Dew Drop – May 11, 2023 (#3941)

Top Links

• Visual Studio UI Refresh (Kaitlin Brooks, Cherry Wang and Dante Gagne)
• Building Go applications with the Microsoft Graph Go SDK, now generally available (Maisa Rissi)
• Replicating a Dating Profile UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• Introducing the Android Design Hub: The ultimate resource for building exceptional user interfaces across all form factors (Adhithya Ramkumar & Rebecca Gutteridge)
• Sign CLI – Code Signing CLI tool supporting Authenticode, NuGet, VSIX, and ClickOnce (.NET Foundation)
• Racing Forward at I/O 2023 with Flutter and Dart (Tim Sneath)

Web & Cloud Development

• Creating a Contact Form with EmailJS and Vue (Ezekiel Lawson)
• Step by Step Creating Your First Qwik App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Bringing Kotlin to the Web (Vivek Sekhar)
• A Guide To Redux Toolkit With TypeScript (Deepak Kumar)
• Deploying to App Service free tier with Bicep (Pamela Fox)
• New Features in ECMAScript 2022 (Ravi Kiran)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Init Only Setters in C# (Code Maze)
• Building Intelligent Applications with OpenAI and C#: A Step-by-Step Guide to get started (Neel Bhatt)
• .NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Azure Functions Upgrades and .NET 8 (Almir Vuk)
• Avoid Proliferating DbContext or IQueryable in .NET Apps (Steve Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Operating Within Gratitude (Stephanie Stimac)
• Revolutionize your open source workflows: the top 3 reasons why GitHub Codespaces is a must-have for maintainers (Andrea Griffiths)
• How do we get a tech team to make a big technical change? (Chelsea Troy)
• How To Use Trello And Confluence Together For Effective Onboarding (Cindy Weydt)
• New Resources to Build with Google AI (Jaimie Hwang & Danu Mbanga)
• What’s ahead for Bard: More global, more visual, more integrated (Sissie Hsiao)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building HoloLens/MRTK3 applications on an Azure virtual Machine using GitHub Actions (Joost van Schaik)
• Second Beta of Android 14 (Dave Burke)
• 14 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O! (Matthew McCullough)
• Android Studio @ I/O ‘23: Announcing Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding assistant (Android Developers)
• What’s new in Flutter 3.10 (Kevin Chisholm)
• 2023 Google Mobile Ads Updates for Flutter (Timothy Hoang)
• Introducing the Watch Face Format for Wear OS (Anna Bernbaum)
• What’s new in Jetpack Compose (Jolanda Verhoef)
• 8 best-selling assets to help you get your next project ready (Unity Asset Store Team)
• Announcing Dart 3 (Michael Thomsen)

Screencasts & Videos

• How to add Copilot to your Power Apps | GPT-based User Controls (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Entity Framework Tooling with Erik Ejlskov Jensen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• “Jeff Teper is your Copilot” – The Intrazone podcast (Mark Kashman)
• OnPodcast Ep. Google I/0 23 Special: Bard, AI Maps, AI Docs, new hardware, and more (Podcast OnMSFT Team)
• Agile Mentors Podcast – Exploring Lean Thinking in Agile Development (Bob Payne)
• Fragmented: An Android Developer Podcast #244: Reviving Our Passion for Android Development (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 612 – UI Elements – Basics, Best Practice, and Built Ins (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• SolidStart with Ryan Carniato – JavaScript Jabber 581 (AJ ONeal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 581 – A conversation with the folks building Google’s AI models and I/O releases (Ben Popper & Paige Bailey)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Mob Programming (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• The Changelog – How companies are sponsoring OSS (Duane O’Brien, Chad Whitacre, Alyssa Wright, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

• Join us for HackTogether: The Microsoft Teams Global Hack (Garry Trinder)
• Google I/O 2023 recap: Updates across mobile, web, AI, and cloud (Jeanine Banks)
• Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Conference (Sy Brand)
• Microsoft cutting more jobs in Seattle region, beyond global layoffs announced in January and Microsoft won’t give raises to full-time salaried employees this year (Taylor Soper)
• Microsoft’s Activision deal expected to clear EU regulatory investigation (Kareem Anderson)
• On the road to 2030: Our 2022 Environmental Sustainability Report (Melanie Nakagawa & Brad Smith)
• A Message from Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO Stack Overflow (Prashanth Chandrasekar)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Create MSI packages via command lines (Alex Marin)
• Completion Predictor v0.1.1 Release (Steven Bucher)
• PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 21 (Sydney Smith)

Miscellaneous

• Disney is finally combining Hulu and Disney Plus into the same app (Emma Roth)
• Getting started with Microsoft Learn (Johan Myburgh)
• Polyglot Notebooks: The difference between .dib and .ipynb Files (Matt Eland)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3703 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – May 10, 2023 (#086) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (Eric Brechner) – Referral Link