Dew Drop – August 22, 2023 (#4009)

Top Links

• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update with new AI chat bot template (Junjie Li)
• New in Visual Studio: Compare Files with Solution Explorer (Dalia Abo Sheasha)
• Writing Component Specs (Rob Eisenberg)
• Why Do You Have to Return “Task” Whenever You “await” Something in a Method in C#? (Jeremy Clark)
• Highlights from Git 2.42 (Taylor Blau)

Web & Cloud Development

• Implement API Key Authentication in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
• How to Create Custom Cross-Form Control Validator in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using ETags and Patching Rows in Azure Table Storage (Mark Heath)
• VMware Unveils New Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes Tools (Wylie Wong)
• Fleet Preview Update 1.22: Terraform Support, Attach to Process for C#, Quick-Fixes Preview, and More. (Roman Prokashev)
• VMware extends Windows 365 Cloud PCs to new audiences: public preview available now (Andrej Radinger)
• Jest mocks broke updating to jest 29 (Charlie Greenman)
• Custom Search Parameters (David Hay)
• Bring visual collaboration to life with Postman and Miro APIs (Will Bishop)
• APIs Aren’t Just For Devs Pt. 10 – AuthN and AuthZ Plus REST APIs Explained! (Shannon Kuehn)
• Migration of containerized services from GKE to AKS (Narendra Rao Sunkada)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Summer Coding Adventure (Bruno Capuano)
• Writing apps for Windows: Selecting a development technology (Microsoft Learn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio : Power Of TODO (Hasan Elsherbiny)
• Reinventing the Wheel Again – Bluetooth on Linux (Peter Foot)
• Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Do More using GitHub Copilot with AI and VS Code (John Papa)
• IBM launches generative AI tool to help modernize mainframe software (Ian Barker)
• What is the SPACE developer productivity framework? (James Wood)
• Microsoft and CEO Satya Nadella are winning the perception war on AI (Kareem Anderson)
• Balancing Learning with Practical Application in Programming: A Deep Dive (Nick Cosentino)
• Using Planners in the SK Java Kernel (Soham Dasgupta)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• AdDuplex Post-Mortem. Part 4: VC Money (Alan Mendelevich)
• Microsoft kills Kinect again (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) moves to an independent organization within GitHub (Robin Seiler)

Screencasts & Videos

• Igniting developer innovation with Vector search and Azure OpenAI | The AI Show and Revolutionizing Image Search with Vectors | The AI Show (Microsoft Developer)
• Webinar Recording: Essentials of React Server Components (Aleksandra Aganezova)
• Build Your First Plugin for .NET MAUI with this FREE Template! (Gerald Versluis)
• Live Coding – Enter Key Hint in WebAssembly (Martin Zikmund)

Podcasts

• Revision Path – Maya Gold Patterson (Maurice Cherry)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – The History of Data with Ted Neward (Scott Hanselman)
• The PowerShell Podcast – Shell-Shocked: PowerShell Gallery Security, Reddit Questions, and more (James Petty)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 656 – 8 Tricks When Using the Fetch() API (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – LeakSignal with Wesley Hales and Max Bruce (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 135 – AI and Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Magical (Anton Chuvakin)
• Changelog News Podcast – All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #643 – Calibration & Repair with Ian Johnston (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 601 – Medical research made understandable with AI (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• Join the DataGrip community on Slack (Alisa Lukonina)
• Regional Microsoft Build 2023 Events with MVP, RD, and MLSA (Rie Moriguchi)

Database

• SQL Server Execution Plan Issues when using TOP Clause and Various Parameters (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
• SQL SERVER – Scripts to Retrieve Column Names (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft announces 7 updates to OneNote Android app (Devesh Beri)

PowerShell

• Tracking Windows Group Policy Changes With PowerShell (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Restructure Proposed Acquisition and Notify Restructured Transaction to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (Brad Smith)
• Bing Chat Enterprise is in preview for Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 licenses for faculty users (Microsoft Edge Team)
• 1.72.0 pre-release testing (Rust Release Team)
• How to Write a Technical Blog That Gets Read (Simple Talk Team)
• Microsoft is treating Windows 10 users to more apps from Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3764 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting links of the week 2023-34 (#86) (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #114 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – August 21, 2023 (#147) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #568 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link