Dew Drop – March 13, 2023 (#3898)

Top Links

• Visual ChatGPT (Microsoft Open Source)
• XAML vs C# (Jesse Liberty)
• Hosting Uno Platform WASM on AWS Amplify (David Onoh)
• Microsoft Inclusive Design for Cognition: Worksheet (Microsoft Design Team)
• Bing Preview Release Notes:  Increasing Chat Turns (Bing Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to write your own cron Job scheduler in ASP.NET Core (like Quartz, Hangfire, …) (Steven Giesel)
• Managing your Azure Cognitive Services Costs (Matt Eland)
• The Ultimate Guide to Converting Strings to Numbers in JavaScript (Chris Love)
• Migrating a TypeScript app from Node.js to Bun (John Reilly)
• Uploading Large Blobs in Parallel with the Azure SDK (Mark Heath)
• .NET 7 Web API CRUD Operation Using One-Many Relationship Tables (Naveen Bommidi)
• AWS Lambda Supports Powertools for .NET to Simplify Observability (Renato Losio)
• Output Caching in ASP.NET Core (Ryan Miranda)
• Angular Basics: Troubleshooting Cannot Read Property of Undefined Error (Vyom Srivastava)
• GoLand 2023.1 Beta 2 Is Out! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)
• Building a full-stack app for learning Italian: Supabase vs. Wasp (Mihovil Ilakovac)
• Adding Dependency Injection to a Console App in .NET 7 and Using the Open AI API (Paul Michaels)
• Zero-effort type safety (Simon Holthausen)
• ESLint v8.36.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
• Preview: TX Text Control DocumentViewer is becoming a Web Component (Bjoern Meyer)
• 3 Top Tips to Effectively Develop Your Webpages (Janus Atienza)
• The Need for Speed: Why Eleventy Leaves Bundlers Behind (Loraine Lawson)
• Uploading Large Files with AzCopy (Mark Heath)
• New pricing for Twitter API access is astonishingly expensive (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit 5.0.0: Enhancing User Experience with New Features and Bug Fixes (Almir Vuk)
• Medical Service — MAUI App Implementation. Phase #1 — Implementing Page in XAML with inline data. (Bohdan Benetskyi)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Split Text to Columns in Excel XLSX using C# and VB.NET (Mackenzie Albitz)
• Yield Return Statement in C# | Yield keyword in C# (Dotnet Office)
• When should I use CS_GLOBALCLASS? (Raymond Chen)
• ReSharper C++ 2023.1 EAP: __VA_OPT__ and Updates for Modules (Elvira Mustafina)
• Rider 2023.1 EAP 8 Is Here With Improved C# and F# Support, New Editor Features and Fixes for Unity and ReSharper 2023.1 EAP 8 Is Here With Improved Support for C# and C++ (Sasha Ivanova)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Use Azure AD Access Packages to onboard users in an Azure DevOps project (Damien Bowden)
• How to Build MSI or EXE Package Using MSBuild (Renato Ivanescu)
• Contrasting API Contract Testing and Functional Testing (Kin Lane)
• IaC Recommended Practices: Developer Stacks and Git Branches (Aaron Kao)
• Introducing GitHub vulnerability management integrations for security professionals (Alexander De Michieli)
• How to properly test your HTTP API contracts in .NET (Dennis Doomen)
• Straight Talk for Tough Times: Lessons from Google’s CEO on Cost-Cutting Measures (JD Meier)
• Education leaders on new teaching and learning technologies (Lydia Smyers)
• Confidence from Facade Tests (Mark Seemann)
• Use Bing Generative AI inline in Microsoft Edge Browser Today! (Mike Gannotti)
• Breaking the SAFe: Why Did SAFe Break the Product Owner Role? (Ryan Ripley)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Passthrough transparency with MRTK2 and 3 on Quest 2/Pro (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

• MassTransit Bus Stop – Smart Endpoints, Dumb Pipes (Chris Patterson)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 446 (Jason Bock)
• Build your first website without installing anything! | On .NET (Katie Savage)
• Editing GraphQL Queries | Postman Level Up and Loading GraphQL Schemas | Postman Level Up (Postman)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: How to Become an Effective Communicator as an EngineerEffective Communicator as an Engineer (Neil Thompson)
• Merge Conflict 349: Packaged with external location or unpackaged (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Pitfalls of a Project Management Mindset in the Product Owner role | Kirill Golubev (Vasco Duarte)
• Your Daily Scrum: Do Scrum Teams Track Individual Story Points? (Ryan Ripley)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Dana Palayeva – Facilitating Collaboration in the Virtual Space – Scrum Gathering 2022 (Bob Payne)
• Game Development With Dori Exterman  – Adventures in DevOps 153 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• JS Party Podcast – Celebrating Eleventy 2.0 (Zach Leatherman, Nick Nisi & Christopher Hiller)
• How to Succeed in Content Creation – Adventures in Angular 373 (Charles Max Wood & Lucas Paganini)
• The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy #538 – The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (with John Joseph Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse, P. Djèlí Clark) (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode 074 – AIOps with Caroline Gluck (David Isbitski)
• React Native Radio 262 – Maestro: The App-solute Solution for Mobile UI Testing (Dima Zaytsev, Mazen Chami, Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
• AGL 302: Career Advice from Claudia Miller (John Rouda)
• Talk Python to Me #406: Reimagining Python’s Packaging Workflows (Michael Kennedy)
• UI Breakfast Episode 261: Storytelling in Marketing with Rebecca L. Weber (Jane Portman)

Community & Events

• Next week: Kobo’s Journey Into High Performance and Reliable Document Databases at InfoQ (Oren Eini) – This week
• Tech Layoffs Caused by Vain Over-Hiring for ‘Fake Work’, Argues Former PayPal Executive (EditorDavid)

Database

• SQL Server 2022: Intel® QuickAssist Technology overview (David Pless)
• The Well-Architected Framework for Oracle is NOW LIVE! (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• SQL WHERE IS NOT NULL for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE (Aubrey Love)
• How to use automation controller to install MS SQL (Nagesh Rathod)

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell to Remove Lighthouse Delegations Based on Subscription IDs (Andrew Schwalbe)

Miscellaneous

• SodaStream is a bad deal, and everyone should know it (Chris Person)
• Why Are We Still Observing Daylight Saving Time? (EditorDavid)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3664 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET, Architecture, Azure, And other links #49 (davita8)
• Code Maze Weekly #164 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• The Overflow #168: Other words for technical debt (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• F# Weekly #10, 2023 – Rider 2023.1 EAP 7, VS 2022 – 17.5, Amplifying Ionide and FSAutocomplete (Sergey Tihon)
• Collective #755 (Manoela Ilic)
• C# Digest Issue #445 – March 13, 2023 – Introducing the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link