Dew Drop – August 15, 2023 (#4004)

Top Links

• 7 Things about C#: Operators (Joe Mayo)
• How To Use Microsoft Fabric with Semantic Kernel (John Maeda)
• Supporting custom protocols in WebView2 (Gérald Barré)
• Damian Brady: GitHub Copilot – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 258 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Performance Enhancements (Nayana Srikanth)

Web & Cloud Development

• Step by Step Guide: Migrating v3 to v4 programming model for Azure Functions for Node.Js Application (Glaucia Lemos)
• Electron 26.0.0 (Keeley Hammond)
• React Basics: Best Practices for Updating React (Ifeoma Imoh)
• Exploring the Power of CSS Nesting: Simplifying Styling and Enhancing Readability (Jan-Niklas Wortmann)
• Wolverine’s Improved Azure Service Bus Support (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The future of API gateways on Kubernetes (Pubudu Gunatilaka)
• Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 and Forward Compatibility and Toolchain Management in Go 1.21 (Russ Cox)
• Amazon Releases .NET Lambda Annotations Framework (Kay Ewbank)
• Fetching JSON over streaming HTTP (Pamela Fox)
• All New Have I Been Pwned Domain Search APIs and Splunk Integration (Troy Hunt)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Fixing COM Aggregation and XAML reference tracking on .NET AOT (Manodasan Wignarajah) – This PR will enable AOT with Windows App SDK apps in .NET 8!

Visual Studio & .NET

• Create, Pre-Select, Flatten and Extract PDF Form Fields using C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Inside STL: Smart pointers (Raymond Chen)
• Differences Between Const and Readonly in C# (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• A Brief Overview of Responsible AI (David Giard)
• 5 Benefits of a Container-First Approach to Software Development (Ben Cotton)
• Getting started with GitHub Copilot (Birgitta Böckeler)
• Source Code Security Best Practices: A Complete Guide and The Advantages of Using Cloud Version Control Systems (Claudia Fernandes)
• Decoding the Buzzwords: The Difference Between Change Management and Organizational Development. and Emotional Intelligence Unleashed: Mastering each Stage of Change in Change Management (Daniel Lock)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Test Mobile Apps on a Real Device Cloud (SitePoint Team)
• HLSL 2021 Migration Guide (Greg Roth)

Screencasts & Videos

• Amazing Free DataGrid, Tab Control, Calendar and More for .NET MAUI! (Gerald Versluis)
• Creating a story arc | Richard Campbell and Adam Cogan | Tech Yak (SSW TV)
• Igniting Developer Innovation with Vector Search | The AI Show (Microsoft Developer)
• .NET Bootcamp – Session 5 (Women Who Code)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Eric Thompson (Maurice Cherry)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Shaun Lawrie: Procrastination, Pixels and PowerShell (James Petty)
• SQL Server Radio Episode 155 – Kevin Chant (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
• RiYL Episode 594: Alex Winter (Brian Heater)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 134 – How to Prioritize UX and Security in the Cloud: UX as a Security Capability (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• The Changelog News Podcast – HashiCorp means business (source), why Tailwind won, WarpStream, managing difficult devs & an update on Go 2 (Jerod Santo)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Want better answers from your data? Ask better questions (Eira May)
• AGL 324: Dynamic Reteaming with Heidi Helfand (John Rouda)

Community & Events

• Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media (Chris Freeland)
• A few sick days made it clear – Twitter is dying, and so it social media as we know it (Brian Merchant)
• Join us for Hack Together: JavaScript on Azure Global Hack from Aug 16 – 31, 2023 (Julia Muiruri)
• The role of GitHub in paying for Open Source Software (Oren Eini)
• Discord.io Temporarily Shuts Down After Breach Affecting 760,000 Members (BeauHD)
• Dealing with Layoffs – A Guide for the Unemployed and the Survivors (David Giard)
• Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: bUnit (Matthias Koch)
• My Next Adventure: Joining SCT Software as VP of Innovation & Products! (Sean Killeen)
• Nine years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program (Jill Moné-Corallo)

Database

• Working around schema drift in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• Cumulative Update #22 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Hristina Sarankin)
• SQL SERVER – Banker’s Rounding (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Motorola partners with Microsoft to load phones with Windows 365 (Kareem Anderson)
• Microsoft’s new Office default theme and font arrives in September (Tom Warren)

Miscellaneous

• Enforcing SmartScreen with Policy (Eric Lawrence)
• Microsoft Surface: Built to bring out the best of Windows 11 (Jonna Bell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2023-33 (#85) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #113 (Sam Basu)
• Reading Notes #567 (Frank Boucher)
• Daily Reading List – August 14, 2023 (#142) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Ed (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link