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Dew Drop – May 20, 2025 (#4423)

Dew Drop – May 9, 2025 (#4416)

Web & Cloud Development

New AI Features in JavaScript Spreadsheets: Natural Language and Smart Analysis (Chris Bannon)
Kubernetes 1.33: Volume Populators Graduate to GA (Danna Wang & Sunny Song)
JWT it like it’s hot: A practical guide for Kubernetes Structured Authentication (Paul Yu & Anish Ramasekar)
Coding Azure 12: Configuring an Azure Key Vault and Adding Secrets (Peter Vogel)
Deploy to ARM-Based Compute with AWS Deploy Tool for .NET (Philippe El Asmar)
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Node.js Security Releases (Node.js Team)
Node v24.0.1 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
Present and Future of Kotlin for Web (Artem Kobzar)
Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome (Hannah Buonomo & Sarah Krakowiak Criel)
Why APIs Are Essential and MCP Is Optional (for Now) (Gil Feig)
Kickstart Your Cloud Career: A Beginner’s Guide to AZ-900 – Series 1 (Lakshan Sulochana Fernando)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Efficiently Handle Large Datasets with Seamless Pagination in .NET MAUI ListView (Jayaleshwari N.)
Migrating from Previous Releases of Uno Platform to 6.0 and Uno Platform Quick Start (Uno Platform Docs)

Visual Studio & .NET

VS Code April 2025 (version 1.100) release (Visual Studio Code Team)
Sep 0.9.0 – Async Support (Nietras)
ReSharper and Rider 2025.1.2 – Bug Fixes Have Landed! (Sasha Ivanova)
Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 6 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
CentralisedPackageConverter – Converts a project to use Centralized Package Management (Mark Otway)
Add Dynamic Grouping to your WinForms Data Grid (Greg Lutz)

AI

Empowering multi-agent apps with the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol (Yina Arenas)
The Promise of Model Context Protocol (Sam Basu)
Mads Kristensen Eyes MCP Server for Visual Studio Copilot (David Ramel)
Official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol Announced (Nikos Vaggalis)
Bolt – Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps (Bolt.new)
DZone Refcard #158 – Machine Learning Patterns and Anti-Patterns (Tuhin Chattopadhyay)
Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching (Logan Kilpatrick)
MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters—Part 1 (Addy Osmani)
Winning the AI race: Strengthening U.S. capabilities in computing and innovation (Brad Smith)
Top AI Code Editors Every Developer Should Know in 2025 (Praveenkumar)
Adventures in Vibe Coding – Really, Really Big Numbers (Raymond Camden)
Best practices third-party data acquisition: powering AI context (Ellen Brandenberger & David Gibson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Automating Azure AI Foundry Deployment with IaC: Leveraging Bicep and GitHub Workflows (nasreensarah)
Compliancy vs Commitment (Bart Wullems)
TeamCity 2025.03.2 Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
Grow your security skillset with the latest resources on Microsoft Learn (Shirleyse Haley)
Preemptive Product Releases from First Half of 2025 (Michelle Pruitt)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi Connect is out of beta: simple remote access, now even better (Chris Lowder)
Prepare your apps for Google Play’s 16 KB page size compatibility requirement (Dan Brown)

Screencasts & Videos

ANNOUNCED: Uno Platform Studio and Uno Platform 6.0 and Performance Comparison Uno Platform 6.0 (Skia) VS 5.6 (Native) (Uno Platform Team)
Next Edit Suggestions is available in Visual Studio Public Preview (Simona Liao)
What are you most excited about in .NET right now? | One Dev Question (Scott Hunter)
Understanding SQL Managed Instance Mirroring in Fabric: The Key to Seamless Data Integration | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Nikola Zagorac)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2025 (Charity Majors, Ben Linders, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith & Shane Hastie)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns (Eira May)
UX Podcast Episode #338 – Designer burnout with Katrina Alcorn (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
AGL 416: Piers Fallowfield-Cooper (John Rouda)
The Cloud Pod Episode #302 – It’s So Hot, Even Windows is Hotpatching (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
Lenny’s Podcast – How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Practical AI Podcast – Model Context Protocol Deep Dive (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Software Defined Talk Episode #518 – It Is What It Is (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS The Human Side of Software Development With Jussi Mononen (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

Meet four of this year’s Swift Student Challenge winners (Apple)
Unleash Document Automation Superpowers at NDC Oslo 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2025 selected projects (Jakub Beránek)
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says (Charles Rollet)
Bill Gates details optimistic plan for foundation’s final chapter amid ‘incredible crisis’ (Lisa Stiffler)
Bill Gates tells his foundation to spend it all by 2045 (Tim De Chant)
After the Breach: Finding new Partners with Solutions for Have I Been Pwned Users (Troy Hunt)
Stack Overflow: A new look for what’s next (Prashanth Chandrasekar & David Longworth)

Database

Does The FORMAT Function Still Suck For Performance in SQL Server? and Introducing sp_PerfCheck (Erik Darling)
SQL vs NoSQL – What’s our relationship with it? | Opinionated Pattern Picking (Ethan Stanbury)
Fabric Mirroring for Azure Cosmos DB: Public Preview Refresh Now Live with New Features (Jilene Maldonado)
SQL Data Purger (Fiodar Sazanavets)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

