Dew Drop – June 2, 2023 (#3956)

Top Links

• Announcing an update for .NET Upgrade Assistant with a new CLI tool! (Olia Gavrysh)
• Add first-class calling capabilities to your Windows applications. (Jorge Garcia Hirota)
• Updated Paint app for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders with dark mode and zoom improvements (Dave Grochocki)
• Dev Drive: Performance, Security and Control for Developers (Bridget Tueffers)
• Build your own app’s copilot on Microsoft Teams with the new Teams AI Library (Daniel Carrasco, Joey Glocke and Ankit Govil)
• Announcing TypeScript 5.1 (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

• Introducing the Vue.js CI/CD series (Alexandre Nedelec)
• How to Bind a JavaScript Datagrid to GraphQL Service (Chris Bannon)
• Angular Unit Testing With Karma and Jasmine (Haresh Kumbhani)
• Docker Desktop 4.20: Docker Engine and CLI Updated to Moby 24.0 (Lorena Rangel Hernandez)
• Quick Tip: Shipping Resilient CSS Components (Stephanie Eckles)
• Blazor Basics: Getting Started with Blazor Development in Visual Studio 2022 (Claudio Bernasconi)
• How Postman uses JSON Schema (Juan Cruz Viotti)
• Advancing the future of the internet with the ‘Photoshop of software’ (Kristina Bravo)
• What Web Development Standards Should You Follow for Effective Websites? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Brave Browser Now Features Vertical Tabs For Desktop Users (msmash)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Chart of the Week: Visualize the Transfer Spending and Earning among the Football League Clubs Using WPF Scatter Chart (Nanthini Mahalingam)
• Implement navigation between two pages (Microsoft Learn)
• Time Regions in .NET MAUI Scheduler—An Overview (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Build Dynamic Queries With Expression Trees in C# (Code Maze)
• Pure Virtual C++: CMake Debugger, Build Insights in Visual Studio, and more (Sy Brand)
• C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
• Modern UI with the WinForms RadToolbarForm (Hristo Merdjanov)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Azure DevOps – Library Variables, Stages and Release Scope–Did you know? (Kevin LaBranche)
• A guide to Generative AI terminology (Colin Eberhardt)
• Introducing Trello Dark Mode (Lauren Moon)
• Essential GUI design principles (Eric Chung)
• What is High-Performance Coaching? (JD Meier)
• Monitor Your TeamCity Builds with Datadog CI Visibility (Olga Bedrina)
• Testing in Production (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Highlights from Git 2.41 (Taylor Blau)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Upcoming changes to InAppProducts API and subscription catalog management (Rejane Franca & Serge Beauchamp)
• Made with Unity Monthly: May 2023 roundup (Unity Community Team)

Screencasts & Videos

• Three apps for building team culture in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Road to Entrepreneurship with Nanxi Liu (Scott Hanselman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Process to Habit, How to unlock Scrum Master success | Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse (Vasco Duarte)
• Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Teams Toolkit v5 with John Miller (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
• Rocket 440: Build-ing a Mystery (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #542 – Bill Fawcett on Robert Asprin (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 576 – Balancing a PhD program with a startup career (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 236: Astro 2.5 with Alvin Bryan (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• PowerShell News Podcast Episode 061 – Interview with James Petty and Missy Januszko (Mick Pletcher & Harjit Dhaliwal)
• JS Party Podcast – Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (Kevin Ball & Nick Nisi)

Community & Events

• The 16th Annual Regular Expression Day – June 1st 2023 (Ben Nadel)
• Microsoft celebrates Pride by donating to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits and inviting everyone to make Pride with open-source campaign (Chris Capossela)
• Microsoft Build 2023 recap (Guy Merin)
• Let’s get personal: computing has won a Telly award (Jim Bennett)
• Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers (Klint Finley)
• Stack Overflow: Building a safer community: Announcing our new Code of Conduct (Philippe Beaudette)
• OpenAI cybersecurity grant program (Bob Rotsted, Girish Sastry, Harold Nguyen, Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro & Joel Parish)
• Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin has resigned (Jay Peters)

Database

• Creating a date dimension or calendar table in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER 2022 – Last Valid Restore Time – Improved Backup Metadata (Pinal Dave)
• Masking Columns in Azure SQL and SQL Server: Safeguarding Sensitive Data (Josephine Bush)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• SharePoint roadmap pitstop: May 2023 (Mark Kashman)
• Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17.3 for Microsoft 365 extensibility (Vesa Juvonen)

PowerShell

• What is my PowerShell script doing? (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? (Bill Gates)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23471 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1830 and 22631.1830 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• VW ID Buzz debuts three-row electric Microbus for the US with more power and space (Daniel Golson)
• Announcing Rust 1.70.0 (Rust Release Team)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Read a CSV File (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3718 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET Annotated Monthly | June 2023 (Rachel Appel)
• Daily Reading List – June 1, 2023 (#101) (Richard Seroter)
• Collective #767 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)