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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 – January 15, 2025 (#4342)

Top Links

Introducing the New .NET MAUI Bottom Sheet Control (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
THAT Conference 2025 (Clark Sell)
Introducing MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj 3.0 – create, build, validate, analyze, pack and deploy SQL database projects with .NET 9 (Erik EJ)
.NET and .NET Framework January 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield)
AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness (Microsoft Research)
Join us at VS Live! 2025 Las Vegas (Jim Harrer)

Web & Cloud Development

Initialize ASP.NET Core TagHelpers with Shared Data (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
HTTP Logging in ASP.NET: how to automatically log all incoming HTTP requests (and its downsides!) (Davide Bellone)
Demystifying Azure with 10 Commonly Confused Services (John Kilmister)
ASP.NET Core user delegated access token management (Damien Bowden)
Managing Schedules with the Blazor Scheduler 2: Managing Schedules and Occurrences (Peter Vogel)
Podman Error: no context directory and no Containerfile specified (Bart Wullems)
Introducing Azure CLI 1.4.0: Unlocking New Capabilities for Azure Load Testing (Saloni Agrawal)
Improve the user experience of your application using (rx)resource (Tim Deschryver)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Advanced Animations with .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)
Why does Avalonia UI exist? (Avalonia UI Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

Reading compilation options and the C# version in source generators: Creating a source generator – Part 12 (Andrew Lock)
Xceed software partners with Fluent Assertions to elevate developer tools and community support (Xceed)
The Importance of PDF Signing in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Error Handling and Graceful Shutdowns in Socket Programming (Chris Woodruff)
Akka.NET v1.6 Roadmap and Features (Aaron Stannard)
.NET 8/9 – Testing Different Build/Deployment Modes – Part 2 and .NET 8/9 – Testing Different Build/Deployment Modes – Part 3 (Mark Pelf)

AI

Copilot Agentic AI Dev Environment Opens Up to All (David Ramel)
3 takeaways from red teaming 100 generative AI products (Blake Bullwinkel & Ram Shankar Siva Kumar)
Microsoft Partner Blog | Tapping into the power of AI with Copilot+ PCs (Jill Armour)
Joe Biden signs executive order to speed AI data center construction (Justine Calma)
ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos (Kylie Robison)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Build an Open Source Kubernetes GitOps Platform, Part 1 (John Dietz)
Why Some Developers Will Never Improve – And tips to never become one of them (Software Surplus)
The SOLID Principles: Writing Scalable & Maintainable Code (Ryan Lai)
Getting started with GitLab: How to manage users (Abubakar Siddiq Ango)
Decisionator v0 (Eleanor Berger)
Top 5 Testing Challenges Developers Will Face in 2025 (and How to Solve Them) (Eli Lopian)
Photoshop Launches Live Co-Editing in Private Beta (Louise North)
Microspeak: The walk-on topic (Raymond Chen)
Obsidian for Beginners: The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need! (Vladislav Guzey)
Git security vulnerabilities announced (Taylor Blau)

Screencasts & Videos

Build AI Agents & Apps FAST with Azure AI Foundry! | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Govind Kamlamneni)
Copilot Control System explained (Microsoft Mechanics)
Phi-4:14B-fp16 vs. Llama3.3:70b-q8_0 The Ultimate AI Model Showdown (Frank LaVigne)
Keep Your PC Awake with Windows PowerToys (Windows Developer)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: Navigating Growth, A Playbook for Scaling Engineering Teams With Toni Ala-Piirto and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: How Open Strategy and Agile Practices Drive Success at NorthCode With Ismo Aro (Vasco Duarte)
SharePoint agents in the wild – New episode of The Intrazone podcast (Mark Kashman)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Device Management in Kubernetes, with John Belamaric (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Tanmai Gopal (Isaac Levin)

