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Dew Drop – August 23, 2024 (#4250)

Top Links

Build Your First Application with Blazor with Jeffrey Fritz (Jason Gaylord)
Enhancing Code Comprehension: GitHub Copilot’s Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 (Rhea Patel)
Announcing the General Availability of the VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning (Leo Yao)
Windows App SDK Version 1.6 Preview 2 (1.6.0-preview2) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Visual Studio Tips & Tricks | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Mads Kristensen)
Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.1 (Michael Hawker)

Web & Cloud Development

Blazor and Tailwind – Quick Setup Without npm and Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.6.1 (Blazorise Team)
Exploring Lazy Evaluation Of Computed Signals In Angular 18 (Ben Nadel)
Enhance Your Next.js Applications with Server Actions: A Step-by-Step Guide (Adhithi Ravichandran)
Build Scalable Azure Static Web Apps for Handling High Traffic Websites (Lakindu Hewawasam)
Farewell Spring Cloud Azure 4.x, Hello 5.x: The Future is Now! (Muyao Feng)
Optimize Memory Management in JavaScript Pivot Table: Best Practices and Tips (Sastha Prathap)
Ripper – A graphics extraction tool (Keith Clark)
OpenAPI As Executable (Kin Lane)
Node v22.7.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
The Anatomy of .NET Aspire Application (Fiodar Sazanavets)
Callbacks on Web Components? (Geoff Graham)
Scroll-based SVG Filter Animations on Text (Manoela Ilic)

Visual Studio & .NET

.NET 8– Improved build output (Bart Wullems)
Document Viewer: Setting the Rendering Mode (Bjoern Meyer)
Prevent Critical Bugs with MSVC Code Analysis (Mryam Girmay)
The role of the activation factory in the Windows Runtime (Raymond Chen)

AI

Integrated vectorization with Azure OpenAI for Azure AI Search now generally available (Gia Mondragon)
Gemma explained: What’s new in Gemma 2 (Ju-yeong Ji & Ravin Kumar)
Discover the New Multi-Lingual, High-Quality Phi-3.5 SLMs (Adina Trufinescu)
Celebrating an important step forward for Open Source AI (Ayah Bdeir)
Diving into Function Calling and its JSON Schema in Semantic Kernel Python (Evan Mattson)
Building a productive AI-powered workplace (Microsoft in Business Team)
AI and Data Centers: What Do the Numbers Say? (Om Malik)
MIT’s AI risk database exposes 700+ ways AI could ruin your life (Thom Dunn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Who Benefits from Agile processes? (George Stocker)
Rewriting Strangler Fig (Martin Fowler)
The 3 Most Common Security Mistakes Developers Make (Ben Nettleton)
Mastering Typography In Logo Design (Levi Honing)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Create a MacOS App with React Native (Beau Carnes)
Kotlin 2.0.20 Released (Sarah Haggarty)

Screencasts & Videos

Fast Focus: Visual Studio Debugging & Diagnostics: Tips & Tricks | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Harshada Hole)
Fast Focus: Upgrade Your Git Game in Visual Studio 2022 | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Jessie Houghton)
Native Windows principals for SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed and Data Classification and Labelling in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Building Planet Scale .NET Apps with Azure Cosmos DB | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Justine Cocchi)
Developing Modern WinForms Applications | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelman)
What is Quickstart Playground? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: The State of Engineering Management in 2024 (Andrew Lau)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Fine tuning Products with Stanza System’s Stacie Frederick (Scott Hanselman)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how one backend engineer evolved over time (Ben Popper)
Incident Response Essentials: From Postmortems to Communication Strategies – Adventures in DevOps #212 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Success Metrics for Scrum Masters, How to Define and Track Them | Keir Lumsden (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast #283 – Threat modeling LLM apps (Donato Capitella & Daniel Whitenack)
JS Party Podcast #335 – There be a11y dragons (Eric Bailey & Jerod Santo)
How Do You Grow? – Adventures in .NET #197 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
Bazel with Alex Eagle – Adventures in Angular #422 (Jennifer Wadella, Aaron Frost & Joe Eames)
The CSS Podcast #087: Anchor positioning (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
Software Defined Talk Episode 481: There Never Was a Rug (Brandon Whichard & Cote)
Software Engineering Radio #630: Luis Rodríguez on the SSH Backdoor Attack (Robert Blumen)
What’s Your Story: Lex Story (Brenda Potts)

Community & Events

Developer Day 2024: A Sneak Peek (Ana Cidre)

Database

How to Access the SQL Server Error Log (Jim Evans)
Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing JSON in SQL Server (Edward Pollack)
A Little About Computed Columns, Filtered Indexes, and Indexed Views in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.1.7 (David Engel)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Application control (Tony Balkan)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.4842 to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
6 design details in the new Pixel devices (Molly McHugh-Johnson)
Brave Gets Major Privacy Updates on Desktop and Mobile (Paul Thurrott)
paint.net 5.1 beta (build 9000) (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – August 22, 2024 (#382) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf (Referral)

Dew Drop – July 12, 2024 (#4226)

