Dew Drop – June 14, 2023 (#3964)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 5 (Daniel Roth)
• Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2 is here! (Taysser Gherfal)
• Tutorial: Build a simple photo viewer that targets multiple platforms (Luke Blevins)
• Announcing .NET 8 Preview 5 (Jiachen Jiang)
• Packt GPT HUB – Discovering the potential of GPT and AI with Packt (Packt Publishing)
• Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 5 (David Ortinau)

Web & Cloud Development

• Efficient Configuration Management in AKS: Integrating Azure App Configuration for Seamless Loading of Key-Value Pairs into Config Maps (Paul Yu)
• Public Preview: App Service support for .NET 8 and Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions and Public Preview: GraphQL resolvers for Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL in Azure API Management (Azure Team)
• Improving Mastodon developer documentation (Andy Piper)
• Expose your data from Azure Cosmos DB or Azure SQL through a GraphQL API with Azure API Management (Andrei Kamenev)
• Supporting legacy browsers and SameSite cookies without UserAgent sniffing in ASP.NET Core. (Andrew Lock)
• ASP.NET Core 8: Improved exception handling with IExceptionHandler (Anthony Giretti)
• Azure SDK Release (June 2023) (Azure SDK Team)
• How to Read Values From Query Strings In ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
• ai-hints.json: how the ecosystem will help the bots (Dion Almaer)
• Blazorex – An HTML Canvas wrapper library for Blazor (David Guida)
• Dapr v1.11.0 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Hannah Hunter)
• Blazor Essentials – New Guide Tutorial (Rachel Appel)
• Property Search: Enhanced Resource Search in Pulumi Cloud (Bryce Lampe)
• Configuring gRPC clients in .NET (Irina Scurtu)
• In-App Static Web Server with HttpListener in .Net (j2inet)
• BingAds SDK June 2023 Release (V13.0.16) (Jon Meyers)
• Microsoft Edge 115.0.1901.5 now available in the Dev Channel (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Inspecting HEX Data with Fiddler Everywhere (Nikolay Iliev)
• Exploring TypeScript 5 features: Smaller, simpler, faster (Oduah Chigozie)
• Announcing Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3.0 release candidate (Sébastien Levert)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Sneak Peek at 2023 Volume 2: Xamarin (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• Grial UI Kit 4 For .NET MAUI – April / May Update (UXDivers)
• Shell Flyout in .NET MAUI (Virendra Thakur)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Wolverine’s Runtime Architecture (Jeremy D. Miller)
• LINQPad’s AI preview features are now available in the latest LINQPad RTM! (Joe Albahari)
• Releasing .NET Framework 4.8.1 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Learning C# After Java: 5 Differences Explored (Darya Shirokova)
• C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code (Robert Krzaczyński)
• .NET Framework June 2023 Security and Quality Rollup (Salini Agarwal)
• The Privilege of .NET Tooling Choices (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Improved Doxygen Overload Resolution (Mryam Girmay)
• .NET June 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.7, .NET 6.0.18 (Rahul Bhandari)
• SIDs are really just another a fancy way of creating unique IDs in a decentralized way (Raymond Chen)
• Using Project Orleans to Build Actor-Based Solutions on the .NET platform (Chris Klug)
• Smart Documents: Embed Document Versions in PDF/A-3 Containers (Bjoern Meyer)
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.27 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6.3 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview 2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams (Martin Fowler)
• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI (Steven Levy)
• June patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Writing Unit Tests with ChatGPT (Jesse Liberty)
• DevOps Practices for Azure Infrastructure – Continuous Integration (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Meta Open Sources An AI-Powered Music Generator (BeauHD)
• OpenAI: Function calling and other API updates (Atty Eleti, Jeff Harris & Logan Kilpatrick)
• Tabbed navigation in UX: Where and when to use it (Eric Chung)
• ChatGPT Has a Lying Problem (Matthew MacDonald)
• Product management: A definitive guide (Nicole Somerstein)
• The caretaker model – our way of working (Urs Enzler)
• FluxCD for AKS Continuous Deployment (Private Repo) (Jason Farrell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• What’s new in Windows Holographic, version 23H1 (Lola Bryan)
• Updating Unity’s guiding principles for ethical AI (Marc Whitten)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Nikki Conley on Video Indexer (David Giard)
• Get started with Bridge to Kubernetes | Open at Microsoft (Tatsat Mishra & Hariharan Subramanian)
• How can I get started on Azure App Service? | One Dev Question (Yutang Lin)
• Level-Up Api Development with Endpoint Explorer in Visual Studio (Isaac Levin)
• Live Coding – Adaptive Cards in Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 461 (Jason Bock)
• What I wish I knew … about finding the right career path (Microsoft Developer)

Podcasts

• CodeNewbie S24:E6 – Surviving Cancer, Building Code, Thriving in Tech (Stacey Graham) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Smashing Podcast Episode 62 With Slava Shestopalov: What Is Design Management? (Drew McLellan)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Owner’s View on Understanding and Overcoming Agile Team Self-Destructive Patterns | Mirela Mus (Vasco Duarte)
• Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – Sync Up Revived! (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Made By Google Podcast – Everything You Need to Know About the June Pixel Feature Drop (Rachid Finge)
• RunAs Radio – High Availability in 2023 with Allan Hirt (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast #340 – Snorkel not included (Michael Kennedy)
• The ReadME Podcast – Bridging code and community (Neha Batra, Martin Woodward, Kelsey Hightoer, Kyler Middleton, Sara Rainsberger & farmbot)
• React Native Radio 268 – Embarking on Expo SDK 48 (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Carl Tashian (Isaac Levin)

Community & Events

• Advice from the community (Allison Kraker)
• 2023 Developer Survey results are in: the latest trends in technology and work from the Stack Overflow community and Hype or not? AI’s benefits for developers explored in the 2023 Developer Survey (Erin Yepis)
• Apply now: Google for Startups Accelerator launches applications for 4th Annual Women Founders and Black Founders cohorts (Iran Karimian & Matt Ridenour)
• What is Bluesky? (Bluesky Team)
• Unleashing variations on a theme through hackathons (Matthew Anderson)
• Mixed Reality, Metaverse, and Diversity in Tech (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

• Oracle Database 23c Free For Developers. How Free? (Nikos Vaggalis)
• Integer compression: Understanding FastPFor (Oren Eini)
• SQL Round Function to Round Numbers Up or Down (Rajendra Gupta)
• Sample Use Case for Using SQLCMD Utility Batch Files (Levi Masonde)
• 50 Minutes vs. 4 Hours for Database Performance Health Check (Pinal Dave)
• Avoid “Constants” in T-SQL (Matthew McGiffen)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Navigate ESLint in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Projects + Guidance (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Universal v4.0 (Ironman Software)

Miscellaneous

• A map from classroom to career (Bill Gates)
• Google Home’s Script Editor Is Now Live (BeauHD)
• Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, judge rules (Jay Peters)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3726 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

 Righting Software (Juval Lowy) – Referral Link