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Dew Drop – July 3, 2025 (#4452)

Top Links

Local AI + .NET = AltText Magic in One C# Script (Bruno Capuano)
Migrating Uno Platform Applications from Native to Skia (Uno Platform Team)
Color Selection Made Easy Now: Meet the New .NET MAUI Color Picker (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
5 ways to transform your workflow using GitHub Copilot and MCP (Klint Finley)
.NET Rocks! – Thinking Agentic AI with Seth Juarez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Introducing the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo (Matt Soucoup & Aaron Powell)

Web & Cloud Development

The Angular Custom Profiling Track is now available (Angular Team)
Azure SDK Release (June 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
Deno 2.4: deno bundle is back (Andy Jiang)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Build a Real-Time Cloud Monitoring Dashboard Using WPF Charts (Tinesh Kumar Sivakumar)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

Giving Copilot Agent in Visual Studio a try (Bart Wullems)
Unintended yet somehow entirely expected consequences of marking a COM interface as local (Raymond Chen)
AutoMapper and MediatR Commercial Editions Launch Today (Jimmy Bogard)

AI

Build AI-Ready Apps and Agents with PostgreSQL on Azure (iemejia)
Building secure, scalable AI in the cloud with Microsoft Azure (Maria Bledsoe)
Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary (Dmitry Kobak, Rita González-Márquez, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát & Jan Lause)
GenAIScript – Continuous Markdown Translations (Peli de Halleux)
Refactor Legacy Code Faster with GitHub Copilot (Copilot That Jawn)
AI Coding Tools Create More Bugs Than They Fix (Darryl K. Taft)
Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail (Jess Weatherbed)
Responsible AI and the Evolution of AI Security (Konstantinos Passadis)
The Great Copilot Journey: Now Available through Power Automate (Kristin Ginn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Why Organizations Need Expert Generalists (Martin Fowler)
Bringing architecture to life with Firebase Studio (Romy El Sayah)
Testing custom events with Playwright (Chris Ferdinandi)
Why Quality Code Matters and How To Achieve It (Liz Acosta)
Using Gordon to Containerize Your Apps and Work with Containers (Steve Buchanan)
Driving Content Delivery Efficiency Through Classifying Cache Misses (Vipul Marlecha, Lara Deek & Thiara Ortiz)

Screencasts & Videos

Can Copilot REALLY Build My Blazor Website for Me? (Nick Cosentino)
Get started with C# & .NET Development in Visual Studio and Is developing for Linux on Windows feasible? | One Dev Question (Scott Hanselman)
.NET AI Community Standup – AI in .NET: What’s New, What’s Next (.NET Team)
Keynote: CTRL+SHIFT+(BUILD) PAUSE – NDC Oslo 2025 (Laila Bougria)
Gemini CLI: The AI Secret Google Kept From Developers (Until NOW!) 🤯 (Codepur)
How Microsoft Engineers Build AI: Building and Evaluating Agents (Frank Boucher, Aditya Challapally & Emmanuel Barajas Gonzales)
Model Mondays S2E03 – AMA on SLMs and Reasoning (Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D)

Podcasts

Developer Tea – Your System is Perfectly Designed for Your Current Outcomes (Jonathan Cutrell)
The Changelog Podcast Episode #648 – Agent, take the wheel (Thorsten Ball, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – One-on-One Insights—Building Change Strategy Through Individual Conversations | Bernard Agrest (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast Episode #916 – I got fired, what should I focus on? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Talk Python to Me #512 – Building a JIT Compiler for CPython (Michael Kennedy)
Grammar Girl Podcast – The surprising history (and politics) of emoji, with Keith Houston (Mignon Fogarty)
Practical AI Podcast Episode #319 – Finding Nemotron (Joey Conway & Chris Benson)

Community & Events

Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts and Microsoft cancels its Perfect Dark and Everwild Xbox games (Jay Peters)
Register today for the Microsoft Entra Suite Summer Camp (kamurphy)
PASS Summit on Tour in New York City (Steve Jones)
Microsoft cuts another 4% of its workforce, about 9,000 jobs, in continued efficiency push and Microsoft cuts 830 jobs in Washington state — less than 10% of latest global layoffs (Todd Bishop)
Phil Spencer isn’t retiring as the chief of Xbox ‘anytime soon’ (Tom Warren)

Database

PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 5: Understanding Wait Analysis (Kellyn Gorman)
SQL Server Errorlog: Not Just for Errors! (Kevin3NF)
10 Essential Things to Know Before Diving into Database DevOps (Graeme Lilly)
Boost your MySQL apps: why enterprises are migrating MySQL databases to Azure (TELAWRENCE)
Running high-performance PostgreSQL on Azure Kubernetes Service (Qi Ke)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Keeping Up with Microsoft 365 Copilot Changes (Michael Gannotti)