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – WPF Update with Joseph Finney (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Introducing Python Function Choice Behavior: Streamlining AI Model Configuration (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Microsoft Entra Suite now generally available (Irina Nechaeva)
Create a Windows Hello login app with WinUI (Microsoft Learn)
Why and How to Execute GraphQL Queries in .NET (Frank Boucher)
Local AI on Windows: Explaining the Audio Editor app sample (Zachary Teutsch)

Web & Cloud Development

Exploring the magic of runes in Svelte 5 (Yashodhan Joshi)
Seamless SVG copy-paste on the web (Taylore Givens & Patrick Brosset)
Azure Trusted Signing Authentication (Renato Ivanescu)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Enhance PDF Viewing and Editing with the New Built-in Toolbar in .NET MAUI PDF Viewer (Deepak G.)
OpenSilver 3 Adds AI-Powered UI Designer (Ian Elliot)
.NET Aspire Feature Request: .NET MAUI/mobile support (Maddy Montaquila)

Visual Studio & .NET

Dark Mode Now Available on NuGet.org (Allie Barry)
Enhancing Documents with QR Codes and Barcodes in .NET C#: A Comprehensive Guide (Bjoern Meyer)
Creating an already-completed asynchronous activity in C++/WinRT, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
Snapshot Testing in .NET with Verify (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Secure your Python applications with Microsoft Entra External ID (Arbaaz Abdulwahid)
Pulumi vs HCL: Understanding the Language Differences in Infrastructure as Code (Engin Diri)
Copilot Learning Hub: Your Gateway to Mastering Microsoft Copilot (Glaucia Lemos)
How to Run Hugging Face Models Programmatically Using Ollama and Testcontainers (Ignasi Lopez Luna)
Enabling more private generative AI (Krzysztof Ostrowski)
Four steps to expanding your AI skills with Python and Microsoft Learn (Masato1345)
Advancing responsible practices for open source AI (Peter Cihon)
8 Real-World Reasons To Adopt Platform Engineering (Steve Fenton)

Screencasts & Videos

2024 Build Recap, Service Releases, and VS Code | The .NET MAUI Podcast (.NET MAUI Team)
What’s your favorite thing at Build with Maddy Montaquila (Microsoft Developer Team)
SLM (Small Language Model) with your Data | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
New Microsoft Entra Suite (Microsoft Mechanics)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – Computer Science Visualizations with Sam Rose (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Setting and Achieving Goals with an Agile Approach to the Scrum Master Role | Esther Schmit (Vasco Duarte)
Collaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth (Alyssa Hughes)
JS Party Podcast #330 – The Ember take on recent hot topics (Chris Manson, Chris Thoburn, Edward Faulkner & Kevin Ball)
The Changelog Podcast #599 – It all starts with Postgres (Paul Copplestone, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why we built Staging Ground (Eira May)
The CSS Podcast 084: Text Wrap (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
Grammar Girl Podcast – AI: Friend or foe? A conversation with Martha Brockenbrough (Martha Brockenbrough)
Software Defined Talk Episode 475: Calendar Math (Brandon Whichard & Cote)
Software Engineering Radio #624: Marcelo Trylesinski on FastAPI (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)

Community & Events

2024 MVP Annual Review – A Year of Excellence and New Beginnings (Kathleen Khoo)
Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI (Nilay Patel)

Database

What’s The Point of 1 = (SELECT 1) In SQL Server Queries? (Erik Darling)
Capturing Stored Procedure Executions with Extended Events in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
MySQL 9 Adds Support For JavaScript Stored Procedures (Kay Ewbank)
Best Practices for Docker to run SQL Server on a Mac (Aaron Bertrand)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Update on the SharePoint Files dataset (Jose Barreto)
OneNote Copilot now supports inked notes (Victoria Chen)
June 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)

Miscellaneous

Firefox tips and tricks for journalists (Alex Dalenberg)
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.4713 to Beta and Release Preview Channels and Releasing Windows 11 Builds 22621.3951 and 22631.3951 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – July 11, 2024 (#353) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor – Third Edition: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 4, 2023 (#4081)

Top Links

The Rise of C# Markup for Cross Platform Development (Uno Platform Team)
Getting Started with Semantic Kernel and C# (Matt Eland)
Use Angular’s New Deferrable Views Now (Jessica Janiuk)
Dissecting C# Ranges (Eric Potter)
Work Items in Visual Studio (Dan Hellem)
Microsoft Copilot is now generally available (Bing Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Sneaky async void Leads to ASP.NET Core Crash (Josh Darnell)
What’s new in Svelte: December 2023 (Dani Sandoval)
Javet 3.0.2 Released: Bridging Java and JavaScript with Enhanced Features (A N M Bazlur Rahman)
A Web Developer’s Guide to Parsing HTML with C# (David Eastman)
The Importance of updating Azure SDKs: performance, security, and reliability (David Hernandez)
Angular Basics: How to Use SVG Icons in Angular (Jonathan Gamble)
Using Next.js Server Actions to Call External APIs (Juan Cruz Martinez)
Global Error Handling in ASP.NET Core 8 (Milan Jovanović)
ESLint v8.55.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
SPA developers: Migrate to auth code flow with PKCE (Emily Lauber)
Create Dynamic Web Experiences with Interactive SVG Animations (Patricia Egyed)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Printing a PDF from .NET MAUI Windows Silently (Bill Reiss)
Saving Data using Settings for Windows and Uno Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
Revolutionize Your User Experience with a Custom Dropdown Calendar in .NET MAUI (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)

