azure functions – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 22, 2025 (#4425)

Top Links

AI and Vector Data Extensions are now Generally Available (GA) (Luis Quintanilla)
Connect Once, Integrate Anywhere with MCP (Maria Naggaga)
The em dash conspiracy: How pop culture declared war on literature’s favorite punctuation (Celeste Moure)
Transforming an image into a table with Windows OCR (Bruno Sonnino)
Connecting to Private NuGet Feeds Just Got Easier (Ruben Rios)
AI Shell Preview 4 Release! (Steven Bucher)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Create ASP.NET Application Installers Efficiently (Alex Marin)
Theme UI Frameworks in Angular Part 3: Theming with Kendo UI and ThemeBuilder (Dany Paredes)
SVG to CSS Shape Converter (Geoff Graham)
Getting Started with Email in Azure Communication Services (Sean Keegan)
How to Add Custom Search to Angular Pivot Table Using Label Filtering (Sridhar Karunakaran)
Bringing Svelte Summit to the whole community (Svelte Team)
ESLint v9.0.0: A retrospective (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Node v24.1.0 (Current) and Node v22.16.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
What is Type Assertion in TypeScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
The Pulumi Go Provider SDK is Now Generally Available (Eron Wright)
Durable execution: autosave for your microservices (Phoebe Sajor)
From code to cloud: Check out six new integrations that make it easier to host your apps and models on Cloud Run (Richard Seroter)
New Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web (Tara Whalen)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Migrate Your WPF Components to .NET MAUI (Dimitrina Petrova)
Easily Build an SIP Calculator Using the Syncfusion .NET MAUI Toolkit Charts (Tinesh Kumar Sivakumar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Message Concurrency, Parallelism, and Ordering with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
Silly parlor tricks: Promoting a 32-bit value to a 64-bit value when you don’t care about garbage in the upper bits (Raymond Chen)

AI

Agentic AI – A Potential Black Swan Moment in System Integration (Ahmed Bayoumy)
New tools and features in the Responses API (OpenAI Team)
Welcome to the Multi-AI Era (David Ramel)
An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio (Olivier Lacombe, Kat Kampf, Ammaar Reshi & Seth Odoom)
Injecting Organization Knowledge Into GitHub Copilot Agents (Mitchel Sellers)
Secure Code Reviews with GitHub Copilot: A Prompt-Driven Approach (Chirag Desai)
Meet Koog: Empowering Kotlin Developers to Build AI Agents (Daniela Bentrup)
Transitioning to new Extensions AI IEmbeddingGenerator interface and Semantic Kernel and Microsoft.Extensions.AI: Better Together, Part 1 (Roger Barreto)
Vector Data Extensions are now Generally Available (GA) (Wes Steyn & Shay Rojansky)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Preserve Old Configuration Files During Upgrades in Advanced Installer (Radu Popescu)
The servant leadership paradox – When org charts contradict culture (Bart Wullems)
Windows Tests Running Slow? Maybe Not for Long… (Teodor Nikolov)
How to thrive as a junior engineer: Tips and insights (Yelyzaveta Kramarenko)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Dart & Flutter momentum at Google I/O 2025 (Michael Thomsen)
Microsoft adds over 50 ‘Retro Classics’ to Game Pass (Wes Davis)

Screencasts & Videos

VS Code Live! | BRK111 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Harald Kirschner, Jeff Wilcox, Christian Reddington, Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan & Brigit Murtaugh)
Google I/O ’25 in under 10 minutes (Google)
Debug Like a Pro: Improve Your Efficiency with Visual Studio & Copilot | BRK119 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Cagri (Charlie) Aslan & Harshada Hole)
Unpacking the tech | KEY020 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Guthrie, Charles LaManna & Jay Parikh)
Unlock agentic interactions for your apps using MCP on Windows | BRK229 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Thomas Fennel & Donald Thompson)
Bring your own model to Windows using Windows ML | BRK225 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Ryan Demopoulos & Xiaoxi Han)
New AI Developments vs Old AI (Frank LaVigne)
Agent Mode in Action: AI Coding with Vibe and Spec-Driven Flows | BRK102 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Pierce Boggan & Harald Kirschner)
Shift Left: Secure Your Code and AI from the Start | BRK230 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Neil Coles, Marcelo Oliverira & Mark Russinovich)
Azure AI Foundry: The AI app and Agent Factory | BRK155 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Yina Arenas & Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts

