Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Top Links

• Visual Studio March Update – Build Your Own Custom Agents (Mark Downie)
• How Claude Code works: The agentic loop, context loading, tool execution model, and conversation lifecycle under the hood (Vineet Agarwal)
• Aspire 13.2: Dashboard Gets Smarter Export and Telemetry (James Newton-King)
• Pragmatic AI in .NET Show: AI-Powered Development, with Jonathan ‘J’ Tower (April 2nd – 11am EDT) (Sam Basu)
• Customize Agent Behavior at Runtime with Structured Inputs – Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft Learn)
• Profile .NET Apps Without Restarting: Monitoring Comes to ReSharper (Alexey Totin)
• Things I Think I Think… About Touching Code (Ted Neward)

Web and Cloud Development

• Introducing Aceto – a local dev server for building HTML mockups with AI (Alexander Zeitler)
• What’s new in Svelte: April 2026 (Dani Sandoval)
• Triggering User Registration via OpenID Connect with Duende IdentityServer (Maarten Balliauw)
• Continued Investment in Azure App Service (Byron Tardif)
• jQuery 4 – Reinventing Events (Ian Elliot)
• Using Azure Developer CLI (azd) with Aspire (Aspire Team)
• What’s new in Astro – March 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
• Loading, Accessing and Converting Office and PDF Documents with Telerik Document Processing Libraries (Peter Vogel)
• JetStream 3: A modern benchmark for high-performance, compute-intensive Web applications (Daniel Lehmann, Thomas Nattestad & Camillo Bruni)
• Adding Keycloak Authentication to an Existing .NET Aspire Application (Frank Boucher)
• Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines (Carly Page)
• From Custom to Open: Scalable Network Probing and HTTP/3 Readiness with Prometheus (Carlo Preciado)
• Introducing the JetStream 3 Benchmark Suite (Keith Miller)
• First Public Working Draft: Linked Web Storage Protocol 1.0 (W3C)
• Securing Back-end App Service Web Apps with Private Endpoints (Mark Heath)
• There is absolutely nothing wrong with Web (Alisa Sireneva)

Windows Development

• winapp CLI v0.2.1 Release (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
• WinDev Helper VS Code extension v2.7.0 Release (Alvin Ashcraft) – Support for winapp CLI v0.2.1 added – get it on the Marketplace
• Microsoft to upgrade Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with faster file access, better networking and easier setup (Abhijith M B)
• Windows Package Manager 1.29.50-preview Release (Akinwale Alagbe)

.NET and Visual Studio

• Coding Faster with dotNetTips.com Spargine 10: April 2026 Release (David McCarter)
• How to create a promotional campaign with RCS and SendGrid in C# (Amanda Lange)
• Shining a light on .NET versions across our organisation with OpenTelemetry (Bart Wullems)
• Resolving Weak SSL Ciphers in .NET Framework 4.5 (Goyal Sandeep)
• Creating a Custom AI Agent in New Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Build (David Ramel)
• Configuring contextual options with Microsoft.Extensions.Options.Contextual (Andrew Lock)
• Factory Method Pattern Real-World Example in C#: Complete Implementation (Nick Cosentino)
• More Protection, Same Performance. Dotfuscator 7.6.0 (Michelle Pruitt)

AI

• Foundry Agents and Custom Engine Agents through the Corporate Firewall (Graeme Foster)
• Context Engineering: Improving AI Code Output in Your IDE (Kaviya Priya Rajakumar)
• Setting up Chrome DevTools MCP with Claude Code on Linux (Wayland) (Alexander Zeitler)
• AI data centers may heat nearby land by up to 9.1°C, study finds (Camila Nogueira)
• Claude Code’s Source Code Leaks Via npm Source Maps (BeauHD)
• Copilot Cowork: Now available in Frontier (Jared Spataro)
• Exploring AI Agents in 2026 (Kevin Logan)
• From 3 Worktrees to N: How AI Agents Changed My Parallel Development Workflow on Windows (Laurent Kempe)
• I created my first GitHub Agentic Workflow to keep my blog up to date (Alexandre Nédélec)
• A Product Manager’s guide to using AI to build working prototypes (Replit Team)
• Accelerating the next phase of AI (OpenAI Team)
• OpenClaw v2026.3.31 Release (Peter Steinberger)
• Run and Iterate on LLMs Faster with Docker Model Runner on DGX Station (Yiwen Xu)
• The AI job boom continues: Build the skills that move business forward (Gretchen LaBelle)
• Adversary Agent: using a hidden agent to keep the main agent safe (Michael Neale)
• How to Build AI Agents That Can Control Cloud Infrastructure (Manish Shivanandhan)
• Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science (Tyler McGoffin)
• Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI (Ryan Roslansky)
• When AI Breaks the Systems Meant to Hear Us (Heiko Hotz)
• “Conviction Collapse” and the End of Software as We Know It (Tim O’Reilly)
• I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong (Reece Rogers)
• Announcing the Postman Plugin for Claude Code (Quinton Wall)
• Does Code Quality Still Matter in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding? (Mark Heath)
• Granite 4.0 3B Vision: Compact Multimodal Intelligence for Enterprise Documents (Madison Lee, Rogerio Feris, Eli Schwartz, Dhiraj Joshi, Pengyuan Li & Isaac Sanchez)
• Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative (Barry Conklin)
• AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead. (Angela Aristidou)
• TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library That Holds When the Field Invalidates Its Own Assumptions (Quentin Gallouédec, Steven Liu, Pedro Cuenca & Sergio Paniego)
• Encoding Team Standards (Martin Fowler)
• ADK Go 1.0 Arrives! (Toni Klopfenstein)

Python

• Let’s Create Our First Microsoft 365 Agent SDK using Python – For Single Tenant (Meenakshi Balekar)
• CodeRabbit for Python: AI Code Review for Python Projects (Rahul Singh)

