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Dew Drop – July 17, 2025 (#4461)

Dew Drop – July 16, 2025 (#4460)

Web & Cloud Development

Understanding Parallel Programming in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
Bar vs. Pie Chart: How to Pick the Right One for Your Business Data (Sabari Anand S.)
AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits (Channy Yun)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 6 (Dan Roth)
The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module (Filippo Valsorda, Daniel McCarney & Roland Shoemaker)
How To Render Large Datasets In React without Killing Performance (Prashant Yadav)
Introducing the Fully Managed Couchbase Connector for Confluent Cloud (Yves Laurent)
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS Free Tier Account (Victoria Nduka)
Node v24.4.1 (Current) and Node v22.17.1 (LTS) and Node v20.19.4 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Convert Excel XLSX to CSV Files in a WPF App using C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
How to Build a Student Attendance App with .NET MAUI ListView and DataGrid (Jayaleshwari N.)
Uno Platform vs Uno Platform Studio: What’s the Difference? (Nick Randolph)
.NET MAUI 9.0.90 (Service Release 9) (David Ortinau)
Centering a WPF TreeViewItem in the TreeView ScrollViewer (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

.NET 10 Preview 6 (Jon Galloway)
Adding QR Codes to PDF Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
Updates to Warning Suppressions in Microsoft C++ Code Analysis (Carson Radtke)
Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.9 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

AI

Generative AI Creates APIs Faster Than Teams Can Secure Them (Saqib Jan)
Building the Hugging Face MCP Server (Shaun Smith, Julien Chaumond, Eliott Coyac & Abubakar Abid)
Intellectual freedom by design (OpenAI Team)
From chaos to clarity: Using GitHub Copilot agents to improve developer workflows (Chris Reddington)
Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
Trump announces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub (Jay Peters)
Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve? (Tim O’Reilly)
CollabLLM: Teaching LLMs to collaborate with users (Shirley Wu, Michel Galley, Baolin Peng, Swadheen Shukla & Jianfeng Gao)
AI compliance: A core product competency you shouldn’t skip (Kayode Adeniyi)
MCP: A Practical Security Blueprint for Developers (Mohith Shrivastava)
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People (msmash)
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model (Rebecca Bellan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (Jared Sulzdorf, Joseph Godlewski & Sam Horradarn)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

New tools to help drive success for one-time products (Laura Nechita & Rejane França)
Xbox Insiders can stream owned console games on the Xbox PC app (Athima Chansanchai)
Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini Robots for Human-Robot Interaction (Daniel Dominguez)
Shake off your App’s problems (Exxeta Team)

Screencasts & Videos

From Web to Hardware: Blazor’s Secret IoT Power | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
Build your first Blazor Hybrid mobile & desktop apps with Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
Using agent mode to refactor and iterate on a project (Simona Liao)
Custom Metrics with .NET Aspire | On .NET and Rewriting !hat | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Hybrid AI for Security at Microsoft, with Emmanuel Victorio, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)

Podcasts

RunAs Radio Episode #993 – Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag (Richard Campbell)
Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #5 – Averting the Digital Dark Age (Ian Milligan, Brewster Kahle & Takara Small)
Python Bytes Podcast Episode #440 – Can’t Register for VibeCon (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
o11ycast Episode #84 – Maddy Montaquila on .NET Aspire (Ken Rimple & Martin Thwaites)
Practical AI Podcast Episode #321 – Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Software Engineering Radio Episode #677 – Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum on Testing ML Models for Enterprise Products (Kanchan Shringi)
Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – They’re Counting on You Not Knowing This: 5 Bold Negotiation Strategies for Black Women at Work (‘Tine Zekis)

Community & Events

Candy Crush-Maker King Lays Off 200 Staff, Replacing Many With AI Tools They Built (msmash)
Microsoft Ignite Unplugged: Get a look at the latest speakers and topics! (Microsoft Ignite Team)
The Sprinklr-Bluesky Integration in Detail I Sprinklr (Naveen Mahadevan)
How we use GitLab to grow open source communities (Daniel Murphy)

Database

RavenDB and Gen AI Security (Oren Eini)
Stubborn NOT EXISTS Ordering (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Mastering Agent Governance in Microsoft 365 (Chad Stout)
Microsoft Stream and Microsoft Clipchamp: Brand unification update for Microsoft 365 video (Torin Didenko)

PowerShell

Mastering PowerShell Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership (Michael Reinders)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Updated Static Analysis Requirement for Windows Driver Certification (Paul Eze)
Trump claims deep state wrote fake documents about imaginary list that doesn’t exist (Ellsworth Toohey)
Perhaps not a recommended usage for an emergency power outlet (Raymond Chen)
DOGE staffer with access to Americans’ personal data leaked private xAI API key (Zack Whittaker)

The Geek Shelf

Manning Serious Web Development eBook Bundle with React, JavaScript, and modern APIs (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – July 15, 2025 (#4459)