Microsoft Cloud Show Episode #451 | AC’s New Podcast (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
.NET Rocks! – C# Networking with Chris Woodruff (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Syntax Podcast Episode #904 – React vs Svelte × Windsurf Worth $3B × Typescript as Const × Layout Shift Tricks × More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The Amp Hour #694 – Voltage, Vibes, and VOCs (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Cloud Pod Episode #304 – It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud! (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
The Breakpoint Show Episode #041 – Source Generators with Andrew Lock (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
Directions on Microsoft Podcast – What’s Going on With Windows (Mary Jo Foley)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Why simplified spelling nearly took over America (and why it didn’t), with Gabe Henry (Mignon Fogarty)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Why Your Process Changes Are Failing—The Stakeholder Alignment Problem | Deniz Ari (Vasco Duarte)
Software Engineering Radio #669 – Will McGugan on Text-Based User Interfaces (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)

Community & Events

OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company (Jay Peters)

Database

SQL Server Management Studio documentation (Microsoft Learn)
Free SQL Managed Instance offer is now generally available (Strahinja Rodic)
How I Configure SQL Server Management Studio v21 (Brent Ozar)
SQL Server Developer Standard Edition: A Gift to Developers! (Edward Pollack)
Redgate SQL Prompt in SSMS 21 (Koen Verbeeck)
Azure Database for MySQL bindings for Azure Functions (General Availability) (Sai Kondapalli)
Now in Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Fleets (Deborah Chen)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: SELECT FROM WHERE? (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

From Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot: A New Era of Productivity (Jon Friedman)

Miscellaneous

Sysmon 1.3.7 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
Performance Check: Does Rust Really Fly? (Chris Woodruff)
Trump’s CDC afraid to tell us diseases are spreading (Jason Weisberger)
Mysterious Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of Login Credentials (Matt Burgess & Lily Hay Newman)
Fewer Tech Workers Plan to Change Jobs as Satisfaction, Stability Rise (Nathan Eddy)
Windows 11 is getting a macOS-like Handoff feature between phone and PC (Tom Warren)
Signal says no to Windows 11’s Recall screenshots (Umar Shakir)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – May 21, 2025 (#557) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #201 (jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – May 16, 2025 (#4421)

Top Links

Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Amanda Silver)
.NET MAUI ScreenRecording Plugin v1.0.0 Preview 4: Windows Support (Gerald Versluis)
AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale (Prasad Rao)
Evaluating content safety in your .NET AI applications (Shyam Namboodiripad)
Create a Beautiful Photo Gallery Using .NET MAUI Tab View and ListView (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
Semantic Kernel: Package previews, Graduations & Deprecations (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Sergey Menshykh)

Web & Cloud Development

Styling console text in Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
The Verifiable Credentials 2.0 family of specifications is now a W3C Recommendation and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) is a W3C Proposed Recommendation and Privacy Principles is a W3C Statement and First Public Working Draft: CSS Functions and Mixins Module (W3C)
Kubernetes 1.33: Job’s SuccessPolicy Goes GA (Kubernetes Team)
Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel (Geoff Graham)
Announcing Native Azure Functions Support in Azure Container Apps (Nitesh Jain)
Finding Your Next Amusement Park Ride with APIs (Raymond Camden)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Automate PDF Signing in .NET MAUI: Sign Once, Fill Everywhere (Deepak G.)

