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Dew Drop – January 7, 2025 (#4336)

Top Links

AI for Developers (Microsoft Developer Team) – The developer home for Microsoft AI resources has been refreshed
Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the Visual Studio profiler (Harshada Hole)
CES 2025: The year of the Windows 11 PC refresh (Yusuf Mehdi)
Metalama 2025.0 Generally Available: Support for C# 13 and .NET 9, Aspect Framework Improvements, and More (Gael Fraiteur)
Introducing the New Angular Chat UI Component (Indrajith Srinivasan)
Scott & Mark Learn To… Find Joy in Hobbies (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Coming Wednesday, Jan 8th at 12:15pm EST

Web & Cloud Development

Upcoming CVE for End-of-Life Node.js Versions (Node.js Team)
ASP.NET Core 9: Discover the new developer Exception page (Anthony Giretti)
Critter Stack Roadmap for 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Azure Communication Services Email Configuration and Sending Emails (Koen Verbeeck)
Top 5 JavaScript Gantt Chart Libraries for 2025 (Mahalakshmi Karthikeyan)
How to Set Up Basic jQuery Form Validation in Two Minutes (Maria Antonietta Perna)
TIL: Kubernetes Auto-scaling and Requests vs Limits (Sean Killeen)
Build Locally, Deploy Globally: Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com (Wojtek Naruniec)
Deprecating Redundant Attributes in the Number Insight API (Max Kahan)
Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections to EPUB 3.3 and Draft Note: String Searching (W3C)
Getting ready for Tailwind v4.0 (Oscar Jite-Orimiono)
Microsoft Entra: Top 50 features of 2024 (Shobhit Sahay)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Customizing and Integrating Telerik Slider Control in .NET MAUI Projects (Héctor Pérez)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# Lists: What They Are and How to Use Them (Stackify Team)
What’s New in vcpkg (December 2024) (Augustin Popa)
.NET 9 upgrade–notnull constraint (Bart Wullems)
Routing and Topologies – Navigating the Digital Highways (Chris Woodruff)
Exploring CollectionsMarshal for Dictionary (Gérald Barré)
How can I tell whether a change to a control was due to the user or due to my program? (Raymond Chen)
Encapsulating rod-cutting (Mark Seemann)

AI

Using Azure AI Agent Service with AutoGen / Semantic Kernel to build a multi-agent’s solution (Kinfey Lo)
AI Killed the Content Creator…Star (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI (Andy Bell)
The Future of AI-Powered Applications Enabled by Couchbase (Part 2) (Matt Spillar)
RAG Deep Dive: 10-part live stream series (Pamela Fox)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Reducing PAT usage across Azure DevOps (Angel Wong)
GitHub Well-Architected Framework (GitHub Team)
Part 3: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (Rina Chang & Susie Lu)
Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale (Varun Khaitan)
Why it’s critical to get environment promotion right (Nikita Dergilev)
A guide to understanding program and product managers (Bartosz Jaworski)
Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector (Martin Thwaites)
Ultimate guide to CI/CD: Fundamentals to advanced implementation (Sandra Gittlen)
How to communicate efficiently at work (Prason)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon (Cassie Hoef)
Meta stops selling the Quest Pro (Wes Davis)
Google is Bringing Gemini to Google TV (Paul Thurrott)
Xbox and LG to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts & Videos

SharpSite – Open Source CMS with C# (Jeff Fritz)
Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 12 (Jason Bock)
New Copilot Features coming to Mac (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)

Podcasts

Merge Conflict #444 – Official Family IoT Tech Support (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
InfoQ Podcast: Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI (Susan Shu Chang)
Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/6 – Woah New Year? Re-introducing Azure Cloud Talk! (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
Syntax Podcast #865 – CSS Performance × Rate Limiting × Array Sort Behavior – STUMP’d (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #202 – What Every Engineering Leader Needs to Know About Multitasking with Dave Crenshaw | 2021 Top Episode Replay (Zach White)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Managing Change in Complex Organizational Cultures | Ellen Grove (Vasco Duarte)
CloudChat Episode #17 – The Source is with Us (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
The Changelog News Podcast #126 – 10 big predictions for 2025 (Jerod Santo)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #205 – Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality (Anton Chuvakin)
Only Malware in the Building Episode #8 – Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)

Community & Events

Open Source in 2025: What Will Matter Most This Year? (Amanda Brock)
The best stuff we’ve seen at CES so far (Andrew Liszewski)
How and why I deleted all my tweets (Bruce Lawson)
Python Is TIOBE Index Language Of The Year 2024 (Mike James)
Microsoft AI Tour NYC 2025: Redefining Innovation (Peter Smulovics)

