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Dew Drop – May 7, 2025 (#4414)

Top Links

Introducing all-new Surface Copilot+ PCs: The Surface Pro, 12-inch and Surface Laptop, 13-inch (Brett Ostrum)
Turn your .NET CLI tool into a local MCP Server for use with GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Erik EJ)
Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro (Jeremy Cline)
Nested App Authentication: Now generally available across Microsoft 365 (Vikram Thanigaivelan)
Expanding the Surface for Business Copilot+ PC portfolio (Nancie Gaskill)
Exploring the new .NET AI chat template (Andrew Lock)
Introducing a new generation of Windows experiences (Navjot Virk)

Web & Cloud Development

Kubernetes v1.33: Fine-grained SupplementalGroups Control Graduates to Beta (Shingo Omura)
Fix Broken Charts Instantly: Handle Missing Data Like a Pro in Blazor! (Gopalakrishnan Veeraraghavan)
Compiling V8 on Windows (version 13.7.9) (j2inet)
Observability with the Aspire Dashboard (Nitin Pandit)
How to Create Documentation with docs.page – A Beginner’s Tutorial (Rajdeep Singh)
Node v24.0.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Vibe coding Windows apps (Joe Finney)

Visual Studio & .NET

C++ Language Updates in MSVC in Visual Studio 2022 17.14 (Cameron DaCamara)
ODP.NET 23.7: More Capabilities in Latest Release (Alex Keh)
Custom Errors: From Display to thiserror (Chris Woodruff)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Enhancing .NET Logging with LoggingHelper in Spargine (David McCarter)
A Simple State Machine in .NET – Adding Code-based Implementation (Ricardo Peres)
WebView2: Waiting for Document Loaded (Rick Strahl)

AI

Developers using “AI” is like learning JavaScript or jQuery (Matt Lacey)
Function calling using LLMs (Martin Fowler)
UI Design with ChatGPT 4o (Nick Babich)
Pedantic AI in Dart: dartantic_ai (Chris Sells)
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance (Logan Kilpatrick)
RC1: Semantic Kernel for Java Agents API (Derek Keeler)
Automate tedious coding tasks with GitLab Duo Workflow (Jeff Park)
Vibe Coding and You (John Biggs)
Securing Model Context Protocol: Safer Agentic AI with Containers (Justin Cormack)
Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to query Obsidian note taking (vorsprung)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to Enable MSIX Auto Updates Through .appinstaller File on Windows Server and Managing Multiple Installer Projects in One Place Using Advanced Installer (Renato Ivanescu)
Harnessing the Power of Jitter: Enhancing Retry Patterns with a bit of randomness (Davide Bellone)
Error Message Makeover: A Collaborative Quest for Clarity (Dan Cummings & Jon Kelly)
Can we agree on something? (SLAs) (Eric Brechner)
Dos and don’ts when sunsetting open source projects (Klint Finley)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop is stable (Adarsh Fernando)
How to Secure Mobile APIs in Flutter (Atuoha Anthony)
Atomic Data Modifications for Firebase Data Connect (Andrea Wu)
Microsoft and Asus’ Xbox handheld appears in leaked photos (Dominic Preston)
Minecraft’s VR support is now gone (Jay Peters)

Screencasts & Videos

Warp Is Now The BEST MCP Client in 2025 (Frank LaVigne)
KubeFleet: Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Application Management | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Ryan Zhang)
Blazor Isolated CSS & Specificity – Explained | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
Surface Pro 12 hands-on: Microsoft’s smaller, redesigned tablet | The Verge (Tom Warren)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Ralph Squillace (Isaac Levin)
Modernizing your Legacy Applications with Crowdbotics | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Charath Ranganathan)

Podcasts

The AI Fix Episode #49 – The typo from hell (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
RunAs Radio Episode #983 – Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes (Richard Campbell)
Software Engineering Radio Episode #667 – Ashley Peacock on Cloudflare (Jeremy Jung)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – How Rural Free Delivery Changed America (United States Postal Service)

Community & Events

.NET Conf Focus on Modernization (Bart Wullems)
CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2025-05-06) (Dave Aronson)
The Dreamforce 2025 Call for Participation Is Now Open (Dave Norris)

Database

Understanding Oracle Wait Classes: The Key to Unlocking Database Performance (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
Techniques to query Azure SQL’s new JSON Datatype (Dennes Torres)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Print Documents and Files to OneNote for Smarter Saving, Searching, and Annotating (Gokul Subramaniam)

Miscellaneous

Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years (Tim Marchman)
Google: Our remedies proposal in the DOJ ad tech case (Lee-Anne Mulholland)
What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – May 6, 2025 (#546) (Richard Seroter)
Week Links №2: April 2025 (Dave Rupert)
Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – May 4 (Peter Ritchie)
The latest AI news we announced in April (Google Keyword Team)

The Geek Shelf

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

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 – March 26, 2025 (#4390)

Top Links

The TechBash 2025 Call for Speakers Closes on Monday (TechBash Team)
AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code Now Supports NVIDIA NIM Microservices for RTX AI PCs (Zhidi Shang)
Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode (Andrea Griffiths)
Introducing 4o Image Generation (OpenAI Team)
Level Up Your Razor Pages: Meet htmx, Your New Best Friend (Chris Woodruff)
Exploring new .NET releases with Dev Containers (Mike Kistler)

