llblgen – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 15, 2025 (#4404)

I’ll be away for a week, and the Dew Drop will return on April 23rd or 24th.

Top Links

Why MAUI Blazor Hybrid (Rocky Lhotka)
Introducing the New Angular SpeechToText Component (Kirupa karan Raj Kumar)
.NET Aspire and Databases with Jerry Nixon – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #345 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API (OpenAI Team)
Announcing the GPT-4.1 model series for Azure AI Foundry developers (Steve Sweetman)
GitHub Actions now supports Windows on Arm runners for all public repos (Marcus Perryman)

Web & Cloud Development

Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors (Declan Chidlow)
Building a Chat Interface with KendoReact and AI—Part 2 (Hassan Djirdeh)
Azure CLI Breaking Change Pre-Announcement (ychenu)
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: The Professional Guide (Andrea Chiarelli)
Data mapping to FHIR: What you need to know before starting (Mat Osmanski)
Migrating from EKS to AKS: What Actually Matters (Robby Millsap)

Visual Studio & .NET

Who can cancel Carmen Sandiego? (Oren Eini)
LLBLGen Pro New features in v5.12 (LLBLGen Team)
Merging Multiple Records with First-Page Headers and Footers (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

Trending Model Context Protocol for AI Agents Gets C# SDK (David Ramel)
Mistral OCR – Get markdown from PDF with C# (Marco Minerva)
Calling MCP Servers in C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI (Mark Heath)
Expanding the Llama 4 Herd: New Models Now Available on Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
Build an AI Assistant with LangGraph, Vercel, and Next.js: Use Gmail as a Tool Securely (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
Enable Local MCP Servers To Access Entra ID Accounts (Den Delimarsky)
How AI will change software engineering (Holly Cummins)
MCP vs. A2A: Friends or Foes? (Aurimas Griciūnas)
Microsoft AI CEO: ‘It’s Smarter to Be 6 Months Behind’ — Here’s Why (Aminu Abdullahi)
MCP, Easy as 1-2-3? (Austin Parker)
GitHub Copilot Agent Tool calling -Safe by default (Bart Wullems)
A Structured Approach to Selecting AI Models for Business-Critical Applications (Eleanor Berger)
How ML.NET is used in real life (Fiodar Sazanavets)
PayPal Releases Agentic Toolkit to Accelerate Commerce (PayPal Tech Blog Team)
An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots (Will Knight)
Like self-driving cars, fully AI-automated sysadmins don’t exist (Scott McCarty)
AI Agents: Planning and Orchestration with the Planning Design Pattern – Part 7 (Shivam Goyal)
Week 2 . Microsoft Agents Hack Online Events and Readiness Resources (Lee Stott)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Signing NuGet Packages Using Azure DevOps and Workload Identity Federation (Aaron Stannard)
3 Reasons .NET Developers Still Struggle with Unit Testing (And How to Fix It) (Eli Lopian)
Step-by-Step Guide to Digitally Signing WiX Installer Packages (Renato Ivanescu)
Handle cancellation in tests with xUnit.net v3 (Anthony Simmon)
Test Features, Not APIs (Gil Zilberfeld)
Effective Application Design for Reliable Software Solutions (Akash Kilaru)
GitHub for Beginners: Security best practices with GitHub Copilot (Kedasha Kerr)
How to Handle a Talented, Yet Quirky, IT Team Member (John Edwards)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi CM5 IoT In C – Setting Up the CM5 (Harry Fairhead)
The Subjective Charms of Objective-C (Gabriel Nicholas)
How to Recreate A Minecraft Movie in Your Minecraft Game (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft 365 Copilot Power User Tips (Microsoft Mechanics)
🔴 Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 – Preview 3 Release Party 🎉 (Visual Studio Team)
Extending Visual Studio – Adding a Command | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Etienne Baudoux)
.NET 10 Preview 3 – CLI Upgrades: Local SDK Installs, Shell Completion, Interactive Mode, & More (.NET Team)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Skipping the Vision, How Not to Introduce Kanban To An Agile Organization | Richard (Vasco Duarte)
Talk Python to Me #501 – Marimo – Reactive Notebooks for Python (Michael Kennedy)
SQL Server Radio Episode #174 – Is SQL Server quality in decline? Or is it just friction? (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell Podcast Summit 2025 – Missy, Leslie, & Hailey (James Petty)
The Changelog News Podcast #140 – Google’s new protocol has AI agents talkin’ (Jerod Santo)
Azure Cloud Talk 25/04/14 – Certifications Keep Changing (Alec Harrison & Brian Gorman)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #219 – Beyond the Buzzwords: Decoding Cyber Risk and Threat Actors in Asia Pacific (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Building 50 Apps in 50 Days: The Power of Boring Stacks with Kelvin – JavaScript Jabber Episode #673 (Charles Max Wood)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Better paragraph breaks. The story behind ‘mad money’ and ‘pin money.’ Bruce bad. (Edwin L. Battistella, Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AI can prevent clinician burnout (Eira May)
Python Bytes Podcast #428 – How old is your Python? (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
The Breakpoint Show Episode #038 – Jibber Jabber! (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
Betatalks, the Podcast #106 – Where AI and Software Engineering Meet: Breaking the Black Box – Megan Bloemsma (Rick & Oscar)
Defense Unicorns Podcast – Why DIU Ruined Wayne Starr in the Best Way (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
Syntax Podcast #893 – Everyone Is Talking About MCP (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Practical AI Podcast Episode #309 – Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers (Pavel Veller & Daniel Whitenack)

