Dew Drop – July 19, 2023 (#3987)

Top Links

• Replicating a Hotel Booking UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
• GitHub Copilot for SQL Developers: Turbocharge your SQL Development Workflow (Subhojit Basak)
• Microsoft Inspire: Accelerating AI transformation through partnership (Frank X. Shaw)
• Announcing the Semantic Kernel Plugins Hackathon! (Alex Chao)
• Implementing a Skeleton Loader in Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
• Furthering our AI ambitions – Announcing Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing (Yusuf Mehdi & Jared Spataro)

Web & Cloud Development

• Azure SDK Release (July 2023) (Azure SDK Team)
• Part 1 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process (John Folberth & Joe Fitzgerald)
• React Basics: How to Add Bootstrap to React Applications (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Best-in-Class ASP.NET Core Grid (Jefferson S. Motta)
• Azure Logic App Monitoring: The Proactive Approach (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to Work With Time Zones in JavaScript (Nitish Kumar)
• Azure Confidential Computing at Inspire 2023 (Vikas Bhatia)
• The Postman VS Code extension is now in early access with new features (Preetham M.)
• Detect, Investigate and Respond Faster with Latest Innovations in Splunk Enterprise 9.1 and Splunk Cloud Platform (Tom Casey)
• Node v18.17.0 (LTS) (Danielle Adams)
• Exploring the new minimal API source generator: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 4 (Andrew Lock)
• How we’re protecting your Postman API keys in GitLab (Suhas Gaikwad)
• Breaking changes in the Microsoft Graph list channels API (beta) (Sumit Gupta)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Seamlessly Integrate Numeric Up-Down UI in Your .NET MAUI App (Vijayakumar Viswanathan)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Records, the With Keyword, and Reference Types and EditorConfig, Code Style, and Configuring Code Inspections (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 6 migration (Steven Giesel)
• EF Core – Add a test to ensure that you don’t forget to add new migrations and Creating a Roslyn Analyzer to ensure that no duplicate values are added at compile time (Josef Ottosson)
• The ReSharper and Rider 2023.1.4 Bug-fix Release Is Here! (Sasha Ivanova)
• How to clone a Windows Runtime vector in the face of possible concurrent modification, part 4 (Raymond Chen)
• Introduction to Scrutor Library in .NET (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• 21 Extraordinary Quotes that Will Change the Way You Treat People (J.D. Meier)
• OpenAI Whisper is Coming Soon to Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech (Heiko Rahmel)
• Splunk AI: Catalyzing Digital Resilience in Cybersecurity and Observability (Min Wang)
• Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news (OpenAI Team)
• Negotiation 102 (‘Tine Zekis)
• Bing Chat Enterprise announced, multimodal Visual Search rolling out to Bing Chat (Bing Team)
• New Boards Hub Path to GA (Dan Hellem)
• Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices (Michal Halperin Ben Zvi)
• Bing Chat Enterprise, your AI-powered chat for work, available in Microsoft Edge sidebar (Microsoft Edge Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How To Create A Culture Of Continuous Improvement In Mobile Engineering Teams (Sarah Gruneisen)
• Roblox Is Going To Let Developers Offer Subscriptions In Their Experiences (BeauHD)

Screencasts & Videos

• The Download: 100,000 Kubernetes Stars, Passkeys for GitHub.com, Excel texting and more (Christina Warren)
• Azure Virtual Desktop | Automated scaling, imaging & monitoring (Microsoft Mechanics)
• What’s new with Hotpatch for Windows Server | ITOpsTalk (Thomas Mauer & Vishal Bajaj)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 471 (Jason Bock)
• What I Wish I Knew… about interviewing for jobs (John Kennedy)
• How can I migrate my existing services to App Service? | One Dev Question (Yutang Lin)

Podcasts

• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations (Ben Popper)
• Practical AI Podcast – Legal consequences of generated content (Damien Riehl, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• RunAs Radio – Securing Sprawling Services with Karinne Bessette (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes Podcast #344 – AMA: Ask Us Anything (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• I’m Writing a Book! (Calvin A. Allen)
• Microsoft Learn learning rooms drive connection, guidance, and new possibilities (Kerry1485 & Sarah Kong)
• Mastering Hackathons with Microsoft Design-Led Thinking: Unleash Your Creative Potential (Lee Stott)

Database

• Implicit Conversion Concerns for SQL Server Performance (Hadi Fadlallah)
• A Beginners Guide to MySQL Replication Part 3: Multi-Source Replication (Aisha Bukar)
• SQL SERVER – Monitoring Database Autogrowth Settings (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing a new SharePoint Web UI kit! (Jason Blackheart)
• The next wave of Copilot in Microsoft Teams (Pete Daderko)
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Inspire 2023 (Steve Stein)
• Microsoft Viva Pulse is now generally available! (Tranissa Creme)
• Microsoft Inspire: What’s new for Viva Engage and Answers in Viva (Michael Holste)

Miscellaneous

• Gaussian Process Regression Using the scikit Library (James McCaffrey)
• Security alert: social engineering campaign targets technology industry employees (Alexis Wales)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3751 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – July 18, 2023 (#124) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft)