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Dew Drop – September 16, 2025 (#4498)

Top Links

Diving Into Spec-Driven Development With GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
Managing Containers in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Lance McCarthy)
VS Code: Introducing auto model selection (preview) (Isidor Nikolic)
Introducing the Pure React Data Grid: Built with Hooks for Faster, Leaner UIs (Mohammed Farook J.)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Alvin Ashcraft (Isaac Levin)
Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET Apps (Chuck Weininger)

Web & Cloud Development

Learning web development: Authenticating users with plain Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
Vue Basics: Mastering the Vue Lifecycle Hooks (David Adeneye Abiodun)
Working and Testing Against Scheduled Messages with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
Meet the New Pure React Components – Essential Studio Volume 3, 2025 (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)
Announcing V2.31.0 of the Vonage Video API (Jonatan Sempere)
WebKit Features in Safari 26.0 (Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Jon Davis, Tim Nguyen, Blaze Burg, Marcos Cáceres, Razvan Caliman, Qianlang Chen, Karl Dubost, Kiet Ho, David Johnson, Aditya Keerthi, Daniel Liu, Keith Miller, Abrar Rahman Protyasha, Richard Robinson, Kiara Rose, Ahmad Saleem, Anne van Kesteren, Brian Weinstein, Eddy Wong, Luming Yin & Brandel Zachernuk)
Microsoft Entra ID Gets AI-Powered Tool to Streamline Access Decisions (Rabia Noureen)
Code Your Own Code Editor (Beau Carnes)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Recap: What’s New in .NET MAUI for .NET 10 (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio & .NET

Kernel Ridge Regression with Cholesky Inverse Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
Demystifying async void in C#: Why It’s Dangerous and When It’s Okay (Ali Hamza Ansari)
Duende Most Anticipated .NET 10 Auth Features (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Building Event Sourcing with EventStore and .NET: From Theory to Production (Sudhir Mangla)
Supporting platform-specific .NET tools on old .NET SDKs: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 8 (Andrew Lock)
Day 32: When Genetic Algorithms Go Wrong: Debugging Poor Performance and Premature Convergence (Chris Woodruff)
Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1 (David Engel)

AI

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code (Tom Warren)
Using AI Agents for Reranking in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure (Pranab Paul)
Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex and How people are using ChatGPT and Introducing upgrades to Codex (OpenAI Team)
MCP as Your Integration Layer (Adam Cogan)
New Apple Intelligence features are available today (Apple)
Why Agentic AI Orchestration Is Key To Managing AI Complexity (B. Cameron Gain)
When AI Writes Code, Who Secures It? (Chloé Messdaghi)
MCP in Practice (Ilan Strauss, Sruly Rosenblat, Isobel Moure & Tim O’Reilly)
Introducing the MCP Registry (Andrew Hoblitzell)
15 Best Practices for Building MCP Servers in Production (Janakiram MSV)
Microsoft leads shift beyond data unification to organization, delivering next-gen AI readiness with new Microsoft Fabric capabilities (Jessica Hawk)
The Nine Rules of AI PoC Success: How to Build Demos That Actually Ship (Jim Clark)
Agent Factory: Connecting agents, apps, and data with new open standards like MCP and A2A (Yina Arenas)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Migrating from XUnit v2 to v3 – What’s new? (Bart Wullems)
Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub (Brian M. Carlson)
Who moved my menus? (Craig Symonds)
Regex for Email Validation? Think Again! (Derek Comartin)
Migrating Test Code with AI: From Frameworks to Languages (Gil Zilberfeld)
The evolution of platform engineering: Lessons from the trenches (Rickey Zachary)
Greyscale-box test-driven development (Mark Seemann)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

It’s Maker Monday! Here are some of the top Raspberry Pi builds we’ve spotted recently (Ashley Whittaker)
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape (Bogden Ionescu)
Swift 6.2 Released (Holly Borla)
Microsoft is changing how Xbox controllers work on Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (Lorenzo Colitti & Patrick Rohr)
New versions of Apple’s software platforms are available today (Apple)
Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display (Jay Peters)
Seamlessly Access Your Gaming Library, Apps, and Play History in One Place with Xbox on Windows PCs and Handheld (Mike Nelson)

Screencasts & Videos

ASP.NET Community Standup – .NET WebAssembly performance improvements (Daniel Roth & Larry Ewing)
5 Dependency Injection Mistakes You Need to Avoid! (Michael Jolley)

Podcasts

The Hanselminutes Podcast – Making Video Games in 2025 with Celeste’s Noel Berry (Scott Hanselman)
Merge Conflict Episode #480 – Hello iPhone 17 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
InfoQ Podcast: Scaling Systems, Companies, and Careers with Suhail Patel (Suhail Patel)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company (Ryan Donovan)
Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #485 – ADHD & Anxiety to Public Speaking w/ Will Klein (Taylor Desseyn)
Getting Black Women Paid Podcast Bonus Episode: The Truth About Turning 40—and Why It Feels Like Freedom (‘Tine Zekis)
Syntax Podcast Episode #937 – Is The Omarchy Hype Real? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Dev Leader Podcast – How To Build Teams That Actually Care – Interview With Ryan Varley (Nick Cosentino)
The Database Migration Disaster— Why Software Development Teams Need Psychological Safety | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and When Scrum Masters Forget to Listen – A Team Trust Crisis in Agile Implementation | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Shawn Dsouza)
The PowerShell Podcast – Beginnings, Blue Bars, and the Valley of Despair with Steven Judd (James Petty)
The Changelog News Podcast Episode #161 – Just enough automation (Jerod Santo)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #243 – Email Security in the AI Age: An Epic 2025 Arms Race Begins (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Python Bytes Episode #449 – Suggestive Trove Classifiers (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)