Community & Events

Journey through Git’s 20-year history (Patrick Steinhardt)

Database

SSIS Download, Install and Configure (Daniel Calbimonte)
Introducing Region Selection in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer for NoSQL Accounts (Meredith Moore & Craig)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Copilot Agents with SharePoint Agents (Jaspreet Dhamija)
Leading the Way with Copilot: April 2025 (Julie Morris)
Introducing Preview mode in SharePoint Pages and News (Katelyn Helms)
Only 6 months until Office 2016/2019 end of support – are you ready? (Tania Shepard)
Feature deep dive: Using PDFs in OneDrive and our journey thus far (Belle Podeanu)
Get the most out of OneNote with these little-known features (Gokul Subramaniam)

PowerShell

PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2025 (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5794 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5235 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
Variables in Rust: Let Me Be Immutable (Chris Woodruff)
The 800-pound gorilla (Johnny Rodgers)
Dubious security vulnerability: Once I have tricked the user into running a malicious shortcut, I can install malware (Raymond Chen)
Correct perspective then measure! (Joe Finney)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-16 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #183 (Sam Basu)
Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 14 (Peter Ritchie)
AWS Weekly Review: Amazon S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025) (Elizabeth Fuentes)
Daily Reading List – April 14, 2025 (#532) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – June 12, 2017 (#2498)

Top Links

LLBLGen Pro for .NET and .NET Core – Database Entity Modeling with any ORM (Scott Hanselman)
E3 2017 Briefing recap: Introducing Xbox One X and an epic lineup of new games (Will Tuttle)
E3 2017: Introducing Xbox One X, the world’s most powerful console (Albert Penello)
Xbox One backward compatibility expanding to original Xbox games (Matt Brown)

Web Development

Add a Multi-Select ListBox or DropDownList to Your ASP.NET MVC View (Peter Vogel)
Global Antiforgery Token Validation in ASP.NET Core and TypeScript 2.3: The –strict Compiler Option (Marius Schulz)
Using Module Augmentation To Safely Inject Runtime Methods Using TypeScript And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
Automatically validating anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core with the AutoValidateAntiforgeryTokenAttribute (Andrew Lock)
OpenID Connect Session Management an Angular application using IdentityServer4 (Damien Bowden)
Stuffing Angular into a Tiny Docker Container (< 2 MB) (Jeremy Likness)
ASP.NET Core deployment using Docker, Nginx and Ubuntu Server (Piotr Gankiewicz)
Eight CSS Tips for Advanced Layouts and Effects (Rico Mossesgeld)
Microsoft Cognitive Custom Vision Service .Net Core Angular 4 Application (Part One) (Michael Washington)
Razor Pages – The Elevator Pitch (Mike Brind)
SPA in a nutshell | Manning (Emmit A. Scott, Jr.)
ESLint v4.0.0 released (ESLint Team)
Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service (atulm)
Go, without package scoped variables (Dave Cheney)
The 3 Best Ways To Create the Single Vision of A Customer (And What to Do With It) (Diego Poza)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Is Xamarin Forms Making Traditional Xamarin Obsolete? (Adam Pedley)
Growing Your First Xamarin.Forms Mac App (Matthew Soucoup)
Visual States in Xamarin.Forms using BuildIt.Forms and Xamarin.Forms Visual States with View Models and Adding Fluent Design Acrylic Material to UWP via Xamarin.Forms. (Nick Randolph)
Xamarin Forms ChatBot Application using the Microsoft Bot Framework (Suthahar J.)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 7.1 and Beyond: Polishing Usability (Erik Heemskerk)
NuGet Package Hierarchical Versioning (Chris Cavanagh)
My Favorite C# 7 Feature: More expression-bodied members (James Montemagno)
How to Catch All Exceptions in C# & Find All Application Errors (Matt Watson)
Creating your first shared library in .NET Core (Paul Hiles)
Different ways to implement Singleton in .NET (and make people hate you along the way) (Nikola Živković)
dotnet CLI Tab completions now available in 2.0 (Shayne Boyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

