Dew Drop – February 4, 2025 (#4354)

Top Links

• EPISODE 9 – Scott and Mark Learn To… Public Speaking (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering Feb 5 @ 12:15pm EST
• Azure Cloud Talk 25/2/3 – Clark V Kevin Battle Royale (Clark Sell, Kevin Griffin & Alec Harrison)
• Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C#  –  Part 2 (Kevin Gosse)
• Migrate from MSTest to xUnit using a Roslyn analyzer (Gérald Barré)
• Semantic Kernel Roadmap H1 2025: Accelerating Agents, Processes, and Integration (Shawn Henry)
• Customize your AI-generated git commit messages (Jessie Houghton)

Web & Cloud Development

• Impersonation in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
• Microsoft Entra Authentication for Azure PostgreSQL (Arun Sirpal)
• Build a ChatLens with Kendo UI, Gemini and Angular 19 (Dany Paredes)
• Why Every JavaScript Developer Should Try TypeScript (Denis Wachira)
• Integrate ASP.NET Core DataGrid With Boilerplate and Perform CRUD Actions (Maithiliy K.)
• Pulumi Copilot is Now Available in VS Code (Eron Wright)
• MassTransit – Competing Consumers (Bryan Hogan)
• Announcing Vonage Video API Client SDK Version 2.29 (Vikram Dham)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• WinUI TabView | Microsoft Learn (Jim Walker)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Challenge: Giving file system developer ulcer (Oren Eini)
• Random Neighborhoods Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• On trying to log an exception as it leaves your scope (Raymond Chen)
• [Field Notes] Troubleshooting .NET OpenTelemetry SDK: Why Can’t I see My App’s Metrics? (Sean Killeen)
• Query Tags: Debugging EF Core Like a Detective and Batching Like a Boss: Using IDbContextFactory for High-Performance EF Core Updates (Chris Woodruff)
• Numeric sorting in .NET (Anthony Simmon)

AI

• Enable knowledge sources from Microsoft Copilot Studio (preview) (Microsoft Learn)
• Anthropic Asks Job Applicants Not To Use AI In Job Applications and Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time For People Who Download DeepSeek and CERN’s Mark Thomson: AI To Revolutionize Fundamental Physics (BeauHD)
• Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations (Daniel Dominguez)
• Prompt Injection for Large Language Models (Georg Dresler)
• AI as System 0 Thinking (JD Meier)
• DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech (Kyle Wiggers)
• Do more with Copilot and agents (Matt Graven)
• Block Launches Open-Source AI Framework Codename Goose (Robert Krzaczyński)
• Deploy DeepSeek models locally and monitor with New Relic AI Monitoring (Ryan Kadrak)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Update to Azure DevOps Allowed IP addresses (Soo Stahl)
• Application Packaging Trends in 2025: What’s Changing (and What’s Not) and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT): Everything You Need to Know (Alex Marin)
• Productivity is Messing Around and Having Fun (Holly Cummins)
• TortoiseSVN + Assembla Cloud Repos: A Guide to Modern, Reliable SVN (Bryan Grover)
• TeamCity 2024.12.2 Bug Fix Is Now Available (Olga Bedrina)

Screencasts & Videos

• Ronald Reagan warns against trade wars — as if speaking directly to Donald Trump (video) (Carla Sinclair)
• Creating My First Postman Flow (Postman Team)
• Running Distilled DeepSeek R1 models Locally on Copilot+ PCs (Windows Developer)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Apoorva Joshi on LLM Application Evaluation and Performance Improvements (Apoorva Joshi)
• Betatalks the Podcast #101 – From Minicomputers to Cloud Computing: How Technology Shapes Our World with Rocky Lhotka (Rick & Oscar)
• Merge Conflict #448 – Did Android XR Just Destroy visionOS? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Hidden Cost of Combined Scrum Master and Product Owner Roles | Chrissy Fleming (Vasco Duarte)
• Syntax Podcast #873 – Standard Schema: The Universal JavaScript Data Interface (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Azure Podcast Episode 512 – WAF and WARA on the Azure Podcast (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• Meta Cast – Fix Your Agile Teams with These Simple Shifts (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• CloudChat Episode #18 – We Can Hardly Container Ourselves! (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
• The Changelog News Podcast #130 – Everyone knows your location (Jerod Santo)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #209 – vCISO in the Cloud: Navigating the New Security Landscape (and Don’t Forget Resilience!) (Anton A. Chuvakin)
• Leading the Shift Podcast – Creating the new field of data for social impact | data.org (Susan Etlinger)
• Only Malware in the Building – Cyber Groundhog Day and romance scams (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Will the web ever be the primary delivery system for 3D games? (Eira May)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Toeing’ the line. Metonym versus synecdoche. Ghost town mad (Jim Norrena & Mignon Fogarty)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast #206 – The Best Advice You Can Give Someone Looking for Success (Max Ahumada)

Community & Events

• Productivity with GitHub Copilot: Docs and Unit Tests | 11 Feb 2025 Livestream (Microsoft Reactor)
• AI Is Spamming Open Source Repos With Fake Issues (Loraine Lawson)
• Medium: Why we’ve suspended some Partner Program accounts this week (Scott Lamb)
• Salesforce Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI (msmash)
• Hear from Microsoft Security experts at these top cybersecurity events in 2025 (Benjamin Lim)
• Volunteering at NDC London (Simon Foster)
• Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
• Open Source Friday AI with Angie Jones (GitHub Team)
• ID@Xbox Showcase Returns with IGN on February 24 (Joe Skrebels)
• GeekWire Awards nominations now open! Help us honor the best in Pacific Northwest tech (Kurt Schlosser)

Database

• Resetting Identity Seed in SQL Server After Deleting Records (Chris Pietschmann)
• Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Indexed Views And Filtered Indexes (Erik Darling)
• Introducing the Enhanced Azure SQL Database Free Offer: Now Generally Available (amardigamberpatil)
• Full-Text Search in Azure Cosmos DB (Kevin Comba)
• Set up dbt for Fabric SQL Database (Nandan Hegde)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• New and Improved: Board View in My Tasks and My Day (David Hopkins)

PowerShell

• PowerShell for Windows Developers: Takeaways from Advanced Installer’s Tech Session | Part 1 (Renato Ivanescu)
• Fun with PowerShell Asynchronous (Laerte Junior)

Miscellaneous

• 7 essential plugins for the Steam Deck to make the best handheld even better (Richard Devine)
• This $75 SSD is one of the best Steam Deck upgrades you can make (Alice Jovanée)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4870 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• GrubHub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers (Carly Page)
• Can anyone stop President Musk? (Elizabeth Lopatto)
• Treasury Department sued over DOGE takeover (Gaby Del Valle)
• Bite-size learning with Windows skilling snacks (Harjit Dhaliwal)
• Opera launches a mindfulness-focused browser with break reminders and soundscapes (Ivan Mehta)
• China opens Google antitrust probe in retaliation to tariffs (Jess Weatherbed)
• Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts (Kate Knibbs)
• Elon Musk is staging a takeover of the federal budget (Lauren Feiner)
• Microsoft is bringing a powerful media transcoding feature to Advanced Paste in PowerToys v0.89 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System (Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger & Tim Marchman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-06 (Michael Eaton)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue #173 (Sam Basu)
• Daily Reading List – February 3, 2025 (#485) (Richard Seroter)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024) (Donnie Prakoso)
• Reading List #335 (Bruce Lawson)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)