azure data explorer – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 9, 2024 (#4105)

Top Links

Visual Studio Performance Highlights Delivered in 2023 (Nayana Srikanth)
What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components version 4.3.0 (Vincent Baaij)
Handling Missing Members when Reading .NET Objects | On .NET (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
Why knowing WHO you’re building for is so important to a PM (Part 2) (Jeremiah Marble)
#include Diagnostics in Visual Studio (Mryam Girmay)

Web & Cloud Development

ASP.NET Core 8.0 uses C# 12.0’s experimental interceptors to enable AOT (Ian Griffiths)
How to Use CSS Flexbox to Break Elements Out of Their Containers (Kheoh Yee Wei)
Integrating Code with the Telerik UI for Blazor Form Component (Peter Vogel)
Introducing Customer-Managed Agents for Pulumi Deployments (Germán Lena)
Easily access your billing data with the Postman API (Christos Gkoros)
Announcing Fluid Framework 2.0 Beta (Kashif Qureshi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI Bottom Sheet – 3 Ways to Optimize Mobile Screen Space (Anthony Sameishchev)
MaterialFrame MAUI: blur effect, acrylic brush, dark theme… (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Append or Update Query String Values in C# (Code Maze)
.NET 8– System.Text.Json serializer error (Bart Wullems)
How do I prevent my C++/WinRT implementation class from participating in COM aggregation? (Raymond Chen)
.NET APIs Part 5 – All the CRUD APIs (Jesse Liberty)
Some Stream.Read Guidelines (Mark Heath)
TIOBE Index for January 2024 – C# is programming language of the year 2023! (TIOBE Index)

Design, Methodology AI & Testing

Serverless Architecture Patterns and Best Practices (Faith Oyama)
OpenAI and journalism (OpenAI Team)
Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Tracking decision with Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) (Davide Bellone)
Leveraging Chat GPT for Development: Balancing Privacy, Security, and Integrity (Mitchel Sellers)
How to build a Kernel Memory connector and use Elasticsearch as vector database (Alessandro Federici)
Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations’ (Andrew J. Hawkins)
Never a waste: How missteps can lead us to meaningful change (Chris Ferguson)
How generative AI is unleashing human creativity and innovation? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Frenemies to friends: Developers and security tools (Shelby Gluck)

Screencasts & Videos

How Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 works (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Anne H. Berry (Maurice Cherry)
Merge Conflict #392: The One Billion Row Challenge – .NET Edition (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Syntax Podcast Episode 714: CSS :has() in Every Browser! 10 Uses (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Prioritizing People, Strategies for Helping Agile Teams In Trouble | Nimi Bello (Vasco Duarte)
The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell PM Roundtable: 2024 Areas of Excitement (James Petty)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 154 – Mike Schiffman: from Blueboxing to LLMs via Network Security at Google (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – The I in LLM stands for intelligence (Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #655 – The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Maximum Glitch: How to break Tetris (Eira May)
2024 Kickoff – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 279 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Behind the Tech – Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD (Kevin Scott)
Tools and Weapons Podcast – U.S. Ambassador Nate Fick: Choosing a radio over a rifle in combat (Brad Smith)
SQL Server Radio Episode 159 – Select * Wastes Money (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
Software Engineering Radio 597: Coral Calero Muñoz and Félix García on Green Software (Giovanni Asproni)
The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode 150: Victory Over Imposter Syndrome and Burnout with Jimmy Burroughes (Zach White)

Community & Events

Unity is laying off 25 percent of its staff (Emma Roth)
A Conversation with Imagine Cup Director, Tina Jones (Maddy Epstein)
New year; new ways to connect with the Semantic Kernel team! (Matthew Bolanos)
Succinctly Readers Awards 2024 Are on the Way! (Rajeshwari P.)
Wasm ahead – Joining Fermyon (Thorsten Hans)
Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024 – Call for Speakers (Cosmos DB Team)

Database

Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink (Azure Team)
Best Practices for Re-modeling Graph database to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (Subhasish Ghosh)

PowerShell

Microsoft PowerToys Getting New PowerShell Module (David Ramel)

