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Dew Drop – November 11, 2024 (#4298)

Top Links

Ultimate Guide to Utilizing Azure Logic Apps to Analyze Customer Reviews Using Azure Open AI (Wael Kdouh)
MVVM Toolkit v8.4: Custom Access Modifiers for Partial Properties – How To (Vijay Anand E G)
Avalonia Visual Basic 6 – A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# with Avalonia (Bartosz Korczynski)
Announcing TypeScript 5.7 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Implementing the League of Legends Client with WinUI 3: A Quick Transition from Uno Platform and Repository Introduction (Jaewung Lee & Yang Qu)
What’s the origins of .NET generics? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)

Web & Cloud Development

An awaitable Blazor Modal Dialog (Steven Giesel)
Blazor Scheduler vs. Gantt Chart: Which is Right for Your Project? (Alan Sangeeth)
ASP.NET Core: Use the Document Editor and Viewer in the Same Razor View (Bjoern Meyer)
Azure Network Security Best Practices to Protect Your Cloud Infrastructure (Chris Pietschmann)
How to Conduct a WordPress Security Audit in 17 Steps (Jen Swisher)
Mapping Over Promises in JavaScript (Peter Mbanugo)
A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) – Part 7 (Maho Pacheco)
Build a Command-Line Application With Deno 2.0 (David Neal)
When things go sideways: Troubleshooting the OpenTelemetry Operator (Adriana Villela)
What Are OAuth Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR)? (Andrea Chiarelli)
The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content (Daniel Schwarz)
Default Bundled Plugins in Fleet (Matt Eikamp)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Embracing the Future of Desktop Applications: What’s New in WPF and WinForms with .NET 9 at .NET Conf 2024 (Peter Smulovics)
Getting the Current TabItem when the Tab is not selected in WPF (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio & .NET

Consuming VSIX metadata from C# (Daniel Cazzulino)
Building .NET While Offline Using the Local NuGet Cache (Bryan Hogan)
Which compilation target should I pick for my Arm64 music apps, ASIO components, and plugins? (Pete Brown)
How to Use Pointers in C# (Konstantinos Polychronopoulos)
Functional Programming in C#: The Practical Parts (Milan Jovanović)
How dotnet.exe resolves and loads the hostfxr library – Exploring the .NET muxer (Steve Gordon)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s List Extension Methods (David McCarter)
Traversals (Mark Seemann)
The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction (Raymond Chen)
How to Set Semantic Versioning for .NET Core Apps and Libraries (Naveed Ausaf)

AI

Free Generative AI Course with JavaScript: Master the Creation of Intelligent Applications (Glaucia Lemos)
Gemini is now accessible from the OpenAI Library (Logan Kilpatrick)
Microsoft Unveils Enhanced AI Tools for Developers at GitHub Universe (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
AI habits die hard: Microsoft tweaks new Copilot sidebar for Edge after revamp roils users (Todd Bishop)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Software Patterns & Practices and Enterprise Architectural Patterns (Abhishek Sur)
Message Bus Dye Test (Paul Michaels)
3 Rs Test for Real and Relevant Results (JD Meier)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Windows Shortcut keys for Working in Android Studio (Sangeetha S.)
Implement Behavior-Driven Development in Android With Cucumber (Stephen Henry)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 234 – The Agentic AI Pivot (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Herding cats: lessons from 15 years of managing engineers at Microsoft | Copenhagen Developers Festival (Kevin Pilch)
Azure SQL Revealed 2nd Edition Book | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
Essential Azure Skilling and Guidance | The Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark, Megan Pennie & Kailyn Sylvester)

Podcasts

freeCodeCamp Podcast #149 – The State of AI with Stanford Researcher Yifan Mai (Quincy Larson)
Merge Conflict #436: We bought new Mac minis! Now what? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
GeekWire Podcast: What Trump 2.0 means for tech, Diller nixes Expedia + Uber, and a GeekWire fall update (Todd Bishop)
Productive C# Podcast – How to work on a large codebase and Productive C# Podcast – What is C#? and Productive C# Podcast – How to keep up with the pace of new features added to C# and .NET? (Andrea Angella)
React Native Radio #313 – React Native 0.75 & 0.76 (Robin Heinze, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
Changelog & Friends Podcast #69 – ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed (Alex Kretzschmar, Israa Taha, Avindra Fernando, Adhithi Ravichandran, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
Lenny’s Podcast – Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute) (Lenny Rachitsky)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #194: Communication Skills Masterclass LIVE with Brenden Kumarasamy | Founder of MasterTalk (Max Ahumada)
Syntax Podcast #845: Are companies hiring? State of the dev job market with Taylor Desseyn (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community & Events

