Dew Drop – July 18, 2023 (#3986)

The Morning Dew took a sick day yesterday, so today’s post is super-sized.

Top Links

• Visual Studio: Introducing a powerful new Extension Manager (Maia Kelner)
• Mitchel Sellers: Architecting .NET MAUI – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 254 (Jeffery Palermo)
• Understanding Windows Authentication (Steve Syfuhs)
• Xbox’s Major Nelson is leaving Microsoft after 22 years (Jay Peters)
• Merge Conflict 367: NativeAOT for iOS & .NET MAUI Lands in VS Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Replicating Uber Delivery UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Web & Cloud Development

• Javascript Jems – Lambda expressions (Mike James)
• How we built a GPT code agent that generates full-stack web apps in React & Node.js, explained simply (Martin Sosic)
• Adding Application Insights Logging to an ASP.NET app using the .NET SDK (David Giard)
• Azure OpenAI RAG Pattern using a SQL Vector Database (Michael Washington)
• The Yin and Yang of Next.js 13 — Understanding Server Components and Server-Side Rendering (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Document Viewer: Pre-Select Form Fields Client-Side using JavaScript and Document Viewer 31.3.1 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
• Microtask Queues in Node.js Event Loop (Chisom Kanu)
• Deploying with Azure Static Apps is even faster with the new HTML preset, check it out (Chris Noring)
• Docker for Developers: Understanding the Core Concepts (Dan Wahlin)
• Angular Signals – How to use them in a simple way? (Domenic Helfenstein)
• Best Practices for Testing Vue Applications (Ezekiel Lawson)
• Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago? (Geoff Graham)
• Shared Hosting vs Managed WordPress Hosting: Which is Best? (Jen Swisher)
• Wolverine has some new tricks to reduce boilerplate code in HTTP endpoints (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Best Practices for WordPress on Azure App Service (Radhika Bolineni)
• Integrating eSignatures into Your PHP Laravel Application (Ramesh Thangaraj)
• What’s New in Blazor Diagram: 2023 Volume 2 (Sarathkumar V.)
• PhpStorm 2023.1.4 is released (Tania Goral)
• Angular Basics: How to Use the Event Emitter with Examples (Vyom Srivastava)
• JWTs on a Journey — Sending JWT Access Tokens across APIs (Judith Kahrer)
• ESLint v8.45.0 released (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Creating A Redirect in Astro (Ted Krueger)
• Postbot is now in open beta—try it today (Abhijit Kane)
• URL.canParse (David Walsh)
• Google Chat APIs now generally available to all Workspace developers (Mike Rhemtulla)
• 4 Top Tips for Developing Your Website (Janus Atienza)
• .NET Lambda Annotations Framework is now generally available (Norm Johanson)
• How to Create A Mock Twilio Lookup API (Prosper Ugbovo)
• Mounting Key Vault Secrets into AKS with CSI Driver (Jason Farrell)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Efficiently Randomize an Array in C# and MediatR Publish and Send Methods (Code Maze)
• Building Intelligent Applications with OpenAI and C#: A Step-by-Step Guide to Get Started (Neel Bhatt)
• Extended C# Support in ReSharper and Rider 2023.2 EAP 9 (Sasha Ivanova)
• Log Formatters in C# (Bruno Sonnino)
• Syncfusion Updates Flagship Solution with Goodies for Blazor, .NET MAUI, More (David Ramel)
• Micro-optimization: Concatenating a string with a char using string.Concat (Gérald Barré)
• How to clone a Windows Runtime vector in the face of possible concurrent modification, part 3 and Cloning a Windows Runtime vector in the face of possible concurrent modification, denial of service? (Raymond Chen)
• Modernizing Rx.NET (Ian Griffiths)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – July 2023 (Steef-Jan Wiggers, Daniel Bryant, Matt Campbell, Helen Beal & Abby Bangser)
• Decision Makers Guide to Microsoft Fabric – Microsoft Fabric and Generative AI (Ian Griffiths)
• How to Configure Firewall Rules via MSI with Custom Actions and How to Handle Process Custom Actions in MSI Packaging (Alex Marin)
• Service Bus Traffic Test (Paul Michaels)
• A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs (Albert Ziegler)
• Source Code Security Best Practices: A Complete Guide (Claudia Fernandes)
• Bcrypt and a Short History of Password Hashing (Jessica Wachtel)
• Works on most machines (Mark Seemann)
• Accessibility Considerations in the Software Development Process (Oded Sharon)
• Introducing Agent Terminals in TeamCity (Olga Bedrina)
• Maker vs. Manager: How To Schedule For Your Productivity Style (Stella Garber)
• Fluent design system development for designers (Tom Resing)
• Software Quality Management: A Guide for Development Leaders (Tyler Hakes)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• ChatGPT Tries to Add Auth0 Authentication to an iOS App, Round Two! (Joey deVilla)
• Best Practices for Anonymous Authentication (Alexander Nohe & Peter Friese)
• Where might AI take gamedev next? (Luc Barthelet)
• Build your own App Router in Capacitor Apps with VanillaJS (Simon Grimm)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Mike Amundsen on HyperCLI and HyperLANG (David Giard)
• Develop .NET MAUI Apps on Linux with VS Code: Complete Guide (Gerald Versluis)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 164 – It’s All About Semiconductors (Live from SEMICON West 2023) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• SwiftUI Architecture: Best Practices for Building iOS Apps (Women Who Code)
• Adding Third Party Blazor Components with abstraction layer in ‘Next Tech Event’ | Part 22 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• Why is my computer using only even numbered processes? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)
• What I Wish I Knew… about the impact of working at Microsoft (Elvis Adorkor)
• How to create an avatar for Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Advice for Remote and Hybrid Leaders (Julien Danjou)
• Revision Path – Kevin Tufts (Maurice Cherry)
• InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends 2023 (Abby Bangser, Helen Beal, Matt Campbell & Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Meta Cast 258 – The Death of Innovation: Uncovering the Missing Spark in Agile and Beyond (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – From Nurse Practitioner to DevOps Engineer with Brandi McCall (Rob Slaughter)
• The Changelog – Magical shell history, engineers should focus on writing, LazyVim, CSS in 2023 & bad issue tracker behaviors (Jerod Santo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 467 – OneStream’s plans for becoming more cloud native on Azure (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Adoption Through Agile Conversations and Stakeholder Management, a Development Manager’s Perspective | Chuck Durfee (Vasco Duarte)
• The PowerShell Podcast – The Lowdown on PSResourceGet: An Exclusive with Sydney Smith (James Petty)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 640 – Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
• The Well Podcast Episode 61- D&D Reunion with Nathan Stewart (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 130 – Cloud is Secure: Are you Using It Securely – True or False? (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• JS Party Podcast – Fundamentals all the way down (Austin Gil, Nick Nisi, Kevin Ball & Jerod Santo)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 090 – Amazon Keyspaces with Meet Bhagdev (David Isbitski)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 590 – How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects (Eira May)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Dev tunnels with Utsa Santhosh and Derek Bekoe (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• AGL 320: Real Talk with Chinazom Sunny Nwabueze (John Rouda)
• ONPOD EP.121: Decline in ChatGPT use, Windows 11 performance issues, Windows 365 for cheap, and more (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – ICYMI: What is a Private Label, and Why Does Trader Joe’s Use Private Labels (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

