Dew Drop – March 13, 2025 (#4381)

Top Links

• The Wait is Over: TX Text Control for Linux is Officially Here (Bjoern Meyer)
• Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 and Get started with Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 and Authoring Enhancements in Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 (Jason Helmick)
• Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 2 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.13.3 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
• Make more sense of multithreaded debugging (Junyu Wang)
• .NET Rocks! – Automapper V14 with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hello HybridCache! Streamlining Cache Management for ASP.NET Core Applications (Claudia Regio)

Web & Cloud Development

• Getting Started: Document Editor with ASP.NET Core and Linux WSL Support and Getting Started: Document Editor with ASP.NET Core and Docker Support with Linux Containers and Getting Started: Document Viewer with ASP.NET Core and Linux WSL Support (Bjoern Meyer)
• Playing with Light and Refraction in Three.js: Warping 3D Text Inside a Glass Torus (Matt Park)
• Coding Azure 6: Debugging and Logging an Application in an Azure App Service (Peter Vogel)
• ASP.NET Core Extension Points – MVC (Ricardo Peres)
• Kubernetes Troubleshooting: A Step-by-Step Guide (Vishu Goyal)
• Using Cloudflare to prevent Bot Attacks (Paul Michaels)
• Updated Candidate Recommendation: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) and Updated W3C Recommendation: WebRTC: Real-Time Communication in Browsers (W3C Team)
• Breaking Down HTTP: What Really Happens in a Request and Response and Decoding HTTP Response Codes: What Your Browser Isn’t Telling You (Chris Woodruff)
• Traversal-resistant file APIs (Damien Neil)
• Static Web App WASM Search (Mattias Karlsson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Sleep Pattern Analysis using .NET MAUI Toolkit Range Column Chart (Saravanan Madheswaran)

Visual Studio & .NET

• What are the thread safety requirements of HSTRING and BSTR? (Raymond Chen)

AI

• AI Time-Travel: Your JavaScript Quest Begins! (Dan Wahlin)
• Create AI-Powered Mind Maps using OpenAI and Blazor Diagram Library (Issacimmanuvel Thomas Jebaraj)
• GitHub Copilot Chat now available in public preview for Eclipse (Hang Wang)
• Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation (Kat Kampf & Nicole Brichtova)
• Driving growth and ‘WOW’ moments with OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
• Tweak your LLM models with Ollama (Bart Wullems)
• DeepSeek outperforms US models in new AI Trust Score (Ian Barker)
• Customer Case Story: Creating a Semantic Kernel Agent for Automated GitHub Code Reviews (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Rasmus Wulff Jensen)
• The Future of AI: Customizing AI agents with the Semantic Kernel agent framework (Tao Chen)
• Junky data is like an out-of-tune guitar—it prevents AI harmony (Katja Skafar)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Securing the DevOps Pipeline Part 1: Tools and Strategies for Safer Deployments (Bravin Wasike)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Competes With React Native (Loraine Lawson)
• Unlock Deeper Health Insights: Health Connect Jetpack SDK is now in beta and new feature updates (Brenda Shaw)
• Jetpack WindowManager 1.4 is stable (Xiaodao Wu)
• Microsoft isn’t launching its Xbox handheld this year, but Asus might be (Tom Warren)

Screencasts & Videos

• What Every .NET Developer NEEDS to Know About Blazor Render Modes! | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
• Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER are two new Gemini models designed for robotics | The Keyword (Google)
• How can I access third-party native libraries like Firebase in my .NET MAUI apps? | One Dev Question (Rachel Kang)

Podcasts

• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Transforming Conflict into Opportunity, Leadership Lessons for Agile Teams | Eagan Rackley (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog Podcast Episode #632 – Reaching industrial economies of scale (Beyang Liu & Adam Stacoviak)
• Made by Google Podcast – March Feature Drop: Updates for Gemini Live, Scam Detection and more! (Rachid Finge)
• Grammar Girls Podcast – Behind the scenes of Wikipedia: editing, accuracy, and notability, with Jonathan Rick (Mignon Fogarty)
• Lenny’s Podcast – Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder & CEO of StackBlitz) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Beyond the Hype Podcast – Is architecture for AI even necessary? (Oliver Cronk)
• Software Engineering Radio #659 – Brenden Matthews on Idiomatic Rust (Gavin Henry)
• Boagworld Podcast – The Art of Stealth Research (Paul Boag)

Community & Events

• Stack Overflow: A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant (Derek Cheng, Caroline Thomas & Ryan Donovan)
• Women’s History Month: 6 Pioneers in Software Security and Protection (Ben Nettleton)
• Upcoming March 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call (Jessie Hwang)
• Meta is launching Community Notes in the US next week (Maxwell Zeff)
• Join the ONNX Generative AI Runtime teams for a discussion on the newest releases (Lee Stott)

Database

• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Isolation Levels (Erik Darling)
• Effortless Scaling: Autoscale goes GA on vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Sudhanshu Vishodia)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Skill Up on Microsoft 365 Copilot (Michael Kophs)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27813 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines (João Medeiros)
• Make Your Windows PC Last 30 Percent Longer by Adjusting These Settings (John Brandon)
• Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 12, 2025 (#510) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9, Blazor, and EF Core 9 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link