Dew Drop – January 17, 2023 (#3859)

Top Links

• The Download: GPT Takes the Bar, Passwordless Cloud Deployments, Dark Sky API alternatives and more (Christina Warren)
• Simplify Your Blazor Applications Using .NET 7’s New Bind Modifiers (Jon Hilton)
• Installing Rider on Linux with .NET 7 (Bryan Hogan)
• Building Smarter .NET Applications with ONNX ML Models (Uno Platform Team)
• Dots – the friendly .NET SDK manager (Joachim Leonfellner)
• New GitHub CLI extension tools (Nate Smith)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Create Custom Vue Pivot Tables & Panels for Your Web Application (Joel Parks)
• Serializing .NET objects for use with Alpine.js x-data attribute (Alexander Zeitler)
• Build your first Web Application with Microsoft Azure (Sachin Mittal)
• Angular vs. React: How to Choose the Right Framework for You (Alexander T. Williams)
• Implementing secure Microsoft Graph application clients in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• Use the Powerful Directive Composition API in Angular 15 with Kendo UI (Dany Paredes)
• Reducing Blazor WASM size by providing custom ICU data (Gérald Barré)
• Azure Web app using Azure SQL using Private Endpoints (Gregor Suttie)
• How to use Azure Management APIs in C# with Azure.Identity (John Kilmister)
• Accessing Service Bus message metadata in Azure Functions isolated model (Mark Heath)
• ESLint v8.32.0 released (Brandon Mills)
• Announcing The Aurelia 2 Beta (Dwayne Charrington)
• Postman Interceptor But for Product Managers (Kin Lane)
• Develop Your Cloud App Locally with the LocalStack Extension (Ajeet Singh Raina)
• fetch with Timeout (David Walsh)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Image Scaling in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• XAML Behaviors and WinUI 3 (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Profiling .NET on Linux with BenchmarkDotNet (Adam Sitnik)
• Encrypting and Decrypting a String in C# and Boxing and Unboxing in C# and Convert String and Int to Enum in C# (Code Maze)
• C# Coding Best Practices – Coding Conventions with Examples (Edeh Israel Chidera)
• Understanding PLINQ in .NET (Marco Luzzara)
• Convert GUIDs to a Shorter Textual Representation and Back (Roland Weigelt)
• Customize Signature Fields with Dynamically Created SVG Images (Bjoern Meyer)
• PreEmptive Protection Dotfuscator Professional Change Log 6.5.2 (Brij Mohan)
• Troubleshoot Performance Bottlenecks in .NET 6 Applications (Camilo Reyes)
• Applying an improved multiple languages library to .NET applications (Jon P. Smith)
• Adventures in application compatibility: Querying for an internal interface and Making C++ primitive types meaningfully movable when they have sentinel values (Raymond Chen)
• How to deploy .NET apps as systemd services using containers (Tom Deseyn)
• .NET 7 Brings Networking Improvements (Edin Kapić)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• MSIX limitations: How to fix “DLL not found” issue (Horatiu Vladasel)
• About software estimation and planning (Dennis Doomen)
• How does Naked Agility select associate Scrum Trainers? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Breaking the SAFe: Why Did SAFe Redefine the Scrum Master? (Ryan Ripley)
• Resilience and Waste in Software Teams (Jessica Kerr)
• Why EV Code Signing? EV Code Signing vs. Regular Code Signing (Radu Popescu)
• GitHub Copilot Labs Brews ‘Code Brushes’ for ML-Powered Code Modification (Like Photoshop Painting) (David Ramel)
• A DevRel Activity Ontology (Ted Neward)
• Cohesion – An indicator for refactoring (Steven Giesel)
• How to validate business logic (Oskar Dudycz)
• GitHub Adds Required Workflows For Actions (Kay Ewbank)
• Proven Solutions to Five Test Automation Issues (Wojciech Bulaty)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova CLI 11.1.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
• From GDSC Lead to Flutter developer: Lenz Paul’s journey (Kubra Zengin)
• VS Code for Flutter hacks that will blow your mind (Mahesh Jamdade)
• What Are The Best Books About Game Theory? (Guide For 2023) (Shane Duggan)

