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Dew Drop – November 15, 2024 (#4302)

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Dew Drop – November 13, 2024 (#4300)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s new in .NET Aspire 9.0? and Custom resource commands in .NET Aspire (David Pine)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dapr Graduation (CNCF)
Make a Web Reporting App Using a Blazor Reporting Tool & Microservices (Sergey Abakumoff)
What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2024 (Brendan Burns)
Microsoft Applied Skills: Build distributed apps with .NET Aspire (Microsoft Learn)
Introducing the Modern Web App (MWA) Pattern for Java (Rory Preddy)
WebStorm 2024.3: Built-In Database Tools and SQL Support, Better AI-driven Code Completion, and More (David Watson)
Wasmer 5 Adds iOS Support (Alex Denham)
Modern Web App pattern for .NET | Azure Architecture Center (Microsoft Learn)
Introducing the New Blazor Smart Paste Button Component (Muthukumar Kannan)
WordPress 6.7 Brings New Power and Flexibility (Tanya Thibodeau)
Node v18.20.5 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 9 (Dan Roth)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 GA and .NET MAUI Product Survey (David Ortinau)
.NET MAUI 9.0.0 Release on GitHub (Rui Marinho)
How to Integrate Search-as-You-Type into Your .NET MAUI DataGrid (Héctor Pérez)

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET 9 – General Availability Release (James Montemagno)
.NET and C# Versions – 9/13 Update (Nietras)
Authentication and Authorization Enhancements in .NET 9.0 (Andrea Chiarelli)
How to Build a C# .NET Scheduler Windows App (Nitin Sharma)
Create Fillable PDF Forms in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
C# Language Support in ReSharper and Rider 2024.3 (Matthias Koch)
What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12 (Sy Brand)
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.42 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 1 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
Cake v5.0.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
.NET 9 has been released and this is how you update (David Grace)
Remote Development in Rider 2024.3 (Sasha Ivanova)

AI

Automate code commenting using VS Code and Ollama (Megan Lee)
How real-world businesses are transforming with AI (Alysa Taylor)
Blown Away (Mike Loukides)
Accelerating AI Development with the Docker AI Catalog (Michael Donovan)
Multi model support in Github Copilot (Bart Wullems)
Exploring how well Experience AI maps to UNESCO’s AI competency framework for students (Ben Garside)
Particle is a new app using AI to organize and summarize the news (David Pierce)
How AI is reshaping creativity: Insights from art, tech and policy (Manuel Sainsily)
Transforming Semantic Kernel Functions (Mark Wallace)
Hugging Face Launches SmolTools: Practical AI Apps Powered by SmolLM2 Model (Robert Krzaczyński)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Why scrum is dumb (Nick Hodges)
November Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
What to Do When Scrum Collides with the Reality of Your Organization (Mike Cottmeyer)
What, me worry? Promotions and confidence (Eric Brechner)
Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments (Iaroslav Titov)
Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction (Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk & Kartik Sathyanarayanan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

My First Step into Unit Testing in Flutter: Simple Explanations (Surajbhandari)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Rhia Dixon on Code Reviews (David Giard)
The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits | CPH DevFest 2024 (Brandon Minnick)
Welcome to .NET 9 – .NET Conf 2024 Keynote (.NET Team)
How Microsoft’s Copilot Team Rebuilt Their Backend with .NET & .NET Aspire (Pedram Rezaei)
Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Composite AI, with Hiromichi Kobashi (John Maeda)

Podcasts

RunAs Radio #958 – SQL Server Management Studio with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell)
Productive C# Podcast – What’s the minimal foundation you need on C#? (Andrea Angella)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reviving Dysfunctional Teams with Trust and Collaboration | Mike Bowler (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

Bluesky is seeing an exodus of unhappy X users following the election (Sarah Perez)
The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms (Sarah Jeong)
MVP Milestone Series: Celebrating MVPs Achieving their 15 Year Milestone (Christina Liang)
Upcoming Speaking Engagements as of 2024-11-12 and CfP List Updated 2024-11-12 (Dave Aronson)
23andMe To Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce, Discontinue All Therapy Programs (BeauHD)
Attend Microsoft Ignite between November 19-21 from anywhere in the world and Partner Blog | Accelerating growth through partners in the era of AI (Jill Armour)
Why I’m Excited for .NET Conf 2024 (Harry Kimpel)
Know Before You Go: Security Copilot at Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Rod Trent)

Database

Obfuscating data in SQL Server (Tim Deschryver)
A Little About Optimizer Timeouts In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio 21 Preview 1 (Erin Stellato)
Elevate Your Skills with Azure Cosmos DB: Must-Attend Sessions at Ignite 2024 (Jay Gordon)
Calculate a Moving Average with T-SQL Windowing Functions (Jared Westover)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Copilot in Excel: Excel Chat Helper (Oryan Rokeah Chen)
Using the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (pri2agarwalz)

