Dew Drop – March 15, 2023 (#3900)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is now available (Marian Luparu)
• EF Core 8 Preview 2: Lite and familiar (Arthur Vickers)
• GPT-4 (OpenAI Team)
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2 (Daniel Roth)
• Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 (Bing Team)
• Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2 (Alexandra Barry)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure SDK Release (March 2023) (Azure SDK Team)
• Microsoft Learn Catalog API feature overview (Microsoft Learn)
• 4 Best Angular Charts for Revealing Trends Over Time (Bhuvanesh Valarman)
• PhpStorm 2023.1 Beta 2 (Brent Roose)
• How to Validate React Props Using PropTypes (John Au-Yeung)
• Unit Testing Your Auth0 Protected React Application (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• Easily Integrate Blazor Components into Any SPA Framework as Custom Elements (Navin Vinayagam)
• Enable CBOR within ASP.NET Core OData (Sam Xu)
• Easy way to migrate an existing PHP site with MySQL to Azure App Service. (Vinod Kumar)
• Fleet 1.16 Comes With Code Foldings Support, VS Code Keymap Improvements, Automatic Indentation Support, and More (Roman Prokashev)
• Node v19.8.0 (Current) (Michael Zasso)
• Open Container Initiative: A technical overview of its specifications and benefits (David Thor)
• New tools to help developers build better health apps (Fred Hersch)
• APIs to enhance application security (Khushboo Goel)
• Microsoft Edge: Taking control of your application’s title bar (Diego Gonzalez)
• Making gRPC Compatible with the Rest of the World … and the Rest of Your Application (Peter Vogel)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Sneak Peek at 2023 Volume 1: Xamarin.Forms (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• LINQ // Skip and Take (Steven Giesel)
• Extending Visual Studio CodeLens Functionality – Part II (Calvin Allen)
• Using Trie Class for Efficient Text Pattern Searching in C# (Code Maze)
• Static Interface Members, Generic Attributes, Auto-Default Structs – Using C# 11 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
• Use XML Literals in Visual Basic .NET to generate TwiML (Niels Swimberghe)
• System.Text.Json Serializing Hierarchical Data (Christian Nagel)
• Solving .NET JSON Deserialization Issues (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Pi to 100 places with Amazon Polly and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
• Code Quality: Formatting Classes in Microsoft .NET to Make Them Easy to Read and Modify (David McCarter)
• .NET March 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.4, .NET 6.0.15 (Rahul Bhandari)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet (Chris Pietschmann)
• How does scrum help leadership teams pick the most valuable work to focus on? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Microsoft Open-Sources Weather Forecasting Deep Learning Model ClimaX (Anthony Alford)
• How eBay Made Its New Accessibility Tool — And Made It Available to All (Dan Nosowitz)
• An introduction to marketplace deployment architectures (David Starr)
• PaLM API & MakerSuite: an approachable way to start prototyping and building generative AI applications (Scott Huffman & Josh Woodward)
• Building and testing a .NET project with GitHub Actions (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
• 7 Tips for Giving Humble Feedback (Kim Scott)
• Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations (Guru Tahasildar, Amir Ziai, Jonathan Solorzano-Hamilton, Kelli Griggs & Vi Iyengar)
• Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions (Nsikan Essien)
• Sprint Pre-Planning: A Panacea for Poor Performance? (Tyler Hakes)
• Language-generative AI tools (Tom Johnson)
• How HPC & AI Transform Sports (Exxact Team)
• Accessibility Testing 101—Test Strategies & Tools (Amy Reichert)
• Working with Git in JetBrains Rider (Andrew Lock)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Firefox Android’s new privacy feature, Total Cookie Protection, stops companies from keeping tabs on your moves (Jenifer Boscacci)
• Celebrate Pi Day by supporting the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Philip Colligan)
• Unlock seamless gameplay across mobile and PC with Google Play Games (Arjun Dayal)
• Key product updates from the 2023 Google for Games Developer Summit (Greg Hartrell)
• How to Play an Audio Stream Into a Phone Call With Python (Oleksii Borysenko)
• Improving job system performance scaling in 2022.2 – part 2: Overhead (Kevin MacAulay Vacheresse)

Screencasts & Videos

• Build a 3D Printed Clippy Powered by ChatGPT from OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services | Let’s Get Personal : Computing (Jim Bennett & David Packman)
• Technology & Friends – Mike Shelton on Data Lakehouses (David Giard)
• Let’s play with OpenAI GPT-4! (Martin Zikmund)
• Armchair Architects: Data Mesh Architecture (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
• What are the advantages of .NET in an isolated worker model? | One Dev Question (Melony Qin)
• GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video series (Ed Summers)

Podcasts

• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Address conflicts in your Agile Team, or else… | Caterina Palmiotto (Vasco Duarte)
• Introducing Codux With Nadav Abrahami & Tom Raviv – JavaScript Jabber 573 (AJ ONeal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• Azure for Executives Podcast – Mastodon and federated systems with Sujit D’Mello (David Starr)
• Sad Python Girls Club Episode 16 – Isidor Nikolic (Kim Adeline-Miguel & Luciana Abud)
• RunAs Radio – Incident Management with Hila Fish (Richard Campbell)

Community & Events

• Here Are 3.14 Projects To Make Your Pi Day Complete (Caleb Kraft)
• Meta is laying off 10,000 more employees in a series of cuts and Microsoft Build 2023 kicks off on May 23rd (Emma Roth)
• 10 years of Electron (Erick Zhao)
• Technology and Developer Events and Conferences for 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
• Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB (Tracy Boggiano)

Database

• Book Review: SQL Server 2022 Revealed (Ian Stirk)
• Working with Date and Time Data Types in SQL Server (Hadi Fadlallah)
• Enabling real-time dashboards: Power BI DirectQuery mode and Dataflows support in Azure Cosmos DB (Rodrigo Souza)
• Integrating Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Teams Plugin for Elgato Stream Deck Re-Released! Also, Run with PowerPoint Plugin! (Mike Gannotti)
• Introducing Teams Classwork: The One-Stop-Shop for Managing Your Class Resources (Samantha Fisher)
• Using Inline Bing Generative AI with Microsoft Viva Today! – HLS Show Me How (Mike Gannotti)

PowerShell

• Run PowerShell Scripts with SQL Server Agent or Windows Task Scheduler (Alejandro Cobar)
• Creating Pester Unit Tests in PowerShell (Charlotte Gayton)
• New module for Malware Bazaar API (Emin Atac)
• PowerShell AI module for OpenAI GPT-3 and DALL-E (Doug Finke)

Miscellaneous

• Email protection just got easier in Firefox (Jenifer Boscacci)
• Microsoft signs third 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to another platform (Kareem Anderson)
• Microsoft Releases Moment 2 for Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Paul Thurrott)
• Did Vienna ever exist or was it just misinformation? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

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The Geek Shelf

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