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Dew Drop – August 16, 2024 (#4246)

Top Links

Copilot Content Exclusion Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 (Rhea Patel)
Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – August 2024 (Junjie Li)
GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions (Scott Hunter)
Dapr v1.14 is now available (Dapr Team)
What is Advanced Paste? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)
.NET 9 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Astro 4.14 (Matt Kane & Erika)
Extending Microsoft Copilot for Security Capabilities with Azure Function Apps (cbelwal)
How to Create A Color Picker Tool Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Fanny Nyayic)
Vue Basics: How to Use Vue with Firebase (Hassan Djirdeh)
Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in (Naj Shahid & Bill DeForeest)
Preview 1 of AWS SDK for .NET V4 (Norm Johanson)
How are the `colspan` and `rowspan` attributes different? (Geoff Graham)

Visual Studio & .NET

Artificial Immune Systems for Intrusion Detection Using C# (James McCaffrey)
The 2024.2 Versions of JetBrains IDEs Are Here With Enhanced FLCC and Remote Development, the New UI as the Default, and More (Aleksandra Krupskaya)
Instead of putting a hash in the Portable Executable timestamp field, why not create a separate field for the hash? (Raymond Chen)
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) using TX Text Control in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Onboarding to a “legacy” codebase with the help of AI (Martin Fowler)
Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) (Cameron R. Wolfe)
How To Defend Your Design Process (Vitaly Friedman)
OpenAI’s new voice mode threw me into the uncanny valley (Kylie Robison)
How to level up your Git game with GitHub CLI (Michelle Duke)
Did a Chatbot just improve me? (Robin Osborne)
Customer Case Study: Orion Innovation’s usage of Kernel Arguments (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 15 Beta 4 Now Available for Developers to Bring their Apps Up to Date (Sergio De Simone)

Screencasts & Videos

Reducing Bugs with Raygun, .NET Aspire, and Local AI | .NET Aspire Dev Conference (John-Daniel Trask)
Native Windows principals for SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – GitOps on the Edge with Octopus Deploy’s Dan Garfield (Scott Hanselman)
Azure Podcast Episode 502 – Azure Open AI and Security (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Manipulating Language Models for Real-World Applications in DevOps – Adventures in DevOps #211 (Wil Button & Warren Parad)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Creating Self-Organizing Agile Teams, Tips for Scrum Masters | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte)
JS Party Podcast #334 – Forging Minecraft’s scripting API (Raphael Landaverde, Jake Shirley & Jerod Santo)
PPP 430 | How to Talk With a Stakeholder (or That Relative) You Don’t Agree With–Without Starting a Fight, with Steven T. Collis (Andy Kaufman)
.NET Rocks! – Low-Code Solutions for .NET Developers with Serge Sarafudinov (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Directions on Microsoft – Stuck in a VMware Squeeze? You’ve Got Microsoft Options (Mary Jo Foley)

Community & Events

Cisco Slashes Thousands of Workers As It Announces Yearly Profit of $10.3 Billion (BeauHD)
At the Rise25 Awards, the future of AI is ethical, inclusive and accountable (Kristina Bravo)
GeekWire 200: Latest update highlights hottest tech startups across Seattle and Pacific Northwest (Taylor Soper)

Database

Five Reasons Why Your SQL Server Is Slow Right Now (Erik Darling)
Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model (CockroachDB Team)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

M365 Developers Update | August 2024 Edition (Justin Royal)

PowerShell

Unlock inline PowerShell capabilities to streamline Logic Apps workflows (Parth Shah)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – August 15, 2024 (#377) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf (Referral)

Dew Drop – August 15, 2024 (#4245)

