Dew Drop – January 7, 2025 (#4336)

Top Links

• AI for Developers (Microsoft Developer Team) – The developer home for Microsoft AI resources has been refreshed
• Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the Visual Studio profiler (Harshada Hole)
• CES 2025: The year of the Windows 11 PC refresh (Yusuf Mehdi)
• Metalama 2025.0 Generally Available: Support for C# 13 and .NET 9, Aspect Framework Improvements, and More (Gael Fraiteur)
• Introducing the New Angular Chat UI Component (Indrajith Srinivasan)
• Scott & Mark Learn To… Find Joy in Hobbies (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Coming Wednesday, Jan 8th at 12:15pm EST

Web & Cloud Development

• Upcoming CVE for End-of-Life Node.js Versions (Node.js Team)
• ASP.NET Core 9: Discover the new developer Exception page (Anthony Giretti)
• Critter Stack Roadmap for 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Azure Communication Services Email Configuration and Sending Emails (Koen Verbeeck)
• Top 5 JavaScript Gantt Chart Libraries for 2025 (Mahalakshmi Karthikeyan)
• How to Set Up Basic jQuery Form Validation in Two Minutes (Maria Antonietta Perna)
• TIL: Kubernetes Auto-scaling and Requests vs Limits (Sean Killeen)
• Build Locally, Deploy Globally: Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com (Wojtek Naruniec)
• Deprecating Redundant Attributes in the Number Insight API (Max Kahan)
• Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections to EPUB 3.3 and Draft Note: String Searching (W3C)
• Getting ready for Tailwind v4.0 (Oscar Jite-Orimiono)
• Microsoft Entra: Top 50 features of 2024 (Shobhit Sahay)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Customizing and Integrating Telerik Slider Control in .NET MAUI Projects (Héctor Pérez)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Lists: What They Are and How to Use Them (Stackify Team)
• What’s New in vcpkg (December 2024) (Augustin Popa)
• .NET 9 upgrade–notnull constraint (Bart Wullems)
• Routing and Topologies – Navigating the Digital Highways (Chris Woodruff)
• Exploring CollectionsMarshal for Dictionary (Gérald Barré)
• How can I tell whether a change to a control was due to the user or due to my program? (Raymond Chen)
• Encapsulating rod-cutting (Mark Seemann)

AI

• Using Azure AI Agent Service with AutoGen / Semantic Kernel to build a multi-agent’s solution (Kinfey Lo)
• AI Killed the Content Creator…Star (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI (Andy Bell)
• The Future of AI-Powered Applications Enabled by Couchbase (Part 2) (Matt Spillar)
• RAG Deep Dive: 10-part live stream series (Pamela Fox)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Reducing PAT usage across Azure DevOps (Angel Wong)
• GitHub Well-Architected Framework (GitHub Team)
• Part 3: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix (Rina Chang & Susie Lu)
• Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale (Varun Khaitan)
• Why it’s critical to get environment promotion right (Nikita Dergilev)
• A guide to understanding program and product managers (Bartosz Jaworski)
• Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector (Martin Thwaites)
• Ultimate guide to CI/CD: Fundamentals to advanced implementation (Sandra Gittlen)
• How to communicate efficiently at work (Prason)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon (Cassie Hoef)
• Meta stops selling the Quest Pro (Wes Davis)
• Google is Bringing Gemini to Google TV (Paul Thurrott)
• Xbox and LG to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts & Videos

• SharpSite – Open Source CMS with C# (Jeff Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 12 (Jason Bock)
• New Copilot Features coming to Mac (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict #444 – Official Family IoT Tech Support (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• InfoQ Podcast: Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI (Susan Shu Chang)
• Azure Cloud Talk 25/1/6 – Woah New Year? Re-introducing Azure Cloud Talk! (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
• Syntax Podcast #865 – CSS Performance × Rate Limiting × Array Sort Behavior – STUMP’d (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast #202 – What Every Engineering Leader Needs to Know About Multitasking with Dave Crenshaw | 2021 Top Episode Replay (Zach White)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Managing Change in Complex Organizational Cultures | Ellen Grove (Vasco Duarte)
• CloudChat Episode #17 – The Source is with Us (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
• The Changelog News Podcast #126 – 10 big predictions for 2025 (Jerod Santo)
• Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #205 – Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality (Anton Chuvakin)
• Only Malware in the Building Episode #8 – Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)

Community & Events

• Open Source in 2025: What Will Matter Most This Year? (Amanda Brock)
• The best stuff we’ve seen at CES so far (Andrew Liszewski)
• How and why I deleted all my tweets (Bruce Lawson)
• Python Is TIOBE Index Language Of The Year 2024 (Mike James)
• Microsoft AI Tour NYC 2025: Redefining Innovation (Peter Smulovics)

Database

• How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: IN and NOT IN (Erik Darling)
• TOP vs. TOP PERCENT: Hidden Costs – SQL in Sixty Seconds 206 (Pinal Dave)
• How to Find Outliers in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
• SQL Server Linked Server Encryption for Network Traffic (Svetlana Golovko)
• Azure SQL Database – Configure Job using Elastic Agents (Praveen Sreeram)
• Create SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric and Integrate into Project (Olivier Van Steenlandt)
• Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options (Steve Jones)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• New Unified Contacts in Microsoft Teams and Outlook, now generally available (Vivek Datir)
• Enhance your productivity with Copilot in OneDrive (Kayla Patterson)

Miscellaneous

• Disney To Merge Hulu + Live TV With Fubo (msmash)
• Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-02 (Michael Eaton)
• Daily Reading List – January 6, 2025 (#466) (Richard Seroter)
• Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025) (Prasad Rao)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)