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