Top Links

First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9 (Mads Kristensen)
Announcing Uno Platform Solution Template Wizard for JetBrains Rider (Uno Platform Team)
Announcing a new way to build technical skills: 30 Day Plans on Microsoft Learn (Phil Evans)
Easily Convert Your PDF to Images in C# (Vikas S.)
.NET Conf 2024 – Celebrating the Release of .NET 9! – Save the Date! (Mehul Harry)
Maddy Montaquila to Keynote at TechBash 2024 (Jason Gaylord)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes v1.31: Accelerating Cluster Performance with Consistent Reads from Cache (Marek Siarkowicz)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 7 (Rahul Bhandari & James Montemagno)
Blazor Basics: Blazor JavaScript Interop—Calling JavaScript from .NET (Claudio Bernasconi)
Deprecation of Password Logins on CLI with Docker SSO Enforcement (Francesco Corti)
Kubernetes-native Option for Pulumi Deployments Customer-Managed Agents (Meagan Cojocar)
blocking=render: Why would you do that?! (Harry Roberts)
Build better HTTP APIs (Derek Comartin)
“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries (Kevin Powell)
FHIR Security Labels and ABAC (John Moehrke)
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail (Markus Wüstenberg)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Radar Chart to Visualize Wind Directions (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.6.240807006-preview1 (NuGet)

Visual Studio & .NET

4 Simple Ways to Split Word Documents Using C# (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
Temporarily dropping a lock: The anti-lock pattern (Raymond Chen)
Rider 2024.2: Full Line Code Completion, Reader Mode, Major Enhancements to Debugging, and More. and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2024.2 Have Been Released! and ReSharper 2024.2: Deepened C#12 and Initial C#13 Support, New AI Capabilities, Localization, and More (Sasha Ivanova)
TimeProvider and Autofixture AutoMoq Issue (Adam Storr)
C# updates in .NET 9 Preview 7 (Rahul Bhandari & James Montemagno)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

30 Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned In 30 Years of Leading Teams (Dan Green)
How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale (Gaurav Sharma)
Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix (Mike Hanley)
Localizing GitHub Repositories with LLMs (Timothy Chung)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Build a text-based adventure game with Gemma 2 (Ju-yeong Ji)
Developers can soon offer in-app NFC transactions using the Secure Element (Apple Newsroom)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 222 – Selling Out (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
The Future of VMware Is in Azure: Explore Azure VMware Solution – A faster path to the cloud (ITOpsTalk Crew)
Deployment Options for .NET Aspire Apps | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Maddy Montaquila & Brady Gaster)
.NET Aspire Dashboard & Telemetry | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Leslie Richardson)
How do SLMs differ from LLMs? | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer Team)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends in 2024 (Mandy Gu, Namee Oberst, Srini Penchikala, Roland Meertens, Anthony Alford & Daniel Dominguez)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Crafting Culture, A Three-Step Approach to Agile Organizational Change | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte)
The Cloud Pod #271: AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
Crafting Code and Community: AI, LeetCode, and Meetups – JavaScript Jabber #644 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
Practical AI Podcast #282 – Only as good as the data (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
The Changelog #604 – Why we need Ladybird (Andreas Kling, Chris Wanstrath, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)

Community & Events

Thoughts Before Speaking at the Software Architecture Conference (Lukas Vileikis)

Database

A Little About Out Of Date Statistics In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Download AWS RDS SQL Server Backup (Rajendra Gupta)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Improved sense of time to Copilot in Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
Updates on deprecating legacy Exchange Online tokens for Outlook add-ins (David Chesnut)

PowerShell

PowerShell & Intune, Automate your Work – Part 4: Retrieve Win32 Superseding Apps and Part 5: Check for Win32 App Relationships (Alex Marin)

Miscellaneous

X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (Adi Robertson)
Intel Sells $147 Million Stake In Arm (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – August 14, 2024 (#376) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf (Referral)

Dew Drop – August 13 2024 (#4243)

Top Links

Announcing OData .NET 8 Official Release (Clément Habinshuti)
SQL Formatter for Visual Studio | Visual Studio Marketplace (Mads Kristensen)
Using Dev Proxy to troubleshoot issues with Graph Connectors (Matteo Pagani)
Brian Randell: GitHub and DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 310 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Unreal Debugging Improvements in Rider 2024.2 (Matthias Koch)
Asynchronous HTTP APIs with Azure Container Apps jobs (Anthony Chu)

