mysql – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – September 18, 2025 (#4500)

Top Links

Getting the most out of MCP in Visual Studio with Prompts, Resources, and Sampling (Allie Barry & Praveen Sethuraman)
Windows App SDK Version 1.7.4 (1.7.250909003) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
What Android 16 KB Page Size Requirement Means for .NET Developers (Sam Basu)
Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad app updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
Prompt Files and Instructions Files Explained (Wendy Breiding)
Supercharge your workflow with real-time information from the Microsoft Learn MCP Server (Curtis Lee)

Web & Cloud Development

Using Visual Studio Code with Aspire and Blazor (Michael Washington)
Bandit-Driven Feature Flags in ASP.NET Core (with Azure ML) (Sudhir Mangla)
Top 10 Azure Mistakes and Pitfalls to Avoid (John Kilmister)
Windows 365 Cloud Apps are now in public preview (Serena Zheng)
Windows 365 brings resilient, AI-driven cloud productivity to more users (Stefan Kinnestrand)
Is it Time to Un-Sass? (Jeff Bridgforth)
Pure React Charts – High-Performance Native Charts for Large Datasets (Hemanathan Pandian)
Learning web development: Markdown (Axel Rauschmayer)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Visualize Your Music: Real-Time WPF Charts that Sync with Sound (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.)
WinUIEdit – Code editor control for UWP and WinUI 3 based on Scintilla (Breece Walker)
Windows App SDK 1.7.4 (1.7.250909003 ) (Roy MacLachlan)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

Morse Code Messages with C# (Bryan Hogan)
Presentation: Questioning Convention: C# as a Shortcut to Startup Velocity (Sam Cox)
.NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools (Almir Vuk)
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11012.119 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.15 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Day 34: Genetic Algorithms vs. Other Optimization Techniques: A Developer’s Perspective (Chris Woodruff)
Phobos 2.10: Game-Changing Akka.NET Cluster Monitoring and Actor Performance Dashboards (Aaron Stannard)
.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 Builds on Early Promise Seen in Preview Releases (Jon Hilton)
How can I get my shell thumbnail extractors to run in the same process? (Raymond Chen)

AI

Building AI Apps with the Foundry Local C# SDK (Sam Kemp)
Vibe Coding with an Agent and Twilio SMS (Amanda Lange)
AI Code Generation’s Unexpected Costs for Dev Teams (Vicki Walker)
Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering (Andrew Stellman)
How to Build Secure AI Coding Agents with Cerebras and Docker Compose (Oleg Selajev)
Public AI on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 (Joseph Low, Joshua Tan, Célina Hanouti, Julien Chaumond, Simon Brandeis & Lucain Pouget)
Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models (OpenAI Team)
Microsoft Copilot Studio Unleashed: Build Secure, Scalable AI Agents for Real Business Impact! (Jacques Guibert-DeBruet)
Build Multi‑Agent AI Systems with Microsoft (Lee Stott)
3 Mega Trends Shaping How Developers Build AI Agents – Especially VoiceAI (Milena Radivojević)
A Prompt AI Experiment (Steve Jones)
Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives (Terrence O’Brien)
A Guide to AI Data Management (Tyler Mitchell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Delivering Major Enhancements Without Writing Code: My Agentic DevOps Journey (AJ Bajada)
Migrating from XUnit v2 to v3–Troubleshooting (Bart Wullems)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 is Here (Matthew McCullough)
Raspberry Pi’s commitment to longevity: a sustainable advantage (Roger Thornton)
Android’s 16KB Page Size Explained: Flutter Migration Made Simple (Ravi Pai)
Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets (Emma Roth)
Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld (Tom Warren)
I regret to inform you Meta’s new smart glasses are the best I’ve ever tried (Victoria Song)

Screencasts & Videos

Build Smarter Agents with Azure AI Search | Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark, Farzad Sunavala & Lana Teh)
Choosing the right Virtual Machine on Azure | Microsoft Mechanics (Matt McSpirit)
VS Code & Friends (Eleanor Berger)
Random.Code() – Fixing Bugs (Once More) in Rocks (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

.NET Rocks! – Razor Tooling in Visual Studio 2026 with David Wengier (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Developer Tea – Forced and Unforced Errors (Jonathan Cutrell)
From AI Anxiety to AI Advantage: A Scrum Master’s Experimental Approach | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Shawn Dsouza)
The Changelog Podcast Episode #658 – Flowing with agents (Beyang Liu & Adam Stacoviak)
Yet Another Podcast – Scott Hunter (Jesse Liberty)
Grammar Girl Podcast – How algorithms are changing the meaning of words, with Adam Aleksic (Mignon Fogarty)
Syntax Podcast Episode #938 – Hot Takes + Bike Shedding (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #486 – Why Is Everyone Hiring A Social Media Person (Taylor Desseyn)

Community & Events

Xbox Game Camp alumni share their stories (Athima Chansanchai)
Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements (Emma Roth)
Tech Moves: Read AI adds product VP; Microsoft legal chief steps down; Marchex CEO is out; Truveta CMO departs (Taylor Soper)

Database

MySQL Basics: Into the Shell—Cracking Open Your Database Journey (Scott Stroz)
SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 (Attinder Pal Singh)
SQL Server 2025 RC1: faster DiskANN and FP16 support (Davide Mauri & Pooja Kamath)
Data Pipeline for IoT Data Ingestion to SQL Server 2025 (Hristo Hristov)
Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.3 (subhojitbasak)
MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Fabric Integration and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands (Public Preview) (Carlos Robles & Tauseef Siddique)
Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search (Artur Drozdz)
Event Enrichment in Marten Projections (Jeremy D. Miller)
Introducing new update policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance (Mladen Andzic)
Lend your voice to the State of the Database Landscape survey (Tony Davis)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Copilot-powered file previews coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS (samersaw)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files v4.0.11 (Files Team)
Stop struggling with Windows Search — try these 6 game‑changing alternatives (Mauro Huculak)
Firefox DNS privacy: Faster than ever, now on Android (Neha Kochar)
Apple’s future MacBook Pro might have a touchscreen (Jess Weatherbed)
Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels (msmash)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – September 17, 2025 (#629) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #286 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Blazor Web Development Cookbook: Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9 (Pawel Bazyluk) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – September 5, 2025 (#4491)

Top Links

Make Sense of Your Output Window with Copilot (Jessie Houghton)
Blazor Forms Made Easy: Advanced DataForm Layouts, Smart Validation & UX Tips (Prince Oliver)
Is A Shell All You Need? (Den Delimarsky)
Getting Started with the Blazor AI Prompt Component (Héctor Pérez)
The First Set of Updates and Fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2025.2 Is Out! (Sasha Ivanova)
On .NET Live – Hanselman, Unscripted (Scott Hanselman) – Coming up on Monday!

Web & Cloud Development

Using a Lock in a Web API Action Method (Bryan Hogan)
jQuery 4.0.0 Close To Release (Ian Elliot)
Fine-Grained Authorization in ASP.NET Core with Auth0 FGA (Andrea Chiarelli)
A CSS only time progress bar to use in markdown / GitHub Pages (Chris Heilmann)
Build Fast Angular Apps with SSG (Dany Paredes)
New Rust-Based Tool Installs Ruby in Seconds (Loraine Lawson)
Azure Native 3.8: Unified Credentials and Private Clouds (Eron Wright)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Windowing overview for WinUI and Windows App SDK (Microsoft Learn)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

dotnet actions: C# scripting to the rescue (Daniel Cazzulino)
From DOCX to Long-Term Archiving: Generating PDF/A from Office Documents in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
What’s New in vcpkg (August 2025) (Augustin Popa)
How to Export Excel Chart to Image in C#: PNG & JPEG Formats (Mohan Chandran)
How can I write a C++/WinRT IAsyncOperation where T is not a Windows Runtime type?, part 2 (Raymond Chen)

AI

Hybrid AI Isn’t the Future — It’s Here (and It Runs in Docker) (Ignasi Lopez Luna)
Agentic AI: The Next Leap in Intelligent Systems (Sagar Lad)
Welcome EmbeddingGemma, Google’s new efficient embedding model (Tom Aarsen, Joshua, Alvaro Bartolome, Aritra Roy Gasthipaty, Pedro Cuenca & Sergio Paniego)
Expanding economic opportunity with AI (OpenAI Team)
Introducing EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings (Min Choi, Sahil Dua & Alice Lisak)
Replit expands Google Cloud Collaboration with new Google Cloud Marketplace Listing (Replit Team)
How to Fine-Tune Large Language Models (Beau Carnes)
Focus on your end users when creating AI workloads (Bob Walker)
Build Custom Engine Agents in AI Foundry for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Chris Arendt)
Building smarter interactions with MCP elicitation: From clunky tool calls to seamless user experiences (Chris Reddington)
Using AI with .NET 10 Scripts: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons Learned (Frank Boucher)
DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan (Ivan Mehta)
The Future of AI: Creating a Web Application with Vibe Coding (Krishna Doss)
Don’t vibe code your backend: The hidden dangers of BaaS (Peter Aideloje)
Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses (Tom Warren)
From Zero to MCP: Simplifying AI Integrations with xmcp (Valentina Bearzotti)

