Dew Drop – March 20, 2025 (#4386)

Top Links

• How to Style Your WinUI XAML Apps Like a Pro! (Michael Jolley)
• Find the IDE features you need with GitHub Copilot and Search (Leah Tran)
• Unlock Insights on Export Trends with a .NET MAUI Toolkit Stacked Area Chart (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
• Demystify cloud-native development with .NET Aspire – NDC London 2025 (Maddy Montaquila)
• MSTest 3.8: Top 10 features to supercharge your .NET tests! (Youssef Fahmy & Amaury Levé)
• .NET Conference 2025 – April 23-24, 2025 – Online, Global (Csharp dotcom Team)  – Join me online next month!

Web & Cloud Development

• Securing Developer Tools with Authentication Brokers (Den Delimarsky)
• A Primer on Tailwind CSS: Pros, Cons and Real-World Use Cases (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Seven Proposed Recommendations published by the Verifiable Credentials Working Group (W3C)
• Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS (Kevin Babbitt)
• Evaluating the Default APIMATIC API Governance Rules (Kin Lane)
• Analyze Stock Market Trends with React DataGrid for Smart Trading (Mohammed Farook J)
• VSCode – Expose a local API publicly using port forwarding (Bart Wullems)
• REST Constraint #1: The Power of a Uniform Interface (Chris Woodruff)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Exploring the .NET MAUI Toolkit: Alerts (Héctor Pérez)
• Implement OAuth 2.0 functionality in Windows apps (Microsoft Learn) – New in WIndows App SDK 1.7
• Background task migration strategy (Microsoft Learn) – UWP to WinUI 3
• What’s supported when migrating from UWP to WinUI 3 (Microsoft Learn) – Updated for Windows App SDK 1.7

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to Sign PDF Documents with PFX Certificates in .NET C# on Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
• Putting Tasks in a Cache, and Computing Only Once, When First Requested (Bryan Hogan)
• C++ Dynamic Debugging: Full Debuggability for Optimized Builds (David Li)
• You can’t simulate keyboard input with PostMessage, revisited (Raymond Chen)

AI

• Cutting digital curbs: How Azure AI Foundry is building a more accessible world (Andy Beatman)
• Accelerating agentic workflows with Azure AI Foundry, NVIDIA NIM, and NVIDIA AgentIQ (Asha Sharma)
• The Creative Potential For AI in Education (Dale Dougherty)
• How we optimized vLLM for DeepSeek-R1 (Michael Goin, Robert Shaw, Nick Hill, Tyler Smith & Lucas Wilkinson)
• The Context Gap (Eleanor Berger)
• Using AI to Automate Social Media Posts with .NET (Simon Foster)
• Announcing new Phi pricing, Empowering Your Business with Small Language Models (martincai)
• 6 tips to get the most out of Deep Research (Molly McHugh-Johnson)
• Advanced RAG Solution Accelerator (raniabayoumy)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Windows Service or System Tray App? A Practical Comparison (Danut Ghiorghita)
• Screaming Architecture: Not Driven By Entities (Derek Comartin)
• IssueOps: Automate CI/CD (and more!) with GitHub Issues and Actions (Nick Alteen)
• Why build a native app? and Why did you need to change 8 files to add one checkbox? (Matt Lacey)
• TeamCity Roadmap 2025: Updating the UI, TeamCity Recipes, and Much More (Olga Bedrina)
• Prioritizing inclusion over convention: Rethinking how we design packaging (Jay Tan)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Track air quality anywhere with Raspberry Pi (David Crookes)

Screencasts & Videos

• Build an App from Scratch with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio (Amy Nguyen)
• How to Build an AI Agent with Semantic Kernel, MongoDB Atlas, C# and OpenAI (Luce Carter)
• MVVM is hard! How do I make it easier? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
• Building a modern, native app for Windows: Which UI framework should you choose? – NDC London 2025 (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Return httpResource() from a Method (Deborah Kurata)
• Effective Data Visualization – NDC London 2025 (David Giard)
• Write Uno Time, Run Everywhere with the Uno Platform – NDC London 2025 (Joseph Guadagno)
• NDC Party: A Brief History of Computer Art – NDC London 2025 (Anders Norås)
• Video: How to create checklists in Markdown for easier task tracking (Cassidy Williams)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – .NET Aspire 9.1 with Rob Richardson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Syntax Podcast #886 – AWS and IAC for Dummies with SST (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When a Scrum Master Needs to Hire a Manager, An Organizational Design Story | Karen Suarez (Vasco Duarte)
• Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – How Microsoft Does OneDrive (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• Made by Google Podcast – Pixel 9a: AI Smarts, Even Smarter Price (Rachid Finge)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – The best punctuation book, period, with June Casagrande (Mignon Fogarty)

Community & Events

• Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse (Sarah Perez)
• DWX Developer Week Moves to Mannheim – And TX Text Control Is on Board! (Bjoern Meyer)
• Microsoft senior leadership update: EVP, Chief People Officer and EVP, Office of Strategy and Transformation (Microsoft)
• GDC 2025: Celebrating Innovation in Gaming and Our Communities (Mike Nelson)

Database

• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Local Variables (Erik Darling)
• Our SQL Server is Slow! What Do I Do First? (Kevin Hill)
• T-SQL Has Regex. Don’t Get Too Excited. (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers (Zachary Cavanell)
• Prep for tests with Microsoft 365 (Alyse Maguire)
• Quickly add approval workflows to any list or library in Microsoft 365 (Nate Tennant)

PowerShell

• Running PowerShell Scripts on Azure VMs with Domain User Authentication using Azure Functions (Saswat Mohanty)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27818 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
• Fired FTC commissioner warns of the ‘corrupting influence of billionaires’ (Lauren Feiner)
• GNOME 48 Released (msmash)
• Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks and Windows 11 now lets you easily type with an Xbox controller (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 19, 2025 (#515) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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