Dew Drop – February 17, 2025 (#4363)

Top Links

• How to Add a Context Menu to .NET MAUI ListView? (Jayaleshwari N.)
• Sunsetting Create React App (Matt Carroll & Ricky Hanlon)
• Are you game? Exploring the impact of gamification in learning (Sameer Potdar)
• Enabling .NET Aspire for an existing solution (Bart Wullems)
• Technology & Friends – Chris Ayers on Dev Containers and Codespaces (David Giard)
• The Second Beta of Android 16 (Matthew McCullough)

Web & Cloud Development

• Building Advanced React Forms Using React Hook Form, Zod and Shadcn (Boris Martinović)
• React is Deprecating Create React App: What’s Next for React Developers? (Adhithi Ravichandran)
• Azure Functions Cost Considerations and Optimization (Chris Pietschmann)
• Customizing a single client sign-in using parameters in Duende IdentityServer (Damien Bowden)
• Angular Basics: DevTools (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Node-oracledb 6.7 brings more flexibility and power to Oracle Database apps (Sharad Chandran)
• Implementing a Dissolve Effect with Shaders and Particles in Three.js (Jatin Chopra)
• Deno Creates Board, Charter for JavaScript Registry Project (Loraine Lawson)
• Keycloak Authentication With ASP.NET Core Web API and Blazor WebAssembly (Marinko Spasojević)
• Top 5 Free JavaScript PDF Viewers for Developers in 2025 (Parthipan R.)
• Mapped types in TypeScript and Conditional types in TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF (B. Cameron Gain)
• Estimating Incremental Lift in Customer Value (Delta CV) using Synthetic Control (Mahshid Moha)
• Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts (Ryan Trimble)
• Enabling .NET 9 OpenAPI Spec to use full type names for nested types (William Liebenberg)

Visual Studio & .NET

• .NET Developer Roadmap 2025 (Milan Milanović)
• IEnumerable vs IEnumerator in C#: One is 2x Faster – LinkedIn Edition (Steven Giesel)
• Temporal Tables in EF Core: Bringing Time Travel to Your Data and JSON Columns in SQL Server: Storing & Querying JSON with EF Core (Chris Woodruff)
• Text Querying with EF Core and SQL Server (Ricardo Peres)
• Exploring the .NET Ecosystem: A Visual Mind Map (Abhijit Jana)
• Introducing Devlead.Testing.MockHttp (Mattias Karlsson)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Simplify File I/O with Spargine’s DirectoryHelper (David McCarter)
• Investigating an argument-dependent lookup issue and working around it (Raymond Chen)
• Power of Dapper in .NET Core (Subarta Ray)

AI

• Harnessing The LLM – Rebuilding My Podcast Website In Two Evenings And Not Two Weeks (Den Delimarsky)
• Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best (Kyle Wiggers)
• Tool Calling in AI Agents: Empowering Intelligent Automation Securely (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
• Microsoft Copilot Academy extensibility features now generally available (John Mighell)
• Distillation of Phi-4 on DeepSeek R1: SFT and GRPO (xinyuwei)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Terraform 101: Your First Steps into Infrastructure as Code (Chris Woodruff)
• What is Innovation Theory? Definition, Explanation, and Use Cases (JD Meier)
• Building Windows Driver Projects with CI and CD (Prashant Chahar)
• In defense of multiple WiP (Mark Seemann)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building a Cell Phone Accessible Home Security System Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Zero Cam (Jamie Maguire)
• Introducing gRPC Swift 2 (Swift Team)
• TrustedTime API: Introducing a reliable approach to time keeping for your apps (Kanyinsola Fapohunda & Geoffrey Boullanger)

Screencasts & Videos

• 5 ways to leverage Power Pages VS Code copilot to increase productivity | Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together (Victor Dantas)
• The Download: Copilot SDK, OpenAI’s o3-mini, and Pebble’s return (GitHub Team)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 248 – Bad Innovation (You give Innovation a Bad Name) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Larry Osterman’s 40-Year Crystal Unboxing | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
• Maximizing the value of Generative AI in Copilot Studio | Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together (Lauren Mills)

Podcasts

• freeCodeCamp Podcast Episode #160 – She taught herself coding at age 30 for zero dollars (Quincy Larson)
• InfoQ Podcast: Your Software Will Fail, It is How You Recover That Matters: A Conversation with Randy Shoup (Randy Shoup)
• Shaun Walker: Seven Years of Blazor – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #337 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Business Analyst to Product Champion, The Impact Of Vision In The PO Role | Mateusz Komander and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS: The Future of Agility: Data-Driven Insights With Simon Powers and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Why Product Management is Broken and How to Fix It | Anton Zaides (Vasco Duarte)
• Practical AI Podcast #303 – Tool calling and agents (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• AGL 404: Kevin Surace (John Rouda)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast #80 – Discovering discovery coding (Jimmy Miller, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Meta Cast – Politics and Leadership: The How To Guide (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Azure Cloud Talk 25/2/17 – Brian’s Back, Back Again (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
• Lenny’s Podcast – A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #208 – Do You Make This Common Mistake in Engineering Management? (Max Ahumada)
• Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Ben Garvey deal with pasts/presents/futures in life and technology (Pam Selle)
• Betatalks the Podcast #102 – Low-Code Developers with the Evolving Power Platform and AI Tools – with Keith Atherton (Rick & Oscar)

Community & Events

• MVP’s Favorite Content: Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Azure (Rie Moriguchi)
• Dates Revealed For Microsoft Build and Google I/O (I Programmer)
• Redgate Summit Returns to London – join us in March! (Bryony Ford)
• Instagram starts testing new button that might downrank comments (Jay Peters)
• Kelsey Hightower says cloud needs to scale down, and so does AI hype (Joe Fay)
• I Will Be Here When the Line Moves Over You (Kin Lane)
• OpenAI says its board of directors ‘unanimously’ rejects Elon Musk’s bid (Kyle Wiggers)
• Reddit Plans To Lock Some Content Behind a Paywall This Year, CEO Says (msmash)
• Mastodon is working to add the controversial ‘quote posts’ feature and Bluesky gets growth and analytics tools with BlueSkyHunter launch (Sarah Perez)
• Apply to Speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI and Call for Speakers: TechCrunch All Stage 2025 (TechCrunch Events)
• Support the open source projects you love this Valentine’s Day (Martin Woodward)

Database

• A Fun Plan Shape With Aggregates In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• RavenDB 7.1: Reclaiming disk space (Oren Eini)
• Understanding Cursor Pagination and Why It’s So Fast (Deep Dive) (Milan Jovanović)
• Redgate’s new PostgreSQL book is now available for free download (Fergus Reed)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Recall emails in Outlook for Android and iOS (Beth Jester)
• How to build your own (meaningful) Microsoft 365 Copilot usage reporting system and How to deploy my (meaningful) Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report (Loryan Strant)

Miscellaneous

• Writing a GIMP 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes (Michael F. Schönitzer)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3281 (Dev and Beta Channels) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4945 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Brake Pad Dust Can Be More Toxic Than Exhaust Emissions, Study Says (BeauHD)
• Small businesses are already feeling Trump’s tariffs and Trump administration adds anti-trans notices to restored websites (Mia Sato)
• Paint.NET 5.1.4 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #7, 2025 – Furnace (tensor library with support for differentiable programming) (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #503 – 16th February 2025 (The Editor)
• Daily Reading List – February 14, 2025 (#494) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading Notes #635 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)