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Dew Drop – February 9, 2024 (#4125)

Top Links

Advancing key protection in Windows using VBS (Emily Zhang)
The next chapter of our Gemini era (Sundar Pichai)
D + E + I Done Right (Russ Laraway)
My Top 10 NEW Visual Studio Features of 2023 for .NET Developers (James Montemagno)
Microsoft Graph Toolkit v4.0 is now generally available (Sébastien Levert)
Introducing Sudo for Windows! (Jordi Adoumie)

Web & Cloud Development

Bringing the power of Signals to Angular Forms with Signal Forms (Tim Deschryver)
Learn ASP.NET Core by Building an Auction Application (Beau Carnes)
The Difference Between RESTful APIs and Web APIs Using ASP.NET Core (Januarius Njoku)
How JavaScript Frameworks Share Data Across Components (Jonathan Gamble)
Parsing HTML With AngleSharp in C# (Victorio Nikolaev)
Top 8 React Libraries for Building Beautiful and Functional UIs (Vidura Senevirathne)
Breaking OpenAI OpenAPI Into 10 Separate OpenAPIs (Kin Lane)
How to Learn Golang – A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics (Adeola Ajiboso)
What Are the Core Principles of Good API Design? (Charles Humble)
Best practices for API error handling (Gbadebo Bello)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI – Item Templates – Made Easy on CLI and VS Code (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

Renaming Merge Blocks and Merge Fields Programmatically in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
2023’s Top 10 New Features for .NET in Visual Studio (Jason Chlus & James Montemagno)
Collection Expressions in .NET 8 (David McCarter)
How do I suppress the error box that appears when a LoadLibrary fails? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Demo Review: Simple RAG using SQL Server and OpenAI (Jason Haley)
Enable Chat History on Azure AI Studio with Azure Cosmos DB (Ricky Diep)
GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility (Deepthi Rao Coppisetty)
Listen to yourself pattern: Is it an alternative to the Outbox Pattern? (Derek Comartin)
Introducing ARI (Mattias Karlsson)
Microsoft Copilot for Security provides immediate impact for the Microsoft Defender Experts team (Andrew Conway)
How To Develop a Culture of Quality in Software Organizations (Ben Linders)
#SemanticKernel – Chat Service demo running Phi-2 LLM locally with #LMStudio (Bruno Capuano)
Understand Responsible AI (Erin Sanders)
Transforming the Impossible into the Possible: The Power of Innovation and Perseverance (Peter Smulovics)
Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today (Sissie Hsiao)

Screencasts & Videos

Hands-free tempdb | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Can I develop a remote AI plugin to run on both ChatGPT and on Chat Copilot? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)
GitHub Foundations: GitHub Entities (Martin Zikmund)
Import a Postman Collection | Postman Level Up (Postman Team)
.NET Conf – Focus on MAUI Videos (Microsoft Learn)
Installing WinDbg (Tim Misiak)

Podcasts

The Ultimate List of Developer Podcasts (Annika)
The Modern .NET Show – From Mono to Wilderness: Unleashing the Wild Side of .NET in IoT with Bryan Costanich (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Our Retro FPGA future powered by Jose Tejada (JOTEGO) (Scott Hanselman)
JS Party Podcast – React Server Components (Dan Abramov, Amal Hussein & Eric Clemmons)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes stale reads, with Madhav Jivrajani (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reflect, Review, Succeed, How To Develop Your Own Success Routine As A Scrum Master | Viktor Didenchuk (Vasco Duarte)
Software Defined Talk Episode 453: John Willis on how Kubernetes won, digital transformation and Deming (Coté)
The Changelog – Taking on Goliath (Nadia Odunayo, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
People of AI – Season 3 (Ashley Oldacre & Luiz Gustavo Martins)
Web Rush Episode 267: Business Strategy for Developers (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
Talk Python to Me #448: Full-Time Open Source Devs Panel (Michael Kennedy)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #560 – For All Mankind Seasons 3 and 4 Review (with John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener, Rafael Jordan) (David Barr Kirtley & John Joseph Adams)
Tools and Weapons Podcast – Yves Ubelmann: Saving our heritage, one digital twin at a time (Brad Smith)

Community & Events

Welcome to the Windows Development Community on programming.dev (Smartman Apps)
A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future (Mitchell Baker)
Our Favorite Philly Stories This Week and Goal! Your Guide to the 2026 World Cup in Philadelphia (Visit Philly)

Database

Query Exercise: Improving Cardinality Estimation (Brent Ozar)
Provision a Free Azure SQL Managed Instance Step by Step (Jared Westover)
What Happens To Queries With Recompile Hints In Query Store (Erik Darling)
My data architecture book is published! (James Serra)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Chat in Teams meetings from the new Outlook for Windows! (Harini Palniswamy)
Discover Planner Boards with Microsoft Loop (Swapna Ninan)