• Downtown Seattle worker traffic slowly increasing, but still lags behind most U.S. cities (Taylor Soper)
• Guide to Labor Day Weekend 2023 in Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
• 5 reasons you should hire me as your next developer experience engineer (Salma Alam-Naylor)

Database

• Improve SQL Server Query Performance when Estimated Number of Rows is Wrong and UPDATE STATISTICS does not Correct (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
• SQL Server Essentials: Using SQL COALESCE (Michael Otey)
• SQL SERVER – Setting up a Robust Password Policy and SQL SERVER – Generating Complex Passwords with T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Enabling Diagnostic on an Azure SQL Managed Instance (David Giard)
• How to automate Azure SQL Managed Instance database copy and database move operations (Sasa Popovic)
• Managing Test Data for Database Development (Phil Factor)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Keep your app top of mind and top of chat with message extensions in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Daniel Carrasco)
• Microsoft Graph for SharePoint Pages public preview – update (DC Padur)

PowerShell

• Microsoft.PowerShell.TextUtility module updates (Jim Truher)

Miscellaneous

• The Microsoft Activision acquisition saga is sorta kinda maybe almost over (Kip Kniskern)
• Court denies FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard and Sony agrees to a Call of Duty deal with Microsoft (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft has at least one more big Windows 11 update coming up (Umar Shakir)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3749 and The Morning Brew #3740 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-29 (#81) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #110 (Sam Basu)
• F# Weekly #28, 2023 – Referencing Fsproj files in F# scripts (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – July 14, 2023 (#122) and Daily Reading List – July 17, 2023 (#123) (Richard Seroter)
• The Overflow #186: Do large language models know what they’re talking about? (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
• Reading Notes #564 (Frank Boucher)
• C# Digest Issue #463 – July 17, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications (Jesse Liberty & Rodrigo Juarez) – Referral Link