Web & Cloud Development

How to implement customized role permissions in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
Combining multiple docker images into a multi-arch image (Andrew Lock)
WebStorm 2024.2: Improved File-System-Based Routing Support, Bun Debugging Support, Directly Run and Debug TypeScript Files, and More (David Watson)
HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input (Geoff Graham)
Transform Application Development with .NET Aspire: Seamless Integration with JavaScript and Node.js (Glaucia Lemos)
When to Use Kendo UI for Angular Instead of Angular Material (Jonathan Gamble)
HotChocolate 13 – Unable to infer or resolve a schema type from the type reference `@CostDirective` (Bart Wullems)
A/B Test for Better Search Engine Performance with IndexNow and Microsoft Clarity (Bing Team)
FHIR Digital Signatures (John Moehrke)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Converting HEX Color To SolidColorBrush In WinUI 3 (Den Delimarsky)

Visual Studio & .NET

Passing Arguments to VS Code when Debugging in C# and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
VS Code Extensions Can Now Use Copilot APIs (I Programmer)
Sign Documents with a Self-Signed Digital ID From Adobe Acrobat Reader in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
3 Easy Steps to Add Watermarks to Your Excel Document Using C# (Kurmitha Manickhaperumal)
Create a CRUD Web API in minutes with Data API Builder and EF Core Power Tools (Erik EJ)
Support for Microsoft .NET 6 Ends in November 2024 (Edin Kapić)
Using only a Domain Model to persist restaurant table configurations (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Embracing the power of the empty set in API design (and applying this principle to selectors and filters) (Raymond Chen)
Adding the ESLint Tool to an AI Assistant: Improving Recommendations for JS/TS Projects (Docker Labs)
Azure OpenAI, including GPT-4o, Approved as a Service within the FedRAMP High Authorization for Azure Government (Douglas Phillips)
Ansible with GitHub Actions: Automating Playbook Runs (Ioannis Moustakis)
Scaling systems to manage all the metadata ABOUT the data (Ben Popper)
Testing Basics: Verification Tests (Gil Zilberfeld)
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Creating a pull request (Kedasha Kerr)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Kevin Griffin on the Multithreaded Income Podcast (David Giard)
Using JavaScript/Node with .NET Aspire | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Chris Noring)
How can Copilot help me test my software? | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer Team)
New GPU-enabled Windows 365 experiences (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

Syntax Podcast #807 – CSS Components: Tailwind, Panda, Scoped, Modules, Classes, Variables, CSS-in-JS and Sprinkles! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Autonomy Becomes Anarchy, Navigating Agile Team Independence | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte)
SQL Server Radio Episode 166 – DR Planning for SQL Server and Loading Large CSV Files (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
The PowerShell Podcast – TechMentor Highlights: Greg Altman, Mike Nelson, and James Petty Share PowerShell Wisdom” (James Petty)
CloudChat Episode 11 – m*cro-services (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
The Changelog News Podcast – The best, worst codebase (Jerod Santo)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 185 – SAIF-powered Collaboration to Secure AI: CoSAI and Why It Matters to You (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Gone Mobile Podcast #117: Connectivity “Out in the Wild” (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)

Community & Events

Hachyderm’s Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: Part 1 (Hachyderm Moderators Team)
Rooftop party! Join us for GeekWire’s annual summer event in Seattle (Taylor Soper)

Database

SQL Server Database and Server Roles for Security and Permissions (Nivritti Suste)
Migrate Your Azure Data Studio Connection List (Josephine Bush)
Using MI Link to transfer CLR binaries from SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance (Mihailo Joksimovic)
New SDK Options for Fine-Grained Request Routing to Azure Cosmos DB (Nalu Tripician)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft is Killing Paint 3D in November (Paul Thurrott)
Ford offers free home EV charging for some Texas residents in first-of-its-kind deal (Umar Shakir)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2024-33 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #155 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – August 12, 2024 (#374) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf