specflow – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 14, 2025 (#4341)

Top Links

What does a modern, AI-assisted developer workflow built around Google Gemini look like? Let’s explore. (Richard Seroter)
Introducing CoreAI – Platform and Tools (Satya Nadella)
Cosmos DB Embeddings Generator Sample (Mark Brown)
Angular 2025 Strategy (Minko Gechev)
Real-Time Communication: Effective Data Exchange with Sockets (Chris Woodruff)
James Montemagno: .NET Aspire with Azd – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode 332 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

Local inter-process communication over named pipes with ASP.NET Core or StreamJsonRpc in .NET (Anthony Simmon)
Containerd vs. Docker: Container Runtimes Comparison (James Walker)
Using Entra Managed Identities with Web Apps to Connect to Azure SQL Database (Joey Dantoni)
ASP.NET Core Distributed Tracing (Ricardo Peres)

Visual Studio & .NET

The memory leak in ConcurrentQueue (Oren Eini)
Comparing Records, Structs, and Classes in C#: When to Use What? (Ali Hamza Ansari)
Document Comparison using Image-Based Pixel Matching in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
HSTS for HttpClient in .NET (Gérald Barré)
Recawr Sandwich (Mark Seemann)
A simplified overview of ways to add or update elements in a std::map (Raymond Chen)
Enhanced Change Signature in C++ (Mryam Girmay)

AI

OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint (OpenAI Team)
robots.txt for AI (Larry Clarkin)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Introduction To BDD using SpecFlow (Claudio Bernasconi)
How to Remove a Secret Token from Your Git History (Yonatan Kra)
Top 5 GitHub Alternatives: Find the Right Development Platform (Bryan Grover)
US Employee Engagement Sinks To 10-Year Low (msmash)
Software Development Productivity Crisis Costing Companies Millions (Sean Michael Kerner)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Wonderful Dart Full-Stack Experience: Serverpod Framework Designed Specifically for Flutter (Yii Chen)

Screencasts & Videos

Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 18 (Jason Bock)
Get started with AI application templates | Open at Microsoft (Liam Hampton & Kristen Womack)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Building Green Software with Anne Currie and Sara Bergman (Anne Currie & Sara Bergman)
React Component Tests for Humans with Miroslav Nikolov – React Round Up #282 (TJ VanToll & Paige Niedringhaus)
Angular Elements, Annex & Storybook with Brad McAlister – Adventures in Angular #439 (Alyssa, Chris & Brooks)
Grammar Girl Podcast – From “august” to “August.” Why the union is always “strong.” Nee nee (Susan K. Herman & Mignon Fogarty)
Syntax Podcast #867 – Zero Sync is the Future of Data Loading (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: Bridging Innovation and Strategy as CTO of CrateDB With Sergey Gerasimenko (Vasco Duarte)
SQL Server Radio Episode 171 – Clueless about SQL Server 2025 (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #206 – Paying the Price: Ransomware’s Rising Stakes in the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/13 – Battling Burnout with Arlene Cohen Miller (Alec Harrison & Brian Gorman)
The Changelog News Podcast #127 – The new $30,000 side hustle (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Robots building robots in a robotic factory (Eira May)
Python Bytes Podcast #416 – A Ghostly Episode (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)

Community & Events

Mastodon announces transition to nonprofit structure (Ivan Mehta)

Database

How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Views vs Common Table Expressions (Erik Darling)
SSMS and Execution Timeout – SQL in Sixty Seconds 209 (Pinal Dave)
PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 (Hannah Stewart-Beattie)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Pop out Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes in Teams meetings (Manya Garg)
New Unified Contacts in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, now generally available (vivekdatir)
Write more effective emails with Copilot in Outlook (Kayla Patterson)
How to Install Microsoft 365 on Mac (Kenelle Moore)

PowerShell & Terminal

PowerShell Universal v5.2 (Adam Driscoll)
WSL–Getting started experience (Bart Wullems)

Miscellaneous

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-03 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #170 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – January 13, 2025 (#471) (Richard Seroter)
Reading Notes #631 (Frank Boucher)

