Dew Drop – March 26, 2025 (#4390)

Top Links

• The TechBash 2025 Call for Speakers Closes on Monday (TechBash Team)
• AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code Now Supports NVIDIA NIM Microservices for RTX AI PCs (Zhidi Shang)
• Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode (Andrea Griffiths)
• Introducing 4o Image Generation (OpenAI Team)
• Level Up Your Razor Pages: Meet htmx, Your New Best Friend (Chris Woodruff)
• Exploring new .NET releases with Dev Containers (Mike Kistler)

Web & Cloud Development

• Getting Started: Document Viewer for Blazor in ASP.NET Core and Getting Started: Document Editor for Blazor in ASP.NET Core and TX Text Control for Blazor: Mail Merge Integration Tutorial (Bjoern Meyer)
• Understanding Anti-Forgery in ASP.NET Core (Maarten Balliauw)
• Say Goodbye to Manual Managing Api Request 👋 Welcome httpResource in Angular 19.2 (Muhammad Awais)
• Fresh Swap Features for Linux Users in Kubernetes 1.32 (Itamar Holder)
• Enable Self-Subscribing Model in Your Blazor B2B SaaS Application (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Blazor Basics: Handling Errors and Exception Logging in Blazor Applications (Claudio Bernasconi)
• ASP.NET Core delegated Microsoft OBO access token management (Entra only) (Damien Bowden)
• Tailwind CSS and KendoReact Unstyled Mode (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Compiling and Linking to the AWS C++ SDK (j2inet)
• Real-Time Data Visualization in React using WebSockets and Charts (Nishanthi Panner Selvam)
• Microsoft Officially Supports Rust on Azure with First SDK Beta (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• Kickstart Your Web Development: VS Code Basics & GitHub Integration (Mohamed Faraazman)
• Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes (Darius Mercadier)
• Debugging Chromium (Eric Lawrence)
• What Makes the Page Object Model So Special? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• API Specification Fragmentation and Rot (Kin Lane)

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Tip: An In-Depth Look at CallerMemberName (and some Compile-Time trivia) (Davide Bellone)
• VS Code C++ Extension Updates: 4x Faster Colorization & 3.5x Faster Project Startup (Alexandra Kemper)
• Understanding EF Core Change Tracking: How It Works Under the Hood (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Creating a software bill of materials (SBOM) for an open-source NuGet package (Andrew Lock)
• Entity Framework Core Pitfalls: Asynchronous vs Synchronous Calls and Interceptors (Ricardo Peres)
• Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Improving Performance with Count() and LongCount() vs Any() (David McCarter)
• Boost Your CMake Development with Copilot Custom Instructions (Garrett Campbell)
• How to Use TestContainers in .NET (Grant Riordan)

AI

• The role of developer skills in agentic coding (Martin Fowler)
• Steve Sanderson Previews AI App Dev: Small Models, Agents and a Blazor Voice Assistant (David Ramel)
• Addendum to GPT-4o System Card: 4o image generation (OpenAI Team)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a formula to gauge the long-term success of AI investments (Todd Bishop)
• DeepSeek-V3 Now Runs At 20 Tokens Per Second On Mac Studio (BeauHD)
• Better care, enhanced security: How AI tools are reshaping healthcare (Helia Mohammadi)
• Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
• Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot (Kyle Wiggers)
• Extending Claude with External Tools: MCPs in Action (Pierre Belin)
• Command your tabs with AI in Opera One (Santiago Benavides García)
• Open-source AI is hard. Blueprints can help! (Stefan French)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• 8 Ways to Empower Engineering Teams to Balance Productivity, Security, and Innovation (Lance Haig)
• Commands or Events: Which One for Workflow? (Derek Comartin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Strengthening the Android App Ecosystem: Enhanced Tools for Secure & Efficient Development (Suzanne Frey)
• Minecraft: Vibrant Visuals Transforms the Game Into What You’ve Always Imagined in Your Head (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts & Videos

• Extract HTML to a Razor component in Visual Studio with 1 Click | On .NET (James Montemagno)
• 4o Image Generation in ChatGPT and Sora and OpenAI 4o Image Generation (OpenAI Team)
• .NET Aspire Community Standup – Adding and Extending Healthchecks (Maddy Montaquila & Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Random.Code() – Writing a Suppressor in Rocks, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
• FABRICate SQL database with dbt | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Nandan Hegde)
• Enhanced Editable Expression in IEnumerable Visualizer! | Visual Studio (Junyu Wang)

Podcasts

• Developer Tea – Dimensional Reframing – Think Along a New Axis (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Limiting Work-in-Progress Saved a Struggling Agile Team | Marina Lazovic (Vasco Duarte)
• Mastering Infrastructure as Code: Lessons from Matt Gowey’s Consultancy Experience – Adventures in DevOps #235 (Will Button, Warren Parad)
• RunAs Radio Episode #977 – Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks (Richard Campbell)
• Leading the Shift Podcast – AI and analytics on and off the court | NBA (Susan Etlinger)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – “The power of the humble embedding” (Eira May)
• The AI Fix Episode #43 – I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords! (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
• Per Kops: Architecture of Ollama and Local LLMs – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #342 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Creating The 2025 Stamp Collection (United States Postal Service)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #661 – Sunil Mallya on Small Language Models (Brijesh Ammanath)

Community & Events

• Elevate Your AI Expertise with Microsoft Azure: Learn Live Series for Developers (Lee Stott)
• CfP List Updated 2025-03-25 (Dave Aronson)
• Announcing: Azure API Center Hands-on Workshop 🚀 (Julia Muiruri)
• Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 9 (Apple)

Database

• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Wrapper Stored Procedures (Erik Darling)
• Unified, Cost-Effective Text-to-SQL and Business Intelligence with the AtScale Semantic Layer (Scott Murray)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• What’s New in Excel (March 2025) (Ms. Excel)
• What’s New in Planner – March 2025 (Nancy)

Miscellaneous

• VS Code – Change Python version (Bart Wullems)
• Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data (Louise Matsakis & Will Knight)
• A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – March 25, 2025 (#519) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Real-World Web Development with .NET 9: Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link