Miscellaneous

Google Undercounts Its Carbon Emissions, Report Finds (msmash)
Paramount agrees to pay $16m “bribe” to Trump (Rob Beschizza)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – July 2, 2025 (#580) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #231 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Becoming a C++ and Unreal Game Developer Humble Bundle of Video Learning Courses (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 2, 2025 (#4451)

Top Links

Uno Chefs Walkthrough – Login Page (Steve Bilogan)
RunAs Radio Episode #991 – More Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich (Richard Campbell)
How To Get Better AI Reponses from GitHub Copilot in Seconds! (James Montemagno)
Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.92 with new features for many modules (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
ASP.NET Community Standup – Behind the Scenes: Building the .NET Aspire Dashboard (Daniel Roth & James Newton-King)
Join us for MCP Dev Days – July 29-30 (Katie Savage & Marc Baiza)

Web & Cloud Development

Step Up Challenges for ASP.NET Core Client Apps with Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Local Friendly .NET Aspire – Modeling your local environment (Victor Frye)
Generating colors with the CSS oklch() function (Chris Ferdinandi)
Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect with Keycloak to implement Level of Authentication (LoA) requirements (Damien Bowden)
Create a color contrast checker with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Esther Vaati)
Visualize Wind Direction Like Never Before Using React Radar Charts (Swetha Babu)
Simplify development with public ports in Firebase Studio (Chandra Sekhar Pydi)
ESLint v9.30.1 released (Francesco Trotta)
Beginner’s Guide to Cloud Cybersecurity (Beau Carnes)
Creating a Website with Sphinx and Markdown (Mike Driscoll)
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable (Patrick Brosset)
What’s new in Microsoft Entra – June 2025 (Shobhit Sahay)
Angular’s New Assignment Operators in Templates (Netanel Basal)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI 9.0.81 (Service Release 8.1) (David Ortinau)
Using C# Markup to Create Graphical Interfaces in .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

How to artificially create a non-yielding scheduler scenario using WinDbg (Joseph Pilov)
.NET Collections (Ricardo Peres)

AI

The Docker MCP Catalog: the Secure Way to Discover and Run MCP Servers (Nuno Coracao)
Building Safe, AI-Powered Data Resilience with Veeam and Azure AI Foundry (Sara Kandil)
What’s Hot in Unit Testing & Mocking for 2025: AI, LLMs & Deep Isolation (Eli Lopian)
Let’s Learn – MCP Events: A Beginner’s Guide to the Model Context Protocol (Katie Savage)
The Claude Code Playbook: 5 Tips Worth $1000s in Productivity (Marcelo Bairros)
Pondering About Using AI for Coding (Shawn Wildermuth)
No-code personal agents, powered by GPT-4.1 and Realtime API (OpenAI Team)
Collaborative Coding and Generative AI: The Future of Code Pairing (Ashis Chowdhury)
Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code? (Austin Parker)
Supercharging On-Device AI: Foundry Local + Semantic Kernel (Bart Wullems)
How to convert code with GitHub Copilot, can AI really help? (Frank Boucher)
Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025 (Jennifer Riggins)
Why the Model Is the Wrong Starting Point for AI Apps (Loraine Lawson)
Here’s what AI-native engineers are doing differently than you (Richard Seroter)
Productivity, AI and pushback (Seth Godin)
Gemini in Google Workspace: Your New AI-Powered Collaborator (SitePoint)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Writing Testable Code is More Important Than Unit Tests (Chris Pietschmann)
Expert Generalists need specialists (and LLMs) (Martin Fowler)
Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Software Architecture vs Software Design (Davide Bellone)
Understand your software’s supply chain with GitHub’s dependency graph (Andrea Griffiths)
From idea to PR: A guide to GitHub Copilot’s agentic workflows (Chris Reddington)
When Your Source of Truth is Reality (Dan Lew)
The sizzle reel that says things that nobody understands (Raymond Chen)
UX Chronicles: The Office That Time Forgot – Why Microsoft Must Rethink User Experience Now (David McCarter)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

DirectStorage 1.3 is now available (Clarke Rahrig)

Screencasts & Videos

Warp x Anthropic: Supercharge your development with Warp & Claude 4 (Warp Team)
Chill coding and chat | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Developer Happiness and Why it Matters – NDC Melbourne 2025 (Damian Brady)
Using agent mode to improve a retro game | Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
End-to-end development with GitHub Copilot + MCP server | Full Workflow Demo (GitHub Team)
Common AI Architectures (Matt Eland)
Design by numbers, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)