Visual Studio & .NET

Wolverine 4 is Bringing Multi-Tenancy to EF Core (Jeremy D. Miller)

AI

Creating an Azure AI Search service (David Giard)
🖼️✨ How to Use GPT-IMAGE-1 to Generate Images with C# and Azure OpenAI (Bruno Capuano)
Agentic AI: Powerful but Fragile — What You Need To Know (Howard Beader)
On Global Accessibility Day, we are committing to change powered by AI (Jill Armour)
The Model Context Protocol: Getting beneath the hype (Karrtik Iyer)
Vibing at Home (Mike Loukides)
Navigating the Blurred Lines Between Agents and AI Tools in Healthcare (Paul Swider)
Mistral Unveils Medium 3: Enterprise-Ready Language Model (Robert Krzaczyński)
Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? (Ryan Donovan)
AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era and Takeaways from Coding with AI (Tim O’Reilly)
Vibe Composing (Pt. 2) – The “boring” but exciting parts (Alberto Barnoy)
Box tightens Microsoft ties with new Copilot integration, builds out its own suite of AI agents (Todd Bishop)
AI Cheat Sheet for Job Hunting (David Neal)
Introducing Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python (Jia Chen, Rebecca Chen, Sam Goldman, David Luo, Kyle Into, Zeina Migeed, Neil Mitchell, Maggie Moss, Conner Nilsen, Aaron Pollack, Teddy Sudol, Steven Troxler, Lucian Wischik, Danny Yang & Sam Zhou)
AI for Developers: How To Start, What To Use and Why It Matters (Ankit Awasthi)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Expanding Continuous Improvement beyond Agile Practices (Ben Linders)
Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability (Donnie Prakoso)
Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity (Eric Olive)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New AI and accessibility updates across Android, Chrome and more (Angana Ghosh)
CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today (Apple)

Screencasts & Videos

GCast 194: Creating a Chatbot with the Question Answering feature of Azure Language Service (David Giard)
What’s my favorite .NET MAUI feature in .NET 9? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
If AI is so good at coding … where’s the open source? (Frank LaVigne)
Make Software Faster with VS Profiler & Copilot | Visual Studio (Nik Karpinsky)
MCP vs API: Simplifying AI Agent Integration with External Data | IBM Technology (Martin Keen)
Upgrade your SQL projects with confidence with DacpacVerify | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – .NET Web App Modernization Made Easy with Tomáš Herceg’s New Book and DotVVM (Jamie Taylor)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Courage to Question—Signs of a Healthy Agile Team| Simina Fodor (Vasco Duarte)
Observability in the CI/CD Pipeline with Adriana Villela – Adventures in DevOps Episode #240 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Kubernetes Podcast from Google – KubeCon EU 2025 (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
Reinventing Web Development with Brisa: A Conversation with Aral Roca – JavaScript Jabber Episode #677 (Charles Max Wood)
Meta Tech Podcast – Open-sourcing Pyrefly: A faster Python type checker written in Rust (Pascal Hartig, Maggie Moss, Rebecca Chen & Neil Mitchell)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS (Eira May)
The Breakpoint Show Episode #040 – Musings on .NET Open Source! (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
Software Defined Talk Episode #519 – This is a “hit by pitch” (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Join Us at Build 2025: Explore What’s New with Azure Managed Redis (Collin Brian)
Docker at Microsoft Build 2025: Where Secure Software Meets Intelligent Innovation (Melissa Sussmann)
Thinking of Joining the MVP Program? Hear What Makes It Special! (Alice Piras)
Microsoft Statement on the Issues Relating to Technology Services in Israel and Gaza (Microsoft)

Database

Is OUTPUT Broken In SQL Server? (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Accessibility, a year in review: Microsoft 365 Copilot support and better user experiences (Clint Covington)

PowerShell

Backup (NuGet) Packages for All Azure DevOps Organization Feeds with PowerShell (Nietras)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5912 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5409 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Week 5: Reflecting on Traits & Lifetimes Power and Pain (Chris Woodruff)
How do I force RunOnce commands to run in a specific order? (Raymond Chen)
Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust! (Rust Release Team)
Microsoft’s simplified Surface lineup puts another device on the chopping block (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Abbey Normal Tech – First (Abbey Perini)
Daily Reading List – May 15, 2025 (#553) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development: Build high-performance apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using XAML and Blazor with .NET 8 (Roger Ye) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – April 23, 2025 (#4405)

I’m back! Apologies if I missed any posts from the past week. I picked a few each day while I was away. Back to regular service tomorrow. Smile