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

Dew Drop – February 15, 2024 (#4129)

Top Links

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 1 is Here! (Mark Downie)
Angular v17.2 is now available (Minko Gechev)
What’s new in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio 17.9 (Yu Zhang)
.NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 Preview 1 (David Ortinau)
Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.4.240211001 Released (NuGet)
Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8 (James Newton-King)

Web & Cloud Development

Blazor Basics: HTML Forms and Capturing User Data (Claudio Bernasconi)
Material 3 Experimental Support in Angular 17.2 (Miles Malerba)
Unlocking Success: The Need for Quick Web Service Creation (Donovan Brown)
Signal queries in Angular – what can I do with them? (Connie Leung)
JavaScript and TypeScript Trends 2024: Insights From the Developer Ecosystem Survey (David Watson)
Getting started with Azure’s Hybrid and Embedded Text-to-Speech (Dean Hume)
Enhancing the Blazor File Manager Performance with Virtualization (Keerthana Rajendran)
Mastering State Maintenance in Blazor Tabs (Mahesh Palanisamy)
Important changes coming for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.5 targets of the AWS SDK for .NET (Norm Johanson)
Node v18.19.1 (LTS) and Node v20.11.1 (LTS) and Node v21.6.2 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Step by Step Practical Guide to Architecting Cloud Native Applications (Abdullah Abu Hassan)
Creating the right Postman workspace for your needs just got easier (Akshay Kulkarni)
A Passwordless Future! Passkeys for Developers (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
Reasons to Fall in Love with Passkeys (Juan Cruz Martinez)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Bar Chart for the US’s Most Traded Goods with China (Arul Jenith Berkmans)
WindowsApps folder getting out of hand? (Michael Niehaus)
Telerik RichTextEditor for .NET MAUI—Display Any HTML Text in Your Cross-Platform App (Rossitza Fakalieva)

Visual Studio & .NET

Entity Framework Core Query Plan Visualizer (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
How to Add a .NET Spreadsheet Ribbon Bar Control using C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
Weak Events in C# – How to Avoid Nasty Memory Leaks (Nick Cosentino)
.NET Framework February 2024 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Salini Agarwal)
How to Create a Desktop Shortcut for a Windows Forms Application? (Renato Ivanescu)
Collection Performance: Iterating Through Reference Value, and Record Types and String Performance: String Compression (David McCarter)
Rider Splash Screens for EAPs (Early Access Pets) (Rachel Appel)
Why Should You Care About Lambda Lifecycle As A .NET Developer? (Rahul Nath)
Functions that return the size of a required buffer generally return upper bounds, not tight bounds (Raymond Chen)
Enumerating over Select’s index (Jiří Činčura)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

How to publish your MSI and EXE setup applications in the MS Store (Radu Popescu)
Reqnroll – Migrating from SpecFlow (Max Hamulyák)
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors (OpenAI Team)
US Patent Office Confirms AI Can’t Hold Patents (BeauHD)
How signers can add form fields before eSigning a document? (Evans Omondi Otieno)
How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design (Kent Eisenhuth)
Will Generative AI Kill DevSecOps? (Jennifer Riggins)
Abstraction and Testing – Intro (Gil Zilberfeld)
Drive customer engagement with the power of AI (Jill Armour)
HIPAA Compliant Electronic Signature (Meikanda Nayanar)
Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
Configuration as Code for TeamCity Using Terraform (Olga Bedrina)
Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI (Tiferet Gazit)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Building a Flutter SDK Part 1: Breaking Down a Flutter Package (Deven Joshi)

Screencasts & Videos

IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 196 – Open (The most overused term in tech) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Rene Schulte on the Evolution of AI and Its Impact Across Industries (Frank La Vigne)
What advice do you have for people who want to get started in AI? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
Develop Your Copilot Skills (Part 1) (Microsoft Developer Team)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Azure Podcast Episode 486 – Azure Savings Plans (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Assessment to Action, How Scrum Masters Can Start Their Engagement With A New Team | Freddie Brown Jr (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode 730: Own Your Own PaaS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Practical AI Podcast #256 – Gemini vs OpenAI (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Subscriptions! A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley)
Jamstack Radio Episode #142 – Decoupled Authorization with Alex Olivier and Emre Baran of Cerbos (Brian Douglas)
Software Engineering Radio 603: Rishi Singh on Using GenAI for Test Code Generation (Kanchan Shringi)

Community & Events

MSSQLTips.com Authors and Rookie of 2023 (MSSQLTips Team)
Cisco Layoffs Hitting More Than 4,000 Workers (Edward Gately)
Welcoming Progress Champions 2024 (Sam Basu)
100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born (James W. Cortada)
Boston Code Camp – Session Submissions are open until Friday, February 23 (Robert Hurlbut)
Explaining Open Source to My Doctor (Jitendra Choudhary)

Database

When SQL Server Isn’t Smart About Aggregates Part 2 (Erik Darling)
4 Rules to follow on Microsoft Fabric Source Control (Dennes Torres)
Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc and Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Azure Team)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Azure Metrics in Teams with Azure Functions and Adaptive Card Tables (John Kilmister)
Visually group shapes in your diagrams with containers in Visio for the web (Karan Malik)

PowerShell

How to digitally sign an MSI installer using PowerShell command line (Radu Popescu)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058 (Canary and Dev Channels) (Brandon LeBlanc)
Marvel has found its Fantastic Four (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
DuckDuckGo Browser Adds Private Bookmark and Password Sync (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3882 (Chris Alcock)
dotInsights | February 2024 (Rachel Appel)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – March 14, 2022 (#3641)

Top Links

The Download: Visual Studio at 25, a JavaScript Proposal, and Gaming Chairs for Babies?? (Christina Warren)
#30DaysOfPWA #27 – Best Practices for PWA: Authentication (Nikola Metulev)
#30DaysOfPWA #28 – Best Practices for PWA: UI/UX (Stephanie Stimac)
A Mostly Complete Guide to C# 11’s Future Features (Matthew MacDonald)
What is BDD? How to use SpecFlow in Visual Studio 2022 – SpecFlow Series – Part 1 (Edwin Hernandez)

Web & Cloud Development

How ASP.NET Core logging works with ILogger and LogLevel (David Grace)
#30DaysOfPWA #26 – Best Practices for PWA: Maintainability (Zach Teutsch)
How to Separate Production, Test and Development Resources in Azure (John Kilmister)
Debate in JavaScript Community Over Proposed Types Syntax (Mike Melanson)
Build and Deploy a Microsoft .NET Core Web API application to AWS App Runner using CloudFormation (Naveen Balaraman)
Part -1 Introduction On Microservice And SQL Database Design For Microservices [.NET 6 Microservice Series] (Naveen Bommidi)
DateOnly in .NET 6 and ASP.NET Core 6 (Zijian)
ESLint v8.11.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
StackBlitz February 2022 Update (Sylwia Vargas)
Go from the beginning – working with loops and Go from the beginning – reading user input and Go from the beginning – functions (Chris Noring)
Fullstack Pulumi: Deploying the MERN Stack on DigitalOcean (Christian Nunciato)
Chatbot Choice Prompt (Michael Szul)
Update Node Dependencies Automatically, Selectively, or Incrementally (Elijah Manor)
Typescript Tuples, and How They Work (Johnny Simpson)
Getting started with blogging using GitHub pages and Jekyll and Applying a theme to your GitHub pages site (Simon Jackson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Playing With New .NET MAUI Views: Border, Shadow & GraphicsView (Damien Tohin Doumer Kake)
Get Started With the StepProgressBar in Telerik UI for WPF (Maria Hadzhieva)
Matt’s Template Studio for UWP, WPF, & WinUI (C#) (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