Web & Cloud Development

What’s New in React Gantt Chart: 2025 Volume 2 (Jayakumar Duraisamy)
Learning NestJS Part 1: Getting Started (Dhananjay Kumar)
Setting Up OpenTelemetry on the Frontend Because I Hate Myself (Hazel Weakly)
Resource hooks (Julien Poissonnier)
Wasp now has a public development roadmap! (Martin Sosic)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

Kernel Ridge Regression with Stochastic Gradient Descent Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Lesser-known C# features that can simplify your code (Ali Hamza Ansari)
C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)
What’s In the Duende Software Toolkit? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Introducing ODP.NET 23.9: Enhanced Features for Distributed Transactions, AI, and More (Alex Keh)
Song recommendations with pipes and filters (Mark Seemann)
There is a std::chrono::high_resolution_clock, but no low_resolution_clock (Raymond Chen)

AI

VS Code v1.102 Doubles Down on GitHub Copilot and AI-Enhanced Development (David Ramel)
Introducing Kiro – The AI IDE for prototype to production (Kiro Preview)
Master GitHub Copilot Customization in Visual Studio Code with Instructions and Prompt Files (Copilot That Jawn)
Leak: AWS and Anthropic Team Up for AI Agent Marketplace (Megan Crouse)
Building Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Applications on Azure App Service (Jordan Selig)
AI-Powered Testing: Using Docker Model Runner with Microcks for Dynamic Mock APIs (Oleg Selajev)
Gemini Embedding now generally available in the Gemini API (Min Choi & Janie Zhang)
Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part III–Tool calling (Bart Wullems)
Unpacking Claude’s System Prompt (Drew Breunig)
Code review in the age of AI: Why developers will always own the merge button (Elle Shwer)
Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs (Jess Weatherbed)
Fine-Tuning Together: How Our Developer Community Is Shaping the Future of Custom AI (malenaLS)
Exploring Llama Stack with Python: Tool calling and agents (Michael Dawson)
How to Use Claude Code Subagents for Complex Development Projects (Pierre Belin)
Try featured notebooks on selected topics in NotebookLM (Steven Johnson)
Supercharge your EWS migration with AI and GitHub Copilot (Thomas Mechelke)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Building stronger engineering teams with aligned autonomy | Leaders of Code (Eira May)
The Build vs. Buy Calculus: A .NET Architect’s Guide to Workflow Engines (Sudhir Mangla)
Improving IT efficiency with Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra (Dorothy Li)
Code Coverage And Other Metrics (Gil Zilberfeld)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers? (Jess Weatherbed)

Screencasts & Videos

Using Liquid Glass in a .NET MAUI App (Javier Suárez)
How a ChatGPT AI Robot Can Move, Talk, and Think on Its Own (Frank LaVigne)
DrawerFlyoutPresenter – Part 1 | Uno Tech Bites (Uno Platform)
NEW Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra + Security Copilot in Entra updates | Microsoft Mechanics (Diana Vicezar)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to Break Through the ‘Not My Problem’ Mentality and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Why Your Scrum Master Job Needs a Reset with Every Leadership Change (Vasco Duarte & Joelle Tegwen)
Syntax Podcast Episode #919 – Better Auth with Better Auth (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The PowerShell Podcast – PSConfEU 2025 Bar Sessions: Community, Code & Connection (James Petty)
The Changelog News Podcast Episode #152 – An app can be a home-cooked meal (Jerod Santo)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #234 – The SIEM Paradox: Logs, Lies, and Failing to Detect (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – Why “I Don’t Know” Is a Power Move for Leaders (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Talk Python to Me Episode #513 – Stories from Python History (Michael Kennedy)
Microsoft Research Podcast – AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from cybersecurity (Kathleen Sullivan, Ciaran Martin & Tori Westerhoff)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Pop, soda, or coke? When Q stands alone. Pizza bones. (Valerie Fridland & Karen Lunde)

Community & Events

Only four days left to submit for a Microsoft Partner of the Year Award! (Jill Armour)
JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025 — Call for Speakers (Mehul Harry)
Meta snags Seattle startup co-founder for Zuckerberg’s elite superintelligence team (Todd Bishop)
Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as AI Frenzy Escalates (msmash)

Database

Using Regular Expressions (Regex) in SQL Server 2025: A Complete Guide (Edward Pollack)
Azure SQL Managed Instance: Boost Performance with Read-Scale Out (Arun Sirpal)
Announcing Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric (Preview) with New Capabilities! (Jilene Maldonado)
Copying an Azure SQL database between two Azure SQL Instances in two different subscriptions. (Kenneth Fisher)

Miscellaneous

COVID-19 Vaccine’s mRNA Technology Adapted for First Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Vaccine (EditorDavid)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4733 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5702 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
I found a Lenovo laptop that I wouldn’t mind ditching my MacBook Pro for – and it’s on sale (Cesar Cadenas)
The Enshittification of American Power (Henry Farrell & Abraham L. Newman)
Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026 and Microsoft has a new trick to improve laptop battery life on Windows (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

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

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