More Room for your Notes in OneNote (Tony He)
Exchange Web Services code analyzer and usage report (Thomas Mechelke)

Miscellaneous

Surface Pro 12-inch: First impressions and hands-on review (Daniel Rubino)
Senate Passes ‘Cruel’ Republican Plan To Block Wi-Fi Hotspots For Schoolkids and NOAA Retires Extreme Weather Database (BeauHD)
Week 4: Reflecting on Errors and Structure (Chris Woodruff)
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants (Dhruv Mehrotra)
Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’ (Emma Roth)
Why doesn’t Clipboard History capture rapid changes to clipboard contents? (Raymond Chen)
PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted (Zack Whittaker)

The Geek Shelf

The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox (Evan Amos) – Referral link

Dew Drop – January 18, 2024 (#4109)

Web & Cloud Development

A Practical Introduction to Scroll-Driven Animations with CSS scroll() and view() (Adam Argyle)
.NET Aspire inner-loop networking overview (David Pine)
Hydro – An extension to ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages – Overview (Krzysztof Jeske)
The JavaScript Map Object (Hassan Djirdeh)
Deploy apps to Azure Container Apps easily with .NET Aspire (Jiachen Jiang)
Securing service traffic in Azure – Part 3 (Rob McNaught)
Mocking GraphQL queries with WireMock.NET (Cezary Piątek)
Getting Started With MS Graph API (Paul Michaels)
Want to build a good API? Here are 5 Tips for API Design. (Derek Comartin)
Web Components 2024 Winter Update (Rob Eisenberg)
What is a GraphQL query? (Pooja Mistry)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

I’m looking for your feedback and progress for upgrading Xamarin apps to .NET / .NET MAUI. Got a few minutes to share your experience? (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch Using the Classical Technique with C# (James McCaffrey)
Getting a strong reference from the this pointer too soon (Raymond Chen)
How to Create a Temp File in the Temp Folder in C# (Code Maze)
Truly Understanding Neural Networks through its Implementation in C# (Nicolas Descartes)
Rider 2023.3: AI Assistant, .NET 8 Support, C# 12 and F# 8 Features, Debugging Improvements and More (Robert Krzaczyński)
TX Text Control Supports .NET 8 in Windows Forms and WPF Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
Switching From a BackgroundWorker To a Task – It’s a Neater Solution, Particularly When Reporting Progress (OriginalGriff)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Configuring SQL Connections for MSIX-Deployed Applications (Renato Ivanescu)
Investigation and Resolution of .exe.local Directory Vulnerabilities (Danut Ghiorghita)
We Need to Talk (Ted Neward)
Udacity Launches Gen AI Nanodegree (Sue Gee)
Exploring Tech Leadership: What defines a tech leader beyond coding skills? (Abhijit Jana)
Learn IDE Code Refactoring for Enhanced Code Quality (Clara Maine)
A developer’s second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI (Eirini Kalliamvakou)
GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source (Larissa Fortuna)
Workplace communication in 2024 (Prason Selvanayagam)
How to Install ColabFold & Run AI Protein Folding Locally (Exxact Team)

Screencasts & Videos

Advent of Code 2023 Day 18: Lavaduct Lagoon in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
Starting .NET MAUI Development in 2024 – What You Need To Know (James Montemagno)
How can teams be successful with LLMs? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)

Podcasts

Syntax Podcast Episode 718: React Server Components (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 162: Not Enough Time (Ben Nadel)
The Powerhouse Clipboard Tool – Adventures in .NET 173 (Shawn Clabough & Mark Miller)
Practical AI Podcast – Advent of GenAI Hackathon recap (Rahul Nair, Ryan Metz, Eugenie Wirz, Ralph de Wargny & Daniel Whitenack)
The Changelog – Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) (Allan Jude, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Jamstack Radio Episode 140 – Accelerating API Development with James Perkins of Unkey (Brian Douglas)
Software Engineering Radio 599: Jason C. McDonald on Quantified Tasks (Samuel Taggart)

Community & Events

Webinar – Isaac Levin: Updating Old .NET Framework Apps (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
TheJam.dev 2024 (Jan 24-25) (TheJam.dev Team)
YouTube is the latest part of Google to be hit with layoffs and Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year (Alex Heath)
Sheryl Sandberg To Exit Meta’s Board After 12 Years (BeauHD)
Join us Jan 22 for NYC Meetup #2! Learn to build copilots & classify airplanes with AI! (Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D)

Database

Gracefully Handle Errors using TRY CATCH Logic in SQL Server Stored Procedures (Joydip Kanjilal)
sp_QuickieStore: Find Your Worst Performing Queries During Working Hours (Erik Darling)
Best Practice Tip #1: Beware of Best Practices (SQLPals)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Copilot for Microsoft 365 – the surprising truth about time savings and ROI (Chris O’Brien)
Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes (Jared Spataro)
Copilot in Viva Engage is now in Public Preview (Kristi Kelly)
Introducing custom shapes in Visio for the web (Akshay Shahar)
10 Essential Tips for Using OneDrive at Work or School (Paul Diamond)

Miscellaneous

XML to markdown with XSLT (Daniel Fisher)
TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 deprecation in Windows (Microsoft Learn)

The Geek Shelf

C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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