Dew Drop – September 1, 2023 (#4017)

Top Links

• TechBash Discount Ends Monday (Jason Gaylord)
• Infinite chat using a sliding window (Craig Dunn)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Level up your career with Ankita Kulkarni (Scott Hanselman)
• Application deployment in Windows 365: recommended practices (Curtis Sawin)
• Microsoft PowerToys v0.73.0: A Comprehensive Overview (Kunal Chowdhury)

Web & Cloud Development

• Wijmo Supports Angular 16 (Chris Bannon)
• Important: Update to deviceRegistrationPolicy Resource Type for MS Graph Beta API Version (Sandeep Deo)
• How Astro does i18n (Yan Thomas & Sarah Rainsberger)
• Unlocking view transitions in SvelteKit 1.24 (Geoff Rich)
• Tracking Analytics in Vue with Matomo (Evan Rupert)
• Audio Alchemy: Transcribing and Translating with Azure SDKs (Mario Guerra)
• Optimistic Concurrency in ASP.NET Core Web API (Muhammed Saleem)
• Build a GraphQL Gateway: Combine, Stitch or Merge any Datasource (Steve Keep)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Telerik PDFViewer Now Available as Part of Telerik UI for .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Horizontal Bar Chart to Compare Grocery Prices Between Two Countries (Sowndharya Selladurai)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Threading and Multithreading: A Guide With Examples (Juan Reyes)
• Metalama Status Update, July-August 2023 (Gael Fraiteur)
• Turn on Nullability checks by default (Steven Giesel)
• Generative AI and .NET – Part 1 Intro (Aaron Powell)
• Playing MIDI through SoundFonts with NAudio and MeltySynth (Mark Heath)
• Diagnosing a crash when trying to call ReadFile via language interop (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Event transformations, a tool to keep our processes loosely coupled (Oskar Dudycz)
• AI Frontiers: AI in India and beyond with Sriram Rajamani (Brenda Potts)
• Terraform’s License Change: A Deep Dive into the Controversy (Christopher Johnson)
• How GitHub reduces costs with upgraded Codespaces (Craig Peters)
• Rethinking ‘User Stories’: A Call for Clarity in Product Backlog Management (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why the Best Developers Are Obsessed with Vertical Slices (Nick Cosentino)
• Obfuscation in CI/CD Security — Critical to Avoiding Data Breaches (PreEmptive Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• 4 ways to use Muse Chat in your workflow (Martina Johannesson)
• Building a Native Superapp with Micro Frontends and Federated Capacitor (Simon Grimm)

Screencasts & Videos

• Plan your SQL Migration to Azure with confidence | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• What I Wish I Knew… about social skills in a tech career (Nick Ryan)

Podcasts

• Is JavaScript on the Backend a Mistake? – JavaScript Jabber 596 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir, Steve Edwards & Lane Wagner)
• PPP 391 | How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership, with Adam Bryant (Andy Kaufman)
• Rocket 453: DEATH TO GOLD (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The CSS Podcast 71: Why do I have layout shift? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
• Web Rush Episode 249: Open AI (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• AGL 327: Govind Balu (John Rouda)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 124: The Secret to Customer Experience that Engineers Need to Know with Annette Franz (Max Ahumada)
• Software Engineering Radio 579: Arun Gupta on Open Source Strategy and Community (Kanchan Shringi)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 430: Exploring Governance and Compliance with Mike Long (Brandon Whichard)

Community & Events

• Todd Howard writes internal thank you letter to Xbox, Bethesda teams ahead of Starfield launch (Robert Collins)
• Meet learners who changed their career with the help of Microsoft Learn (Allison Kraker)
• Microsoft Build Community-Led Parties for All Technologists (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix – Error – The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS CI/CD — Azure SQL Virtual Machine (Ismael Oltra)
• Index Tuning Essentials: Fixing Blocking (Erik Darling)
• Plans for Marten V7 and Beyond (Jeremy D. Miller)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2023 (Steve Stein)

Miscellaneous

• Get live traffic updates from Bing Maps on your phone! (Bing Team)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2265 and 22631.2265 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23536 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25941 (Canary Channel) and New Updates for Snipping Tool and Notepad for Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Marketing & Advertising in Tough Times (DeveloperMedia Team)
• 5 Chrome tips for college students (Yana Yushkina)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3771 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Maze Weekly #183 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Daily Reading List – August 31, 2023 (#153) (Richard Seroter)
• Collective #780 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft)