Dew Drop – June 26, 2023 (#3971)

Top Links

• Comparing MVVM and MVUX for building a Multi-Platform Application using .NET, C# and XAML with the Uno Platform (Nick Randolph)
• Announcing Svelte 4 (Svelte Team)
• .NET MAUI at Build 2023 Recap, Upgrade Assistant, & New VS Features | The .NET MAUI Podcast ep. 119 (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)
• Embed the eSignature solution into your Python application (Jayaprakash Kamaraj)
• DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now (David Pierce)

Web & Cloud Development

• Service Pack Update Strategy for TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool (Mikołaj Dobrucki)
• How To: Reference and Set a Database Connection String Using Entity Framework Core for Deployed Azure Functions. (Jamie Maguire)
• Announcement: Introducing .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) – Preview (Kent Weare)
• Which Load Balancing Option(s) In Azure Should I Use? (Santosh Hari)
• Angular Basics: Best Practices for Creating New Angular Components (Vyom Srivastava)
• W3C Announces New Web Payments Standard (Kay Ewbank)
• Breaking change: Enum property addition to teamworkdevices in Microsoft Graph (Abhishek Agrawal)
• CLS: Enhancing User Satisfaction and Conversion Rates on Your Website (Chris Love)
• Browser SSO / Automatic Signin (Eric Lawrence)
• All You Need to Know About CORS & CORS Errors (Leonardo Maldonado)
• 5 Ways OpenTelemetry Can Reduce Costs (Morgan McLean)
• Step-By-Step Guide to Develop a Microservice-Based Application Utilizing an API-Driven Approach (Amir Moradabadi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 5 Available: Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements (Robert Krzaczyński)
• What’s New in 2023 Volume 2: .NET MAUI Charts (Saravanan Madheswaran)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Error Bar Chart to Visualize the Thermal Expansion of Materials (Sowndharya Selladurai)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Beyond Relational with Entity Framework (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• Using encryption to verify a license key (Oren Eini)
• Critter Stack Multi-Tenancy and Critter Stack Futures (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What’s in Microsoft’s New C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code (David Ramel)
• Exploring the Features of C# 11: The Modern Capabilities of a Vibrant Language [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• How to Hash Passwords with BCrypt in C# (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Value Objects in C# and ArrayList in C# and DateTime Calendars in C# (Code Maze)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Accelerate your builds of SDK-style .NET projects (Leslie Richardson)
• ReSharper and Rider 2023.1.3 – Another Set of Bug-fixes Is Here (Sasha Ivanova)
• Missing Stack trace when eliding the await keyword (Steven Giesel)
• Sneak Peek 32.0: Introducing Footnotes (Bjoern Meyer)
• Include Cleanup and Visualize Macro Expansion (Mryam Girmay)
• Rider IDE Review (Nicholas Rini)
• How can I find out the last time a user logged on from C++? and What can go wrong if you release an SRWLock from a thread different from the one that acquired it? (Raymond Chen)
• There’s a package that you can use to get lots of details about where time is spent in the networking stack (it looks yarp specific but isn’t). (David Fowler)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• What is a ThinApp package and how good is it for app deployment? (Alex Marin)
• Removability over Maintainability (Oskar Dudycz)
• OpenAI Functions Calling the Poor Developer’s Vector Database (Michael Washington)
• GitLab 16.1 released with all new navigation (Chris Balane)
• Meet GitLab Duo, the suite of AI capabilities powering your workflows (David DeSanto)
• Generating Test Data With ChatGPT (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• What’s New with GitHub for ISVs: June 2023 Edition (Dhanashri Chavan)
• #Code – Building Plugins for ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing and Edge (Bruno Capuano)
• Does Machine Learning in Go Have a Future? (Sergey Kozlovskiy)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Build and Deploy Mobile Apps with Nuxt Ionic (Cecelia Martinez)
• CameraX 1.3 is now in Beta (Donovan McMurray)
• Optimizing Performance and Boosting FPS in Unity Games (Awesome!)
• Build a Multiplayer Game with Twilio Sync: Part 1 (Carlos Mucuho)
• Announcing FoldAwareColumn in Accompanist Adaptive (Kristen Halper)
• A Long Journey to an Uncertain End: Crafting an inclusive, queer space opera in Unity (Kylan Coats)
• Google’s Missing Flutter State Management Guide (Fred Grott)
• D3D12 Work Graphs Preview (Amar Patel)
• Agility SDK 1.711.3-preview: Work Graphs, Wave Matrix, AV1 Encoding (David Cook)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Andy Huang on Application Resiliency (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 161- Without Sensors, There is No IoT (Live from Sensors Converge 2023) (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• .NET MAUI and Telerik Components – Part 5 – 5 controls that makes your apps better (Daniel Hindrikes)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 464 (Jason Bock)
• What I Wish I Knew… about managing frustration (Elvis Adorkor)
• What I Wish I Knew… about classes vs. the real world (Nick Ryan)
• Fireside Chat: The Intersection of AI and Software Development (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