Top Links

Join the .NET & C# Teams at Microsoft Build 2025 (.NET Team)
Windows App SDK 1.8.0 Experimental 1 (1.8.250410001-experimental1) 🧪 Release (Roy MacLachlan)
Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions (Matt Soucoup)
React Compiler RC (Lauren Tan & Mofei Zhang)
GitHub Copilot Highlights in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 (Available Now) (Katie Savage)
New Windows Arm64 Hosted Runners for GitHub Actions Accelerates Developer Workflows (David Whaley)
Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available (Jordan Matthiesen)
Syncfusion’s Free Tools Every Developer Should Know (Meena Alagiah)
Better Logic For Showing Auth Windows With Your Local MCP Server (Den Delimarsky)
Introducing the Azure MCP Server (Rohit Ganguly)
Toolbox Support for Explicit Assembly References in Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer (Merrie McGaw)

Web & Cloud Development

Secure Remote MCP Servers With Entra ID And Azure API Management (Den Delimarsky)
Using Azure Container Apps to Handle Memory Intensive Blazor UI (Michael Washington)
Getting Started with WhatsApp Messaging in Azure Communication Services feat. Microsoft Software Engineer Gloria Li (ACS Team)
Blazor Basics: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) with Blazor WebAssembly (Claudio Bernasconi)
Implement client assertions for OAuth client credential flows in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
Getting Started with .NET on Azure Container Apps (Frank Boucher)
Astro 5.7 (Matt Kane, Florian Lefebvre, Emanuele Stoppa & Nate Moore)
Using YARP as BFF within .NET Aspire: Integrating YARP into .NET Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
Major Updates to VS Code Docker: Introducing Container Tools (fiveisprime)
Speed Up React Development Using 39 New UI Blocks in Syncfusion’s UI Kit (Meena Alagiah)
Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ: Introducing the enhanced Java Code Quality Analyzer! (Sameeksha Vaity)
Configuring ASP.NET Core Forwarded Headers Middleware (Tore Nestenius)
Understanding GraphQL in .NET: When and why to use it (Ali Hamza Ansari)
Announcing a New Release of the Auth0 OIDC Client for .NET (Andrea Chiarelli)
NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders 1.0.0 has been released (Andrew Lock)
What’s New in .NET Aspire 9.2: Infrastructure Diagrams Made Easy (funkysi1701)
How the Copilot team leverages .NET Aspire (Katie Savage)
Contextual logging with console.context() (Patrick Brosset)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Using MVVM Toolkit in .NET MAUI Applications (Héctor Pérez)
CodeRush for Roslyn: XAML support (Rory Becker)
Build an AI-Powered Air Quality Dashboard: Real-Time Analytics & Predictive Insights with WPF Spline Chart (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)
WPF in .NET 9.0: Hyphen-based Ligatures (Thomas Claudius Huber)
.NET MAUI in .NET 10 Preview: A Focus on Quality and the Developer Experience (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
Get Started with AI imaging in the Windows App SDK (Microsoft Learn)

Visual Studio & .NET

Nadaraya-Watson Kernel Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
How to Export XML to Excel in 3 Easy Steps using C#? (Mohan Chandran)
ReSharper 2025.1: Initial C# 14 Support, Performance Updates, and Comprehensive Quality-of-Life Enhancements and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2025.1 Have Arrived! and Rider 2025.1 Is Here: Improved Solution Explorer, New AI Assistant Features, Game Dev Updates, and More! (Oluwatise Okuwobi)
CodeRush for Visual Studio – New Options Layers (Rory Becker)
Use EF Core to easily save dates as UTC & show in local time (David Grace)
C# 13 – Discover the C# 13 new features in this two-part series (Tom Deseyn)
JetBrains Toolbox App 2.6 Is Here With Remote Development Support (Aleksandra Krupskaya)
CSLA 2-tier Data Portal Behavior History (Rocky Lhotka)
Extensions get an update in .NET 10 (Steven Giesel)
The Fastest Way to Get a String’s Length in Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)
Mastering xUnit v3: What’s New and How to Leverage It in Your .NET Projects (Eli Lopian)
Introducing Incrementalist, an Incremental .NET Build Tool for Large Solutions (Aaron Stannard)
AutoMapper and MediatR Licensing Update (Jimmy Bogard)
Why It’s Time to Migrate from System.Data.SqlClient to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (pskountrianos)
The Strong ARM of .NET: Wrestling with x64 and Arm64 Desktop App Deployment (Rick Strahl)

