Dew Drop – August 10, 2023 (#4001)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 1 has arrived! (Adrian Murphy)
• TechBash 2023 Workshop Duo Spotlight: Azure MLOps -&- Troubleshooting and Monitoring Production Applications Using OpenTelemetry (TechBash Team)
• Introducing the new IHostedLifecycleService Interface in .NET 8 (Steve Gordon)
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Welcome to the Microsoft Learn Contributor Home! (Kiran Chandratrey)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure AI Hub – A curated list of the official Microsoft SDKs, Samples and other guidance around Azure OpenAI and other Cognitive Services (Azure Team)
• Collaborating with Open Web Docs for great PWA docs (Patrick Brosset)
• Build a real-time voting app with WebSockets, React & TypeScript ⚡️ (Vince Canger)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Tag Helpers (Assis Zang)
• Docker Desktop 4.22: Resource Saver, Compose ‘include’, and Enhanced RBAC Functionality (Chris McLellan)
• Auth0 Stable Support For Next.js App Router! (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• A Beginner’s Guide to CSS Grid Layout (Ralph Mason)
• How to Make Automatic WordPress Backups on the Cloud (Rob Pugh)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
• Node v16.20.2 (LTS) and Node v18.17.1 (LTS) and Node v20.5.1 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
• How to run a monitor with the Postman API (David Espi Hernandez)
• How BoldSign Helps Developers (Meikanda Nayanar)
• Google Makes it Easier to Create Go Applications on Google Cloud (Sergio De Simone)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Calendar is Now Here: Easy to Use, Feature-Rich and Customizable (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Box and Whisker Chart for Machine Impact Test Analysis (Sowndharya Selladurai)
• Background Work in Uno Platform Applications (Uno Platform Team)
• .NET MAUI + Azure Pipelines + iOS TestFlight! (Walter Aguilar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Generate a Loan EMI Schedule as an Excel Document Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
• Introducing CMake Debugger in VS Code: Debug your CMake Scripts using Open-Source CMake Debugger (Sinem Akinci)
• Create, Fill, and Edit Fillable PDF Forms Using C# – A Complete Guide (Sowmiya Loganathan)
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.29 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• .NET 8 Interceptors (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Announcing ODP.NET 23c Dev Release (Alex Keh)
• How to Configure Rolling File Logging With Serilog (Code Maze)
• Best practices for OpenTelemetry in .NET (Dennis Fruhauff)
• Using the parameters of a method in a Moq setup to define the return value (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• Inside STL: The deque, design (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• The ABCs of AI Transformers, Tokens, and Embeddings: A LEGO Story (Dan Wahlin)
• Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure (Jaroslav Lobacevski)
• GitHub: Enhanced push protection features for developers and organizations (Zain Malik)
• Container Security and Why It Matters (Kat Yi)
• Navigating the Future with a Fine-Tuned Product Backlog (Martin Hinshelwood)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Introducing Jetpack Emoji Picker: A New Way to Add Emojis to Your Android App (Lin Guo)
• Generative Art in Flutter (Roaa)
• Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable: check out new features! (Anna Bernbaum & Kseniia Shumelchyk)
• What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’23 release (Ben Trengrove)
• Roblox is aiming for Westworld-like ease of design with generative AI tools (Jay Peters)
• Getting Started with Compose for Wear OS (Ravikant Sahu)

Screencasts & Videos

• Frontline updates in Microsoft Teams, Windows 365, Copilot & Dynamics 365 Field Service (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Live Coding – Adding .NET 8 Preview 7 and WPF folder picker to Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
• Debugging a ChatGPT Plugin with .NET and DevTunnels | On .NET (Luis Quintanilla)
• Does my code get used to train GitHub Copilot? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
• What I Wish I Knew… about handling rejection (Nick Ryan)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Leveling up your Architecture Game with Thomas Betts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 139: New Tables vs New Columns (Ben Nadel)
• Practical AI Podcast – Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• The Changelog – Thinking outside the box of code (Leslie Lamport & Jerod Santo)
• The CSS Podcast #68: Why isn’t the margin applying? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• Software Engineering Radio 576: Jens Neuse on Back Ends for Front Ends (Jeff Doolittle)
• Talk Python to Me #426: What’s New in PyScript [August 2023] (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• What’s going on in Moq? SponsorLink and burnt soil! (Steven Giesel)
• Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data (BeauHD)
• Moq adds nagware; Where’s the .NET Foundation in all this? (George Stocker)
• You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (Jay Peters)
• On Moq and our Part in the OSS Sustainability Social Contract (Sean Killeen)
• Gates Foundation selects 48 projects in AI ‘Grand Challenge’ (Todd Bishop)

Database

• Use T-SQL to Perform Statistical Calculations on SQL Server Data (Rick Dobson)
• Enhancements to Microsoft Purview policies for Arc-enabled SQL Server (Vlad Rodriguez)
• Maximizing SQL Server Security: Instance Hiding vs SQL Browser Disable (Pinal Dave)
• Stop Azure SQL Database (Edita Hovhannisyan Topalyan)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Integrate Azure OpenAI into Microsoft Teams with the Teams Toolkit (Aman Panjwani)
• Use Windows 365 and Teams Walkie Talkie on ThinkPhone (Athima Chansanchai)
• Goal Broadcasts for Leaders: Communicating Goals to Your Team Just Got Easier (Vidarth Jaikrishnan)

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell to remediate Non-Compliant Policy Definitions (Basvan Bennekom)
• PowerShell Functions Explained: WhatIf, Verbose, and Passing Parameters (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (David Pierce)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25926 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Full Stack Developer Openings at biBERK (Jason Gaylord)
• Introducing Kids to Coding Through Tkinter: A Fun Path to Python’s Graphical User Interfaces (Phylis Jepchumba)

More Link Collections

• Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Daily Reading List – August 9, 2023 (#139) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3 (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link