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Dew Drop – June 7, 2024 (#4202)

Dew Drop – May 31, 2024 (#4197)

Web & Cloud Development

ASP.NET Core Basics: Getting Started with GraphQL (Assis Zang)
How to observe your Blazor WebAssembly application with OpenTelemetry and real user monitoring (Harry Kimpel)
Seamlessly Add Blazor Native UI Components in Hybrid Apps (Mahesh Palanisamy)
Efficiently Perform CRUD Actions in the Blazor DataGrid with GraphQL (Maithiliy K.)
React Context API Explained with Examples (Matéush)
Scalable WordPress Hosting for Developers (WordPress Team)
Testing the behavior of generated HTML (Martin Fowler)
Building a serverless secured dead drop (Oren Eini)
Failed to start Dapr – file does not exist (Bart Wullems)
htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions (Erik Heemskerk)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

WPF Gallery Preview – Demonstrates controls and styles for a WPF application in .NET 9 and later (Microsoft Store)
Now in the VS Code pre-release of the .NET MAUI extension, XAML Hot Reload! (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

Coming in Entity Framework 9: Better Query Parameterization (Brent Ozar)
C++ Refactoring tools in Visual Studio (Mryam Girmay)
Mail Merge: The Pre-Shaped Data Concept Explained (Bjoern Meyer)
Using thread-safe classes doesn’t make your code thread-safe (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
A graphical depiction of the steps in building a C++ executable, enhanced for classic Win32 (Raymond Chen)
.NET 8+ on Ubuntu 24.04: Official Release with Collaborative Support (Robert Krzaczyński)
How to Set the Exit Code for a Console Application in .NET (Stefan Cruz)
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

How to Scale Agile Software Development with Technology and Lean (Ben Linders)
The Bulkhead Pattern: How To Make Your System Fault-tolerant (Derek Comartin)
Why designers shouldn’t always be designers (Simone Williams)
A beginner’s guide to the Git reftable format (Patrick Steinhardt)
Coaching vs. Mentoring: What’s the Difference? and Demystifying AI: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask (Radical Candor Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

All the Flutter news from a busy Google I/O 2024 (Michael Thomsen)
Introducing our new e-book: Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) for advanced developers (Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen & Shanti Zachariah)

Screencasts & Videos

Azure SQL DB standby replica is now generally available | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Why Windows is the best place for AI development | Studio28 (Christina Warren, Vicente Rivera & Divya Venkataramu)
Microsoft Surface Innovation | Studio67 (Dona Sarkar, Maria Alexandra Guinand & Sam Morton)
Continue your learning journey with Microsoft Learn | Studio76 (Allison Kraker & Sandra Marin)
How Microsoft Applied Skills can boost your career | Studio77 (Christian Wylde)
Microsoft Learn: Why earn a Microsoft Certification | Studio78 (Julie-Anne Arsenault)
What’s New with GitHub | Studio87 (Martin Woodward)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – Temporal: Orchestrating Success in Distributed Systems with Security and Simplicity with John Kattenhorn (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Making “Tales of Kenzera: Zau” with Abubakar Salim (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Daily Standups as a Success Barometer in Agile, And Other Lessons For Scrum Masters | Doug Rabow (Vasco Duarte)
JS Party Podcast #325 – 11ty goes fully independent (Zach Leatherman, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)
Innocent Application Performance Monitoring with Innocent Bindura from Raygun – Adventures in .NET #189 (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)
Building a Custom Front-end Framework – JavaScript Jabber #633 (AJ O’Neal & Steve Edwards)
The Amp Hour #668 – 50.0000 Ohms (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
UX Podcast #328 – Interviewing users with Steve Portigal (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
AGL 367: Martin Gonzalez (John Rouda)
The Breakpoint Show Episode 021 – Mind-Blowing Performance with Daniel Marbach (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)

Community & Events

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu (Alyssa Hughes)
Introducing the 2024 Twilio Champions (Cat Martinez)
Leading Successful Tech User Groups: Insights from MVPs (Rochelle Sonnenberg)

Database

Encrypt and safeguard your SQL Server database backups and Dynamic SQL Server stored procedure execution form in SSMS and Upgrading SQL Server databases and changing compatibility levels and Modify SQL Server database tables to keep similar columns together (Greg Robidoux)
Generating Uniform, Normal, or Lognormal Random Numbers in SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
The Ultimate Guide to Navigating SQL Server With SQLCMD (Nisarg Upadhyay)
Azure Storage: A Crisp CheatSheet for Getting Started (Brian Martel)
Exploring the Capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB using Open MongoDB shell. (Kevin Comba)
A Query Writing And Tuning Exercise: Finding Duplicate Post Titles In Stack Overflow (Erik Darling)
Impossible Execution Plan Timings (Paul White)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft Loop transforms the way developer teams work (Ishita Mohindra)
VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps (Microsoft Developer Support Team)

PowerShell

PowerShell: Automate Terraform Install on Windows (Chris Pietschmann)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26227 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
Gain enhanced security and performance with Windows Server 2025—now in preview (Ian LeGrow)
Cooler Master Hit By Data Breach Exposing Customer Information (BeauHD)
All of Microsoft’s MacBook Air-beating benchmarks and Windows 11 is finally getting mouse settings that let you avoid the Control Panel (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

