Dew Drop – April 14, 2023 (#3922)

Top Links

• Improving Visual Studio performance with the new Instrumentation Tool (Nik Karpinsky)
• Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, is Now Generally Available (Steve Roberts)
• Android Studio Flamingo is stable (Steven Jenkins)
• 6 Flutter/Dart Projects from Google Dev Library to Kickstart Your Next Project (Swathi Dharshna Subbaraj)
• OpenAI API endpoints (Craig Dunn)
• Visual Studio Code Day 2023 (Burke Holland)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to secure legacy ASP.NET MVC against Cross-Site (CSRF) Attacks (Aneesh Lal Gopalakrishnan)
• Service Connection guidance for AKS customers using Kubernetes tasks (Eric van Wijk)
• Manage your APIs with Azure API Management’s self-hosted gateway v2 (Fernando Mejia)
• How to Get Started with Telerik Blazor Data Grid (Jon Hilton)
• 6 Free Libraries to Create Tooltips in JavaScript (Nipuni Arunodi)
• Azure Logic Apps plans: Consumption based vs Standard (Umesh Panwar)
• Building a Bootstrap 5 Legend with the Help of ChatGPT (Peter Kellner)
• Wasp steps up its database game with Fully Managed Dev DB & DB Seeding (Martin Sosic)
• How to build an API (Betsy Sallee)
• More ways we’re making Chrome faster (Thomas Nattestad & Andrew Grieve)
• Totally Tubular Tabular Tools for Document Generation (Raymond Camden)
• Pulumi Insights: Intelligence for Cloud Infrastructure (Luke Hoban)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Different Ways to Split a String in C# (Code Maze)
• Agility SDK 1.610.0: Updated RenderPasses and minor Vulkan compatibility improvement (Amar Patel)
• Even faster builds with Incredibuild 10 and Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 3 (Michael Price)
• C# 12 class and struct Primary Constructors (Patrick Smacchia)
• C++23’s New Fold Algorithms (Sy Brand)
• How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 3: Filling the SoftwareBitmap directly (Raymond Chen)
• NuGet.org Terms of Service Update on Unexpected Behavior and Hate Speech (The NuGet Team)
• Converting Strings to .NET Objects – IParsable and ISpanParsable (Christian Nagel)
• Performance: The Fastest Way to Use Regular Expressions in Microsoft .NET 7 (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• An example of LLM prompting for programming (Martin Fowler)
• Making Pie (Charts) out of Mermaid.js (Matt Eland)
• How anthropomorphism hinders AI education (Ben Garside)
• Easily access the new AI-powered Bing across your favorite mobile apps (Bing Team)
• Catching up with OpenAI (Chris Price)
• The future of manufacturing is now: Four trends shaping the industry (Dominik Wee)
• Ask a Developer: Code Coverage Uncovered (Jerrod Engelberg)
• How To Create an App in App Builder Using Role-Based API? (Svetloslav Novoselski)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building smarter cities with digital twins (Caroline Beightol)
• Microsoft brings Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 (Robin Seiler)

Screencasts & Videos

• Visual Studio Slow Startup? Filtered Solutions Will Help! (Gerald Versluis)
• Alexa Developer Tech Talk: Radio Skills Kit (Angelle Morvant & Julian Smyth)
• Navigating the Postman App Interface | The Exploratory (Postman Team)

Podcasts

• .NET Core Podcast – Inside Avalonia’s Cross-Platform UI Toolkit and the Quest for Quality Documentation with Mike James (Jamie Taylor)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Protecting Machines from Us with Lelapa AI’s Pelonomi Moiloa (Scott Hanselman)
• Rocket 433: Max, Just Max (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – The philosopher who believes in Web Assembly (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 229: Security with Rey Bango (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast 096: From Hate to Happiness with Dr. Benjamin Ritter | 3 Keys to Engineering Career Fulfillment (Kae Lynne Sapino)
• UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 265: Designing for Families with Nathalie Stratton (Jane Portman)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 410: Jordan Tigani on the death of Big Data (Brandon Whichard)
• SQL Server Radio Episode 151 – Tales from the SQL Bits of 2023 (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)

Database

• Cumulative Update #20 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Harvey Mora)
• Cumulative Update #3 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Updates to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program (Kelly Bowen-McCombs)

PowerShell & Terminal

• DCOM Hardening (Emin Atac)
• How to Get a Base64 Version of a File From Command Line (David Walsh)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1610 and 22624.1610 and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.2908 to Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22000.1879 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1631 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Valve’s Steam Deck: all the news about the new gaming handheld and Twitter is rebranding Super Follows to Subscriptions (Emma Roth)
• Skilling snack: Windows lifecycle (Jason Leznek)
• Microsoft releases PowerToys 0.69.1 with tons of fixes (Kevin Okemwa)
• Tesla Reportedly Ready To Launch Powerwall 3 (Oliver Haslam)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3686 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 13, 2023 (#067) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience (Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle) – Referral Link