Dew Drop – January 20, 2025 (#4345)

Top Links

• The Early Access Program for ReSharper and the .NET Tools 2025.1 Is Here! and The Early Access Program for Rider 2025.1 Is Now Open! (Sasha Ivanova)
• Leap Forward with Modern AI using Microsoft 365 Agents SDK and Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Arafat Tehsin)
• Create a custom Visual Studio Code Chat participant with Azure AI Agent Service (Kinfey Lo)
• Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable! (Steven Jenkins)
• How we evaluate AI models and LLMs for GitHub Copilot (Connor Adams)
• Previewing Improved Windows Search on Copilot+ PCs with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel (Amanda Langowski & Bradon LeBlanc)

Web & Cloud Development

• Nested virtualization on Azure : a step-by-step guide (alibekjakupov)
• ASP.NET Core user application access token management (Damien Bowden)
• An AZD Template for a Chainlit Azure Container App (Jason Haley)
• Comparing Raw ASP.NET Request Throughput across Versions: 8.0 to 9.0 Edition (Rick Strahl)
• Built-in OpenAPI Document Generation with .NET 9 — No more SwaggerUI! (Alper Ebiçoğlu)
• Ember 6.1 Released (Jared Galanis)
• Astro: 2024 year in review (Shinya Fujino & Sarah Rainsberger)
• TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Microsoft’s Hyperlight WebAssembly for VMs Is Open Source (B. Cameron Gain)
• Building Restful APIs with Deno and Oak (Christian Nwamba)
• Go 1.23.5-1 and 1.22.11-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
• Introduction to Go Programming Language (TNS Staff)
• 8 Free Tools Every Web Developer Should Know (Jack Wallen)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Creating a MAUI .NET 9 Project [GamesCatalog] – Part 1 (Emanuel Martins)

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Program C# in Visual Studio Code (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Extracting Comments from DOCX Files in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• A pair of .NET 9 books (Mark J. Price)
• Why Every C# Developer Should Explore Rust and Exploring Programming Paradigms: C# and Rust Side by Side and Syntax Showdown: A Look at Common Constructs in C# and Rust (Chris Woodruff)
• Announcing ConsoleApplicationBuilder, DI in console applications, simply (Peter Ritchie)
• Modelling data relationships with F# types (Mark Seemann)
• New Files View in Solution Explorer (Sasha Ivanova)
• ILSpy 9.0 release notes (Christoph Wille)
• .NET OSS Projects: Better to Re-license or Die? (Aaron Stannard)
• Qdrant Vector Database–What you need to know to get started in .NET (Bart Wullems)
• The case of the crash when trying to erase an element from a std::set (Raymond Chen)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s FastSortedList (David McCarter)

AI

• Prophecies of the Flood – What to make of the statements of the AI labs? (Ethan Mollick)
• GraphRAG end to end PoC (xinyuwei)
• The power of personalized AI (OpenAI Team)
• Scaling Large Language Models for e-Commerce: The Development of a Llama-Based Customized LLM (Christian Herold & Shahram Khadivi)
• AI Agents Are About To Blow Up the Business Process Layer (Ed Anuff)
• Using Tools (Safely) with LLMs (Mark Heath)
• OpenAI is Bringing Custom Instructions to ChatGPT (Paul Thurrott)
• The need to invest in AI skills in schools (Philip Colligan)
• Microsoft triples down on AI (Tom Warren)
• Microsoft opens testing for Windows AI search (Wes Davis)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Run an Effective Daily Scrum – Tips for Team Members and Managers (Ben)
• Agile Methods and Practices at a Glance and Only is Better Than Best and What You Need to Know About 10X (JD Meier)
• Repeatable CDK deployments with Octopus (Matthew Casperson)
• A Clean .zshrc Startup Script for Setting GitHub and Docker API Keys on a Mac (Peter Kellner)
• Limiting Risk With Open Source Consumption (Mitchel Sellers)
• Pushing to insecure registries with Rancher Desktop (Etienne Van Delden)
• Scaling Monoliths: A Practical Guide for Growing Systems (Milan Jovanović)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Apps adopt Transformer to support more reliable and performant media editing use cases and Spotlight Week: Android Camera and Media (Caren Chang)
• Android Studio Ladybug Update Adds Gemini Support, New Debugging Features, and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Performance Class helps Google Maps deliver premium experiences (Nevin Mital)
• Android’s Media3 1.5.0 — what’s new? (Kristina Simakova)
• Lens Studio Cube Bouncer for the confused Unity developer: smash boxes with your hands against the spatial map (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

• Building a web app with C# (Jeff Fritz)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 244 – Agentic AI at IoT Scale! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 20 and Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 21 (Jason Bock)
• How did you get your name into the Spy ++ About box? | One Dev Question (Jeffrey Richter)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict #446 – Mac mini M4 Pro – Honest Developer Reviews (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Meta Cast – How the Agile Alliance and PMI Partnership Impacts You (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• PPP 444 | Negotiating Secrets for Project Managers, with Rick Czaplewski (Andy Kaufman)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast #76 – Other people’s robots (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Ryan Booz: The State of the Database in 2025 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #333 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Lenny’s Podcast – 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #204 – The Ultimate Morning Routine for Managers (Max Ahumada)
• Azure Cloud Talk Podcast 25/1/20 – Microsoft AI Solution Architect Naveen Krishnan (Alec Harrison)
• Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Sarah meet again to reflect on 2024 and predict 2025 (Pam Selle)

Community & Events

• MVP’s Favorite Content: Imagine Cup, Challenge, Power BI, SQL Server (Rie Moriguchi)
• CfP List Updated 2025-01-19 (Dave Aronson)
• Announcing the Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together 2025 (gomomohapi)
• Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report (Bluesky Team)
• GitHub: Supporting the next generation of developers (Morgan Ersery)
• 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and All-Star Week in Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
• The Dark Side of Reddit: How Communities Are Turning Toxic (WDD Staff)
• Distributed Social Media Is the Future: A Shift Away from Centralized Platforms Like Facebook and TikTok (Chris Pietschmann)
• CodeMash 2025 Recap (Steve Bilogan)

Database

• MySQL Shell and Basic Configuration Management (Part 2 – Memory and CPU) (Chisom Kanu)
• SSMS 21 – Download, Install and Configure (Daniel Calbimonte)
• How to Learn SQL Without Quitting Your Day Job (Tracy McKibben)
• How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Case Expressions (Erik Darling)
• What is SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Copilot is now included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family (Bryan Rognier)

PowerShell

• Deleting All Workflow Runs In GitHub Repository With PowerShell (Den Delimarsky)
• PowerShell Cheat Sheet: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners (Jesus Vigo)

Miscellaneous

• The tech billionaire war on “woke” is really targeting workers (Amanda Marcotte)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4800 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5435 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.4825 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos (Ivan Mehta)
• 4 classic reads, newly available on Google Books (Nikki Savickas)
• Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media (Steven Levy)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #3, 2025 – Going 15 Percent Faster (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – January 17, 2025 (#475) (Richard Seroter)
• Reading List 333 (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly #499 – 19th January 2025 (The Editor)

The Geek Shelf

 Career: Building a Resume/CV & LinkedIn Profile | Dometrain (Ryan Murphy) – Referral Link