Web & Cloud Development

Getting Started: Document Viewer for Blazor in ASP.NET Core and Getting Started: Document Editor for Blazor in ASP.NET Core and TX Text Control for Blazor: Mail Merge Integration Tutorial (Bjoern Meyer)
Understanding Anti-Forgery in ASP.NET Core (Maarten Balliauw)
Say Goodbye to Manual Managing Api Request 👋 Welcome httpResource in Angular 19.2 (Muhammad Awais)
Fresh Swap Features for Linux Users in Kubernetes 1.32 (Itamar Holder)
Enable Self-Subscribing Model in Your Blazor B2B SaaS Application (Andrea Chiarelli)
Blazor Basics: Handling Errors and Exception Logging in Blazor Applications (Claudio Bernasconi)
ASP.NET Core delegated Microsoft OBO access token management (Entra only) (Damien Bowden)
Tailwind CSS and KendoReact Unstyled Mode (Hassan Djirdeh)
Compiling and Linking to the AWS C++ SDK (j2inet)
Real-Time Data Visualization in React using WebSockets and Charts (Nishanthi Panner Selvam)
Microsoft Officially Supports Rust on Azure with First SDK Beta (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
Kickstart Your Web Development: VS Code Basics & GitHub Integration (Mohamed Faraazman)
Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes (Darius Mercadier)
Debugging Chromium (Eric Lawrence)
What Makes the Page Object Model So Special? (Gil Zilberfeld)
API Specification Fragmentation and Rot (Kin Lane)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Tip: An In-Depth Look at CallerMemberName (and some Compile-Time trivia) (Davide Bellone)
VS Code C++ Extension Updates: 4x Faster Colorization & 3.5x Faster Project Startup (Alexandra Kemper)
Understanding EF Core Change Tracking: How It Works Under the Hood (Ali Hamza Ansari)
Creating a software bill of materials (SBOM) for an open-source NuGet package (Andrew Lock)
Entity Framework Core Pitfalls: Asynchronous vs Synchronous Calls and Interceptors (Ricardo Peres)
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Improving Performance with Count() and LongCount() vs Any() (David McCarter)
Boost Your CMake Development with Copilot Custom Instructions (Garrett Campbell)
How to Use TestContainers in .NET (Grant Riordan)

AI

The role of developer skills in agentic coding (Martin Fowler)
Steve Sanderson Previews AI App Dev: Small Models, Agents and a Blazor Voice Assistant (David Ramel)
Addendum to GPT-4o System Card: 4o image generation (OpenAI Team)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a formula to gauge the long-term success of AI investments (Todd Bishop)
DeepSeek-V3 Now Runs At 20 Tokens Per Second On Mac Studio (BeauHD)
Better care, enhanced security: How AI tools are reshaping healthcare (Helia Mohammadi)
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot (Kyle Wiggers)
Extending Claude with External Tools: MCPs in Action (Pierre Belin)
Command your tabs with AI in Opera One (Santiago Benavides García)
Open-source AI is hard. Blueprints can help! (Stefan French)

Design, Methodology & Testing

8 Ways to Empower Engineering Teams to Balance Productivity, Security, and Innovation (Lance Haig)
Commands or Events: Which One for Workflow? (Derek Comartin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Screencasts & Videos

Extract HTML to a Razor component in Visual Studio with 1 Click | On .NET (James Montemagno)
4o Image Generation in ChatGPT and Sora and OpenAI 4o Image Generation (OpenAI Team)
.NET Aspire Community Standup – Adding and Extending Healthchecks (Maddy Montaquila & Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Random.Code() – Writing a Suppressor in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
FABRICate SQL database with dbt | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Nandan Hegde)
Enhanced Editable Expression in IEnumerable Visualizer! | Visual Studio (Junyu Wang)

Podcasts

Developer Tea – Dimensional Reframing – Think Along a New Axis (Jonathan Cutrell)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Limiting Work-in-Progress Saved a Struggling Agile Team | Marina Lazovic (Vasco Duarte)
Mastering Infrastructure as Code: Lessons from Matt Gowey’s Consultancy Experience – Adventures in DevOps #235 (Will Button, Warren Parad)
RunAs Radio Episode #977 – Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks (Richard Campbell)
Leading the Shift Podcast – AI and analytics on and off the court | NBA (Susan Etlinger)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – “The power of the humble embedding” (Eira May)
The AI Fix Episode #43 – I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords! (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
Per Kops: Architecture of Ollama and Local LLMs – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #342 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Creating The 2025 Stamp Collection (United States Postal Service)
Software Engineering Radio Episode #661 – Sunil Mallya on Small Language Models (Brijesh Ammanath)

Community & Events

Elevate Your AI Expertise with Microsoft Azure: Learn Live Series for Developers (Lee Stott)
CfP List Updated 2025-03-25 (Dave Aronson)
Announcing: Azure API Center Hands-on Workshop 🚀 (Julia Muiruri)
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 9 (Apple)

Database

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Wrapper Stored Procedures (Erik Darling)
Unified, Cost-Effective Text-to-SQL and Business Intelligence with the AtScale Semantic Layer (Scott Murray)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Excel (March 2025) (Ms. Excel)
What’s New in Planner – March 2025 (Nancy)

Miscellaneous

VS Code – Change Python version (Bart Wullems)
Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data (Louise Matsakis & Will Knight)
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – March 25, 2025 (#519) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Real-World Web Development with .NET 9: Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

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