Miscellaneous

Discontinued and Unreleased Microsoft Peripherals Revived By Licensing Deal (BeauHD)
Turn your ideas into songs with Suno on Microsoft Copilot (Bing Team)
Wi-Fi 7 gets certified (Brian Fagioli)
GitHub Certifications are generally available (Kedasha Kerr)
It’s a new year: Sharpen your skills (Matt Graven)
Apple Vision Pro prescription lenses will cost $149 extra (Richard Lawler)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3855 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-2 (Michael Eaton)
Daily Reading List – January 8, 2024 (#234) (Richard Seroter)
.NET Digest | January 2024 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – October 16, 2023 (#4047)

Top Links

Welcoming the legendary teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox (Phil Spencer)
OData property changes to Microsoft Graph callRecords change notifications (Matthew McGrath)
Swift Everywhere: Using Interoperability to Build on Windows (Swift Team)
WPF App Modernisation: A Pragmatic Approach (Mike James)
Optimising Raspberry Pi 5’s software environment (Ashley Whittaker)
Productive code reviews (Kevin Pilch)

Web & Cloud Development

Angular Basics: What is a FormGroup and How to Use It (Kendo UI Team)
Kusto NLog connector now supports Azure Data Explorer Free Clusters (Abhishek Saharn)
Blazor – Twitch Episode 2 Recap – Part 1 and Blazor – Twitch Episode 2 Recap – Part 2 (Don Wibier)
Improving ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection With Scrutor (Milan Jovanović)
Seamlessly Create an Interactive BPMN Viewer and Editor Using the React Diagram Control (Moulidharan Gopalakrishnan)
How to Prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in JavaScript (Nduka John)
How To Call JavaScript From Blazor Web Assembly – Breaking Boundaries with JavaScript Interop and How To Build A Personal Website in Blazor: An ASP.NET Core Tutorial (Nick Cosentino)
General Availability of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code (Swati Devgan)
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs): Unlocking The Future of Mobile-First Web Development (Dmytro Spilka)
Node v20.8.1 (Current) and Node v18.18.2 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)
The Great API Unbundling and Strongly Typed API Operations (Kin Lane)
Internal and private events, or how to design event-driven API (Oskar Dudycz)
Beware: URLs are Pointers to Mutable Entities (Eric Lawrence)

Visual Studio & .NET

Challenge: Fastest node selection metastable error state–answer (Oren Eini)
View Visual Studio activity logs better (Karen Payne)
.NET Framework vs Core Environment Configuration (Charles Flatt)
Display PDF Documents in Windows Forms using the Document Viewer and Embedded Kestrel in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
How and When to Use TPC Inheritance Mapping in EF Core (Code Maze)
C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity (EditorDavid)
.NET Framework October 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Salini Agarwal)
On detecting improper use of std::enable_shared_from_this (Raymond Chen)
At the boundaries, static types are illusory (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

App-V to MSIX conversion: Shortcut argument skipped during conversion (Horatiu Vladasel)
ChatGPT Is Being Used To Declassify Redacted Government Docs (BeauHD)
Markdown: How to Add Images to README.md on GitHub (Chris Pietschmann)
The Challenge of Innovation: Microsoft’s Struggle with Backward Compatibility (Dave Ward)
Test Interactions in a Production Environment (John Moehrke)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Starcraft and networking in the 90s (part 1) (Will Daly)
Documenting Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday (Rob Zwetsloot)
Going cross-platform with MonoGame (Simon Jackson)

Screencasts & Videos

GCast 160: Azure Monitor Diagnostic Settings and Technology & Friends – Nisaini Rexach on AI in Education (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 178 – Follow Your Passion,… or Not (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
How to set your Default Speaker/Audio/Sound Output on Windows – Power Tools and Tips for Pros (Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts

Directions on Microsoft – Microsoft EA Negotiation Podcast Series: Discounts and Concessions (Mary Jo Foley)
Merge Conflict 380: llama.cpp, .NET 8 Surprises, & Beyond (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Syntax Podcast Episode 679 – Creator of Swift, Tesla Autopilot & Tensorflow. New AI language Mojo with Chris Lattner (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
The World of Linux: From Debian to Ubuntu, Fedora to CentOS – Adventures in DevOps 176 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Owner Turnaround with the Help of Real-Time Feedback by the Scrum Master | Konstantin Ribel (Vasco Duarte)
Yet Another Podcast – Mads Torgersen on C# 12 (Jesse Liberty)
Coding Blocks Podcast – Keyboards, Cloud Costs, Static Analysis, and Philosophy (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Meta-Cast Part Deux: The Leadership Era Begins (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Changelog & Friends Podcast – Kaizen! Slightly more instant (Gerhard Lazu, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Talk Python to Me #433: Litestar: Effortlessly Build Performant APIs (Michael Kennedy)
ONPOD EP.132: CMA approves Activision deal, Microsoft owes $28.9 in taxes, Disney eyes gaming, and more (Podcast OnMSFT Team)

Community & Events

Reflections on 10 Years at Microsoft (David Giard)
Bluesky for Journalists (Bluesky Team)
WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms (Sarah Perez)

Database

SQL Server Security Primer (Ben Johnston)
SQL SERVER 2022 – Oldest Compatibility Level Supported (Pinal Dave)
Couchbase Visual Studio Code Plugin: Supercharge Your Development (Aayush Tyagi)
Integrating Azure Data Explorer with Cosmos DB to analyze data in near real-time (Venkata Chintala)
SQL WHERE IN Filtering Examples for SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE (Aubrey Love)
Don’t use DISTINCT as a “join-fixer” (Aaron Bertrand)

PowerShell

A better debugger for PowerShell Universal by using VS Code and PowerShell Editor Services (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft affirms commitment to labor principles, CWA labor neutrality agreement (Brad Smith)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2483 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo welcoming Activision Blizzard employees to Microsoft (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3802 (Chris Alcock)
F# Weekly #41, 2023 – Overhauled F# code fixes and .NET 8 RC2 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – October 13, 2023 (#182) (Richard Seroter)
C# Digest Issue #476 – October 16, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Collective #786 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – October 4, 2023 (#4039)

Top Links

The Hanselminutes Podcast – Better Technical Writing for Everyone with Pam Hurley, PhD (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing TypeScript 5.3 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen: AI-copiloted Design Thinking with guest Ben Sheppard (John Maeda)
Unveiling the Next Generation of OneDrive (Jason Moore)
Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 8 (Kunal Pathak)

Web & Cloud Development

.NET 8 and Blazor United / Server-side rendering (Steven Giesel)
Introducing AWS SQS binding extension support in CoreWCF and WCF Client (Abhi Gujjewar, Biroj Nayak & PJ Pittle)
Access internal applications with Entra Application Proxy (Patrick van Kleef)
Announcing Docker Compose Watch GA Release (Han Yu)
Docker Desktop 4.24: Compose Watch, Resource Saver, and Docker Engine (Kat Tomrushka)
Telerik Blazor Data Grid Performance Optimization (Ultimate Checklist) (Petar Grigorov)
Secure Your APIs with Defender for Azure API Management (Vinod Soni)
5 Essential KendoReact Components That Will Make Sure You Never Ask ‘How Do I Build That’ Again (Violeta Manolova)
resize-asaurus Web Component (Zach Leatherman)
Governing the Title of Your APIs With Spectral Rules (Kin Lane)
Why you shouldn’t use access tokens in your front-end any more (Albert Starreveld)
Can you use the .NET 8 Identity API endpoints with IdentityServer? (Andrew Lock)
Unlocking global government innovation with Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty – public preview available today (Corey Sanders)
Announcing the Web Component Engineering Course Presale! (Rob Eisenberg)
What is OpenID Connect? (Gbadebo Bello)
Serverless architecture and the feasibility of serverless APIs (Ian Douglas)
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet. (Sarah Vasquez)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Syncfusion Update Improves Cross-Platform Development with .NET MAUI, Blazor (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Applying the smart constructor pattern in C# (Bart Wullems)
Refactoring Dispensables in C# (Code Maze)
Make use of colored braces in Visual Studio (Kris van der Mast)
Explore the Possibilities of the What-If Analysis Scenario Manager in Excel Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
Vertical Slice Architecture in C# – Examples on How To Streamline Code (Nick Cosentino)
How To Display .NET Collections with the Oxford Comma (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 6.5.4 – Release Date April 27, 2023 (Brij Mohan)
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Boost Your Code Performance with Concrete Types (David McCarter)
Open Sourcing IFC SDK for C++ Modules (GDR)
Empowering Real-World Solutions the Synergy of AI and .NET (Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

