Top Links* Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is now available (Marian Luparu) * EF Core 8 Preview 2: Lite and familiar (Arthur Vickers) * GPT-4 (OpenAI Team) * ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2 (Daniel Roth) * Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 (Bing Team) * Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2 (Alexandra Barry)

Web & Cloud Development* Azure SDK Release (March 2023) (Azure SDK Team) * Microsoft Learn Catalog API feature overview (Microsoft Learn) * 4 Best Angular Charts for Revealing Trends Over Time (Bhuvanesh Valarman) * PhpStorm 2023.1 Beta 2 (Brent Roose) * How to Validate React Props Using PropTypes (John Au-Yeung) * Unit Testing Your Auth0 Protected React Application (Juan Cruz Martinez) * Easily Integrate Blazor Components into Any SPA Framework as Custom Elements (Navin Vinayagam) * Enable CBOR within ASP.NET Core OData (Sam Xu) * Easy way to migrate an existing PHP site with MySQL to Azure App Service. (Vinod Kumar) * Fleet 1.16 Comes With Code Foldings Support, VS Code Keymap Improvements, Automatic Indentation Support, and More (Roman Prokashev) * Node v19.8.0 (Current) (Michael Zasso) * Open Container Initiative: A technical overview of its specifications and benefits (David Thor) * New tools to help developers build better health apps (Fred Hersch) * APIs to enhance application security (Khushboo Goel) * Microsoft Edge: Taking control of your application’s title bar (Diego Gonzalez) * Making gRPC Compatible with the Rest of the World … and the Rest of Your Application (Peter Vogel)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Sneak Peek at 2023 Volume 1: Xamarin.Forms (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)

Visual Studio & .NET* LINQ // Skip and Take (Steven Giesel) * Extending Visual Studio CodeLens Functionality – Part II (Calvin Allen) * Using Trie Class for Efficient Text Pattern Searching in C# (Code Maze) * Static Interface Members, Generic Attributes, Auto-Default Structs – Using C# 11 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch) * Use XML Literals in Visual Basic .NET to generate TwiML (Niels Swimberghe) * System.Text.Json Serializing Hierarchical Data (Christian Nagel) * Solving .NET JSON Deserialization Issues (Khalid Abuhakmeh) * Pi to 100 places with Amazon Polly and .NET (Bryan Hogan) * Code Quality: Formatting Classes in Microsoft .NET to Make Them Easy to Read and Modify (David McCarter) * .NET March 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.4, .NET 6.0.15 (Rahul Bhandari)

Design, Methodology & Testing* Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet (Chris Pietschmann) * How does scrum help leadership teams pick the most valuable work to focus on? (Martin Hinshelwood) * Microsoft Open-Sources Weather Forecasting Deep Learning Model ClimaX (Anthony Alford) * How eBay Made Its New Accessibility Tool — And Made It Available to All (Dan Nosowitz) * An introduction to marketplace deployment architectures (David Starr) * PaLM API & MakerSuite: an approachable way to start prototyping and building generative AI applications (Scott Huffman & Josh Woodward) * Building and testing a .NET project with GitHub Actions (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas) * 7 Tips for Giving Humble Feedback (Kim Scott) * Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations (Guru Tahasildar, Amir Ziai, Jonathan Solorzano-Hamilton, Kelli Griggs & Vi Iyengar) * Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions (Nsikan Essien) * Sprint Pre-Planning: A Panacea for Poor Performance? (Tyler Hakes) * Language-generative AI tools (Tom Johnson) * How HPC & AI Transform Sports (Exxact Team) * Accessibility Testing 101—Test Strategies & Tools (Amy Reichert) * Working with Git in JetBrains Rider (Andrew Lock)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Firefox Android’s new privacy feature, Total Cookie Protection, stops companies from keeping tabs on your moves (Jenifer Boscacci) * Celebrate Pi Day by supporting the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Philip Colligan) * Unlock seamless gameplay across mobile and PC with Google Play Games (Arjun Dayal) * Key product updates from the 2023 Google for Games Developer Summit (Greg Hartrell) * How to Play an Audio Stream Into a Phone Call With Python (Oleksii Borysenko) * Improving job system performance scaling in 2022.2 – part 2: Overhead (Kevin MacAulay Vacheresse)

Screencasts & Videos* Build a 3D Printed Clippy Powered by ChatGPT from OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services | Let’s Get Personal : Computing (Jim Bennett & David Packman) * Technology & Friends – Mike Shelton on Data Lakehouses (David Giard) * Let’s play with OpenAI GPT-4! (Martin Zikmund) * Armchair Architects: Data Mesh Architecture (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran) * What are the advantages of .NET in an isolated worker model? | One Dev Question (Melony Qin) * GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video series (Ed Summers)

Podcasts* Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Address conflicts in your Agile Team, or else… | Caterina Palmiotto (Vasco Duarte) * Introducing Codux With Nadav Abrahami & Tom Raviv – JavaScript Jabber 573 (AJ ONeal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards) * Azure for Executives Podcast – Mastodon and federated systems with Sujit D’Mello (David Starr) * Sad Python Girls Club Episode 16 – Isidor Nikolic (Kim Adeline-Miguel & Luciana Abud) * RunAs Radio – Incident Management with Hila Fish (Richard Campbell)

Community & Events Here Are 3.14 Projects To Make Your Pi Day Complete (Caleb Kraft) * Meta is laying off 10,000 more employees in a series of cuts and* Microsoft Build 2023 kicks off on May 23rd (Emma Roth) * 10 years of Electron (Erick Zhao) * Technology and Developer Events and Conferences for 2023 (Jason Gaylord) * Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB (Tracy Boggiano)

Database* Book Review: SQL Server 2022 Revealed (Ian Stirk) * Working with Date and Time Data Types in SQL Server (Hadi Fadlallah) * Enabling real-time dashboards: Power BI DirectQuery mode and Dataflows support in Azure Cosmos DB (Rodrigo Souza) * Integrating Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Teams Plugin for Elgato Stream Deck Re-Released! Also, Run with PowerPoint Plugin! (Mike Gannotti) * Introducing Teams Classwork: The One-Stop-Shop for Managing Your Class Resources (Samantha Fisher) * Using Inline Bing Generative AI with Microsoft Viva Today! – HLS Show Me How (Mike Gannotti)

PowerShell* Run PowerShell Scripts with SQL Server Agent or Windows Task Scheduler (Alejandro Cobar) * Creating Pester Unit Tests in PowerShell (Charlotte Gayton) * New module for Malware Bazaar API (Emin Atac) * PowerShell AI module for OpenAI GPT-3 and DALL-E (Doug Finke)

Miscellaneous* Email protection just got easier in Firefox (Jenifer Boscacci) * Microsoft signs third 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to another platform (Kareem Anderson) * Microsoft Releases Moment 2 for Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Paul Thurrott) * Did Vienna ever exist or was it just misinformation? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3666 (Chris Alcock) * Build5Nines Weekly – March 15, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann) * Daily Wrap Up – March 14, 2023 (#045) (Richard Seroter)

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