Web Development with Blazor – 3rd Edition: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – January 29, 2024 (#4116)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Add Functional Components to a React Grid Application (Andrew Peterson)
Docker Architecture Overview – Structure & Components (James Walker)
Azure Static Web App–API configuration (Bart Wullems)
It’s Critter Stack “Release on Friday” Party! (Jeremy D. Miller)
Converting HTML pages to PDFs with Playwright (Pamela Fox)
How to Create a React App in 2024 (Reed Barger)
Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need (Zain Zaidi)
Decorator Patterns In Go (Kresno Fatih Imani)
ESLint v9.0.0-alpha.2 released (Milos Djermanovic)
Cloudtips 24. How to create AWS accessKey, and accessID for your code (Neha Sharma)
How TypeScript can help in modelling business workflows (Oskar Dudycz)
HTTP at Thirty-Three (Homer Painter)
WASI 0.2 Preview: A New Dawn for WebAssembly (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
How to deal with API rate limits (Salma Alam-Naylor)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Build Dependent Lists using Excel Dynamic Functions in C# .NET (Paarisha Rana)
My NuGet Packages (Shawn Wildermuth)
Differences Between a Virtual and an Abstract Method in C# (Aditi Saxena)
Visual Studio GitHub Copilot Extension Introduces New Features and Enhancements (Almir Vuk)
Streaming files to Postgres – dotnet core (Josef Ottosson)
How to Create XML Files in C# (Matjaz Prtenjak)
Difference Between Select and SelectMany Methods in LINQ (Michal Kaminski)
The fastest way to create WireMock.NET mappings (Cezary Piatek)
MassTransit–Avoid losing messages and GetHashCode() in .NET Core (Bart Wullems)
How to Build a URL Shortener With .NET (Milan Jovanović)
How can I expose a pre-existing block of memory as a Windows Runtime object without copying the data? (Raymond Chen)
Collection Performance in Microsoft .NET: Returning an Array from a Property (David McCarter)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Smarter Azure Open AI Usage (Graeme Foster)
Why Did I Create AIStoryBuilders? and The Proper Care and Feeding of LLMs (Michael Washington)
Understanding the essentials of identity and access management (IAM) (Adam Matthews)
New version of Publish Code Coverage Results task (Bohdan Janousek)
New Boards Hub Update, January 2024 (Dan Hellem)
AI Everywhere: The Increasing Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Organizations (Kunal Chowdhury)
Informal Leadership in Software Engineering – What You Need To Progress (Nick Cosentino)
GitHub Copilot and GenAI: Revolutionizing Software Development (Peter Smulovics)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Use Flutter hot restart in the integration test (Mahdi Shahbazi)
Walkthrough: Turning a Raspberry Pi into an appliance (Oren Eini)
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox and Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax (Emma Roth)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Brian Gorman on a Microsoft Software Training Program for US Military Veterans (David Giard)
Build a Custom .NET MAUI Signature Pad from Scratch in Minutes! (James Montemagno)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 514 (Jason Bock)
Bill Gates Interviews Sam Altman about OpenAI’s Speedy Rise (David Cassel)
Why do binary contracts matter? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)

Podcasts

CppCast – Reflection for C++26 (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
Generally AI Episode 1: Large Language Models (Roland Meertens & Anthony Alford)
GeekWire Podcast: Experiments in AI, with software engineer Kevin Leneway of Pioneer Square Labs (Todd Bishop)
Syntax Podcast #722: Next Level Web APIs. Bluetooth, File Access, Thomas Steiner – Project Fugu (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
React Native Radio 286 – What’s New in React Native 0.73 (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Making of a Great Product Owner, Learning, Leading, And Succeeding | Isshai Kamara (Vasco Duarte)
Directions on Microsoft – Thinking about Data (Mary Jo Foley)
The Changelog – Shift left, seriously. (Deepak Prabhakara, Schalk Neethling, Adam Stacoviak & Justin Garrison)
Building A Component Library with Thomas Pink & Fabian Friedl – Adventures in Angular #403 (Alyssa Nicoll)
AGL 349: Debbie Levitt from Delta CX (John Rouda)
Gone Mobile Podcast #91: ListViews and CollectionViews (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
Talk Python to Me #446: Python in Excel (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

Google Summer of Code Turns 20 In 2024 (Sue Gee)
Public Domain Day Celebrates Creative Works from 1928 (Caralee Adams)
MVP’s Favorite Content: CAE, Surface, M365, Semantic Kernel (Rie Moriguchi)
Valentine’s Day 2024 in Greater Philadelphia: 22 Things to Do (Visit Philly)
Interfacing w/ Michelle Frechette on the WWW (Work w/ Win) Livestream (Rachel Winchester)

Database

Why Partially Fixing Key Lookups Doesn’t Work In SQL Server (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Upcoming updates to loading websites in Teams tabs (Loki Meyburg)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26040 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Windows Server Insider Preview 26040 is out – and so is the new name (Ned Pyle)
The Real Problem With Spotify (Om Malik)
Surprise! Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm and Microsoft explains how Russian hackers spied on its executives (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI (Pieter Nijs) – Referral Link

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Dew Drop – May 31, 2024 (#4197)

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Dew Drop – January 29, 2024 (#4116)

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