Dew Drop – December 13, 2024 (#4321)

Top Links

• Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.4! Partial properties support for MVVM, new analyzers, and more! (Sergio Pedri)
• Keep Your Windows PC Awake – With PowerToys Awake (Den Delimarsky)
• An introduction to Multi-Agent AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure OpenAI (Theo van Kraay)
• Introducing the Android XR SDK Developer Preview (Matthew McCollough)
• Boost your Git confidence with the new file rename notification (Jessie Houghton)
• Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning (ecekamar)

Web & Cloud Development

• Blazor EditForm OnSubmit behavior (Rocky Lhotka)
• Kubernetes v1.32: Memory Manager Goes GA (Talor Itzhak)
• Getting Started with API Gateways in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• ASP.NET Core 9.0: Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi and Swagger UI (Jaliya Udagedara)
• Announcing the Pulumi Copilot REST API Preview (Artur Laksberg)
• Build Micro Frontends with single-spa: A Guide (Thamodi Wickramasinghe)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• OpenSilver Adds XAML Designer For Visual Studio Code (Kay Ewbank)
• AI Dev Gallery (Bruno Sonnino)

Visual Studio & .NET

• MessagePack for C# v3 Release with Source Generator Support (Yoshifumi Kawai)
• Your First day on the team = releasing Your first feature (Urs Enzler)
• C# Advent 2024 – Making a List, Checking It Twice (Barret Blake)
• Hello Linux! Almost There – A Game-Changer for Document Processing (Bjoern Meyer)
• Syncfusion Essential Studio® 2024 Volume 4 Is Here! (Lucy Njeri Muturi)
• .NET Cancellation Tokens (Ricardo Peres)

AI

• AI Engineering Lessons from Building Pulumi Copilot (Adam Gordon Bell)
• Exploring AI’s Role in Automating Software Testing (Ben Linders)
• Inside the launch — and future — of ChatGPT (Kylie Robison)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Securing The NuGet Supply Chain: A Case Study (Andy Wilson)
• Your guide to evolving company culture—one step at a time (Cinthiya)
• Master the Basics (Donn Felker)
• Let’s Get Containerized: Simplifying Complexity for Modern Businesses (Kenan Salihbegovic)
• Application Shielding: A Helpful Guide (PreEmptive Team)
• API naming principles for conditional operations: On, When, and If (Raymond Chen)

Screencasts & Videos

• Building a plugin system with C# (Jeff Fritz)
• GraphQL for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Buck Woody)
• Advent of Code 2024 Day 12: Garden Groups in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 13: Claw Contraption in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show – Open-Source and Our Digital Legacies with Scott Harden (Jamie Taylor)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Empowering Teams and Retrospective Tools | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)
• AGL 395: Adrian Kelly (John Rouda)
• The Changelog Podcast #621 – Building the developer cloud (Kurt Mackey & Adam Stacoviak)
• Meta Tech Podcast Episode #68 – How to build a mixed reality headset (Pascal Hartig & Alfred Jones)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 497: Big Math (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
• AWS Developers Podcast Episode #143 – Jeff Barr: 20 years of blogging (Sébastien Stormacq)
• Talk Python to Me #488 – Multimodal data with LanceDB (Michael Kennedy)

Database

• T-SQL Shortcomings With Merge And Triggers And Stuff (In SQL Server) (Erik Darling)
• Marten Improvements in 7.34 (Jeremy D. Miller)

Miscellaneous

• My favorite Mac Apps 2024 (Julian)
• Year in Search 2024: The Breakout searches of the year (Simon Rogers)

More Link Collections

• Daily Reading List – December 12, 2024 (#459) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Career: Soft Skills for Software Engineers | Dometrain (Nick Cosentino & Ryan Murphy) – Referral link