Dew Drop – May 15, 2023 (#3943)

Top Links

• Introducing Dart | Windows (Tim Sneath)
• Windows App SDK Stable Channel Release Notes – Version 1.3.1 (1.3.230502000) (Microsoft Learn)
• Uno.Resizetizer for Automated Image Resizing in Cross-Platform .NET Apps (Uno Platform Team)
• Introducing Deopt Explorer (Ron Buckton)
• Level up your GPT game with prompt engineering (Luis Quintanilla)

Web & Cloud Development

• Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python (Azure Team)
• Embracing the fold: Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices With CSS (Stephanie Stimac)
• Fixing Angular Standalone Components that have a circular dependency (Tim Deschryver)
• Kubernetes 1.27: updates on speeding up Pod startup (Paco Xu, Sergey Kanzhelev & Ruiwen Zhao)
• How to Secure Azure OpenAI Keys Using Environment Variables, Azure Vault, and Streamlit Secrets (Ajit Dash)
• Use Azure PIM with groups in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• Angular Basics: A Primer for Getting Started with TypeScript in Angular (John Au-Yeung)
• Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries (Mario Guerra)
• Transcribe phone calls in real time with Twilio, Vosk, and ASP.NET Core (Mark Heath)
• #CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions (Marco Siccardi)
• Angular v16 Has Arrived (Signals and Wsshh! Sounds) (Petar Grigorov)
• Introducing Postbot, Postman’s new AI assistant (Abhijit Kane)
• Announcing the new lightweight Postman API Client and sunsetting Scratch Pad (Abhinav Asthana)
• New TLDs: Not Bad, Actually (Eric Lawrence)
• How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension (Rizel Scarlett)
• The GoLand 2023.2 Early Access Program Has Started! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Windows App SDK Version 1.3.1 Release: Critical Bug Fixes and Improvements for Developers (Kunal Chowdhury)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# HashSet: A Comprehensive Guide (Anoop Kumar)
• Getting Started With GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code (Kingsley Ubah)
• Implementing WinUI/Fluent into Visual Studio (Nick Randolph)
• What are the duck-typing requirements of wil com_ptr? (Raymond Chen)
• Folders versus namespaces (Mark Seemann)
• URI Encode and Decode in .NET (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Why Care About Your Purpose, Mission, and Vision? (J.D. Meier)
• Bing Preview Release Notes: Images in Chat Answers, and More (Bing Team)
• Designing Sticky Menus: UX Guidelines (Vitaly Friedman)
• Improving Productivity Using the 3 M’s. (Jamie Maguire)
• How to release value to customers faster, safer, easier (Matt Hilbert)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter 4.0 New Features (Sajjad Daved)
• Why Dart May Be The Most Important Language In Programming (Andrew Zuo)

Screencasts & Videos

• The Simplest Way to List Data in ASP.NET (Isaac Levin)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 155 – More With Less (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• GCast 148: Working with ChatGPT (David Giard)
• How do I set up MRTK3 in Unity and Enable OpenXR Settings for HoloLens? | One Dev Q&A (Zaid Zaim)
• OpenAI – Setting Up a New Account (Microsoft Healthcare & Life Blog Videos)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 455 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Hiring and Growing Great Site Reliability Engineers (Narayanan Raghavan)
• OnPodcast Ep. 113: Microsoft secures AI Chat, Windows 11 Widgets get updates, ASUS Ally specs (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Merge Conflict 358: Google I/O 2023 Recap – AI , Dark Mode (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• GeekWire Podcast: Google I/O highlights, AI risks and rewards, and the future of creativity (Todd Bishop)
• What it Takes to be a DevOps Engineer – Adventures in DevOps 162 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Customer-Centric Product Ownership, and how it grows the product IQ of the Scrum team | Manuele Piastra (Vasco Duarte)
• Fragmented – An Android Developer Podcast #245: Treehouse, Redwood and Zipline with Colin White (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 083 – Decoding the Future of Safe and Efficient Programming with Rust and Tim McNamara (David Isbitski)
• The Amp Hour #632 – Steve Sanghi – Microchip CEO for 31 Years! (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 267: Content Testing with Erica Jorgensen (Jane Portman)
• Modern Databases with Ryan Booz – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 245 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• AGL 311: Identity Management with Kevin Dominik Korte (John Rouda)
• PowerShell News Podcast Episode 050 – Interview with James Backman from ConFreaks and PowerShell News Podcast Episode 051 – Interview with Patrick Callihan, Heidi Erpelding-Welch, & Jasmine Swint with TechImpact (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Gitlab vs Github, AI vs Microservices (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• JS Party Podcast – Making web art the hard way (Alex Miller, Jerod Santo & Amelia Wattenberger)

Community & Events

• Android 14 played a surprisingly small role in Google’s I/O keynote (Allison Johnson)
• Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack (Waldek Mastykarz)
• Learn How to Modernize Your Applications at AWS Serverless Innovation Day (Marcia Villalba)
• Microsoft Maps Roadshow in Amsterdam June 7, 2023 (Bing Team)
• Microsoft Build 2023: Innovation through Microsoft commercial marketplace (Kristin Gallagher)
• Sparking the Passions of Young Coders With Code Nation (Kristin Kaeding)
• Becoming a Microsoft MVP (Steven Giesel)
• Meet Studio +254: UX Researcher, Amina Hassan Said Islam (Microsoft Design Team)

Database

• Script to Decode SQL Server Locking and Blocking Wait Resources (Eric Blinn)
• The Importance of SQL Server Performance Tuning in the Cloud (Matthew McGiffen)
• Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early-May 2023 (Azure Team)
• A few notes on running open source project after Marten v6 release (Oskar Dudycz)
• Open Source MongoDB Alternative FerretDB Now Generally Available (Renato Losio)
• Beyond Relational with Traditional Databases – Working with JSON, Spatial data and Full-Text Search (Giorgi Dalakishvili)

PowerShell

• Running PowerShell as Scheduled Task without window popping up (Daniel Fisher)
• Passing variables between PowerShell file tasks in classic Azure DevOps pipelines (Kevin LaBranche)

Miscellaneous

• raises (ThreddyRex)
• Sharing Variables between Languages with Polyglot Notebooks (Matt Eland)
• Twitter’s new CEO is Linda Yaccarino, a longtime ad exec for NBCU (Emma Roth)
• Prosecutors in Colorado conduct in-depth data analysis to help reduce racial disparities (Merisa Heu-Weller)
• paint.net 5.0.4 beta (build 8529) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3705 (Chris Alcock)
• Dev News: Dart 3 Meets Wasm, Flutter 3.10, and Qwik ‘Streamable JavaScript’ (Loraine Lawson)
• The Overflow #177: The AI is the UI (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Code Maze Weekly #172 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• C# Digest Issue #454 – May 15, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #19, 2023 – Microsoft Build 2023, May 23-24 (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – May 12, 2023 (#088) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading List 304 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, 7th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link