Join us as Ignite 2024 to learn more about Microsoft Outlook (Gabriel Valdez)
Content and communication event guide for Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive (Mark Kashman)
Thanksgiving Week 2024 in Philly: The 47 Biggest Events, Festivals & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)
Intel Brings Back Workers’ Free Coffee To Boost Morale (BeauHD)

Database

SQL SERVER – Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) Introduction (Pinal Dave)
Announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 and Copilot in SSMS (Erin Stellato)
Save money on Microsoft SQL Server licensing with Microsoft Azure Arc (Sasha Nosov)
Introducing Reservations for Zone Redundant General Purpose SQL Database (Raj Tiwari)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

MS Access Handling Nulls In Query Formula (jazzyelsie)
New Outlook for Windows: A Guide to Product Availability (Margie Clinton)
Try the new modern SQL editor in Access! (Linda Lu)

Miscellaneous

How to install Debian on VirtualBox in Windows 11 (RajKumar K.)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2222 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4445 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
2024 is going to smash heat records (Justine Calma)
What a second Trump presidency means for tech and Feds investigate racist texts sent across the country post-election (Lauren Feiner)
Free Windows Server 2025 Security Advice Book (Orin Thomas)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #45, 2024 – What’s new in F# 9 (Sergey Tihon)
Daily Reading List – November 8, 2024 (#437) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #879 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Dew Drop – March 10, 2023 (#3897)

Top Links

ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service (Eric Boyd)
TypeScript’s Migration to Modules (Daniel Rosenwasser and Jake Bailey)
Introduction to Microsoft Graph for Android (Kristen Halper and Parker Schroeder)
Generate images with AI using Stable Diffusion, C#, and ONNX Runtime (Luis Quintanilla and Cassie Breviu)
Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Performance Enhancements (Nayana Srikanth)
Announcing Microsoft Graph Toolkit v3.0 preview-1 (Sébastien Levert)
What’s new for the WinForms Visual Basic Application Framework (Klaus Loeffelmann and Melissa Trevino)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Handle Enums in the Input to a .NET AWS Lambda Function (Bryan Hogan)
Angular v15.2.2 Release (Jessica Janiuk)
Build a Better WordPress Archives Page Using MySQL (Aaron Bertrand)
WebStorm 2022.3.3 Is Out (David Watson)
FluentValidation in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 7.0 (The DotNet Office)
React Basics: What Is a React Component and How to Create One (Hassan Djirdeh)
Azure Container Apps demo for Azure Functions, Microsoft Ignite Spotlight Switzerland 2023 (Laurent Bugnion)
Vue vs React: Everything You Need To Know (Lucero del Alba)
How to Make a Clickable SVG Map With HTML and CSS (Rufai Mustapha)
Customize OData payload serialization format within ASP.NET Core OData (Sam Xu)
Azure Developer CLI (azd) – March 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
Distributed Cloud-Native Graph Database with NebulaGraph Docker Extension (Wey Gu)
How to Propagate Front-End Updates to End Users (Lakindu Hewawasam)
7 Features of ES2022 You Should Know (Nethmi Wijesinghe)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Get Realistic Digital Signatures with the .NET MAUI SignaturePad (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
Displaying XAML Controls in QuestPDF with WinUI (Diederik Krols)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Exclude Properties From JSON Serialization in C# (Code Maze)
C# 11.0 new features: list pattern matching (Ian Griffiths)
Manipulating CSV Files in .NET (Assis Zang)
Microsoft .NET Source Generators: Speeding up JSON Serialization (David McCarter)
Implementing the Producer Consumer Pattern with TPL Dataflow (Mark Heath)
From a Windows app, how can I check whether there is an app installed that implements a particular URI scheme?, part 2 (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