Community & Events

Join the Conversation: Call for Proposals for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025! (Jay Gordon)
Partnering with Axios expands OpenAI’s work with the news industry (OpenAI Team)
Stack Overflow Jobs Expands As Traffic Dwindles (Sue Gee)
Farewell to an Era: Is CodeProject.com Really Shutting Down? (Mark Pelf)
Introducing the Creative Cloud Developer Champion Program (Erin Finnegan)
Meta To Cut 3,600 Jobs, Targeting Lowest Performers (msmash)
Microsoft’s former head of Windows and Devices design to lead Amazon Devices & Services design (Todd Bishop)

Database

How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Where Clauses With OR In Them (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

How to Install Microsoft 365 on Android and How to Install Microsoft 365 on Windows (Kenelle Moore)
Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th (Tom Warren)
Reduce eye strain with Dark Mode in Excel for Windows (Sharon910)

Miscellaneous

Free Upgrade to Windows 11
(For a Limited Time Only) (Margaret Farmer)
Python Assert: Definition and Best Practices (Stackify Team)
Simple Icon File Maker Can Open a Folder (Joseph Finney)
Parallels is testing x86 emulation on Apple silicon Macs (Wes Davis)

The Geek Shelf

From Zero to Hero: Blazor | Dometrain Bundle (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – December 28, 2023 (#4098)

Top Links

.NET Rocks! – Space in 2023 Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
A new lock type in .NET 9 (Steven Giesel)
GitHub Copilot and AI for Developers: Potential and Pitfalls (Scott Hanselman & Mark Downey)
Semantic Kernel – The new planners introduced in 1.0 (Matteo Pagani)
A year of making you more productive using Git in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

Implement Custom Authorization Policy Provider in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
How (and Why) to Optimize jQuery Code Performance for Large-Scale Application Development (Nduka John)
Try the Future TypeScript Engine With the WebStorm@next Program (Vladislav Minaev)
Using WebGPU to accelerate ML workloads in the browser (Muhammed Ali)
A hard look at Certificate Transparency: CT in Reality (Eric Rescorla)
Replicating Data to Support Multi-Region Applications (Adora Nwodo)
Utilize legacy Web Service code in Logic App Standard (Mohammed Barqawi)

Visual Studio & .NET

How to Customize C# Datagrid Features in Your Desktop App (Greg Lutz)
What does it mean when the compiler says that it can’t convert something to itself? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

7 Deadly Sins of Agile: Greed (Martin Hinshelwood)
Windows AI Studio Overview (Microsoft Learn)
4 Steps for Building Event-Driven GenAI Applications (Andrew Sellers)
Upsides and Downsides of Open Source Adoption (Ben Linders)
Stop saying “technical debt” (Chelsea Troy)
Building trust with an open-door policy (David Pereira)
When Should Code Be Refactored? What You Need To Know (Nick Cosentino)
What I Learned Using Private LLMs to Write an Undergraduate History Essay (Ian Miell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Apple Vision Pro Tipped For Late January, Early February Release (BeauHD)

Screencasts & Videos

GCast 165: GitHub projects [GCast 165] (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 189 – End of 2023 Special! (A Weird Year) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 159: No Effort December Returns (Ben Nadel)
The Future of Authentication in JavaScript: An Inside Look into Passport JS with Jared Hanson – JavaScript Jabber 613 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
The Rework Podcast – Working with a Business Partner (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone. (Eira May)
Software Engineering Radio 596: Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with Temporal (Philip Winston)

Community & Events

Meet Text Control at NDC London 2024 (Bjoern Meyer)

Database

The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: Dynamic SQL (Erik Darling)
Public Preview: Separation of scan levels for Azure SQL Database and Snowflake in Microsoft Purview (Henry Shi)
Eager Aggregation in SQL queries (Boris Novikov)

Miscellaneous

Publishing to my blog from Obsidian (Cassidy Williams)

More Link Collections

GitHub’s top blog posts of 2023 (Laura Lindeman)

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) – Referral Link

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