When to Unit Test in F# (Isaac Abraham)
Thinking About What to Call Team Members and Managers (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile & IoT

Writing a Weather App for Android: Refresh (Adrian Hall)
Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API (Wei Liu)
Introducing Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS (Erik Pasternak)
Building Your Dog A Button with a Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Twilio (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
Generating Splash Screens and Application Icons for NativeScript Mobile Apps (Nic Raboy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 049 – Eat Sleep Code Stir Trek Crossover Special with Ed Charbeneau (Matthew Groves)
InfoQ Podcast: Sid Anand on Building Agrai’s Cloud-native Data Pipelines with AWS Kinesis and Serverless (Sid Anand)
Merge Conflict 49: The Magic of MVVM (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
Rocket 126: WWDC! (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
Developer Tea – Interview with Tom Eich (part 1) and Developer Tea – Interview with Tom Eich (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Getting started with Mixer Interactivity in Unity | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
The Changelog 252: GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick and Nadia Eghbal (Adam Stacoviak & Mikeal Rogers)
Developer on Fire Episode 242 | Alex Papadimoulis – Inventions And Products (Dave Rael)
TWC9: Build Touring in Beijing, Xbox at E3, Holographic Cortana and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Petri Wilhelmsen & Nikola Metulev)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: A Taste of Space, with Matt O’Dowd (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community & Events

WebStorm team at the events this summer (Ekaterina Prigara)
Minecraft is getting the 4K treatment on Xbox One X (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Microsoft connects Minecraft players across Nintendo Switch, Xbox, mobile, and Windows 10 (Jez Corden)

Database

Getting Started with SQL Server Agent – Part 1 (Rick Dobson)
SQL SERVER – Not Able to Kill SPID with KILL WITH STATUSONLY and SQL SERVER – Learning New Multipurpose FORMAT Function and How to Add Column at Specific Location in Table? – Interview Question of the Week #126 (Pinal Dave)
ARM Template Deployments for MySQL and PostgreSQL (Sam Cogan)
RavenDB 4.0: Data subscriptions, Part II (Oren Eini)
Query Folding And Writing Your Own SQL Queries In Power Query/Power BI/Excel Get & Transform (Chris Webb)
Redgate puts its resources behind SQL Code Guard (Oleksii Kovalov)
SQL Data Mask: masking configurations and reports (Santiago Arias)

SharePoint

Use an SPFx Application Customizer to add JavaScript (e.g. header) to every page in a site (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

Uploading Static Web Content to Azure Blob Storage with PowerShell and AzCopy (Mark Heath)
Getting Started with PowerShell Core on Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ashley McGlone)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to shut down its Docs.com file-sharing site December 15 (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
Here It Is Again: The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
The Morning Brew #2359 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1866 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #158 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #24, 2017 – Suave learning discount inside (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #284 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #322 (Pedro Botelho)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Azure Weekly: June 12, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
Last Week on Channel 9: June 5th – June 11th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Xbox One X Console: Video Games

ASIN: B01GW8VG7O

Dew Drop – October 3, 2016 (#2336)

…and we’re back.

