Dew Drop – February 20, 2025 (#4366)

Top Links

• Announcing Chroma DB C# SDK (Luis Quintanilla)
• Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 (Satya Nadella)
• .NET Rocks! – Uno Hot Design with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Introducing Code Referencing for GitHub Copilot Completions in Visual Studio (Simona Liao)
• Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation (Katja Hofmann)
• Rust in time! Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust Beta. 🎉 (Ronnie Geraghty)

Web & Cloud Development

• How to Build an ASP.NET Core MVC Web App (Beau Carnes)
• Working With Multiple CSS Anchors and Popovers Inside the WordPress Loop (Geoff Graham)
• Injecting Action Method Values from Configuration in ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
• AWS Documentation update — progress, challenges, and what’s next for 2025 (Greg Wilson)
• Deno 2.2: OpenTelemetry, Lint Plugins, node:sqlite (Bartek Iwańczuk & Andy Jiang)
• The bottom type never in TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Introduction to .NET Aspire (David Ramel)
• Book Review: 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (Mike James)
• How to Work with OpenAPI in Go (Alex Pliutau)
• Introducing Rotated Secrets in Pulumi ESC (Arun Loganathan)
• Terraform Workflow: Plan It, Build It, Rule the Cloud and Terraform Variables & Outputs: The Secret Sauce of Reusable Infrastructure (Chris Woodruff)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Track and Visualize your Product Sales Data with the .NET MAUI Bullet Chart (Tinesh Kumar Sivakumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

• MSVC C++ Code Analysis: Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13 (Carson Radtke)
• C++/WinRT implementation inheritance: Notes on winrt::implements, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
• AutoMapper 14.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)

AI

• New Arm Extension for GitHub Copilot Simplifies and Accelerates Migration to Arm-based Servers (Alex Spinelli)
• Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction? (Eduard Kuric)
• Introducing Azure AI Foundry Labs: A hub for the latest AI research and experiments at Microsoft (Asha Sharma & Ashley Llorens)
• Build your code-first app with Azure AI Agent Service (Carlotta Caste)
• DeepSeek on Azure – JavaScript demos (Azure Samples)
• We’re launching a new AI system for scientists | The Keyword (Google)
• The Weight of Data: Rethinking Cloud-Native Systems for the Age of AI (Holly Cummins)
• Getting the most from the Copilot Prompt Gallery (Gabe Ho)
• The Rise of AI Agents and the Security Challenges Ahead (Michelle Agroskin)
• Revolutionizing work: Customer success stories with Gen AI (Microsoft in Business Team)
• AI App Builders – Take 2 – Lovable (Nick Randolph)
• RAG Deep Dive: Watch all the recordings! (Pamela Fox)
• A new level unlocked (Peter Lee)
• Quick Demo of Chrome’s Summarization GenAI (Upcoming) API (Raymond Camden)
• AI Agents for Beginners Course: 10 Lessons teaching you how to start building AI Agents (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps users (Dan Hellem)
• Automate Your React App Deployment With TeamCity (Olga Bedrina)
• Chat with your GitHub repository (Bart Wullems)
• Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest (Damien Neil)
• Long paths in Git on Windows (Mattias Karlsson)
• ​​Adaptive vs. responsive design: Which is better for UX? (Neil Nkoyock)
• Design for the Operator: How UX Design Can Improve Decisions in High-Stakes Environments (Teon Beijl)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Xcode IDE from Microsoft Archrival Apple Gets Copilot AI (David Ramel)
• Unifying Plugins across Ionic and OutSystems (Eric Horodyski)
• A complete guide to TypeScript enums in React Native (Kayode Adeniyi)
• New Small AI Model Lets Developers Experiment on iOS (Loraine Lawson)
• Flutter Navigation: Is GoRouter Still The Best Choice? (Serene Aronow)
• Type erasure for Equatable and Hashable types in Swift: Lessons from ReactiveCollectionsKit (Jesse Squires)

Screencasts & Videos

• New Alternatives to Windows 11 Explorer – Files and File Pilot! (Scott Hanselman)
• Customizing GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio with Custom Instructions (Jessie Houghton)
• Managing Container & Data Lifetime with .NET Aspire | On .NET (James Montemagno)
• .NET GenAI Fundamentals Review | Generative AI .NET for Beginners (.NET Team)
• Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits (Microsoft)
• AI Agents Fundamentals In 21 Minutes (Tina Huang)
• Is Linux Mint now Spying on You? We Put it to the Test and Microsoft’s Quantum Breakthrough: The Majorana 1 Chip Explained! (Frank LaVigne)
• Supercharge Your WinForms Projects with .NET 9 Roslyn Analyzers (Michael Jolley)

Podcasts

• Syntax Podcast #878 – You Are Sleeping On Nuxt, Nitro and Vue w/ Daniel Roe (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Changelog Podcast #629 – Programming with LLMs (David Crawshaw, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak (Gretchen Huizinga & Dr. Chetan Nayak)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – Writing Motivation Hacks, with Mary Robinette Kowal (Mignon Fogarty)
• Software Engineering Radio #656 – Ivett Ördög on Rewrite versus Refactor (Sam Taggart)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Substack Week: Engineering Strategy, Bridging Technical Excellence with Business Success | Aleix Morgadas (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

• MySQL Rockstars 2024 (Frederic Descamps)
• Webinar – Uno Platform & Hot Design for Rider (Matthias Koch)
• Feb 19th Meetup: AI and the Enterprise Application | Greater Philadelphia AWS User Group (Keith B.)
• Last call for GeekWire Awards nominations: Help honor tech entrepreneurs, innovators and more (Kurt Schlosser)
• A new experiment to help people explore more career possibilities (Lisa Gevelber)
• Code Club: Empowering the Next Generation of Digital Creators (Sophie Ashford)

Database

• A Little More About Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimizations In SQL Server 2022 (Erik Darling)
• How to Backup A Digital Ocean Managed Database (PostgreSQL) (Donn Felker)
• RavenDB 7.1: Clocking at 200 fsync/second (Oren Eini)
• Multi-Tenant: Database Per Tenant or Shared? (Derek Comartin)
• PostgreSQL Download and Install on Ubuntu, RedHat and Docker (Andrea Gnemmi)
• Fabric Databases Connection Secrets (Dennes Torres)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s new in Teams for personal use | January 2025 (Miikka Oksanen)
• Introducing the Adaptive Cards documentation hub and new Adaptive Cards updates (Swarathmika Kakivaya)

PowerShell

• PowerShell GUI Tutorial: Building Whiteboard Apps With WPF (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

• Trump Cabinet Officials Embrace Far-Right Influencer Who Has Praised Fascists (David Corn)
• DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion; Itemized Data Shows Far Less (Andre Tartar)
• New path for quantum computing (Mark Downie)
• Microsoft Declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the Name of Euro Privacy (msmash)
• Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits (Chetan Nayak)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – February 19, 2025 (#496) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft)