Dew Drop – June 29, 2023 (#3974)

Top Links

• Early Bird Ticket Ends July 4th for TechBash 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
• Metalama 2023.1 is Generally Available (Gael Fraiteur)
• Xamarin Forms Migration to Uno Platform: Data Binding Techniques (Uno Platform Team)
• Blazor unified project design (Steve Sanderson)
• Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy v0.9 with over-consenting guidance (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)

Web & Cloud Development

• ETags in ASP.NET Core (Peter Ritchie)
• Azure portal May 2023 updates (Allison Cordle)
• Blazor Basics: Creating a Blazor Component (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Custom Error Handling Middleware for Wolverine.HTTP (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Use CSS background-size and background-position (Ralph Mason)
• What can you build with Wasp? (Matija Sosic)
• AI based CLI interactive mode (Jeremy Li)
• What Is a SOAP API? (Kin Lane)
• Why Your OpenAPI Spec Sucks (Sharon Pikovski)
• What Is a REST API? Examples, Uses, and Challenges (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• How to Use MultiSelect Input Control for WinForms, WPF, and UWP (Prabhakar Mishra)
• Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Column Chart to Visualize the Purchase Revenue of US E-Health and Meditation Apps (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Stack Overflow Dev Survey: VS Code, Visual Studio Still Top IDEs 5 Years Running (David Ramel)
• LINQ: Select.Where or Where.Select? (Steven Giesel)
• C++ Extension in VS Code 1.16 Release: Call Hierarchy & more (Alexandra Kemper)
• How to wait for multiple C++ coroutines to complete before propagating failure, false hope (Raymond Chen)
• Test Data Generation With AutoFixture in .NET (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Advanced Installer 20.8 (Advanced Installer Team)
• Lightweight Ways to Customize Trello (Britt Joiner)
• Using ChatGPT to Create Software Tests (Bruno Lopes)
• Three more chapters of my data architecture book are available! (James Serra)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Records in Android Studio Flamingo (Clement Bera)
• Flutter UI challenge: rotary passcode (static design) (Mangirdas Kazlauskas)

Screencasts & Videos

• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 162 – Best Effort (Iot Coffee Talk Crew)
• 5 Code Navigation Tips While Debugging .NET Apps in Visual Studio | On .NET (Leslie Richardson)
• How to test GitHub Actions Locally!!! (Isaac Levin)
• What are “control plane” and “data plane” APIs? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
• What I Wish I Knew… about feeling scared (Tenay Barker)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Going Full Time on Open Source with Shaun Walker (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast – De Sanctis on APIs (Jesse Liberty)
• Azure Podcast Episode 465 – Functions on Azure Container Apps (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• The Rework Podcast – When to Jump into AI (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reading smiles, the measure of success for Scrum Masters | Bojan Smudja (Vasco Duarte)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 633 – WTF is an ORM (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• How to Build Peer-to-Peer Mobile and Desktop Apps with Socket Supply – JavaScript Jabber 588 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Dan Shappir)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Database Sharding (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 265: WHY and What’s Next? (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Practical AI Podcast – Automated cartography using AI (Gabriel Ortiz & Daniel Whitenack)
• The Changelog – Don’t make things worse! (Taylor Troesh & Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

• Introducing OpenAI London (OpenAI Team)
• Register for Google Cloud Next ‘23 and get some sweet perks (Brian Hall & Max Saltonstall)
• Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff (Jay Peters)

Database

• Installing SQL Server Integration Services (Joe Gavin)
• SQL SERVER – Setting Deadlock Priority to Control the Transaction that is Rolled Back (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.18 – First release of upcoming features (Vesa Juvonen)
• Yammer.com Rebranded to Viva Engage (Valeria Furlong)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Perfectionism vs. Pragmatism in Product Engineering | Warp (Zach Bai)

Miscellaneous

• Curiosity unbounded (Mark Downie)
• WhatsApp Kills Off the Electron-Based Desktop App (BeauHD) – Long live UWP?
• The value of skilling goes far beyond learning (Tess O.)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3737 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – June 28, 2023 (#112) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows app development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link