Database

How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: IN and NOT IN (Erik Darling)
TOP vs. TOP PERCENT: Hidden Costs – SQL in Sixty Seconds 206 (Pinal Dave)
How to Find Outliers in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
SQL Server Linked Server Encryption for Network Traffic (Svetlana Golovko)
Azure SQL Database – Configure Job using Elastic Agents (Praveen Sreeram)
Create SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric and Integrate into Project (Olivier Van Steenlandt)
Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options (Steve Jones)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

New Unified Contacts in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, now generally available (Vivek Datir)
Enhance your productivity with Copilot in OneDrive (Kayla Patterson)

Miscellaneous

Disney To Merge Hulu + Live TV With Fubo (msmash)
Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-02 (Michael Eaton)
Daily Reading List – January 6, 2025 (#466) (Richard Seroter)
Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025) (Prasad Rao)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – January 5, 2023 (#3852)

Top Links

Create Project Planning and Resource Management Calendar in .NET MAUI (Jeyasri Murugan)
PowerShell, GraphQL, and SpaceX (Liam Cleary)
New Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy preview v0.3 with support for all APIs (Waldek Mastykarz and Garry Trinder)
Machine Learning in .NET with F# and ML.NET 2.0 (Matt Eland)
Debugger Text Visualizer (Mark Downie)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Introduce a UI Theme in Your React App (Hassan Djirdeh)
First Public Working Draft: Web Locks API (Xueyuan Jia)
Amazon Releases Fortuna, an Open-Source Library for ML Model Uncertainty Quantification (Daniel Dominguez)
Self-hosting Chromium extensions (Gérald Barré)
WebAssembly: 5 Predictions for 2023 (Matt Butcher)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Introducing the New .NET MAUI Funnel Charts (Saravanan Madheswaran)

Visual Studio & .NET

Challenge: what does this code print? (Oren Eini)
Why tuples in C# are not always a code smell (Dennis Fruhauff)
OpenTelemetry in .NET – Basic Usage With Examples (Code Maze)
Unifying Your UIs with Telerik Fluent Theme (Peter Vogel)
Using perfect (and imperfect) forwarding to simplify C++ wrapper classes (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Things I Learned #18: GitHub Actions on a Schedule (Michael Eaton)
Introduction to DevSecOps on Azure (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
Platform Engineer or Software Engineer? (Anirudh Menon)
A Guide To Getting Data Visualization Right (Sara Dholakia)
Introducing 15 Days of Postman: Test Challenge for API Testing Professionals (Joyce)
Feature Announcement: Volumes in the cloud (Lee Brandt)
Part 3: Architectural Cost Optimisation – Practical Design Steps for Architects and Developers (Shane Baldacchino)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Understanding stops property on LinearGradient in Flutter (Ansh Saini)

Screencasts & Videos

Armchair Architects: Architecture and Ambiguity (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
NPM package hell – How to avoid going insane with Brook Jeynes (SSW TV)
Coffee and Open Source – Jason Lengstorf (Isaac Levin)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Alice and Bob Learn App Security with Tanya Janca (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Developer Tea – Celebrating 8 Years – Plus, What it Feels Like to Be Wrong (Jonathan Cutrell)
Working Code Podcast – Episode 108: 2022 Year In Review (Ben Nadel)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 545: John deVadoss on Design Philosophies that Drive .NET/Azure (Nikhil Krishna)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to communicate uncertainty in Agile planning and in SAFe | Fred Deichler and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Remember the Future Agile Retrospective, prospecting for risks to prepare for | Fred Deichler (Vasco Duarte)
Complete Developer Podcast – Predictions 2023 (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
The Happy Engineer Podcast 081: The 6 Essential Core Values of Leadership with David Valentine | Marketing Madman and $$ Billion Dollar Leader (Kae Lynne Sapino)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Better developer experience through AI and open source (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

On the road: My year of conferences on Unity’s Diversity Recruiting team (Kaylynn Castleman)
Tech plays key role as Washington state launches ambitious programs to curb carbon emissions (Lisa Stiffler)
Amazon’s confirms its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees (Mitchell Clark)
The future of mobility is now: Five themes to watch at CES 2023 (Sanjay Ravi)
Things to Do for Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend 2023 in Greater Philadelphia (Visit Philly)

Database

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB V2 Connector for Power BI (Azure Team)
Getting Started with Azure Data Studio (Daniel Calbimonte)
Announcing Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link (public preview) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
Identify Unused Indexes across all Databases (Matthew McGiffen)
Getting your data in shape for machine learning (Tobias Kupek)

Miscellaneous

PostScript Source Code Released (Kay Ewbank)
New York City schools ban access to ChatGPT over fears of cheating and misinformation (James Vincent)
Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks (Jon Porter)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3617 (Chris Alcock)
The SQL Server Posts You Read the Most in 2022 (Brent Ozar)
.NET Annotated Monthly | January 2023 (Rachel Appel)
Daily Wrap Up – January 4, 2023 (#002) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Dew Drop – January 9, 2017 (#2399)

