Dew Drop – May 2, 2023 (#3934)

Top Links

• Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy v0.7 with extended configuration options and improved simulating throttling (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)
• Add Neumorphism Look to your Mobile .NET apps with C# and XAML (Uno Platform Team)
• Reviving a Microsoft Zune in 2023 (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing Copilot Chat (Shannon Monroe)
• Web API development in Visual Studio 2022 (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)

Web & Cloud Development

• What’s new in Svelte: May 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
• Getting started with React and GraphQL: A beginner’s guide. (Ayanwumi Abdulroheem Tunde)
• What is the purpose of the Second Parameter in creating an Angular Signal? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Authorize EF Core CRUD Operations and Download Reports in Blazor WebAssembly with OData Web API (Eugeniy Burmistrov)
• List of Useful Premade React Hooks (John Au-Yeung)
• Microsoft Graph Data Connect pricing updates (Microsoft Graph Team)
• Migrate ASP.NET Web App to Azure App Service (Justin Yoo)
• Announcing new beta release of Azure Anomaly Detector client libraries (Louise Han)
• 5 Must-Have Angular Grid Column-Based Features (Zdravko Kolev)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Logo Redesign (Joachim Leonfellner)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Tip: Format Interpolated Strings (Davide Bellone)
• Using sizeof() Operator in C# (Code Maze)
• Top Microsoft NuGet Packages in 2023 (Dotnet Office)
• A quick note about WRL’s Chain­Interfaces template class (Raymond Chen)
• Reading Windows Application Manifest of an exe in .NET (Gérald Barré)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• DevOps vs. DevSecOps: Understanding the Key Differences – A Comprehensive Guide (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Calling internal ctors in your unit tests” (Phil Haack)
• Beyond the Hype: Is generative AI coming for programming jobs? (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 221 (Dan Hellem)
• AI isn’t the app, it’s the UI (Isaac Lyman)
• 10 Best Change Management Frameworks (JD Meier)
• Reflecting on our responsible AI program: Three critical elements for progress (Natasha Crampton)

Screencasts & Videos

• Introduction to Machine Learning for Beginners [Part 1] | Machine Learning for Beginners and The history of Machine Learning [Part 2] and Techniques for Machine Learning [Part 3] and Setup your tools ready to build Machine Learning models [Part 4] (Bea Stollnitz)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Brandon Campbell-Kearns (Maurice Cherry)
• The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – Josh King and Steven Bucher (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 119 – RSA 2023 – What We Saw, What We Learned, and What We’re Excited About (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The Changelog News Podcast – Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks’ latest tech radar & your docs aren’t “simple” (Jerod Santo)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 608 – RPC in JavaScript! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 566 – When AI meets IP: Can artists sue AI imitators? (Eira May)
• Andy Roberts: Data in a Development World – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 243 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community & Events

• OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project With Lawsuit Over API Use (BeauHD)
• Recomposed: Spring 1 (Stephanie Stimac)
• State of the Tech Workforce 2023 (Janet Swift)
• 9 Years of Managing The New Stack (Alex Williams)
• It’s getting easier to make an account on Mastodon (Emma Roth)
• Join a Pulumi User Group (PUG) Meetup! (Sara Huddleston)
• Contributor Stories: Brandon Cowen (Sherry List)
• Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival 2023: A Block-by-Block Guide (Visit Philly)
• Blue skies over Mastodon (Erin Kissane)

Database

• Remove Azure SQL Databases from a Failover Group and Remove Geo-Replication (Manvendra Singh)
• Fight for every byte it takes: Decoding the entries (Oren Eini)
• Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Manage (Mladen Andzic)
• Migration assessment for MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Sandeep S. Nair)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: April 2023 (Mark Kashman)
• What’s new in Microsoft Teams (free) | April 2023 (Miikka Oksanen)
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2023 (Steve Stein)

PowerShell

• Scheduling PowerShell Scripts with Puppet (Alejandro Cobar)
• How To Import the PowerShell Active Directory Module (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• SIMD with Zig (Karl Seguin)
• Ukraine Is Now Using Steam Decks To Control Machine Gun Turrets (BeauHD)
• Microsoft PowerToys 0.69.0: A breakdown of the new Registry Preview app (Mark W. Kaelin)
• eBay’s Blazingly Fast Billion-Scale Vector Similarity Engine (Santosh Shahane, Kui Yang, Leonard Dahlmann, Amarendra Belineni, Yan Sun, Shrivatsan Navalpakkam Rajagopalan & Pavel Petrushkov)
• Microsoft’s new Xbox Home UI looks way better with more room for backgrounds (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3697 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-18 (#70) (Michael Eaton)
• .NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #53 (davita8)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #101 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Wrap Up – May 1, 2023 (#079) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #553 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learning Blazor: Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C# (David Pine) – Referral Link