Dew Drop – December 31, 2024 (#4332)

Top Links

• Go to line anywhere with Code Search for Visual Studio 2022 (Leah Tran)
• Can Microsoft avoid the ghost of Clippy? Familiar theme emerges in Copilot rollout for Office apps (Todd Bishop)
• Our Favorite NEW Visual Studio Features of 2024 (Visual Studio Team)
• What to do with a Surface Duo in 2025 (Thomas Künneth)
• Adding AI to an Uno Platform Application using AI Dev Gallery (Nick Randolph)
• Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2024 (James Montemagno)

Web & Cloud Development

• Getting Started with the Document Picture-in-Picture API (Christian Nwamba)
• Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.7.2 (Mladen Macanović)
• Deno 2 Released, Focuses on Interoperability with Legacy JavaScript Infrastructure and Use at Scale (Bruno Couriol)
• Deno vs. Node.js: The Showdown Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed (Saeed Ashif Ahmed)
• Microsoft Introduces Serverless GPUs on Azure Container Apps in Public Preview (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Building a Cryptographically Secure Product Licensing System on Azure Functions and Cosmos DB (StephenMS)
• CSharp.com Unveils Real-World Web3 Skills Credentialing and Certifications to Empower Developers and Simplify Hiring (Lisa Fusco)
• Streamline Your Web Design Process: An 11-Step Checklist (Nick Schäferhoff)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• What’s New in WPF Diagram: 2024 Volume 4 (Sarathkumar V.)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Convert MS Word DOCX to SVG in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Get Package Updates in Hard-to-Reach Places With RenovateBot (Sean Killeen)
• Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework (Sander Ten Brinke)

AI

• AI Coding – What is it good for? (Mark Heath)
• Nvidia completes acquisition of AI infrastructure startup Run:ai (Kyle Wiggers)
• Try Llama 3.1 8B in Your Browser: AQLM.rs Delivers Al at Your Fingertips (Vladimir Malinovskii)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Architecture Patterns for Beginners: MVC, MVP, and MVVM (Chirag Aggarwal)
• Pytest is fast (Mark Seemann)
• Observability in 2025: OpenTelemetry and AI to Fill In Gaps (B. Cameron Gain)
• Color of the Year 2025 – Mocha Mousse (17-1230) (Pantone)
• UX architect vs. UX designer: Roles, responsibilities, and more (Bart Krawczyk)
• How various git diff viewers represent file encoding changes in pull requests (Raymond Chen)
• Signing commits in Git using SSH keys on Windows (Gérald Barré)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Mobile App Development with React Native (Beau Carnes)
• How to Sign Up and Log In with Passkeys in Android Using Auth0’s Native Login (Carla Urrea Stabile)
• Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling (Francisco Prieto Cardelle)
• The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s own experience (Sean Hollister)
• Maker Spotlight: DIY Games with Hamza Mahmoud (Sam Freeman)

Screencasts & Videos

• C#, Blazor, Web Dev, and your pull requests (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 7 (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

• All Things Voice Recognition and JavaScript with Ian Lavery – React Round Up #280 (Ian, Paige & TJ VanToll)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Why Agile Teams Need the Right Support, And How We Can Help Them | Robert Finan (Vasco Duarte)
• Product Management? – Adventures in .NET #211 (Shawn Clabough & Caleb Wells)
• Matchmaking NGXS and Firebase with Joaquin Cid – Adventures in Angular #437 (Charles Max Wood, Richard & Subrat)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – How developers (really) used AI coding tools in 2024 (Eira May)
• Azure Cloud Talk 24/12/31 – Talking Transformations & C-Suite Thinking With Victoria Pelletier (Alec Harrison)

Community & Events

• 2024 In Review (Bluesky Team)
• Zoho Backstage 2024 in review: A year of innovation and growth (Arokia Vimal)
• A better weather forecast: Microsoft vets lead startup outperforming traditional sources (Lisa Stiffler)

Database

• How to Use JSON Data Fields in MySQL Databases (Craig Buckler)
• Microsoft Releases Update For VS Code SQL Extension (Kay Ewbank)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• How to Format List Views in SharePoint (Shiv Sharma)
• Microsoft Graph connectors @ Ignite 2024 (Nikita Mittal)
• Get ready for the new year with Microsoft 365 (Alyse Maguire)

PowerShell

• Quickly Finding Previously Typed Commands With PowerShell (Den Delimarsky)

Miscellaneous

• The US Treasury Department was hacked (Emma Roth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-01 (Michael Eaton)
• GitHub’s top blogs of 2024 (Laura Lindeman)

The Geek Shelf

 Beyond Boundaries – Networking Programming with C# 12 and .NET 8 | Leanpub (Chris Woodruff)