PowerShell & Terminal

Tutorial – Set up a custom prompt for PowerShell or WSL with Oh My Posh (Microsoft Learn)
Sudo for Windows | Microsoft Learn Documentation (Matt Wojciakowski)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files v3.2 (Files Team)
Apple Officially Splits iTunes For Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps (BeauHD)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3140 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 (Canary and Dev Channels) and Snipping Tool and Notepad updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
The Linuxification of Windows Continues (Matthew MacDonald)
Microsoft Responds to Latest Spurious FTC Complaint (Paul Thurrott)
Announcing Rust 1.76.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3878 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Reading List – February 8, 2024 (#257) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Still relevant with .NET 8 and C# 12 – Referral Link

Dew Drop – February 7, 2024 (#4123)

Top Links

AutoMapper 13.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
Concurrently Asynchronous | Multithreaded Income Episode 28 with Stephen Cleary (Kevin Griffin)
Make demo typing easy with DemoType in ZoomIt v8.0 (John Stephens)
Beautiful Sortable Drag & Drop Lists for your Blazor Apps | On .NET (James Montemagno, Burke Holland & Jon Galloway)
Quick Tips for using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci)

Web & Cloud Development

HTML Web Components with Vanilla JavaScript and ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
jQuery 4.0.0 BETA! (Timmy Willison)
Handling Electronic Signatures in a Blazor Web App using .NET 8 (Bjoern Meyer)
Microsoft Dev Box – Make it your own (Brandon H.)
MapControllers vs MapControllerRoute Routing in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman)
JavaScript Array Methods: Map vs Filter vs Redux (Sh Raj)
What I Mean When I Say That APIs Reduce Everything to a Transaction and New API to Profile Bookmarklet (Kin Lane)
Go 1.22 is released! (Ed Bendersky)
Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Check in preview (Ankur Patel)
Statement regarding “runAsNode” CVEs (Felix Rieseberg)
What is API encryption? (Melinda Gutermuth)
Using Object.fromEntries to make a new Object (Pam Selle)
Jetpack 13.1- New Engagement Blocks (Sami Falah)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

From Stars to Hearts: Explore Creative Rating Designs in WinUI (Manivannan Elangovan)
Expand Your Maui Paradise with the .NET MAUI TreeView (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
OpenSilver 2.1 Adds F# Support (Alex Denham)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Clean Architecture with MediatR: How To Build For Flexibility (Nick Cosentino)
How to Pass Complex Parameters to Theory in xUnit (Code Maze)
Using ildasm to view IL code (Paul Michaels)
General Performance Tip: Null Coalescing Assignment (David McCarter)
On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency (Raymond Chen)
.NET 8–It’s time to get rid of these flaky tests! (Bart Wullems)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Azure OpenAI service is now available in Azure Government (Candice Ling)
Announcing OpenAI text-to-speech voices on Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech (Dave Jacobs)
Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI (Matthew Anderson)
Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible and Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship (pcloadletter)
Assemble Your Hype Squad (‘Tine Zekis)
OpenAI Releases New Embedding Models and Improved GPT-4 Turbo (Anthony Alford)
On-Device Training: Training a model in browser (Caroline Zhu)
Lines of code – how to not measure code quality and developer efficiency (Chris Heilmann)
Critical Security Issue Affecting TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2024-23917) – Update to 2023.11.3 Now (Daniel Gallo)
A guide to dogfooding (David Pereira)
OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (Emilia David)
Empowering employees with generative AI at their fingertips (Microsoft in Business Team)
AI for Developers (Matt Graven)

Screencasts & Videos

Getting started with the Fluent UI Blazor library | Open at Microsoft (Pablo Lopes & Vincent Baaijnn)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 517 (Jason Bock)
Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen: Designing Trust with Sarah Gold (John Maeda)
Helping GitHub Copilot help you with prompt crafting and How to code more securely with AI (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

Generally AI Episode 3: The Founders of CS and AI (Anthony Alford & Roland Meertens)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leadership Lessons, Managing Agile Team Anxiety Sparked by Rumors | Viktor Didenchuk (Vasco Duarte)
RunAs Radio – Managing Cloud Native with Brendan Burns (Richard Campbell)
Practical AI Podcast – Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Karan Malhotra, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Python Bytes Podcast #370 – Your Very Own Heroku (Michael Kennedy)
Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – From Waterfalls to Weekly Releases—Engineering Excellence with Steven Bailey and John Selbie (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
Software Engineering Radio 602: Nicolas Carlo on Improving Legacy Code (Sam Taggart)