How to Change the Packaging Type of APPX or MSIX to MSI – UWP vs. Win32 App (Alex Marin)
GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany (Von Silke Hahn)
Why Your Desk is the Worst Place to Work, and Other Life Lessons from a Lazy Developer (Holly Cummins)
Domain Events in Event Sourcing? Not Exactly! (Derek Comartin)
A simple guide to continuous deployment (Zachary Jansma)
How to master one-layer designs (Marc Edwards)
Grammarly Expands Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing (msmash)
NTS: Reliable Device Testing at Scale (Benson Ma & ZZ Zimmerman)
OKR mistakes and how to avoid them (cellfish)
How to be more productive as a developer: 5 app integrations for Google Chat that can help (Mario Tapia)
Finding Work/Life Balance in a Work from Home Role (Ryan Wilson)
Collaboration is crucial to strengthening cybersecurity (Tom Burt)
Multi-repository variant analysis: a powerful new way to perform security research across GitHub (Walker Chabbott)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Announces New Global Shutter Camera Module (Caleb Kraft)

Screencasts & Videos

Rethink your backup & recovery strategy w/ T-SQL Snapshot Backup in SQL Server 2022 | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Perry Skountriano)
Happening now! Unpacking the latest in large screens and foldables + MAD Skills on #TheAndroidShow (Rebecca Gutteride & Madona Wambua)
What is GitHub Copilot? [1 of 6] and How to use new features with Copilot Labs [6 of 6] (Microsoft Developer)
Creating GraphQL Requests | Postman Level Up (Postman)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – Chasing supernovae with Dr. Sanjana Curtis (Scott Hanselman)
Software Defined Talk Episode 405: Peter Pouliot on DevRel at a hardware company (Matt Ray)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 23 : DAW Evolution VII : n-Track Studio : Past, Present, Future ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
Complete Developer Podcast – Software Architecture Mistakes (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
Rocket 428: AI Everywhere All At Once (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 559 – How to position yourself to land the job you want (Eira May)
UX Podcast #310 – Fudge design thinking with Anna Kirah (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Web Rush Episode 224: Starting a Company as a Technical Founder with Sam Artioli (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 091: ABC’s with CTO of Cast AI – Leon Kuperman | Artificial Intelligence | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | Cloud Computing (Max Ahumada)

Community & Events

What it means to be an Android Google Developer Expert (Yasmine Evjen)

Database

MySQL 8.0 INSTANT ADD and DROP Column(s) (Mayank Prasad)
Azure Cosmos DB – for startups too (Michal Toiba)

Miscellaneous

Sysmon 1.1 for Linux, Contig v1.83, ProcDump 1.4.1 for Linux, and Process Monitor v3.93 (Alex Mihaiuc)
How GitHub accelerates development for embedded systems (Chris Reddington)
After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment (Erin Yepis)
How GitHub Docs’ new search works (Peter Bengtsson)
Announcing Rust 1.68.0 (The Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3663 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Links 9 Mar 2023 (Malcolm Jack)

The Geek Shelf

Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F# (Scott Wlaschin) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – February 7, 2023 (#3874)

Top Links

Tuesday’s top tech news: a new era for Microsoft’s Bing (Tom Warren)
Windows App SDK v1.3-experimental1 Release (Gabby Bilka)
Beyond the Hype: ChatGPT and why it has set the internet alight (Colin Eberhardt)
An important next step on our AI journey (Sundar Pichai)
The technology behind GitHub’s new code search (Timothy Clem)
Update to the .NET language strategy (Kathleen Dollard)

Web & Cloud Development

A Historical Reference of React Criticism (Zach Leatherman)
Extracting Key-Value Pairs from Document Form Fields with AWS Textract and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
Using source-generated regex in ASP.NET Core route constraints (Gérald Barré)
How To Build A Magazine Layout With CSS Grid Areas (Jennifer Brehm)
How to setup Built-in Authentication for Azure Static Web Apps with Azure Active Directory (Joey Huang)
Server-Side Filtering With the Kendo Angular for UI Grid (Peter Vogel)
Organizing AWS Accounts With Pulumi (Praneet Loke)
A Button Only Date Picker and JavaScript Date Control Binding (Rick Strahl)
ElementInternals and Form-Associated Custom Elements (Ryosuke Niwa)
Introducing Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview—People-centric data protection for a multiplatform world (Christine Barrett)
OAuth 2.0 Just Got Easier: Introducing Token Refresh and ID Token Support (Giridhar)
WebAssembly to Let Developers Combine Languages (Loraine Lawson)

