSIX Java (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Advanced Installer 20.6 (Advanced Installer Team)
• Copilot Tech Shines at Build 2023 As Microsoft Morphs into an AI Company (David Ramel)
• Download The Captain Marvel Font For Your Designs (Bogdan Sandu)
• Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby (Victor Tangermann)
• Why you should practice rollbacks to prevent data loss in a ransomware attack (Christine Barrett)
• ML experiment: Generate tests for code changes (Kai Armstrong)
• Pulumi AI: The Fastest Way to Discover, Learn, and Build Infrastructure as Code (Luke Hoban)
• This is What it Feels Like to be Bullied Out of a Job You Love (Radical Candor Team)
• Product Discovery Methods for a Product Delivery World (Travis Lowdermilk)
• How Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Came to Be—and Where It’s Going Next (Paresh Dave)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Android Releases Graphics Shapes Library (Kay Ewbank)
• Date and Time Calculations in Swift, Part 1 and Date and Time Calculations in Swift, Part 2 (Joey deVilla)
• Ionic CLI V7 (Mike Hartington)
• How to initiate guest access for remote collaboration with Parsec for Teams (JonnyLee Giard)
• Tip: Update your Magic Leap SDK the easy way (James Ashley)
• Create Powerful Native Mobile Apps with Capacitor & VanillaJS (Simon Grimm)
• From Blind Driving Assists to One Touch Driving, Meet The Most Accessible Forza Motorsport Ever (Neha Chintala)

Screencasts & Videos

• Azure Virtual Desktop enterprise configuration options (Microsoft Mechanics)
• C# and nullable reference types (Daniel Hindrikes)
• .NET MAUI + Blazor Hybrid Tutorial for Beginners – Build mobile, desktop, & web apps with C# (James Montemagno)
• The Download: New GitHub Merch, What Developer’s Need to Know About AI, New OSS dev tools and more (Christina Warren)
• What to expect at Microsoft Build (Scott Hanselman)
• Use API Management Authorizations and Power Platform to integrate with third party services faster | The Low Code Revolution (Julia Kasper)
• Microsoft Designer (Microsoft 365 Team)

Podcasts

• .NET Core Podcast – A .NET Discussion with Isaac Levin (Jamie Taylor)
• Developer Tea – Planning is About Creating Clarity, Not Certainty (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Courage to Tinker with WeThinkCode’s Nyari Samushonga (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 412: We’re at a Kubernetes Conference (Cote & Matt Ray)
• The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – The bar sessions (James Petty)
• Complete Developer Podcast – DDOS Attacks (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 565 – How a top-ranked engineering school reimagined CS curriculum (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 231: Quickly Publishing Your Web App to Static Web Apps (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 266: Driving Change with Maria Giudice (Jane Portman)
• .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 118: …and we’re back (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)
• Rocket 435: Only Mergers In The Building (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)

Community & Events

• Get ready for Google I/O (Timothy Jordan)
• Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI and Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce (Emma Roth)
• Machine Learning Communities: Q1 ‘23 highlights and achievements (Nari Yoon, Bitnoori Keum, Hee Jung & Soonson Kwon)
• 100 Women in Tech to Follow & Learn From (Sabine Wede)
• My Key Takeaways from the Microsoft MVP Summit 2023 (Isidora Katanic)

Database

• SQL Server vs. Snowflake for Data Warehousing (Sergey Gigoyan)
• Fight for every byte it takes: Fitting 64 values in 4 bits (Oren Eini)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• April 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Using the Windows Credential Manager from PowerShell (Daniel Fisher)
• Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces | Warp (Zach Lloyd)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1680 and 22624.1680 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Looking for job perks? How about saving the world? (Ritika Puri)
• 5 tips for creating a movie in Google Photos on Chromebook (Sophia Lopes)
• Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued in favor of Surface accessories (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3696 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 26, 2023 (#076) and Daily Wrap Up – April 27, 2023 (#077) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link