Visual Studio & .NET

K-Means Data Clustering from Scratch Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Local Functions in C# (Code Maze)
Merge Multiple Excel Files into One in Just 3 Steps Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
Copy, Paste and Edit Java to C# after 20 years (Roman Stoffel)
Unlock the Gift of the C# Spread Operator (Sarah Dukiewicz)
Building a Critter Stack Application: Integrating Marten into Our Application and Building a Critter Stack Application: Wolverine as Mediator (Jeremy D. Miller)
Expand Your Knowledge of the Latest .NET 8 with MVP (Rie Moriguchi)
Striving For Better C++ Code, Part II: Function Summaries to Speed Up the Data Flow Analysis (Anastasia Kazakova)
Qodana for .NET 8 is almost ready! Try the EAP and let us know what you think (Kerry Beetge)
Why does the Windows Portable Executable (PE) format have both an import section and input directory? (Raymond Chen)
How to Take Advantage of CSharp Optional Parameters for Cleaner Code (Nick Cosentino)
Containerizing .NET: Part 1 – A Guide to Containerizing .NET Applications (Chris Ayers)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Monitor git secrets on Azure DevOps with Gitleaks (James Dumont le Douarec)
Fine-tuning an Open AI model with Azure and C# (Luis Beltran)
PwR: Using representations for AI-powered software development (Alyssa Hughes)
Migration Done Right™ (Arinco Team)
Using ONNX Runtime to explore DragGAN to generate high quality synthetic images (Baiju Meswani)
Enhancing Personal and Professional Growth: The Undeniable Power of Feedback Workshops (Brandi Neal)
OpenAI’s GPT store delayed to next year (Emilia David)
Recovering Deleted Files From Your Git Working Tree (Oluwasanmi Akande)
Great Lessons from Indra Nooyi (JD Meier)
Using GitHub Releases to update my closed-source tools (JP Glattetre)

Screencasts & Videos

Advent of Code 2023 Day 1: Trebuchet?! ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2023 Day 2: Cube Conundrum in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2023 Day 3: Gear Ratios in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
.NET MAUI Version Pinning & Nightly Build Integration (James Montemagno)
Technology & Friends – Nic Jackson on Hashicorp Vault (David Giard)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 501 (Jason Bock)
Coding with an AI pair programmer: Getting started with GitHub Copilot (GitHub Universe)

Podcasts

CppCast – Catch2 v3 and Random Numbers (Timur Doumler & Phil Nash)
Merge Conflict 387: System.Reflection & Native AOT (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
React Native Radio 281 – Real Life React Native : Benedikt Müller of Share My Stack (Benedikt Müller & Jamon Holmgren)
Inside .NET Development: Analyzing WinForms, Visual Studio Transition, and C# 12 Features – Adventures in .NET 166 (Shawn Clabough & Mark Miller)
Discovering ElysiaJS and The Duality of TypeScript and JavaScript – JavaScript Jabber 609 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
Security in CI/CD Pipelines: Strategies and Best Practices for DevOps Teams – Adventures in DevOps 182 (Will Button)
PPP 398 | The Burnout Wake-up Call, with Dr. Neha Sangwan (Andy Kaufman)
Changelog & Friends Podcast – The state of the 2023 tech market (Gergely Orosz, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Azure Podcast Episode 480 – Ignite 2023 Updates (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
AGL 341: Tech for Good with Marga Hoek (John Rouda)

Community & Events

10 Years of Building Akka.NET (Aaron Stannard)
A Decade of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt)
Advent Of Code 2023 Unlocked (Lucy Black)
I Wrote a book… (Pieter Nijs)
Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts (Jon Porter)
JetBrains AI Launch Event – December 6th (JetBrains)
Pitching a Tech Book to a Publisher (Matt Eland)

Database

Optimizing SQL Server Query Plans With Eager Index Spools In Them (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft Teams recording and transcript APIs billing update (Ayan Chakraborty)
What’s new for enterprise customers in the Microsoft 365 App (James Bell)

Miscellaneous

NotePad++ 20th Anniversary Edition Includes New ‘Multi-Edit’ Feature (EditorDavid)
paint.net 5.0.12 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #48, 2023 –SAFE Template v5 & MyOwnDB v2 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – December 1, 2023 (#215) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #795 (Manoela Ilic)
C# Digest Issue #483 – December 04, 2023 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Reading list 312 (Bruce Lawson)
Dev News: Astro 4.0 Beta, Rust / Kotlin AWS SDKs, Deno Cron (Loraine Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI: The definitive guide to essential patterns, best practices, and techniques for cross-platform app development (Pieter Nijs) – Referral Link