Podcasts

Leading the Shift Podcast – Unpacking data governance and stewardship in the age of AI | GovLab (Stefaan Verhulst & Susan Etlinger)
Meta Tech Podcast Episode #76 – An inside look at Meta’s transition from C to Rust on mobile (Elaine W., Buping W. & Pascal Hartig)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Avoiding Hard Conversations—When High-Performing Agile Teams Self-Destruct | Bernard Agrest (Vasco Duarte)
PPP 467 | This Is What No One Tells You About Becoming a Boss, with author Sabina Nawaz (Andy Kaufman)
Made by Google Podcast Season 7, Episode #6 – Note-worthy AI: Unpacking NotebookLM (Rachid Finge)
The AI Fix Episode #57 – AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
Software Engineering Radio Episode #675 – Brian Demers on Observability into the Toolchain (Giovanni Asproni)

Community & Events

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Database Community? July 2025 Edition (Brent Ozar)
Figma moves closer to a blockbuster IPO that could raise $1.5B (Julie Bort)
Next-gen battery materials manufacturer Group14 lays off workers in Washington state (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1 Preview 2 (David Engel)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint is Generally Available (Jose Barreto)
Introducing Copilot Notebooks: A whole new way to work with AI in OneNote (Gokul Subramaniam)

PowerShell

Building a Windows Storage Dashboard, Part 3 (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

A Microsoft engineer made a Linux distro that’s like a comfort blanket to ex-Windows users — I finally tried it, and I’m surprised how good it is (Richard Devine)
How open is macOS, really? (Alan Mendelevich)
AMC Warns Moviegoers To Expect ’25-30 Minutes’ of Ads and Trailers (BeauHD)
Nothing’s New Phone (3) and Headphone (1) Look Nothing Like You’ve Seen Before (Julian Chokkattu & Parker Hall)
The GOP’s big spending bill could kill renewable energy projects (Justine Calma)
New to coding? Resources to help children learn to code (Lou Loxley)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – July 1, 2025 (#579) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #230 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

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

Dew Drop – June 30, 2025 (#4449)

Top Links

Get ready for Windows 11, version 25H2 (Jason Leznek)
Jimmy Bogard: MediatR & AutoMapper – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #356 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Building an Easy Private AI Assistant with Goose and Docker Model Runner (Oleg Selajev)
ReSharper and Rider 2025.1.4: Another Set of Bug-fixes Released (Sasha Ivanova)
Technology & Friends – Jerry Nixon on SQL Server Extension for VS Code (David Giard)
Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs: Unlocking enterprise knowledge for AI with the Retrieval API — Now in Public Preview (Zakiullah Khan)

Web & Cloud Development

Creating a Blazor Aspire Local AI Chat Bot (Michael Washington)
Electron 37.0.0 (George Xu & Keeley Hammond)
CSS Blob Recipes (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
What’s New in Blazor 2025 Volume 2 – 99% Faster Performance + Revolutionary Spreadsheet Component (Rajendran R.)
How to inject services in ASP.NET Core dependency injection (David Grace)
JavaScript™ Trademark Update (Ryan Dahl)
Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript (JavaScript Community)
Enhance Formatting Efficiency with Format Painter in Vue Rich Text Editor (Thangavel E.)
Using Azure API Management as a proxy for Application Insights Telemetry (Todd Foust)
ASP.NET Core MVC Controller vs. minimal API vs. FastEndpoints — What’s the Best for Performance? (Denis Makarenko)
ESLint v9.30.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
Adding Audio Effects to Dynamic Websites (Jonathan Gamble)

Visual Studio & .NET

Day 13: Configuring the Genetic Algorithm Loop in C# (Chris Woodruff)
.NET 10 Preview 5 Brings Blazor Observability, XAML Simplification and More (Almir Vuk)
Design Patterns Guide in .NET Using C# -Part II: Real-Time Project-Enterprise Notification System (Bhargava Koya)
Monitor your A/B test in .NET (Bart Wullems)
Testcontainers Best Practices for .NET Integration Testing (Milan Jovanović)
Why do I get errors or warnings about some weird symbol called ?main@@YAHP$01E$AAV?$Array@PE$AAVString@Platform…, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Mastering Method Returns with Spargine’s SimpleResult Type (David McCarter)

