Dew Drop – May 26, 2023 (#3952)

Top Links

• Hosting Native Controls – Moving from Xamarin Forms Renderers to Uno Platform Controls (Uno Platform Team)
• Create a Place Explorer App Using .NET MAUI and ChatGPT (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Democratic Inputs to AI (Wojciech Zaremba, Arka Dhar, Lama Ahmad, Tyna Eloundou, Shibani Santurkar, Sandhini Agarwal & Jade Leung)
• All-In-One Search available in Visual Studio 2022 17.6 (Leah Tran)
• Visual Studio Unified Settings: Share Your Feedback! (Grace Taylor)

Web & Cloud Development

• Manage multiple Node.js versions (Alexandre Nedelec)
• Typed exceptions for JSInterop in Blazor (Kristoffer Strube)
• How to Use Code Behind for Blazor Components – 2 Solutions (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Azure Communications Services at Microsoft Build (Daysha Carter)
• Building (and Testing) Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 7 (Peter Vogel)
• Announcing the stable release of the Azure Event Hubs client library for Go (Richard Park)
• Azure Communication Services: Microsoft’s powerful tool for call automation (Simon Bisson)
• EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C Recommendation (Xueyuan Jia)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• MAUI App Accelerator version 1.3 is now available! (Matt Lacey)
• MSBuild 2023 – Focus on .NET MAUI and Blazor Hybrid (Vijay Anand E G)
• One of our favorite and most used apps built with Avalonia UI is Lunacy by Icons8. (Avalonia UI Team)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Inversed Column Chart to Visualize Meta Reality Labs’s Yearly Operating Loss (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
• Thanks to all that joined my lightning demo today about using Angular, React, and any JS in your .NET MAUI apps with our experimental HybridWebView. Get the links. (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Upskilling: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers now in C# (Mike Francis)
• The new Windows MIDI Services – Spring 2023 Update (Pete Brown)
• How to Map DateOnly and TimeOnly Types to SQL (Code Maze)
• How can I trigger a recalc of the mouse cursor after I changed some of my internal application state?, follow-up (Raymond Chen)
• How does TryGetNonEnumeratedCount work? (Steven Giesel)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Convert Your MSIX Package Into MSI and Add new file to an embedded MSI CAB (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Advanced Installer 20.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
• The Impact Of Agile Methodologies On Code Quality (Sarah Oke Okolo)
• Managing a Windows File Share as part of your Azure DevOps Release (Kevin LaBranche)
• DirectML at Build 2023 (Adele Parsons)
• How do we best govern AI? (Brad Smith)
• Expert advice on the right meeting cadence for every kind of meeting (Deanna deBara)
• 6 tips for creating your presentations in Sketch (Gabrielle van Welie)
• Rooting with root cause: finding a variant of a Project Zero bug (Man Yue Mo)
• Microsoft Build 2023: Microsoft extends its Copilots with open standard plugins (Simon Bisson)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Delivering Messages at the scale of the World Cup (Michelangelo Mecozzi)
• Blossoming love for Compose animation (Kristen Halper)
• Accessing texture data efficiently (Nico Leyman)

Screencasts & Videos

• Ledger in Azure Managed Instance | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 157 – Generative Digital Transformation (live from Qualcomm DX Summit 2023) (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• Microsoft Build opening | KEY01H (Satya Nadella)
• The era of the AI Copilot | KEY02H (Kevin Scott)
• Next generation AI for developers with the Microsoft Cloud | KEY03H (Scott Guthrie)
• Speed up your builds of SDK-style .NET projects | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Drew Noakes)

Podcasts

• .NET Core Podcast – Docker for .NET Devs With Carl Sargunar (Jamie Taylor)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Daniel Roe (Scott Hanselman)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 574 – How the creator of Angular is dehydrating the web (Eira May)
• Rocket 439: Human Errors (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Azure Podcast Episode 462 – AKS LTS (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• Web Rush Episode 235: Playwright with Debbie O’Brien (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• UI Breakfast Episode 268: UI Typography with Oliver Schöndorfer (Jane Portman)
• TWiT News 393: Microsoft Build 2023 Keynote Day 2 (Paul Thurrott)

Community & Events

• Microsoft Build 2023 Keynote, Day 2 (David Giard)
• Five Years at Microsoft and Next Adventures (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)

Database

• Checking Cross-Database Referential Integrity in SQL Server – Part 1 (Alejandro Cobar)
• SQL Server 2022 – Thread Management for Performance Improvement (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Azure Data Studio 1.44 (Erin Stellato)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Backing Up and Restoring Deleted Files in OneDrive (Kenelle Moore)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25375 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1825 and 22631.1825 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Compute a SHA256 Hash of a File (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3714 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – May 25, 2023 (#097) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link