Dew Drop – June 30, 2023 (#3975)

Top Links

• Creating a VS Code editor extension (Tim Heuer)
• GitLab for Visual Studio, including code suggestions, available in Beta (Kai Armstrong)
• Jason Bock Explains What’s New in .NET 7 APIs (David Ramel)
• Web Rush Episode 240: There’s Something .NET MAUI with Jesse Liberty (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• Embedding vector caching (Craig Dunn)

Web & Cloud Development

• svelte.dev: A complete overhaul (Puru Vijay)
• Announcing dynamic JSON in the Azure Core library for .NET (Anne Thompson)
• How to choose between REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC vs. SOAP (Bruno Pedro)
• 100 Things You Should Know About Nuxt 3 (Nada Rifki)
• Microsoft Graph Data Connect pricing updates (Philip Li)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to create a Setup.exe file in Visual Studio (Renatu Ivanescu)
• How to Generate C# Business Object Class from a CSV File (Greg Lutz)
• Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes – v17.6.4 (Microsoft Learn)
• How To Parse String to DateTime in C# (Code Maze)
• Elevating C# Code Quality with Qodana: A Journey Towards Perfection (Matthias Koch)
• How to Display Recent Files in the Taskbar of Your .NET Application (Hunter Haaf)
• AddressSanitizer continue_on_error (Jim Radigan)
• How to wait for multiple C++ coroutines to complete before propagating failure, peeling away at a tuple (Raymond Chen)
• Rx.NET v6.0: Enhancing Compatibility, Trimming Support, and Many More (Almir Vuk)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Building Boba AI: Some lessons and patterns learnt in building an LLM-powered generative application (Martin Fowler)
• TDD and the Impact on Security (Sven Ruppert)
• Autonomous Testing: The Top 5 Tools and Their Benefits (Shanika Wickramasinghe)
• Scope Creep is Here to Stay (Andrew Mowe)
• Breaking cross-modal boundaries in multimodal AI: Introducing CoDi, composable diffusion for any-to-any generation (Brenda Potts)
• What Is Infrastructure as Code? (Claudio Bernasconi)
• The Role of Frontend Engineers in Design Systems, Part 2 (Hassan Djirdeh)
• GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available (Melody Mileski)
• Code therapy (AKA: Lessons from a “mental health” Hack Day) (Matt Lacey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Flutter 2023 Q1 survey — API breaking changes, deep linking, and more (JaYoung Lee)
• Add Progressive Profiling to Auth0 Authentication in Android Apps Built with Jetpack Compose (Joey deVilla)
• I’m Already Using 2 Dart 3 Features (Andrew Zuo)
• The new Water System in Unity 2022 LTS and 2023.1 (Adrien de Tocqueville, Rémi Chapelain, Val Grimm & Mathieu Muller)
• Now available: 12 recipes for popular visual effects using the Universal Render Pipeline (Eduardo Oriz, Miruna & Ali Mohebali)

Screencasts & Videos

• Mastering .NET MAUI SwipeView for Enhanced App Experience (James Montemagno)
• What I Wish I Knew… about how varied software engineering is (Eleanor Lewis)
• SQL Integration with Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers with Jasmine Greenaway (Scott Hanselman)
• Rocket 444: Who are the Mac Pro Pros? (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – A New Home for OneDrive! (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 585 – Making computer science more humane at Carnegie Mellon (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• Todd Howard isn’t ruling out Starfield coming to Steam Deck “down the road” (Robert Collins)
• Celebrating the community: Spencer (Sophie Ashford)

Database

• Control Referential Integrity Across SQL Server Databases and Identify Orphan Records (Alejandro Cobar)
• Is MariaDB simply a fork of MySQL? (Alejandro Duarte)
• SQL SERVER – Thread Pool Waits: Monitoring and Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• Restore SQL Server Backup to Docker Container (Josephine Bush)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• New Microsoft Teams for Education – Now in preview (Shashank Johri)
• A view to Microsoft Whiteboard UI refresh (Vesa Nopanen)
• Top 5 AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions – June 2023 (Elizabeth Samuels)

PowerShell

• Test if the connection is metered (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Wasp LSP 2.0 – Next-level autocompletion and IDE integration for Wasp projects! (Matija Sosic)
• Skilling snack: Accessibility in Windows 11 (Ben Watt)
• New AI-powered Microsoft Shopping tools arrive on the new Bing and Edge (Bing Team)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1972 and 22631.1972 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Bing will now surface AI-generated buying guides (Emma Roth)
• Microsoft Edge enhances user privacy with 5GB of free built-in VPN (Pranav Bhardwaj)
• Microsoft and Activision CEOs battle to keep a giant Xbox deal alive and You can now try Windows Copilot and native RAR and 7-Zip support in Windows 11 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3738 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – June 29, 2023 (#113) (Richard Seroter)
• Code Maze Weekly #179 (Vladimir Pecanac)

The Geek Shelf

 Git for Programmers (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link