AI

Multiagent Research – An exploration of using multiple agents collaborating to perform research (Jennifer Marsman)
Which AI model should I use with GitHub Copilot? (Cassidy Williams)
Integrate Custom Azure AI Agents with Copilot Studio and M365 Copilot (Hannah Abbott)
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro arrives in JetBrains AI Assistant (Oksana Mandryka)
o3 and o4-mini: Unlock enterprise agent workflows with next-level reasoning AI with Azure AI Foundry and GitHub (Steve Sweetman)
Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash (Tulsee Doshi)
.NET AI Chat Web App Template Preview 2 Released with Qdrant and .NET Aspire Support (Almir Vuk)
GitHub Models in GitHub Actions (Peli de Halleux)
Geometric Deep Learning: AI Beyond Text & Images (Exxact Team)
Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI (Anthony Ha)
Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS? (EditorDavid)
Semantic Kernel adds Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Python (Eduard van Valkenburg)
Semantic Kernel Python Now Speaks Google’s A2A Protocol and Integrating Semantic Kernel Python with Google’s A2A Protocol (Evan Mattson)
Making AI smarter with an MCP server that manages short URLs (Frank Boucher)
The Auth0 MCP Server is here! (Jessica Temporal)
Augmented Coding: an Experience Report (Jessica Kerr)
College students in the U.S. are now eligible for the best of Google AI — and 2 TB storage — for free (Josh Woodward)
Mastering GitHub Copilot: Your Ultimate Guide to the AI-Powered Coding Revolution (Kunal Chowdhury)
How AI Is Reshaping the Software Development Life Cycle (Lee Faus)
OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B (Marina Temkin)
A specialty-specific approach with Microsoft Dragon Copilot (Marjorie Veihl)
If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs? (Mark Downie)
AI Isn’t Just a Tool — It’s Your Newest Teammate (Munish Munagala)
Technical debt and AI slop (Seth Godin)
AI Agents: The Multi-Agent Design Pattern – Part 8 (Shivam Goyal)
Build an AI App That Can Browse the Internet Using Microsoft’s Playwright MCP Server & Semantic Kernel — in Just 4 Steps (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Akshay Kokane)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Azure Boards + GitHub: Recent Updates (Dan Hellem)
Open Source and Container Security Are Fundamentally Broken (Benji Kalman)
Securing our future: April 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (Charlie Bell)
Dev Mode – Easily turn dev mode on and off (Daniel Roe)
How to Write Actionable Bug Reports (Chris Sells)
How to make your images in Markdown on GitHub adjust for dark mode and light mode (Cassidy Williams)
Lost In Translation Or Where do bugs come from? (Gil Zilberfeld)
When to choose GitHub-Hosted runners or self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions (Ken Muse)
Racing into 2025 with new GitHub Innovation Graph data (Kevin Xu)
Understanding Microservices: Core Concepts and Benefits (Milan Jovanović)
CI/CD Security Best Practices (Olga Bedrina)
Cleaning up gone branches (Phil Haack)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Ensure your Firebase Cloud Messaging notifications reach your users on Android (Sumit Chandel & Alice Yuan)
Firebase Studio: Everything You Need to Know About (Vladislav Guzey)
Flutter Developers, Meet AI: Smart, Fast PDF Form Filling (Deepak G)
How to build a home recording studio with Raspberry Pi 500: choosing your equipment (K. G. Orphanides)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Adi Polak on AI Agents and the Necessary Data Infrastructure (David Giard)
A Year in Review: Microsoft’s Latest CMake Improvements in Visual Studio and VS Code | Pure Virtual C++ (Visual Studio Team)
Code Cleanup in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Shawn Wildermuth)
Upskill your team on Azure Databricks with an on-demand webinar and Microsoft Learn (Anavi Nahar)
Introduction to the C# SDK for Model Context Protocol (MCP) (James Montemagno)
.NET 10 Preview 3 – Extension Properties & Null-Conditional Assignment for C# 14! (.NET Team)
.NET Conf: Focus on Modernization – Day 1 (.NET Team)
Responsible AI & Synthetic Data with April Speight, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Intro to .NET Aspire – Modern app development doesn’t have to be painful | Future Tech 2025 (Maddy Montaquila)
Scott & Mark Learn To… ShaderGlass and Vibe Coding (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – Google Gemini in .NET: The Ultimate Guide with Jochen Kirstaetter (Jamie Taylor)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Computer Science for Kids with Jen Looper (Scott Hanselman)
Merge Conflict – A chat with Larry Osterman on Microsoft’s Transformation, AI, & Interviewing (James Montemagno)
Merge Conflict #459 – Red Robin’s Auto Scaling Problems (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell Podcast Summit sessions with Adam Rivera, Asmar Fontenot, & Luis Orta (James Petty)
RunAs Radio Episode #980 – How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes (Richard Campbell)
.NET Rocks! – Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Dev Leader Podcast – Psychology To Software Engineering – Interview With Sofia Sarhiri (Nick Cosentino)
April Yoho: GitHub in 2025 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #346 (Jeffrey Palermo)
The Cloud Pod Episode #300 – The Next Chapter: How Google’s Next-Level Next Event Nexted All Our Next Expectations – and What’s Next Now That Next Is Past (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)

