Dew Drop – June 9, 2023 (#3961)

Top Links

• Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions. (Aaron Yim)
• Visual Studio Code May 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Rider 2023.2 EAP 4 Is Out! (Sasha Ivanova)
• Transform a WPF App to Cross-Platform with .NET MAUI (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Improved navigation support in TwoPaneLayout (Kristen Halper)

Web & Cloud Development

• Arrays: A Data Structure Deep Dive (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Best Practices for Creating a New Project (Assis Zang)
• React useState Vs. Context API: When to Use Them (Kavindu Gunathilake)
• Mastering Next.js Error Handling with the App Router (Rayan Kazi)
• Shorts Series – Add or Enable OData in ASP.NET Core 7.0 (Talking Dotnet)
• How to use the Azure OpenAI Embedding model to find the most relevant documents (Yoshio Terada)
• Node v20.3.0 (Current) (Michael Zasso)
• Why are blocks on Bluesky public? (Bluesky AT Protocol Team)
• Fleet 1.19, AI-powered Features and Easier Configuration for rust-analyzer, Python Interpreters, and npm (Eugene Toporov)
• Best Practices for Building Secure Micro Frontends (Grgur Grisogono)
• Top 30 APIs for best developer experience (Kyle Calica)
• How WASM (and Rust) Unlocks the Mysteries of Quantum Computing (Mary Branscombe)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Waterfall Chart to Track Monthly Sales (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Managed vs Unmanaged Code (Garbage Collection) in C# (Code Maze)
• Table Extension: Remove Empty Columns After Mail Merge (Bjoern Meyer)
• CSLA Version 7.0.0 release (Rocky Lhotka)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Portable App MSIX Package (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Automation Anywhere Azure DevOps Pipeline (Mehdi Khaleghian)
• Unveiling Behavior-Driven Development (BDD): Bridging the Gap Between Business and Testing (Pinal Dave)
• The evolution of quality assurance and how Azure Test Plans is driving the future of manual testing (Ravi Kumar)
• Awesome Product Management (Den Delimarsky)
• Announcing Microsoft’s AI Customer Commitments (Antony Cook)
• Implementing and Managing GitHub for DevSecOps (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Greg Young answers your Event Sourcing questions! (Derek Comartin)
• How to keep your new tool from gathering dust (Eira May)
• ‘Eyes wide open’: The importance of responsible AI innovation (Elham Rizi-Shorvon)
• Developer experience: what is it and why should you care? (Gwen Davis)
• How to build a design system in Sketch (Jaime Creixems)
• Appreciative Inquiry vs. Problem Solving Orientation (JD Meier)
• Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses (Jess Weatherbed)
• 4 best practices leading orgs to release software faster (Kristina Weis)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How digital twins are transforming large-scale airports (Vanessa Morgan)
• The fundamentals of monetizing with offerwalls (Anna Popereko)

Podcasts

• Unlock Identity Expertise with Our New Developer Podcast! (E. Dunham)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Chatting with Apple at WWDC: Macros in Swift and the new visionOS (Eira May)
• .NET Core Podcast – Breaking Up with Tech Debt: A Love Story with M. Scott Ford (Jamie Taylor)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Avanade’s Florin Rotar and Chris Lloyd-Jones (Scott Hanselman)
• CppCast – Modules and build systems (Timur Doumler & Phil Nash)
• The Azure Podcast Episode 464 – Azure Deployment Environments (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• AWS vs GCP – Adventures in DevOps 164 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• JS Party Podcast – Million ways to render (Aiden Bai, Tobi Loba & Nick Nisi)
• Rocket 441: How to Spend A Lot Of Money (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Design Details 460: Arc Boosts ft. Gabriel Valdivia (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
• AI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma (Alyssa Hughes)
• Web Rush Episode 237: Tech Community Engagement with Newsletters with Sam Julien (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
• UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 269: Two Hour Design Sprints with Teresa Cain (Jane Portman)

Community & Events

• Announcing the latest AWS Heroes – June 2023 (Taylor Jacobsen)
• Announcing the global winners for Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior 2023: students developing the AI skills needed for the future world of work (Microsoft Education Team)
• Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love (Abby Cabunoc Mayes)
• Take Part in the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023 (Anastassiya Sichkarenko)

Database

• SQL Server vs Oracle Query Statistics to Improve Performance (Pablo Echeverria)
• Integer compression: Using SIMD bit packing in practice (Oren Eini)
• Released: SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django v1.3 (David Engel)
• SQL Comparison Operators to Refine Query Results (Joe Gavin)

PowerShell

• Update to Microsoft Intune PowerShell example script repository on GitHub (Intune Support Team)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1835 and 22631.1835 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Reblogging Gets a Refresh (Dave Martin)
• Google Drive is ending app support for Windows 8 and 8.1 (Emma Roth)
• Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement Binary Search (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3723 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – June 8, 2023 (#106) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)