Miscellaneous

VW and Rivian officially kick off $5.8 billion joint venture, announce leadership (Andrew J. Hawkins)
Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach (Troy Hunt)
Windows Holographic: Final Feature Release (lolaball)
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? (Raymond Chen)
Paint.NET 5.1 is now available! (Rick Brewster)
Microsoft is killing off Windows 11’s Mail and Calendar apps by the end of the year (Tom Warren)
VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone (Umar Shakir)

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Dew Drop – November 8, 2024 (#4297)

Web & Cloud Development

Finding Prime Numbers Using a Sieve of Eratosthenes (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Kubernetes v1.32 sneak peek (Matteo Bianchi, Edith Puclla, William Rizzo, Ryota Sawada & Rashan Smith)
Debugging a managed identity connection to Azure SQL in Azure App Service using containers (Dominique St-Amand)
Simple approach to modern Access Control in Entra ID (Alex Sidorov)
Bluesky’s AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers (Richard MacManus)
JSON Structured Logging for .NET Lambda Functions (Norm Johanson)

Visual Studio & .NET

Easily Create Dynamic Charts in Excel Using C# (Kurmitha Manickhaperumal)
Working With DTO Auto Translators — Mapperly (Peter Ritchie)
Making a Non Blocking Synchronous Call Inside a Background Service (Bryan Hogan)
Why do I observe reads from a memory-mapped file when writing large blocks? (Raymond Chen)
Toggle Field Codes in TX Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieved Knowledge in RAG Systems (Jiejun Tan, Zhicheng Dou, Wen Wang, Mang Wang, Weipeng Chen & Ji-Rong Wen)
Build Your Own RAG Chatbot with JavaScript! and Learn the Foundations of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Beau Carnes)
How Did Google Build NotebookLM’s Cool Podcast Generation Features? (Jesus Rodriguez)
Supercharging AI Coding Assistants with Gemini Models’ Context (Vishal Dharmadhikari, Paige Bailey & Beyang Liu)
Top 5 Tips for Fine-Tuning LLMs (Exxact Team)
The latest on AI at work: November 2024 (Colette Stallbaumer)
AI: The New Frontier for Developers (AJ Enns)
What is AI? and Why Every Enterprise Needs a Chief AI Officer Right Now (JD Meier)
Using generative AI to teach computing: Insights from research (Katharine Childs)
No code, only natural language: Q&A on prompt engineering with Professor Greg Benson (Ryan Donovan)
Empowering Engineers with AI:Exploring generative-AI-powered development tools and the new frontier of developer experience (Srivani Bethi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

A Modern Agile Tale: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody (Peter Smulovics)
How to Set Up Automated GitHub Workflows for Your Python and React Applications (Preston Osoro)
Embracing change requests: a mindset shift (Bart Wullems)
What Developers Can Do to Continue to Program as They Age (Ben Linders)
11 Best Practices for Software Development Security (PreEmptive Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

FlutterFlow Vignettes Technical Dive, Part 1 (Shawn Blais)
5 Best Flutter UI Templates (The Flutter Way)

Screencasts & Videos

Building a better WordPress – Episode 9 (Jeff Fritz)
Introducing Custom Engine Agents | M365 Copilot Developer Camp (Ayca Bas & Tomomi Imura)
Microsoft 365: Developer’s Camp (Microsoft Developer Team)
Developer’s Guide to Building Copilot Agents | M365 Developer Camp (Rob Howard & Barnam Bora)
Using Data API Builder to Build a Data API | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Jerry Nixon)
Boost Your Productivity with Pomodoro and Windows 11 (Michael Jolley)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – The Art of Teaching Programming using Unity: An Interview with Harrison Ferrone (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Putting AI into Production with Fireworks AI’s Lin Qiao (Scott Hanselman)
InfoQ Podcast: Making Digital Accessibility More Than Just High Contrast: Building Truly Inclusive Software (Sheri Byrne-Haber)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile for Physical Products, Insights from Dainese’s Helmet Project With Massimo Terzo (Vasco Duarte)
JS Party Podcast #345 – How Vercel thinks about Next.js (Tom Occhino & Jerod Santo)
UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 288: User-centered Decision-making with Jason Giles (Jane Portman)
Integration Testing – The Why and How – Adventures in .NET 204 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – One of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership (Eira May)
The Cloud Pod #281: Happy Birthday, ECS. You’re still so much better than K8 at 10! (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
Lenny’s Podcast – Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Software Defined Talk Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance (Brandon Whichard)
Boagworld Podcast – Navigating the Future: AI, UX Leadership, and Content Simplification (Paul Boag)

Community & Events

Goodbye, Twitter. (Brad Frost)
iRobot is laying off staff for the second time this year (Emma Roth)
Syncfusion Sponsors .NET Conf 2024 (Marissa Keller Outten)

Database

CRUD Operations in Microsoft Fabric using GraphQL API Mutations (Koen Verbeeck)
Analyzing Kusto Query History in Fabric (Dennes Torres)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions (Tom Warren)

PowerShell

Intro to Microsoft Dialog Boxes in PowerShell (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74 (Emma Roth)
The first release candidate for GIMP 3.0 is here! (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Microsoft System Center 2025 is now generally available (Taryn Anderson)

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