Dew Drop – March 5, 2025 (#4375)

Top Links

• Microsoft adds incredible audio and video file conversion tools to PowerToys v0.89.0 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• EPISODE 11 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Systems Thinking (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering at 9:15am PST Wednesday
• Building and Debugging .NET Lambda applications with .NET Aspire (Part 2) (Norm Johanson)
• Leadership and the Power of Regret: Turning Emotions into Action – NDC London 2025 (Arthur Doler)
• Analyzing ML Models with ML.NET and Blazor (Ed Charbeneau)
• Prompt Engineering Simplified: AI Toolkit’s Prompt Builder (Shreyan Fern)

Web & Cloud Development

• Building Modern Web Applications Using Blazor ASP.NET Core (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Migrating ASP.NET Apps on Azure App Service Plans from Windows to Linux (John Kilmister)
• What’s new in Svelte: March 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
• Stacked vs. Grouped Bar Charts in Blazor: Which is Better for Data Visualization? (Gowrimathi S.)
• Unions and intersections of object types in TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Tailwind UI is now Tailwind Plus (Adam Wathan)
• How to Build a MERN Stack To-Do App (Casmir Onyekani)
• Let’s Encrypt to offer 6-day certificates! (Scott Helme)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Exploring .NET MAUI: Working with Lists of Data (Paul Sheriff)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Programmatically Generate PDF Documents in .NET C# (Manpreet Kaur)
• Generic C# Methods with Enum Constraints for .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Medium data and small data (Evan Martin)
• Creating an analyzer to detect infinite loops caused by ThreadAbortExceptions (Andrew Lock)

AI

• World’s first “Synthetic Biological Intelligence” runs on living human cells (Bronwyn Thompson)
• Offline AI Image Generation (Sahil Malik)
• Learn how to develop innovative AI solutions with updated Azure skilling paths (lannateh)
• Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern (Starring Phi4, LangChain4j and Azure Service Bus) (Rory Preddy)
• Unleashing the Power of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code (John Miller)
• Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (Anthropic Team)
• AI models for Copilot Chat (GitHub Docs)
• Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning (Ashwin Mohan)
• GitHub Copilot – Code reviews in VS Code (Bart Wullems)
• Hugging Face Publishes Guide on Efficient LLM Training Across GPUs (Daniel Dominguez)
• McDonald’s Data and AI Transformation (Brooke Brueggemann)
• Small and Cool: Inside Microsoft’s New Phi-4-Mini and Phi-4-Multimodal (Jesus Rodriguez)
• Can AI help with user personas (Jim Bennett)
• Secure “Human in the Loop” Interactions for AI Agents (Juan Cruz Martinez)
• Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model (Kyle Wiggers)
• Enhancing efficiency with AI automation and insights (Microsoft in Business Team)
• How I Code With LLMs These Days (Phillip Carter)
• Parsing Uploaded Resumes into Form Fields with Google Gemini (Raymond Camden)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Boosting collaboration and control: New features for Stack Overflow for Teams (Carrie Koos)
• Leading Large Teams: How to Manage 50+ Direct Reports In an Open Office or Factory Setting (Brandi Neal)
• Why some software development tasks feel impossible (Jon Hilton)
• Terraform Testing: Catching Bugs Before They Break Your Cloud (Chris Woodruff)
• DRY principle is why your codebase sucks? (Derek Comartin)
• A tale of two languages (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Power of Mentorship – How Guiding Others Builds Stronger Connections (Heather Cook)
• How BoldDesk and Bold Reports Helped Organize a Global Team (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale (Varun Khaitan)
• Microspeak: Respin (Raymond Chen)
• Introducing GitLab’s Open Source Security Hub (Salman Ladha)
• Software Architecture is more than Boxes as Arrows (Urs Enzler)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Generate Stunning Visuals in Your Android Apps with Imagen 3 via Vertex AI in Firebase (Thomas Ezan Sr.)
• Android 16 release is way ahead of schedule – and here’s why (Artie Beaty)
• Boost Your iOS App Development with ChatGPT AI-Assistance (Kevin McNeish)
• Design with Widget Canonical Layouts (Summers Pitman & Ivy Knight)
• Introducing Widget Quality Tiers (Ivy Knight)
• XR Showcase (Simon Jackson)

Screencasts & Videos

• Generative AI Scripting with Peli de Halleux, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
• Introducing the Secure Future Initiative Tech Tips show! (Sarah Young)
• Introduction to External Secrets – Secrets Operator for Kubernetes | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Gustavo Carvalho)
• How to Modernize Your Legacy ASP.NET Apps Gradually – NDC London 2025 (Jonathan “J.” Tower)
• Pop Culture Quick Bytes (Episode #38 : The Games of a Lifetime + Julian Rignall Interview) (BastichB 64K)
• Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant! – NDC London 2025 (Heather Downing)
• Random.Code() – Fixing Rocks Bugs (for the 3rd Time) (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• Developer Tea Podcast – Owning and Requesting Forward-Framed Feedback (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Transforming Agile Team Meetings, Less Time, More Value | Anuj Ojha (Vasco Duarte)
• Meta Tech Podcast Episode #72 – Building multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses (Pascal Hartig & Shane M.)
• RunAs Radio – Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette (Richard Campbell)
• The AI Fix Podcast Episode #40 – ChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accident (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Spotting Imposter Scams (United States Postal Service)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How can AI perform on the edge? (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

• Syncfusion Announces Sponsorship of the .NET Foundation to Support Open-Source Development (Global Newswire)
• Announcing the 2024 Designed for Surface Award Winners (Allison Cargill)
• CfP List Updated 2025-03-04 (Dave Aronson)
• New year, new AWS Heroes – March 2025 (Taylor Jacobsen)

Database

• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Batching Modifications (Erik Darling)
• Meet Couchbase Edge Server: The Offline-First Database for the Resource Constrained Edge (Priya Rajagopal)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop February 2025 (Mark Kashman)

Miscellaneous

• PowerToys Release v0.89.0 (Kayla Cinnamon)
• RAGE another attempt of how to make way for a national CEO (Kerry Boese)
• Understanding the opportunity of Copilot+ PCs: Five benefits for businesses (Jonna Bell)
• Donald Trump wants to delete ‘climate’ from federal websites — here’s how you can track the changes (Justine Calma)
• Microsoft’s new Copilot app for Windows has an improved UI (Tom Warren)
• DOGE’s Foreign Aid Cuts Have Sparked ‘Total Chaos’ Around the World (Vittoria Elliott)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 4, 2025 (#504) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)