DALL·E 3 system card (OpenAI Team)
How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship (Cory Doctorow)
Accelerate Foundation Models Research: Supporting a global academic research ecosystem for AI (Alyssa Hughes)
DALL-E 3 now available in Bing Chat and Bing.com/create, for free! (Bing Team)
LinkedIn to introduce OpenAI powered AI tools for learning, recruitment, marketing and sales (Devesh Beri)
Make with MakerSuite Part 2: Tuning LLMs (Pranay Bhatia)
Multimodal ChatGPT: Working with Voice, Vision, and Images (Matt Duffin)
Living Color: Designing through synesthesia (Annice Jumani)
The Relationship Between Culture and Performance (Mike Cottmeyer)
3 strategies to expand your threat model and secure your supply chain (Mike Hanley)
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future (Nilay Patel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Heating and cooling Raspberry Pi 5 (Alasdair Allan)
James Adams and Eben Upton on designing Raspberry Pi 5 (James Adams)
GPT 4 Flutter — Chat Summarization (Olivier Brand)
BatchRendererGroup sample: Achieve high frame rate even on budget devices (Arnaud Carré)

Screencasts & Videos

Simplifying Development Experience and Deployment with Azure Kubernetes Service Extension in VS Code | Open at Microsoft (Rong Zhang & Tatsat (Tats) Mishra)
From ZX Spectrum to Blazor | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
What I Wish I Knew… about applying to internships (Leslie Richardson)
#MSIgnite Coffee Break with Rick Claus (ITOpsTalk)

Podcasts

MongoDB Podcast: Visual Storytelling (David Neal)
CodeNewbie S25:E8 – Empowering Developers of All Abilities (Judith Lung) (CodeNewbie Team)
The Rework Podcast – Hiring Senior Leaders, Getting Started with Six-Week Cycles, and Other Listener Questions (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning Decision-Making without Explicit Leadership, A Key Skill For Scrum Teams | Aki Salmi (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast – Generative models: exploration to deployment (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
RunAs Radio – Episode 900! (Dana Epp & Richard Campbell)
How to Find Freelance Software Work | Multithreaded Income Episode 4 with Giorgi Dalakishvili (Kevin Griffin)
Python Bytes Podcast #355 – Python 3.12 is Out! (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Hacktoberfest 2023 with SvelteKit (Willow (Ghost) & Braden Wiggins)
Announcing Docker AI/ML Hackathon (Jennifer Kohl)
Book Talk: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow (Chris Freeland)
Building the Best Infrastructure as Code with $41M Series C Funding (Joe Duffy)
Join Our Cloud Skills Challenges Before October Ends! (Sherry List)
GitHub Sponsors is expanding (Stormy Peters)

Database

Running MySQL Tests With GitHub Actions (Scott Stroz)
Minimize the downtime when migrating SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance (Zoran Rilak)
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk (Azure Team)
Invoking REST APIs with SQLCLR (for Azure SQL MI) (Mihailo Joksimovic)
A Beginners Guide to getting started with the Kusto Query Language in Azure (John Kilmister)
Something’s Up with Parallelism in Azure SQL DB Serverless (Brent Ozar)
What are Lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)
The Intricacies of T-SQL String Comparison: LIKE VS ‘=’ (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams for Education | October 2023 (Mike Tholfsen)
Find what you need with Microsoft Graph connectors (Waldek Mastykarz)

PowerShell

Collecting metrics from PowerShell Universal with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus (Adam Driscoll)
PSReadLine 2.3.4 GA Release (Steven Bucher)

Miscellaneous

Seeing Everyone (ThreddyRex)
A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant (Raymond Chen)
Microsoft’s PowerToys v0.74.1: Fixes stability issues that deemed important (Kunal Chowdhury)
6 things to know about the new Surface devices (Yasmine Boukerma & Linnet Banda)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3794 (Chris Alcock)
Links from around the web (Oct 3, 2023) (Tom Johnson)
Daily Reading List – October 3, 2023 (#174) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Git for Programmers (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link