Top Links

Introducing .NET Standard (Immo Landwerth)
Thank you from TechBash 2016 – Save the Date for TechBash 2017 (Alvin A.)
Team Foundation Server “15” RC 2 available (Brian Harry)
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 EAP Build 1. Details (Dmitry Matveev)

Web Development

Using NancyFx in ASP.NET Core (Anuraj)
The power of the global.json (David Pine)
Strongly typed configuration in ASP.NET Core without IOptions (Filip W.)
JavaScript, We’ve Got to Talk. (George Stocker)
ASP.NET Core and CORS Gotchas (Rick Strahl)
Durandal 2.2.0 Release (Rob Eisenberg)
Sharing Authorization Cookies between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Scott Hanselman)
TypeScript 2.0 and Strict Null Checking (Ariya Hidayat)
Suppressing Experimental Support for Decorators warning in VS Code (Carey Payette)
Bulk Delete Queues in AWS and Use Docker to build, test and push your Artifacts (Gabriel Schenker)
Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview (Jason R. Shaver)
Introducing Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Edge Team)
Build A Time-Based One-Time Password Manager With NativeScript (Nic Raboy)
Implementing Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) In Microsoft Bot Framework (Michael Washington)

XAML

Lets convert a WPF app to UWP (Robert Muehsig)
Adding Bindable Native Views Directly to XAML (Pierce Boggan)
UWP Hosted Web App on Xbox One (App Dev on Xbox series) (Windows Apps Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 15 RC2 is available and ready for production use (Buck Hodges)
Uninstalling Visual Studio (Really, Really Uninstalling it) (Chris D.)
LLBLGen Pro v5.1 EAP 2 released! (Frans Bouma)
The only thing you can trust is your trace output! (Daniel Fisher)
Just released – Windows developer virtual machines – September 2016 build (Clint Rutkas)
An Experience Report of Moving a Complicated Codebase to the CoreCLR (Jeremy D. Miller)
Should I learn .NET Core? (Jon Hilton)
Implementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0 (Mike Rousos)
Scientist.NET 1.0 released! (Phil Haack)
Pluralization: the missing part of .Net and PluralNet: Pluralization for your .Net application (Rudy Huyn)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Future of Agile: Innovators, Imitators, and Idiots (Jim Highsmith)
What Agile Project Managers Do, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
Self-centered service (Eric Brechner)
Get the most out of your PRs with Branch Policies (Matthew Mitrik)
Lonely Coding (Scott Hanselman)
Your Recent Mentions on GitHub (Steve Smith)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android Archiving and Publishing Made Easy (James Montemagno)
Speech Recognition in iOS 10 (Pierce Boggan)
Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 3: Play Store and More (Reto Meier)
Getting started with Socket.io in Swift on iOS (Sam Agnew)
AppBuilder 3.5 Release—Angular 2 in Focus (Todor Totev)
Layered Dependency Injection (Adam Pedley)
Scan For Bluetooth Enabled iBeacons Via A Raspberry Pi IoT Device (Nic Raboy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – nServiceBus Update with Udi Dahan and .NET Rocks! – Angular 2, ASP.NET Core and Docker with Dan Wahlin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Hanselminutes – Hello Ruby with Linda Liukas (Scott Hanselman)
112 AiA Upgrading from Angular 1.x to Angular 2 (John Papa)
EveryDayCook: The Alton Browncast #60 (Alton Brown)
The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello (Bertrand Le Roy)
The Amp Hour #317 – A Decoupled Episode (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
TWC9: On-Demand Ignite, an AI Journey, Uber Selfies, Fuzzy Cloud and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
RunAs Radio – Azure Stack with Jeffrey Snover (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Radio TFS – Extensions and APIs with Will Smythe (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Scott Hanselman Kicks Off the DEVintersection & anglebrackets Fall CountDown Show #1 (Teaser) (Scott Hanselman & Golnaz Alibeigi)

Community / Events

Xamarin Developer Events in October (Jayme Singleton)
How to become an MVP and Congratulation October 2016 MVP awardees! (MVP Award Program)

Database

Profiler equivalent templates for Extended Events Sessions in SQL Server 2016 (Rajendra Gupta)
SQL SERVER – Simple Example of BCP Command Line Utility (Pinal Dave)
Versioning an existing database using SQL Source Control (Bob Walker)

PowerShell

PowerShell – Create a User with Read Rights on a Database (Pinal Dave)
PowerShellGet and PackageManagement in PowerShell Gallery and GitHub (PowerShell Team)

Miscellaneous

Adobe to run some of its creative cloud services on Azure (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-03 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2190 and The Morning Brew #2191 (Chris Alcock)
Reading Notes #251 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #251 (Pedro Botelho)
Hello #Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
Last Week on Channel 9: September 26th – October 2nd, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #122 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #40, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
Azure Weekly: Oct 3, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Christian Nagel: 9781119096603: Books

ISBN: 111909660X
ISBN-13: 9781119096603

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