Dew Drop – February 15, 2023 (#3880)

Top Links

• Introducing Search By Target Framework on NuGet.org (Jon Douglas and Advay Tandon)
• Exploring the New Features and Improvements in .NET 7 (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
• GitHub Copilot for Business is now available (Thomas Dohmke)
• GitHub Copilot now has a better AI model and new capabilities (Shuyin Zhao)
• What is .NET, and why should you choose it? (.NET Team)
• Thoughts on ‘What is .NET, and why should you choose it?’ (Andrew Lock)

Web & Cloud Development

• Generating Bogus HTTP Endpoints with ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Azure SDK Release (February 2023) (Azure SDK)
• Building a Shopping App With Kendo UI and Vue (Ezekiel Lawson)
• Wolverine’s New HTTP Endpoint Model (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Embed Reporting in Native Blazor Applications (Kristina Velikova-Bankova)
• CSS Snapshot 2023 Draft Note Published (Xueyuan Jia)
• WebContainer API is here. (Eric Simons)
• Building beautiful sites with purpose: Part 2 (Cathy Dew)
• Introducing an API to Manage Your Private API Network with More Automation (Gaurav Rakheja)
• Using JSON Schema for JSON Validation (Mahesh Samarasinghe)
• How to Work with The Adobe Photoshop APIs (Raymond Camden)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Maui.Nuke: native image caching for iOS (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Improving .NET Framework updates for Windows 11, version 22H2 (Anton Fontanov)
• Improvements to .NET Framework updates for Windows 11, version 22H2 (Brett Lopez)
• @code – Profiles in Visual Studio Code, work with only the extensions you need! (Bruno Capuano)
• C# 11.0 new features: UTF-8 string literals (Ian Griffiths)
• Getting Started: Entity Framework Core 7 JSON Support (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Building Functional .NET Applications: A Guide for Choosing Between F# vs C# (Nahla Davies)
• .NET Framework February 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Salini Agarwal)
• Creating Visual Studio extensions using Roslyn analyzers (Thomas Ardal)
• C# Tip: List Pattern to match an collection against a sequence of patterns (Davide Bellone)
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4.5 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
• The Simplest S3 Upload Example with .NET (Bryan Hogan)
• Microsoft Mulls Combining Web/Mobile/Desktop Tooling in .NET 8 (David Ramel)
• .NET February 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.3, .NET 6.0.14 (Rahul Bhandari)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• February patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
• Unit Testing in 2023: The Latest Trends and Best Practices (Shila Toledano)
• Importing Business Requirements from Microsoft Word into Azure DevOps (Vinod Soni)
• Git security vulnerabilities announced (Taylor Blau)
• Developer Standup: Rethinking the Three Questions (Michael Eaton)
• Principles Of Horrible API Documentation (Den Delimarsky)
• Advanced Installer 20.3.2 (Advanced Installer Team)
• The Layering Principle and The Wallpapering Principle (Dimitri Glazkov)
• Unlocking Innovation: 12 Types of Economies and How Leaders Can Leverage Them (JD Meier)
• The 7-day, science-backed experiment to spark a culture of kindness (Sam Milbrath)
• Platform Engineering: The Ultimate Guide (Jennifer Riggins)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Bringing the best of Chrome to Android developers and users (Victor Gallet)
• Blazing fast PWAs with SEO power using SvelteKit and Ionic (Tommertom)
• Making string marshaling safe for the CoreCLR garbage collector (Josh Peterson)

Screencasts & Videos

• What are Azure Functions? | One Dev Question (Melony Qin)
• Save Files With Just 1 Line of Code with .NET MAUI FileSaver! (Gerald Versluis)
• Query Performance & Database Failover | SQL Server 2022 Updates | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman & Bob Ward)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 439 (Jason Bock)
• Armchair Architects: Architectural Erosion and Technical Debt (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)

Podcasts

• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Building Trust in Agile Teams, Insights from a Scrum Master | Tinatin Tabidze (Vasco Duarte)
• PowerShell for Developers: Doug Finke’s Story (James Petty)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes Registry with Benjamin Elder (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• The Rework Podcast – Hire Great Writers (Kimberly Rhodes)
• Web Performance With Alex Russell – JavaScript Jabber 569 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Practical AI Podcast – Serverless GPUs (Erik Dunteman, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Dylan Beattie (Isaac Levin)
• Dex Knows – With Dan Franciscus (James Petty)
• The ReadME Podcast – Co-maintaining openness (Jerome Hardaway, Brandon Ringe, Peter Strömberg, Neha Batra, Klint Finley, Martin Woodward & Jana Iris)
• RunAs Radio – Strengthening Security with Jess Dodson (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast #323 – AI search wars have begun (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• IT’s Stressful. Ask DevOps, They’ll Know: Stress in the IT Sector [2022 Survey] (Gosia Hytry)
• Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Milan Jovanović (David McCarter)
• Developer Journey: February 2023 (Lyanne Alfaro)
• Microsoft’s LinkedIn affected by massive layoffs (Kevin Okemwa)
• Radical Self-Love (‘Tine Zekis)

Database

• SQL Server 2022 updates for query performance and database failover (Zachary Cavanell)
• Writing a Custom SQLite Function (in C) – Part 2 (Karl Seguin)

Miscellaneous

• Five ways to leverage big picture thinking as a technical writer (Tom Johnson)
• Why are the Windows chassis hardware button hotkeys so strange? (Raymond Chen)
• 1 Million People Can’t Be Wrong: New Bing Is Taking Over Search! (Liquid Ocelot)
• Dis This: Disassemble Python code online (Pamela Fox)
• The future of customer support: How technology is changing the game: A discussion with ChatGPT (Ross Smith)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3646 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #47 (davita8)
• Daily Wrap Up – February 14, 2023 (#030) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link