Community & Events

Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) (Bluesky Team)
Glowforge lays off more employees after funding round falls through at 3D laser engraver maker (Kurt Schlosser)
DocuSign To Lay Off 6% of Workforce, or About 440 Jobs (msmash)

Database

SQL Server Clustered Index Seek Operation Generates Poor Query Performance (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
Performance Tuning Batch Mode HTDELETE and HTBUILD Waits In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 6: Event Sourcing (Jay Gordon)
Semantic Kernel introduces SQLPlugin and UploadPlugin for efficient data insights. (Pascal Burume)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft to add Copilot AI to OneDrive, but it will cost you (Lance Whitney)
How SharedTree supercharges and simplifies Fluid Framework 2.0 (Nick Simons)

Miscellaneous

ProcDump 3.2 for Linux, ZoomIt v8.0, and Autoruns v14.11 (Alex Mihaiuc)
Copilot in Windows to Launch in a Wider Sidebar Pane by Default (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft’s Universal Print App Now Available for macOS Users (Rabia Noureen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3876 (Chris Alcock)
dotInsights | February 2024 (Rachel Appel)
Daily Reading List – February 6, 2024 (#255) (Richard Seroter)
Daily Links – 6 Feb 2024 (Malcolm Jack)
Collective #810 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3 (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 16, 2024 (#4107)

Top Links

Sortable Lists for Blazor using a SortableJS Component (Burke Holland)
Secure and Deploy .NET Windows Forms Apps with MSIX AppContainer Apps (Bjoern Meyer)
Help Shape Uno Platform’s 2024 Roadmap (Uno Platform Team)
Spotlight on C# 12 (Matthew MacDonald)
Security with Windows Applications and AppContainers (Nick Randolph)
Windows App SDK Version 1.4.4 (1.4.231219000) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses (Yusuf Mehdi)