Developing for Linux in Windows with C# (Bruno Sonnino)
Optimizing code to darken a bitmap, part 5 (Raymond Chen)
Convert Byte Array to File in C# and C# 10 New Features and Queue in C# (Code Maze)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How Does One Start With Unit Tests? (J. B. Rainsberger)
Defense in depth and the local server (Oren Eini)
Agile Book Club: Ubiquitous Language (James Shore)
What is a design mockup? The definitive guide (Sketch Team)
GitHub Notification Settings and Configuration as Code for the GitHub platform (Rob Bos)
How To Solve Fragmented Remote Work Communication (Dave Schafer)
10 Reasons Why Software Projects Fail (Mahesh Chand)
Paralleling Code Coverage using Coveralls and Travis (Montana Mendy)
Agile Principles: Adaptive Self-Organizing (Al Tenhundfeld)
Working with PHP, Git, and Azure DevOps (Phil Hajjar)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova OSX 7.0.0 released and deprecation notice (Niklas Merz)
A closer look at Game Backend (Dew Smith)
Nine use cases for Unity’s Game Backend tools (Garinne Bechakjian)
Make a 3D HoloLens app launcher appear above the launcher controls (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Recruitment, Retention, Finding The Right Job, Onboarding People in a Remote Environment (Chase Kocher & Kate Wardin)
CodeNewbie S19:E6 – How to make learning databases fun and approachable (Joe Karlsson) (CodeNewbie Team)
Technology & Friends – Godfrey Nolan on Drone SDKs (David Giard)
Merge Conflict 297: The Ultra Apple Event Recap (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
Client-side vs Server-side, Front-end vs Back-end? Beginner Explanation of JavaScript on the Web (Scott Hanselman)
How to customize messages in Teams Chat (Microsoft Teams)
OnPodcast Episode 64: The return of Windows Sets? Windows 11’s new search box, Android 12L for Duo (Podcast OnMSFT)
The Work Item #51 – Finding Your Engineering Passion, with Vicente Plata of 500 Startups LatAm, Shopify, and More (Den Delimarsky)
PPP 350 | How to Hire for the Anniversary Date, Not the Start Date, with Lou Adler (Andy Kaufman)
Coding Blocks Podcast – The Great Resignation (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
Meta Cast 217 – Charting Your Own Path (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Changelog – ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Jessica Kerr, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode 031 – CDK and Step Functions with Matthew Bonig (David Isbitski)
The Amp Hour #581 – Real Time Operating Systems with Brian Amos (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 349 and Random.Code() – AutoDeconstruct and Transpire (Jason Bock)
Serverless Chats Episode #128: Serverless-First Engineers and the Flywheel Effect with David Anderson (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
What are some tips for someone applying for an internship or job at Microsoft? | One Dev Question #Shorts (Beckylin Orooji)

Community & Events

Imagine Cup 2022 – World Finalists Selected (Sue Gee)
Knative Joins CNCF (Kay Ewbank)
Introducing the Amazing Maker Awards (Dale Dougherty)
JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine (Maxim Shafirov)

Database

Understanding Time Zones in SQL Server (Eric Blinn)
Everything You Need to Get Started With MySQL (Jamie Thompson)
The new Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Certification is here! (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.0 Preview 1 (David Engel)

SharePoint & MS Teams

What’s in the first SharePoint Framework v1.15 beta? (Andrew Connell)
Displaying selected SharePoint form fields as read-only using List Formatting (Michel Carlo)

PowerShell

PnP PowerShell to manage list designs and create lists/libraries using list designs (Reshmee Auckloo)

Miscellaneous

Birth of the Intel 4004 – the First Microprocessor (I Programmer Historian)
Bill Targeting NDAs Used By Tech Companies Passes In Washington State (BeauHD)
You can now install Windows 11 on a Surface Duo if you’re feeling brave (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3429 (Chris Alcock)
Weekly Xamarin – Issue 342 – 12th Mar 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
The Wolf Report – March 14th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
F# Weekly #11, 2022 – IcedTasks & F# tool team positions in Prague (Sergey Tihon)
C# Digest Issue #406 (Jakub Chodounsky)
The Overflow #116: Stop aggregating away the signal in your data (Eira May & Cassidy Williams)
Friday Five: Excel, Automation Tips, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
The Ultimate List of Developer Newsletters (Shiela Jorge)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Mastodon
github.com/alvinashcraft