Top Links

MediatR Behaviors (Derek Comartin)
Ashley Grant on Aurelia (David Giard)
Microsoft – Kids Can Code!!! (Ed Price)
How to Build & Ship an App in a Week with Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)

Web Development

ASP.NET Core: Globalization and Localization (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
Provisioning Cloudant / CouchDB Databases From Auth0 For A Database-Per-User Architecture In Angular 2.4.1 and Associating Auth0 Rules With Specific Auth0 Clients In Angular 2.4.1 (Ben Nadel)
jQuery’s .fade() Method (Learning jQuery)
Optimizing App Loading Time With Angular 2 Lazy Loading (Stanimira Vlaeva)
Async HTTP API and service bus (Piotr Gankiewicz)
Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Azure Management Libraries for .NET (Brady Gaster)
Rapid Development of Intelligent Bot Using Azure Bot Service (Abhijit Jana)
Azure Region Pairs Explained (Chris Pietschmann)
Kanvas Announces SDK Suite for 3rd Party Creative Live Videos (Eric Carter)
Splunk and AWS: Monitoring & Metrics in a Serverless World (Kyle Champlin)
Build Callbacks With Stamplay, Twilio and Unbounce (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

Miscellaneous .NET

Smarter build scripts with MSBuild and .NET Core (Matthew Abbott)
Here’s how to detect whether an assembly is digitally signed (using C#) (Kunal Chowdhury)
Deconstruction In C# 7.0 (Mahesh Chand)
A C# Mission Launcher For Project Malmo Minecraft (Michael Washington)
What’s New in Entity Framework Core 1.1 (Ricardo Peres)
Sorting by indices, part 2: The Schwartzian transform (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum Myths: Does Velocity Equal Value? (Alex Ballarin)
VS Team Services Update – Jan 6 (Brian Harry)
How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (Camille Fournier)
How To Be A Time Lord: Time Management Techniques To Try (Dennis R. Mortensen)
Does X Make You Successful? (Jeremy Clark)
Benefits Of Git Rebase (Lee Richardson)
Book Review: Continuous Integration in .NET (Nathan Gloyn)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin Forms WebView Bindable Actions (Adam Pedley)
Introducing EasyLayout.Droid For Simpler Xamarin Android Layouts (Lee Richardson)
GitBit – Connecting GitHub and littleBits (Brady Gaster)
7 Tips for Mobile UI (Kratika Laalwani)
Display Cards for Alexa: A New Complementary Feature for Screen-Based Products (Ted Karczewski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

InfoQ Podcast: Neha Batra – Pivotal Labs Pair Programming (Neha Batra)
AAWP Insight #202: a BringCast special (Steve Litchfield)
Coding Blocks.NET Episode 53 – Clean Code – Programming around Boundaries (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
This Week on Windows: Countdown to Huge Savings, New Releases, and More | This Week On Windows (Camtomisser)
CodeNewbie Ep. 122 – The Ethics of Coding (Bill Sourour) (CodeNewbie Team)
Developer on Fire Episode 198 | Bryan Cantrill – Persistence and Action (Dave Rael)
The Amp Hour #330 – An Interview with Zach Fredin(Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
StarTalk Radio – Season 7 Time Capsule (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Windows Weekly 499: Air In, Noise Out (Paul Thurrott)
Away From the Keyboard Episode 56: The Family That Codes Together with Kathleen Dollard (Richie Rump)
Developer Tea – Understand Your Environment (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Around The World With MVPs: Lisbon (MVP Award Program)

Database

Miscellaneous

Mark Hamill has begun dubbing Donald Trump’s tweets as the Joker (Andrew Liptak)
All you need to know about YubiKey for Windows Hello and Windows 10 (Daniel Rubino)
More automakers choose Microsoft as their connected car partner (Gabriel Nunes)
Microsoft’s Connected Vehicle Platform is a more far-reaching approach than either Apple’s or Google’s (Kareem Anderson)
CES 2017: Intel Unveils a Credit Card-Sized Computer (Paul Thurrott)
Windows 10 Insider build 15002 leaks after being canceled this week (Zac Bowden)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-09 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2258 (Chris Alcock)
Welcome to 2017! Coming right up with the Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
Double Shot #1790 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #278 (Pedro Botelho)
Reading Notes #262 (Frank Boucher)
Last Week on Channel 9: January 2nd – January 8th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
Azure Weekly: Jan 9, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
GameDev Newsletter – Week Ending January 6, 2017 (Brian Peek)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #136 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #2, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Xamarin.Forms: Ed Snider: 9781785287190: Books

ISBN: 1785287192
ISBN-13: 9781785287190

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