Design, Methodology & Testing

New Test Run Hub in Azure Test Plans (Panagiotis Liaros)
Why rational humans make irrational decisions (Bart Wullems)
Some Best Practices for Writing Readable Automation Tests (Charlie Freestone)
Composing Data from Multiple Services (Derek Comartin)
5 Ways Static Code Analysis Can Improve Developer Experience (Kerry Beetge)
Prioritizing your backlog (Mark Downie)
A developer’s guide to building secure retail apps with GitLab (Rebeca Fenoy-Anthony)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Best practices for migrating users to passkeys with Credential Manager (Niharika Arora & Vinisha Athwani)
Improved Annotation Handling in Kotlin 2.2: Less Boilerplate, Fewer Surprises (Teodor Irkhin)

Screencasts & Videos

.NET MAUI Community Standup – Talking RC1, iPhone, and more (David Ortinau & Gerald Versluis)
dotnet run .cs, much better than writing scripts (Isaac Levin)
Everything Wrong With Developer Productivity Metrics with Adam Berry | Hangar DX Podcast (The Hangar)
Configure Windows Admin Center in the Azure Portal | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Let’s build some web apps! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Context engineering for AI agents | AI Agents for Beginners (Korey Stegared-Pace)
SQL database in Fabric – What’s new and improved in public preview? | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Idris Motiwala)

Podcasts

The Pixel Watch 4: From Design to Wear Made by Google Podcast S8E3 (Rachid Finge)
InfoQ Podcast: The Evolution of Code Review: From Bug-Finding to Team Building (Greg Foster)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Ultimate Home Arcade with Polycade’s Tyler Bushnell (Scott Hanselman)
Fear-Free Teams—Creating Psychological Safety for High Performance | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mariano Gontcher)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Kotlin is more than just the Android house language (Phoebe Sajor)
The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #180 – Gaming Development Demystified (Matheus Guimaraes)
AGL 433: Pam Buchanan (John Rouda)
Generative AI in the Real World: Luke Wroblewski on When Databases Talk Agent-Speak (Ben Lorica & Luke Wroblewski)
Software Defined Talk Episode #536 – My search engine couldn’t help me (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

JetBrains JavaScript Day 2025 Registration Is Now Open (Aleksandra Aganezova)
Submit your ideas for Interop 2026 (Jen Simmons)
Microsoft and PASS Summit are going on tour! (Govanna)
Igniting Leadership Fire: Heartfelt Lessons from our Kenya Leaders (Jaclyn Vidusic)
Calling for Interop 2026 proposals (Patrick Brosset)

Database

Announcing the Oracle Database Vector Store Connector for Semantic Kernel (Alex Keh)
Coming Soon: More SSMS 21 Updates and SSMS 22 Preview! (M. Barickman)
August 2025 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Gauri Kasar)
Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates – September 2025 (James Hemson)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Writing Bad Data With NOLOCK Hints (Erik Darling)
August 2025 Recap: Azure Database for MySQL (Vandhana Mehta)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

New Diagnostic: Copilot Agent Functionality in Microsoft Teams. (mofazil88)
End of support for Access 2016 and Access 2019 nears (lindalu)
Copilot can now help Microsoft 365 subscribers get more out of their OneDrive files on Windows (Greg Socha)

Miscellaneous

New White House commitments empower teachers, students, and job seekers through AI skilling and learning (Brad Smith & Ryan Roslansky)
The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired (David Pierce)
Here is Lego’s $1,000 Death Star, the most expensive Lego set ever (Sean Hollister)
PowerToys Command Palette utility (Microsoft Learn)
Linux Mint 22.2 Zara arrives as a long term support release backed until 2029 (Wayne Williams)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – September 4, 2025 (#621) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #277 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Toolkit eBook Humble Bundle (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – August 29, 2025 (#4486)

Top Links

🎉 The Windows Community Toolkit is 9 years old! 🎉 (Michael Hawker)
ReSharper’s New Out-of-Process Engine Cuts UI Freezes in Visual Studio by 80% (Mehul Harry)
Getting Started with the Aspire CLI (Jeffrey Fritz)
How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters (Ashley Wolf)
Announcing Awesome Copilot MCP Server (Justin Yoo)
Kalahari Room Discounts and Standard Registration End Oct 3rd! Labor Day 10% Off Sale Ends Monday Night! (TechBash Team)

Web & Cloud Development

.NET Aspire 4: Integrations (Dave Brock)
Learning web development: Plain objects in JavaScript and JavaScript’s trademark problem (Axel Rauschmayer)
Kubernetes v1.34: User preferences (kuberc) are available for testing in kubectl 1.34 (Maciej Szulik)
Node.js v22.19.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
Secure by Design: A Shift-Left Approach with Testcontainers, Docker Scout, and Hardened Images (Anna Chernyshova)
How to hide ‘Server’ and ‘X-Powered-By’ headers in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
Integrating OpenAI’s GPT with Angular: A Step-by-Step Guide and How to Use Ocelot as an API Gateway in ASP.NET Core and Getting Started with the Resource API in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
Blazor Radar Charts: Visualizing Football Defending Stats Made Easy (Kathiravan Rajesh)
How to Customize JavaScript Pivot Table Values: A Developer’s Guide (Sastha Prathap)
Kubernetes without an Operating Model is Just Controlled Chaos (Shannon Kuehn)
Introducing Meta’s New REST API Framework: What Developers Need to Know (Nicholas Wright)
Moving the public Stack Overflow sites to the cloud: Part 1 (Wouter de Kort & Joseph Schwanz)
Building a Web Based Comic Book Reader (Raymond Camden)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

The Easiest Way to Do OpenTelemetry in .NET: OTLP + Collector (Aaron Stannard)
Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 14: Nonthrowing moves with the shared tracking pointer (Raymond Chen)

AI

Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development (Martin Fowler)
Implementing Asynchronous Human-in-the-Loop Authorization in Python with LangGraph and Auth0 (Raphael do Vale)
Stanford study reveals ‘Generative AI’ steals the most jobs in exposed industries like coding — usually from young professionals (Cale Hunt)
What’s New in Azure AI Foundry Fine-tuning: August 2025 (malenaLS)
Vivaldi rejects AI browsing: ‘Humans over hype’ (Mark Hachman)
Passed the Microsoft AI-900 exam for Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals! 🎉 (Thomas Maurer)
AI agents and the web – A proposal to keep developers in the loop (Patrick Brosset)
Introducing gpt-realtime and Realtime API updates (OpenAI Team)
How to prompt Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Generation for the best results (Philipp Schmid, Logan Kilpatrick & Alisa Fortin)
Why MCP Gives AI the ‘Arms and Legs’ for Real-World Action (Dhanji R. Prasanna)
Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models (Emma Roth)
Certifications refresh: AI-focused and fundamentals updates (Gretchen LaBelle)
AI’s Career Ladder Crisis: Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Vanishing (Gary Espinosa)
Install Cursor and Learn Programming With AI Help (Jack Wallen)
How we accelerated Secret Protection engineering with Copilot (Parth Sehgal)
Vivaldi Comes Out Swinging Against AI Web Browsers (Paul Thurrott)
Building an AI-first platform strategy (Rahib Amin)
What’s New in AI for Security from Microsoft Entra? (rahulpr)
Vibing options for whoever you are (Richard Seroter)
MCP: The Universal Connector for Building Smarter, Modular AI Agents (Sanjay Surendranath Girija, Lakshit Arora & Shashank Kapoor)
Speeding up Firefox Local AI Runtime (Tarek Ziadé, Paul Adenot & Serge Guelton)

Design, Methodology & Testing

From Black Box to Blueprint (Martin Fowler)
Why Go design patterns still matter (Peter Aideloje)
Writing isolated (integration)tests with TestContainers (Tim Deschryver)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova App Hello World 7.0.0 Released! and Cordova Fetch 5.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
Raspberry Pi in the stratosphere (Ashley Whittaker)
Level up your SwiftUI (Paul Hudson)
Xbox’s cross-device play history syncs your recently played games on every screen (Emma Roth)
Play a new version of DOOM on SNES with the help of RP2350 (Rob Zwetsloot)

Screencasts & Videos

Vibe Coding with James Live! VS Code, Copilot, Coding Agents, & more! (James Montemagno)
Writing some code | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Random.Code() – Adding Filtered Properties to AutoDeconstruct, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
You open sourced WSL. What does that mean? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Building a Resilient and Inclusive Engineering Culture with Matthew Card (Matthew Card)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – How do Lead with Value with Dr. Morgan Depenbusch (Scott Hanselman)
Product Owner Patterns – From Absent to Exceptional | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and The SECI Model of Knowledge Management Applied to Team Retrospectives | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Salum Abdul-Rahman)
DAWbench Radio Show Episode 38 – Music Tech Pioneers VI : Roger Linn – LinnDrum to LinnStrument and Beyond ! (Vin Curigliano & Pete Brown)
AGL 432: ADHD with Frankie Berkoben (John Rouda)
Lenny’s Podcast – How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft) (Lenny Rachitsky)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Open-source is for the people, by the people (Phoebe Sajor)
Boagworld Podcast – Creating Your UX Playbook (Paul Boag)
Software Defined Talk Episode #535 – Don’t put randomness in your workflow (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

Supporting nonprofit and community innovation (OpenAI Team)
Typepad is Shutting Down (msmash)

Database

Azure Database for MySQL 8.4 Now Generally Available (Elendil)
SQL Generate Date Examples with Recursive CTE and Stored Procedure (Rick Dobson)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Transactions and Blocking and Confusion (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2025 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
What’s new in Microsoft Planner – August 2025 (NancyatMSFT)

Miscellaneous

Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones (BeauHD)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – August 28, 2025 (#617) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #272 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link

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