Design, DevOps and Methodology

• Things I Think I Think… Disruption (Ted Neward)
• Playwright v1.59.0 Release (dgozman)
• Docker Sandboxes: Run Agents in YOLO Mode, Safely (Srini Sekaran)
• Changes to packages.gitlab.com: What you need to know (Denis Afonso)
• The Problem with Secondary Domain Events in Event Sourcing (Urs Enzler)
• YouTrack Introduces Whiteboards (Elena Pishkova)
• The Rise of Transparency (Allen Pike)
• Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 2. Your First Project (Matthew Casperson)
• How We Eliminated Long-Lived CI Secrets Across 70+ Repos (Boris Schlosser)
• Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from dependency management to stewardship (Bloomberg)
• The threat to critical infrastructure has changed. Has your readiness? (Sherrod DeGrippo)

Mobile and Game Development

• A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases (Eben Upton)
• Build Configuration Updated To Kconfig Options (José Simões)
• What’s new in Swift: March 2026 Edition (Owen Voorhees & Dave Lester)
• How to Build AI-Powered Flutter Applications with Genkit Dart – Full Handbook for Devs (Atuoha Anthony)
• Getting Started with Android Studio and Claude Code (Charlie Castro)
• Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Kotlin 2.3.20, Interview With Josh Long, and More (Kodee)
• Why waiting feels slow — and how we’re using real‑time signals to change that (Maitree Shukla, Alex Timmler, Nick Wilczynski & Connor Sheehan)
• App Store expands support to 11 new languages (Apple Developer Team)

Screencasts and Videos

• Understanding High Availability Technologies for Azure SQL Workloads | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
• Exploring the Future of AI Animation with Claude Code (Frank La Vigne)
• From Backyard Telescopes to AI‑Powered Art Sales, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
• Coffee and Open Source Conversation – William Morgan (Isaac Levin)
• The State of AI – Q2 2026 (AIDailyBrief)
• SharpSite returns | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Dometrain Course

From Zero to Hero: Dapper in .NET: Learn how to use Dapper, the most popular .NET ORM (Nick Proud) – Referral Link

Podcasts

• Developer Tea – Useful Illusions and Exploiting Heuristics (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #25 – The Apple II Age (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
• The Amp Hour #720 – Hyper Growth and OpenClaw Interns (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• MacBreak Weekly Episode #1018 – 50 Years and Still Going Strong – Apple: The First 50 Years (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
• Beyond the Hype: Is AI taking the fun out of software development? (Colin Eberhardt)
• RunAs Radio Show #1030 – My Home Lab (Richard Campbell)
• PPP 504 | How Leaders Can Reduce Stress Without Lowering the Bar, with Amy Leneker (Andy Kaufman)
• React Native Radio Episode #358 – React Native for Meta Quest Part 2: Developer Friendly (Evan Albert, Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – The Spy Who Delivered: Elizabeth Van Lew’s Secret Postal Legacy (United States Postal Service)
• The Vergecast – Apple at 50: the good and the bad (David Pierce)
• The Shift Podcast – Is context engineering the new RAG? (Microsoft Foundry Team – Allison, Pamela & Matt)
• Tools and Weapons Podcast – Ryan Roslansky: Turning AI Anxiety into Skills for the Future of Work (Brad Smith)
• The Hidden Cost of Always Saying Yes — How a Helpful Scrum Team Nearly Self-Destructed | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
• InfoQ Podcast: Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems (Lorin Hochstein)
• Last Week in AI Podcast Episode #238 – GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals (Andrey Kurenkov & Jeremie Harris)

Community and Events

• Agents League: Meet the Winners (Ayca Bas)
• Visual Studio 2026 | April Release Party (April 16th) (Leslie Richardson & Visual Studio Team)
• Tech Conferences Aren’t Dead. But Why We Go Is Changing. (Ivan Pelivanovic)
• A Microsoft FTE’s Reflections from MVP Summit 2026: Deep Insights & Connections (Rod Trent)
• Oracle cuts 491 jobs in Washington state as it embraces AI-led engineering (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

• How to Add Clippy Support to SSMS (Joe Obbish)
• Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs Across Sales, Engineering, Security (BeauHD)
• gcc vs clang for sysbench on a small server with Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB (Mark Callaghan)
• First Normal Form (1NF): Breaking the ‘unbreakable rule’ in database design (Lee Asher)
• How to Draw Line Graphs in SSMS (Brent Ozar)
• Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Full Dashboard Installation (Erik Darling)
• AWS DMS Data Migration from MySQL to SQL Server (Deepak Vohra)

Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365

• How to Add an Adaptive Card in Microsoft 365 Agent SDK (Meenakshi Balekar)
• What’s New in Excel (March 2026) (Ms. Excel)
• SharePoint Showcase: How SharePoint uses AI to strengthen Work IQ’s data layer (John Mighell)
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | March 2026 (Seth Patton)
• How to integrate your product into Microsoft 365 Copilot (Gabriele Castellani)
• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | March 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)

PowerShell and Terminal

• .NET CLI Shebangs and Argument Parsing (Bryan Hogan)

Writing

• Level Up Your Writing: AIStoryBuilders Online 3.0 is Officially Out! (Michael Washington)

Tools

• JetBrains Blog RSS Support Is Now Generally Available (Anastasiia Korzhova)

General

• Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn’t a problem before the update (Raymond Chen)
• March skilling update: The pathway to capability (Jill Armour)
• What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately? (Mary Jo Foley)
• These Are the 4 Artemis II Astronauts Leading the Historic Return to the Moon (Fernanda González)
• What to Know About NASA’s Artemis Program (Eden Gordon)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 31, 2026 (#753) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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

A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.