Visual Studio & .NET

Installing .NET Framework 4.5 Targeting Pack (Peter Ritchie)
PostgreSQL in C# .NET with Npgsql, Dapper, and Entity Framework: The Complete Guide (Michael Shpilt)
How to (Find the Option to) Enable Separator Lines for C# in Visual Studio (Roland Weigelt)
Refactoring Bloated Code in C# (Code Maze)
Myths about F#: C# will become F# anyway, so we don’t need F# and Today’s random F# code: validation (Urs Enzler)
What the hell is this odd init keyword? (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
Introducing the Rider Localization EAP for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Julia Alexandrova)
Contravariant functors as invariant functors (Mark Seemann)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Leading the Future: The Top 10 Trends Shaping Modern Leadership (J.D. Meier)
Velocity Management in Agile: A Tactical Guide to Maintaining Consistent Developer Throughput (Tyler Hakes)
The difference between high-performing and ordinary teams (David Pereira)
When to Command (and When to Collaborate) (Ted Neward)
Who is a 10x Engineer? (Adhithi Ravichandran)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture (Dustin Shahidepour)
Bringing together sign-in solutions and passkeys with Android’s new Credential Manager (Diego Zavala & Lee Campbell)
Designing a deeper space: Visual effects in Alt Shift’s Crying Suns (Christophe Sauveur)

Screencasts & Videos

SQL Coding Series – Intermediate Part II (Women Who Code)
Introduction to Group Policy – (AZ-800 Prep) | IT Ops Talk (Michael Bender)
Data Loss Prevention across endpoints, apps, & services | Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
Artemis program with Richard Campbell & Uly | NDC Sydney 2022 (SSW TV)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Kirk Visola (Maurice Cherry)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Discover how to break free from the trap of thinking you know it all and bring agile success to your team | Bram De Block (Vasco Duarte)
React Native Radio #258 – Robots coding React Native?!?! (Mazen Chami, Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren)
Syntax Podcast Episode 572 – Polish and Perf (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 107 – How Google Secures It’s Google Cloud Usage at Massive Scale (Anton Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – Calmness In Layoff Chaos (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Changelog – News: OpenAI’s new text classifier, teach yourself CS, programming philosophies are about state, you might not need Lodash & overrated scalability (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 535 – The AI that writes music from text (Eira May)
Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Graph Developer Proxy with Waldek Mastykarz and Sebastien Levert (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)

Community & Events

A New Era: PM -> SWE (Eric Lawrence)
Challenging stereotypes about women in the technology sector (New Work Engineers)
Dell to Lay Off Over 6,600 Employees (Paul Thurrott)
The frontier of computing: Q&A with IBM quantum computing research (Ryan Donovan)
Contributor Stories: Taiob Ali (Sherry List)
Reflections on my first year leading inclusion and diversity at Unity (Tai Wingfield)
Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected (Tom Warren) – Today!

Database

Use SQL Server and CSS to Generate More Interesting Events Calendar in HTML (Aaron Bertrand)
SQL Server on Azure VMs – the best price-performance gets even better! (Pam Lahoud)
Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement (Greg Larsen)

PowerShell & Terminal

How to Open a Tor Brave Window from Command Line (David Walsh)

Miscellaneous

Introducing Files, version 2.4.30 (Files App Team)
New Microsoft research illustrates the online risks and value of safety tools to keep kids safer in the digital environment (Courtney Gregoire)
Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion in the US For Copyright Infringement (msmash)
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Reading the user’s saved passwords (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3640 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-6 (#58) (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #90 (Sam Basu)
Daily Wrap Up – February 6, 2023 (#024) (Richard Seroter)
Build5Nines Weekly – February 7, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)
Reading Notes #541 (Frank Boucher)

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) – Referral Link