Dew Drop – July 31, 2023 (#3994)

Top Links

• Introducing the New Blazor Image Editor Component (Satheeskumar S.)
• Using C# source generation for enhanced logging (Bruno Sonnino)
• Creating MAUI UI’s in C# (SmartmanApps)
• The Download: Build Apps with GitHub Copilot, SDXL 1.0, Pizza Scented TMNT Controllers and more (Christina Warren)
• TypeChat: Define Schemas for Your OpenAI Prompts (Dan Wahlin)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Use the Wijmo OLAP Component in React (Joel Parks)
• Sorting, Filtering, Grouping and Aggregating Data in Angular (Dany Paredes)
• Top React Testing Libraries in 2023: A Comprehensive Review (Dianne Pena)
• How To Define An Array Of Colors With CSS (Temani Afif)
• GitHub Copilot for Azure API Management Policies (Justin Yoo)
• Stream videos from Azure Blob storage with ASP.NET Core (Mark Heath)
• Who’s Using Amazon Web Services? [2023] (Mariusz Michalowski)
• Docker for Beginners: Containerizing a Nextjs Application (Murtuzaali Surti)
• Twitter and Reddit APIs Are the Canaries in the Public API Coal Mine (Kin Lane)
• ESLint v8.46.0 released (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? (Dave Rupert)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Flyout Page in .NET MAUI (Mushtaq M A)
• Why does writing XAML have to be so slow? (Matt Lacey)
• Dotnet MAUI Open CV Face Detection (Samir GC)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Constructor: A Guide to Initialization and Object Creation (Anoop Kumar)
• What is Locking and How to Use a Locking Mechanism in C# and How to Access Configuration During Application’s Startup in .NET (Code Maze)
• C# Tuples: An Introductory Guide on Tuples in C# With Examples (Rasheed K. Mozaffar)
• How to benchmark different .NET versions (Steven Giesel)
• Introduction of Auth0 Templates for .NET (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• The Impact of Copilot Chat (Sue Gee)
• The Best Figma Plugins to Enhance Your Design Workflow in 2023 (Dianne Pena)
• Iconic Transformations: Redesigning Test Studio’s User Interface (Jasmina Stoyanova)
• MNW #048: Why Clean Architecture Is Great For Complex Projects (Milan Jovanović)
• Semantic Kernel Planners: Sequential Planner (Nilesh Acharya)
• How to split off an older copy of a file while preserving git line history (Raymond Chen)
• Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved AI model (Shuyin Zhao)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• ChatGPT Tries to Add Auth0 Authentication to an Android App, Round Two! (Joey deVilla)
• How to make shaders with Shader Graph in Unity 2022 LTS (Tracy Chen)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Oren Eini on Building Projects that Endure (David Giard)
• MassTransit Bus Stop – 8.1 Updates (Chris Patterson)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 474 (Jason Bock)
• Joshua Jesper Krægpøth Ryder – The Future Is Here! WebAssembly for .NET Developers – Recording Available (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How did they sneak in the credits in Windows 95? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict 369: Scanning real world objects into ready-to-use 3D models with RealityKit (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• JS Party Podcast – Frontend Feud: CSS Pod vs Whiskey Web and Whatnot (Una Kravets, Adam Argyle, Chuck Carpenter, Robbie Wagner & Jerod Santo)
• The Changelog – From Docker to Dagger (Solomon Hykes, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 468 – WordPress on Azure App Service (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 091 – AWS Builder Cards with David Heidt (David Isbitski)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast – Homelab nerds, unite! (Techno Tim & Adam Stacoviak)
• The Amp Hour #641 – Power Transmission with Toby Robb (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• AGL 322: Adrian Koehler (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• JasperFx Software is Open for Business! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Help us grow the Semantic Kernel Community! (Alex Chao)
• Impressions from THAT Conference 2023 (Bjoern Meyer)

Database

• Unmasking SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking, Part 5, Mitigations and Summary (Ben Johnston)
• SQL SERVER – The Flight Connection Puzzle (Pinal Dave)
• MySQL 8.0.13 Can Use An Existing Column As The DEFAULT Value For A New Column (Ben Nadel)
• Updated training list for a new DBA (William Assaf)
• Database paging: offset vs cursor (Karl Seguin)
• How to scale out Marten (Oskar Dudycz)

PowerShell

• What is PowerShell? (Alex Marin)
• How To Build ChatGPT-Enabled PowerShell Scripts (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• Sync Your Obsidian Notes Across All Platform for Free (Akshat Samdani)
• paint.net 5.0.8 beta build 8611 (Rick Brewster)
• Windows 11 is getting multiple monitor refresh rate improvements (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3759 (Chris Alcock)
• F# Weekly #30, 2023 – Avalonia 11 and New syntax for string interpolation in F# (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest Issue #465 – July 31, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• The Overflow #188: Recognition for individual contributors (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf

 The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral Link