• .NET Core Podcast – Mixed Reality, the Metaverse, and Making Magic Happen with Simon Jackson (Jamie Taylor)
• CppCast – Contracts (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Who’s Coding? with Dr. Kate Miltner (Scott Hanselman)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 132: Virtual Reality (Ben Nadel)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 088 – Starting a Cloud Career in AWS with Morgan Willis (David Isbitski)
• React Native Radio 270 – Diving into React Native 0.72 with Lorenzo Sciandra and Riccardo Cipolleschi (Lorenzo Sciandra, Riccardo Cipolleschi, Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• The Changelog – Rebuilding DevOps from the ground up (Adam Jacob, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• DevOps: Everything You Need to Know with Mirco Hering – Adventures in DevOps 166 (Jonathan Hall)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps (Matt Ray)
• Leading teams through DevOps with Kevin LaBranche – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 251 (Jeffery Palermo)
• PPP 383 | Feeling Stuck? The Science of Getting Unstuck, with Adam Alter (Andy Kaufman)
• C#’s New Features with Ian Griffiths – Adventures in .NET 149 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough, Wai Liu, Mark Miller & Christian Wenz)
• ONPODCAST EP. 119: Microsoft and FTC showdown, rescheduling Mail and Calendar update, Google goes to the FTC over Azure (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Visual Facilitation and Dynamic Collaboration, The Secrets of a Remarkable Product Owner | Amruta Beri (Vasco Duarte)
• Sad Python Girls Club Episode 19 – Jay Miller (Kim-Adeline Miguel & Luciana Abud)
• Software Engineering Radio 569: Vladyslav Ukis on Rolling out SRE in an Enterprise (Brijesh Ammanath)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Errors vs Exceptions, Reddit Rebels, and the 2023 StackOverflow Survey (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Collaborators: Renewable energy storage with Bichlien Nguyen and David Kwabi (Alyssa Hughes)
• Meta Cast 257 – The Power of Positivity in Software Engineering: Boosting Performance, Efficiency, and Well-being (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Rocket 443: The Thrust is Wrong (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast – Cleaning your Big Ball of Mud using CQS – with Matt Hunt (Dan Clarke)
• UI Breakfast Episode 270: Prototyping for Mobile with Dan LaCivita (Jane Portman)
• JS Party Podcast – Is print debugging good enough? (Eric Clemmons, Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball & Amal Hussein)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast – There’s a whole PEP about that (Brett Cannon, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Benefits of Attending Tech Conferences (And How to Be a Speaker) – Adventures in Angular 383 (Lucas Paganini)
• Fragmented – An Android Developer Podcast #248 – Feature Flags & A/B Testing: A Deep Dive with Ishan Khanna (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 583 – Throwing away the script on testing (Eira May)
• UX Podcast – Season 2 update from James and Per (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• AGL 317: Managing Up with Nick Means (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• Top things to know from Google Play at Google I/O ’23 (Tom Grinsted)
• Monetizing open-source development and supporting the community (Dennis Doomen)
• Semantic Kernel at Microsoft BUILD 2023: Highlights from the Q&A Session (Evan Chaki)
• Contributor Stories: Hisham Bin Ateya (Kiran Chandratrey)
• Meet the Skilling Champion Adam Marczak (Rie Moriguchi)
• Todd Howard divulges more on Starfield in Kinda Funny Xcast appearance (Robert Collins)
• Moderation in a Public Commons (Bluesky Team)

Database

• SQL Server Deadlocks – Interview Q and A and SQL Server 2022 – Degree of Parallelism (DOP) Feedback for Optimize Query Performance (Pinal Dave)
• SQL CASE Statement in Where Clause to Filter Based on a Condition or Expression (Rajendra Gupta)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Announcing public preview of Bot Framework powered Viva Connections extensibility (Vesa Juvonen)
• How to get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Zachary Cavanell)

PowerShell

• Changing the default sound device (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Wasp Launch Week #3: Magic (Matija Sosic)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23486 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1906 and 22631.1906 and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.3154 to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Learning Rust : 06 – Ownership – Part 1 (Fady GA)
• paint.net 5.0.7 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Retrieve Image Dimensions (Thorsten Hans)
• Rust: Improved API tokens for crates.io (Tobias Bieniek)
• Sony’s PlayStation chief privately said Microsoft’s Activision deal wasn’t about Xbox exclusives and Microsoft was working on a separate ‘dedicated’ version of Xbox Cloud Gaming and Microsoft opened the FTC hearing with a Sony bombshell (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3733 and The Morning Brew #3734 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #25, 2023 – Do not miss NEXT MONDAY! (Sergey Tihon)
• Code Maze Weekly #178 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Dev News: Svelte 4, Deno Update, AWS AI Fund, Figma Dev Mode (Loraine Lawson)
• The Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not? (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Daily Reading List – June 21, 2023 (#109) and Daily Reading List – June 23, 2023 (#110) (Richard Seroter)
• Collective #770 (Manoela Ilic)
• C# Digest Issue #460 – June 26, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3: Hands-On Building of Cross-Platform Desktop, Mobile, and Web Applications That Can Run Anywhere (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link