Dew Drop – April 18, 2023 (#3924)

Top Links

• Running non-root .NET containers with Kubernetes (Richard Lander)
• 2023 State of Web Components: Today’s standards and a glimpse into the future. (Rob Eisenberg)
• The Power of Uno Platform WebAssembly and AWS Amplify for Web App Development (Uno Platform Team)
• What’s next for Server Side Rendering in Angular (Jessica Janiuk)
• Deep dive – Uno Platform Template Wizard – Framework, Platforms and Presentation (Nick Randolph)

Web & Cloud Development

• Integrating Google Calendar Events with Syncfusion React Scheduler [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• JavaScript Array Group (David Walsh)
• Required @Input properties in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing support for JSON comments in your request body (Giridhar)
• The Three Browser Storage Mechanisms (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Auth0 CLI v1: A New Milestone for Auth0 Developers (Kevin Lillybridge)
• A beginner’s guide to containers (Nikita Dergilev)
• Focus on the work that matters with Postman sidebar configurations (Vineet Kumar)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Detecting Dark and Light themes in a WPF application (Gérald Barré)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Serialize a Dictionary to JSON in C# (Code Maze)
• 256 Seconds with dotNetDave: Be careful using ContainsKey() with Dictionary Types (David McCarter)
• How can I find the invalid class when C++/WinRT tells me that the class may not be final? (Raymond Chen)
• A restaurant example of refactoring from example-based to property-based testing (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• The different retry APIs from Playwright (Tim Deschryver)
• Microsoft and Epic expand strategic collaboration with integration of Azure OpenAI Service (Microsoft News Center)
• What Is Design Thinking? (Krithika Subramanian)
• Multi-repository enablement: effortlessly scale code scanning across your repositories (Walker Chabbott)
• Why Should Businesses Leverage Selenium Automation Testing (Kanika Vatsyayan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova iOS 6.3.0 Released! (Niklas Merz)
• Preventing iOS Safari Textbox Zooming (Rick Strahl)

Screencasts & Videos

• Asp.Net Monsters #267 – Updating Legacy ASP.NET Applications (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
• Implement QR Code & Barcode Scanning with Camera.MAUI in .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Rudy Manning (Maurice Cherry)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Maximizing Community Engagement with sqldbawithabeard (James Petty)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 117 – Can a Small Team Adopt an Engineering-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity? (Anton Chuvakin)
• Meta Cast 274 – IRL Self Advocacy: The Ballad of Richard Khor (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• The Changelog – Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator’s cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (Jerod Santo)
• Design Details 458: How Do You Simplify a UI? (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• Directions on Microsoft – Generative AI: Where Customers Need to Look Before They Leap (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Amp Hour #628 – Two Dads Puzzlin’ Things Out (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Tim Corey: Learning Programming – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 241 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 63: Trader Joe’s Knack for Hacks (Trader Joe’s Team)

Community & Events

• 5 questions for Microsoft’s Natasha Crampton (Mohar Chatterjee)
• Who’s shaping the future of the internet? Nominate your pick for Mozilla’s Rise 25 (Mozilla Team)
• Community is the future of AI (Prashanth Chandrasekar)
• You’re Invited! Microsoft AI, Data & Modern App – In Person Event (Shelly Avery)
• Contributor Stories: Ed Burns (Sherry List)

PowerShell

• PowerShell vs. Command Prompt: Which One Should You Use? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous

• I’m a former Microsoft VP of HR. Here are the real reasons why layoffs are happening and how much longer they’ll last. (Chris Williams)
• 5 PowerToys Features that Level Up My Windows Experience (Joao Carrasqueira)
• Multinomial Naive Bayes Classification Using the scikit Library (James McCaffrey)
• IKEA Is Rereleasing Vintage Pieces to Celebrate Its 80th Anniversary (Tara Bellucci)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3688 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-16 (#68) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #99 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 17, 2023 (#069) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #551 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link