Screencasts & Videos

• Nullables Livestream #6: Finish HttpClient (James Shore)
• Localization in .NET MAUI – Adding Multi-Language to Your Apps (Gerald Versluis)
• RavenDB Sharding Webinar recording (Oren Eini)
• Building “Next Tech Event” using Blazor and RavenDB Part 14 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
• Learning what is new with GitHub Codespaces on The Download (Christina Warren)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 430 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Chris Charles (Maurice Cherry)
• OnPodcast Ep.98: Single screen Duo, Apple apps on Windows, new M365 Basic, and more (Podcast OnMSFT)
• Merge Conflict 341: Frank Masters In-App Subscriptions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 067 – Introducing AWS DMS Schema Conversion with Vaibhav Khandelwal (David Isbitski)
• The Changelog – Premium PCB cheat sheets, a disappearing AWS dev, HyperSwitch, Servo is back at it & Cloudflare Wildebeest (Jerod Santo)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Acing the Product Owner role even without Agile or Scrum background! | Omar Perez (Vasco Duarte)
• JS Party Podcast – The rise & fall of JS frameworks (Chris Ferdinandi & Kevin Ball)
• The Changelog – The principles of data-oriented programming (Yehonathan Sharvit & Jerod Santo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 451 – Landing Zones (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• Directions on Microsoft – Analyzing Microsoft’s Migration to .NET (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Amp Hour #615 – Augmented Engineering (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Brian Lagunas: Modern Web – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 228 (Jeffery Palermo)
• AGL 294: From Now to Next with Erica Rooney (John Rouda)
• React Native Radio 255 – RTK Query with Lenz Weber-Tronic (Lenz Weber-Tronic, Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
• Talk Python to Me #398: Imaging Black Holes with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Syntax Podcast – Katherine Mello on Liberal Arts → Coding, Bootcamps, and Sustainability (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• PPP 373 | Supporting Parents in the Workplace: Tips and Strategies, with Julie Foubert (Andy Kaufman)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 104 – CISO Walks Into the Cloud: And The Magic Starts to Happen! (Anton A. Chuvakin)

Community & Events

• Climate change, AI, and more from my latest AMA (Bill Gates)
• Students & recent graduates: Get ready for the Cloud with free Microsoft training and certification (Doug Masuda)
• Game Off 2022 winners (Lee Reilly)
• Meet the Skilling Champion Vlad Catrinescu (Rie Moriguchi)
• Meta and Microsoft are ditching office space in the Seattle area (Taylor Soper)

Database

• Twitter API to Execute Queries and Analyze Data in SQL Server (Levi Masonde)
• Lesson Learned #286: Compilation vs Execution time running a TSQL query (Jose Manuel Jurado)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• 4 goal-setting trends for 2023 and how Microsoft Viva Goals can help (Vetri Vellore)

PowerShell

• Learn how to remove Windows 11 system apps easily with PowerShell (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous

• How Bing Maps is Bringing About Digital Equity (Bing Team)
• #Rust – Let’s create a Generic log() Function (Bruno Capuano)
• Windows 12 – A.I. Is Going To Reinvent Everything You Do (Russell Smith)
• C++ The Language Of The Future (Shila Toledano)
• Microsoft brings the Windows 11 Media Player to Windows 10 and Tweetbot and other third-party clients stop working as Twitter ‘intentionally’ blocks API access (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3624 and The Morning Brew #3625 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #45 (davita8)
• Daily Wrap Up – January 13, 2023 (#009) (Richard Seroter)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-3 (#55) (Michael Eaton)
• F# Weekly #2, 2023 – F# Online, Fantomas VI, Dots (Sergey Tihon)
• Code Maze Weekly #156 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• The Overflow #160: Looking back at Hat Cafe 2022 (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Daily Links 10 Jan 2023 (Malcolm Jack)
• Collective #747 (Manoela Ilic)
• Reading Notes #538 (Frank Boucher)
• C# Digest Issue #437 – January 16, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Reading List 299 (Bruce Lawson)

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