I’ll be traveling to VSLive Chicago early next week. No Dew Drop posts on Monday and Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, definitely back on Thursday.

Top Links An even DEEPER Dive into LINQ with Stephen Toub | On .NET and* Open Sourcing DOS 4 (Scott Hanselman) * What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04 (Richard Lander) * Uno Platform 5.2 Webinar (Uno Platform Team) * Introducing API Manifest Plugins for Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey) * Announcing TypeScript 5.5 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development* Kubernetes 1.30: Multi-Webhook and Modular Authorization Made Much Easier (Rita Zhang, Jordan Liggitt, Nabarun Pal & Leigh Capili) * Pulumi: Introducing the new Docker Build provider (Bryce Lampe) * Blazor Basics: Localization Using Resource Files (Claudio Bernasconi) * How to boost the font size of emoji in CSS with no extra markup (Geoff Graham) * The first framework that lets you visualize your React/NodeJS app’s code (Vince Canger) * Astro 4.7 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore, Bjorn Lu & Sarah Rainsberger)

Visual Studio & .NET* Collection Performance: Is LINQ Always the Most Performant Choice? (David McCarter) * How to Create a Zip File in Memory In C# (Matjaz Prtenjak) * Create Excel Table in Just 3 Steps Using C# (Mohan Chandran) * Visual Studio features for C++ Header Files and Modules (Mryam Girmay) * Full Stack Hands-On Development with .NET (David Ramel) * Document Viewer: Long Polling Support for Loading Documents (Bjoern Meyer) * Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 7 (Raymond Chen) * C# DateTime Format In A Nutshell (NDepend Team)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Running a GitHub Actions workflow that doesn’t exist yet on the default branch (Thomas Levesque) * Gather AI Insights From Video Calls with Vision AI and the Video API (Amanda Cavallaro) * Warp’s Team plan for developer productivity is available today (Melanie Crissy) * How BoldSign Improved HR Operations at Syncfusion (Syncfusion HR Team) * Introducing Infra Copilot – Unleashing GitHub Copilot for Infrastructure as Code (Murugesan U.) * Why we suck at estimating software projects (Nick Hodges)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Introducing Appflow CLI 1.0 (Ashwini Shukla)

Screencasts & Videos* Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Acquisition in Visual Studio | Pure Virtual C++ (Elizabeth Morrow) * Approximate Vector Search with KMeans and Azure SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman) * How can I get started with .NET? | One Dev Question (Jaime Singleton) * Random.Code() – Handling Name Collisions in Rocks (Jason Bock) * Importing Managed Solutions – What has changed to the Upgrade verses Update Process? | The Low Code Revolution (Scott Durow & Shan McArthur) * Microsoft Build Unplugged, Episode Five: Session catalog is LIVE! (Ed Donahue & Microsoft MVPs)

Podcasts* The Hanselminutes Podcast – Innovation in Accessibility with Fable’s Kate Kalcevich (Scott Hanselman) * JS Party Podcast – A Solid primer on Signals (Ryan Carniato, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi) * Directions on Microsoft – More Microsoft End-of-Life Meteors Appear on the Horizon (Mary Jo Foley) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – Supporting the world’s most-used database engine through 2050 (Eira May) * The Breakpoint Show Episode 019 – Landing Your Dream Job (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff) * Software Defined Talk Episode 464 – Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game (Coté)

Community & Events* Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site ‘The Onion’ (BeauHD) * Microsoft Semantic Kernel Hits 1,000,000 Downloads (Evan Chaki) * BlizzCon won’t happen in 2024 (Graham Smith) * Microsoft results beat expectations as profits rise 20% to nearly $22B (Todd Bishop) * Microsoft’s Surface and Xbox hardware revenues take a big hit in Q3 (Tom Warren) * Microsoft Earnings Beat All Expectations as AI Bet Pays Off (Paul Thurrott)

Database* The How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly Cheat Sheet: Conditional Join and Where Clauses (Erik Darling) * First Class Event Subscriptions in Marten (Jeremy D. Miller) * Why migrate Windows Server and SQL Server to Azure: ROI, innovation, and free offers (Bob Ward & Jeff Woolsey)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Collaborate across M365 tenants with Entra ID multi-tenant organization (Joseph Dadzie)

PowerShell* Introducing Okta’s Official PowerShell Module (E. Dunham)

Miscellaneous* What language should beginning programmers choose? (Ryan Donovan) * Haunted by repeated breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella (Todd Bishop) * Microsoft needs to win back trust (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3927 (Chris Alcock) * Daily Reading List – April 25, 2024 (#305) (Richard Seroter) * Reading List 317 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link