Web & Cloud Development

Announcing Public Preview of the Azure Arc Visual Studio Code Extension (Azure Team)
Simpler auth for Blazor Web Apps with Auth0? (Jon Hilton)
Migrate ASP.NET Core Blazor Server to Blazor Web (Damien Bowden)
Azure Communication Services January 2024 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
Unveiling the New Angular 3D Chart: A Step Forward in Data Visualization (Gowrimathi S.)
Bulk Alt Text Generation using Azure AI Services (Jamie Maguire)
The New Angular Hydration (Jonathan Gamble)
Introducing fsx: A modern filesystem API for JavaScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Self-help support for Azure using Help API : CLI Extension (Nithya Sivam)
Announcing MotionMark 1.3 (Simon Fraser)
Node v21.6.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices (Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy, Li-Heng Chen, Vinicius Carvalho, Aditya Mavlankar, Agata Opalach, Adithya Prakash, Kyle Swanson, Jessica Tweneboah, Subbu Venkatrav & Lishan Zhu)
Fleet 1.29 is Here With Support for Replacing Groups With Regex, Inline Variable Refactoring, and Other Updates (Daniela Bentrup)
Introduction to Eleventy, a Modern Static Website Generator (David Eastman)
gRPC vs. GraphQL (Postman Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Analyzing WPF performance by enabling ETW (Ian Griffiths)
Introducing .NET MAUI Generic Item Templates (Vijay Anand E G)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.4.231219000 (NuGet)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Distribute Roslyn Analyzers via NuGet (Aaron Stannard)
A Range kata implementation in F# (Mark Seemann)
What Does yield Do In C#: A Simplified View For Beginners and The Best C# Books For Beginner Developers: Top 6 Picks (Nick Cosentino)
In C++/WinRT, how can I await multiple coroutines and capture the results?, Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and C++/WinRT gotcha: Not all exceptions derive from hresult_error (Raymond Chen)
What Are We Doing Wrong with Logging in C#? (Mabrouk Mahdhi)
An alternative to AutoMapper (Steven Giesel)
Avoiding performance pitfalls in incremental generators: Creating a source generator – Part 9 (Andrew Lock)
When to Use Thread.Sleep, When to Use Task.Delay? (Code Maze)
Exception handling has its own middleware in .NET 8 (David Grace)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Easy Unit Testing with Pure Functions (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Jetpack 13.0 – AI Assistant experience improvements and more (Kuba Birecki)
Updates to Azure OpenAI Functions in the latest API (Vesa Nopanen)
Comparative study of Azure Open AI GPT model and LLAMA 2 (Divya Choudhary & Raman Shaw)
Azure OpenAI Insights: Monitoring AI with Confidence (Yoav Dobrin & Dolev Shor)
Use JetBrains AI Assistant To Help You Understand Changes In Your Code (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Integrate Kernel Memory with Semantic Kernel (Matteo Pagani)
How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections and Introducing ChatGPT Team and Introducing the GPT Store (OpenAI Team)
Godot GitHub Source Control (Michael Washington)
Advancing transparency: Updates on responsible AI research (Brenda Potts)
Mobile-First, Cloud-First Mindset (JD Meier)
7 Guiding Principles for Working with LLMs (Jon Udell)
How to Efficiently Save Time with Electronic Signature Templates? (Lakshmi Priya Soundar Rajan)
The building blocks of machine identity (Pieter Kasselman)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi and GPT-4 help you cook steak to perfection (Ashley Whittaker)
Packaging and Distributing Flutter Desktop Apps: The Missing Guide [Part 1: macOS] and Packaging and Distributing Flutter Desktop Apps : The Missing Guide [Part 2: Windows] and Packaging and Distributing Flutter Desktop Apps : The Missing Guide [Part 3: Linux] (Flutter Gems)
How to Request eSignature via SMS (Text Messages) (Gopinath Kannusamy)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Brendan Burns on Creating Kubernetes (David Giard)
Customizing property names & values when reading .NET objects as JSON (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
What are the new skills developers need for making a great UX with AI? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
How to REALLY use Microsoft Word 2024: Tabs, Lists, Styles, Indents and More and Building an Apple 1 Computer – Part 5 (Scott Hanselman)
Game Off Winners, Copilot Chat Goes GA, OpenAI’s GPT Store, Rabbit AI Assistant and more | The Download (Christina Warren)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – .NET 8 Migration with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Modern .NET Show – From Code Generation to Revolutionary RavenDB Unveiling the Database Secrets with Oren Eini (Jamie Taylor)
Revision Path – Sam Bass (Maurice Cherry)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Designing with Code with Dr. Janne Jul Jensen (Scott Hanselman)
Merge Conflict 393: The Apple Vision Pro Developer Dilemma (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
The PowerShell Podcast – From Listener to Speaker: Daniel Schroeder’s PowerShell Summit Success (James Petty)
Meta Cast – Asking for Help: A Leader’s Perspective (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
TWP062 – “Gravity Savvy” with Daniel Reardon (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 155 – Cyber, Geopolitics, AI, Cloud – All in One Book? (Anton Chuvakin)
The Changelog News Podcast – A plea for lean software (Jerod Santo)
Unhandled Exception Podcast – GitKraken – with Justin Roberts and Eric Amodio (Dan Clarke)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – How to build a role-playing video game in 24 hours and The Stack Overflow Podcast – Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention (Eira May)
Scott Hanselman: Semantic Kernel – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 280 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The Breakpoint Show Episode 012 – Lambos & Pickled Boloney: Learning New Skills (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)

Community & Events

Amazon’s Twitch, Prime Video, MGM Studios units lay off hundreds (Taylor Soper)
Google to Fire 30,000 Employees After Success of Its AI-Powered Services (Ava Martinez)
What Spotify’s Layoffs Tell Us About the Future of Work (Amanda Claypool)
2024 Predictions (Scott Galloway)
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (Alex Heath)
A Minute from the Moderators (Hachyderm Team)
MVP Jonah Andersson, Nordic Women in Tech Winner (Rie Moriguchi)
Some Duolingo Workers Were Fired in Favor of AI (Gerrit De Vynck)

Database

Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Common Questions and Some Questions I’ve Answered Recently On Database Administrators Stack Exchange (Erik Darling)
What’s new in security for Azure SQL and SQL Server (Marisa Mathews)
Quick Update on Marten 7.0 (and Wolverine 2.0) (Jeremy D. Miller)
Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 5: Document versioning (Jay Gordon)

Miscellaneous

The latest mini-console is this adorable Atari 400 (Andrew Webster)
Brave Search Can Now Deliver Results For Programming Queries (BeauHD)
The first Steam Deck competitor with SteamOS is almost here (Jay Peters)
Sharing Tab Missing in Windows Folder Properties (Rick Strahl)
Microsoft wants to automatically launch its Copilot AI on some Windows 11 devices (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3857 and The Morning Brew #3859 and The Morning Brew #3860 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2024-3 (Michael Eaton)
C# Digest – Building a self-contained game in C# under 2 kilobytes (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #2, 2024 – F# in the 1BRC.NET (Sergey Tihon)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #129 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – January 15, 2024 (#239) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #804 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Coding Clean, Reliable, and Safe REST APIs with ASP.NET Core 8: Develop Robust Minimal APIs with .NET 8 (Anthony Giretti) – Referral Link