Community & Events

Microsoft targets ‘low performers’ in a sensational new memo (FE Business)
Return-to-Office Policies Are Impacting Neurodivergent Workers (EditorDavid)
Pure Virtual C++ 2025: Full Schedule (Sy Brand)
CFPB workers are receiving mass layoff notices (Lauren Feiner)
A New Form of Verification on Bluesky (Bluesky Team)
Cracking the code: How to wow the acceptance committee at your next tech event (Rachel Cohen)
Over 700 events and protests across the US mark ‘A National Day of Action’ (Wes Davis)
Join us at Microsoft’s campus for the Ultimate Partner LIVE event! (susantommy)
Microsoft Implements Stricter Performance Management System With Two-Year Rehire Ban (msmash)

Database

Your SQL Server Needs Spring Cleaning, Too. (Brent Ozar)
All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Temporary Object Performance (Erik Darling)
Exploring the SQL Server CHOOSE Function (Louis Davidson)
Announcing the Release of SSMS 21 Preview 6 (M. Barickman)
Streamlining SQL Server Upgrades with SSMS Migration component (neelball)
Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Preview) (Shreya Aithal)
Introduction to SQL Commands, Part 2: Adding, Updating Data (Brien Posey)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Boost your Microsoft Teams Skills with our Last Chance Offer for Microsoft 365 Conference (Karuana Gatimu)
Introducing the Microsoft Graph API usage report (Jeremy Kelley)
Microsoft 365 Copilot Power User Tips (Zachary Cavanell)
Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Krishna Mawani)

PowerShell & Terminal

PowerShell Universal v5.5 and Creating Dynamic Forms with Dynamic Parameters in PowerShell Universal (Adam Driscoll)
Docker x Warp (Olivia Johnston)

Miscellaneous

Get started with quick machine recovery in Windows (Riddhi Ameser)
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs (Timothy W. Ryback)
Shein and Temu to raise prices for US shoppers in response to tariffs (Aisha Malik)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5562 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3872 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
8 Free Career Development Courses From LinkedIn – Offer Ends May 7 (Aminu Abdullahi)
WD Launches HDD Recycling Process That Reclaims Rare Earth Elements, Cuts Out China (BeauHD)
Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5261 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
Text extractor in Snipping Tool begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
Notion Mail is a minimalist but powerful take on email (David Pierce)
The Bees Are Disappearing Again (EditorDavid)
In Major Ruling, Judge Finds Google ‘Willfully Acquired and Maintained Monopoly Power’ Over Digital Ad Market (J.R. Johnivan)
Hertz says hackers stole customer credit card and driver’s license data (Jess Weatherbed)
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border (Lily Hay Newman & Matt Burgess)
The ongoing story of seconds on the taskbar (Raymond Chen)

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Interesting links of the week 2025-17 (Michael Eaton)
AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025) (Channy Yun)
F# Weekly #16, 2025 – Rider 2025.1 & SqlHydra 3 (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #644 and Reading Notes #645 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

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