AI

What Every AI Engineer Should Know About A2A, MCP & ACP (Edwin Lisowski)
Large Language Models: A Survey (Shervin Minaee, Tomas Mikolov, Narjes Nikzad, Meysam Chenaghlu, Richard Socher, Xavier Amatriain & Jianfeng Gao)
Microsoft Internal Memo: ‘Using AI Is No Longer Optional.’ (Business Insider) – paywalled
The Ultimate Copilot Marketing Playbook: Templates, Prompts & Strategies (Copilot That Jawn)
Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers (Tom Johnson)
Telephony MCP Server for Agentic AI and Language Models (Atique Khan)
MCP For Beginners Course (I Programmer)
Finding inspiration for good custom instructions for GitHub Copilot (Bart Wullems)
Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features (BeauHD)
Testing OpenAI Codex and Comparing It to Claude Code (David Eastman)
People Are Being Committed After Spiraling Into ‘ChatGPT Psychosis’ (EditorDavid)
Context Engineering (Eleanor Berger)
Why AI Works in Isolation But Fails at Scale (LeadingAgile Team)
OWASP Launches AI Testing Guide to Address Security, Bias, and Risk in AI Systems (Robert Krzaczyński)
A (very) brief history of LMMs (Stephen Roughley)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Sara Ford on Learning Agile at Microsoft (JD Meier)
Understanding the OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model: A Practical Guide for Modern Engineering Teams (Shannon Kuehn)
GitHub Advisory Database by the numbers: Known security vulnerabilities and what you can do about them (Jonathan Evans)
Adding test description for data-driven tests in xUnit (Steven Giesel)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

How to Use Local Notifications in Flutter – A Tutorial for Beginners (Atuoha Anthony)
Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 available now at $4 (Eben Upton)
Game using Assets made MILLIONS, and Why did Unity make a Game? (Code Monkey)
Google Previews Gemini’s Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal (Sergio De Simone)
MonoGame v3.8.5-develop.1 Pre-Release (Dominique Louis)

Screencasts & Videos

Wait… Who’s the New CEO of Commodore?! • Let’s Buy Commodore Part 2 (Retro Recipes x Commodore)
Supercharge Your APIs – Expose REST APIs as MCP Servers with Azure API Management (Julia Kasper)
How are Azure services versioned? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)
Master Local Async Lambda Development with .NET Aspire and Adding custom resource commands to .NET Aspire (James Eastham)
Build a Simple MCP Server & Client in C# and .NET (Hassan Rezk Habib)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 267 – Creepy Assistant (How to use GenAI chatbots the right way!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
AspiriFridays – James Montemagno + Feedback Flow (.NET Aspire Team)
Random.Code() – Creating a Code Fix for IsNullOrWhitespace() (Jason Bock)
The 4 Stages Of Being A Software Dev (Frank LaVigne)

Podcasts

freeCodeCamp Podcast #176 – Rust VS Go VS TypeScript which back end language is for you with Tai Groot (Beau Carnes)
InfoQ Podcast – From Code to Strategy: Drive Organizational Impact Through Strategic Conversations and User Focus (Mark Allen)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Dave Barry is the Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass (Scott Hanselman)
Lenny’s Podcast – Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding) (Lenny Rachitsky)
React Native Radio Episode #336 – RLRN: Building Boca Socios with Solito ft. Nahue Alberti (Nahue Alberti & Mazen Chami)
AGL 423: Nate Dinet, The Step Manager (John Rouda)
PPP 466 | 12 Tools Every Leader Needs to Navigate Difficult Bosses, with Josefine Campbell (Andy Kaufman)
Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #99 – Let’s build something phoenix.new (Chris McCord, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
The Real Python Podcast Episode #255 – Structuring Python Scripts & Exciting Non-LLM Software Trends (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
The Changelog Podcast Episode #647 – When vibe coding goes viral (Chris Anderson, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Meta Cast – The Blueprint for Storytelling That Actually Works (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer: Mentorship, Certification, and the Realities of Teaching Tech (Alec Harrison)
Practical AI Podcast – AI hot takes and debates: Autonomy (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business Case Ownership—The Product Owner’s Core Duty | Lilia Pulova (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

Discord event: GenAI fundamentals (Oren Eini)
Vonage CodeConnect: Register for the New Developer Event Series (Clarisse Ng)
Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI (Anthony Ha)
Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’ (Julie Bort & Marina Temkin)
Register today for the Microsoft Entra Suite Summer Camp (kamurphy)
Read Google’s 10th annual Environmental Report (Kate Brandt)
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries (Chris Freeland)
Brazil Supreme Court Rules Digital Platforms Are Liable For Users’ Posts (msmash)
Why We Still Need Pride: A Celebration and a Protest (Steve Foreshew-Cain)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

How Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents help tackle the infinite workday (Colette Stallbaumer)
Upcoming in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Apps Pinning (Michael Gannotti)

PowerShell

Important Update: AzureAD PowerShell retirement (krbash)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 version 25H2 is coming soon — will install much faster than version 24H2 (Zac Bowden)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4520 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5670 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
How To Set up MacOS as a Development Machine (Jack Wallen)
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could mean slower Wi-Fi for you (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)
A policy to remove Windows apps… (Michael Niehaus)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – June 27, 2025 (#577) (Richard Seroter)
F# Weekly #26, 2025 – Sprout: BDD Testing for F# (Sergey Tihon)
Azure Weekly #521 – 29th June 2025 (The Editor)
The .NET News Daily Issue #228 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

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