Community & Events

GameDev Day 2025 Is Back in October! (Anna Ruban)
A Sneak Peek at Maker Faire Bay Area 2025 (Jamie Agius)
Amazon announces its fall hardware event (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)

Database

Natural Language Query for SQL Server (Hadi Fadlallah)
Introducing the Azure SQL hub: A simpler, guided entry into Azure SQL (ivujic)
Use SQL to Find a String in Database Tables, Stored Procedures, and User Defined Functions (Mircea Dragan)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Copilot Chat comes to the Microsoft 365 apps (Seth Patton)

PowerShell & Terminal

Cursor CLI Beta – Built to help you ship, right from your terminal (Cursor Team)

Miscellaneous

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-38 (Michael Eaton)
Daily Reading List – September 15, 2025 (#627) (Richard Seroter)
AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025) (Channy Yun)
Reading Notes #665 (Frank Boucher)
The .NET News Daily Issue #284 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Electronics for the Curious eBook Humble Bundle (No Starch Press) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – September 15, 2025 (#4497)

Top Links

You’re Invited! Join Progress & Microsoft for a Free VS Code Dev Days Event! (Sara Faatz)
VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #5 – Life of a VS Code SWE Intern with Christy Nguyen (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v7.9 (Vijay Anand E G)
Profiler Copilot Agent | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Harshada Hole)
Mads Kristensen: Visual Studio 2026 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #367 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Building Premium Apps with .NET MAUI and Syncfusion (Sept 18th) (Syncfusion)

Web & Cloud Development

A Better Way to Tune the JVM in Dockerfiles and Kubernetes Manifests (Bruno Borges)
The 7 Best Cloud Hosting Providers for WordPress Sites (Jen Swisher)
Building Production-Ready GraphQL APIs with HotChocolate: DataLoaders, Subscriptions, and Federation (Sudhir Mangla)
Learning web development: Implementing web servers (Axel Rauschmayer)
Subgrid: how to line up elements to your heart’s content (Saron Yitbarek)
Web Development according to Grok is all about libraries… (Chris Heilmann)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Plugin.Maui.DebugOverlay provides a simple ribbon to indicate the app is running in Debug mode and .NET MAUI iOS Live Activity sample (pull request) (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

Dapper Plus Entity Framework: Hybrid Data Access for Maximum Performance (Sudhir Mangla)
Putting Lazy Tasks in a Cache, and Computing Only Once, When First Requested (Bryan Hogan)
Writing your own batched sink in Serilog (Bart Wullems)
Cake.Sdk 5.0.25257.82-beta released (Mattias Karlsson)
Day 31: Best Practices for Tuning Genetic Algorithm Parameters (Chris Woodruff)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Ensure Thread-Safe Uniqueness with DistinctConcurrentBag in Spargine (David McCarter)
Compress HttpClient requests with GZIP (Josef Ottosson)
How can I convert a third party in-process server so it runs in the COM surrogate? (Raymond Chen)

AI

Building an AI Agent using RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Guide to Freezing Layers in AI Models (Exxact Team)
What is Microsoft MarkItDown and Why It Matters? (Niraj Ranasinghe)
Get the most out of Firebase Studio’s default built-in model, Gemini 2.5 Pro (Ali Satter & James O’Reilly)
Announcing OpenAI Grove (OpenAI Team)
Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI Race to Lock In Elite AI Talent and Claude Code Is Teaching Developers to Be Their Own Tech Leads (AI Native Dev)
Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it (Dominic-Madori Davis)
The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes (EditorDavid)
Don’t Break Your Brand with AI (JD Meier)
Our commitment to help build AI skills in higher education (jeanaj)
Building personal apps with open source and AI (Kedasha Kerr)
Microsoft is Making ‘Significant Investments’ in Training Its Own AI Models and AI Triggers 70% Collapse in Fresh Graduate Hiring at India’s IT Giants That Employ 5.4 Million (msmash)
Fantasy Football with a Copilot (Nelson L. Walker)
Preparing for an AI-powered Holiday Shopping Season (Suzanne Scacca)
Rolling Stone’s parent company sues Google over AI Overviews (Terrence O’Brien)

Design, Methodology & Testing

3 Resilience Tips for Mental Toughness (J.D. Meier)
How to add unit testing to Minimal APIs routes using xUnit (David Grace)
Why is working faster not working? (Tim Ottinger)
Achieve Effortless GitHub Releases With a New Plugin for TeamCity (Dmitrii Korovin)
From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards (Karan Rawal)
Vertical Slice Architecture Is Easier Than You Think (Milan Jovanović)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

3 pro tips to elevate your Firebase skills in the Firebase console (Yvonne Monterroso)
Steam KEEPS growing, and Nintendo is coming for your summons! (Code Monkey)

Screencasts & Videos

The ONLY guide you’ll need for GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
Random.Code() – Fixing a Code Fix in Transpire and Changing a Refactoring in Rocks and Random.Code() – More Refactoring Work in Rocks (Jason Bock)
C code that should be ILLEGAL. It’s also fantastic. (Frank LaVigne)
The Download: A major npm supply chain attack, NVIDIA’s new chip & more (Kedasha Kerr)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Podcast – Umbraco Unplugged: Emma Burstow & Mats Persson on Umbraco Being The Friendly, Truly Open-Source, CMS (Jamie Taylor)
Developer Tea – View Your Productivity Through the Lens of Values and Priorities (Jonathan Cutrell)
React Native Radio #343 – Discord’s Journey to React Native with Chas Jhin (Robin Heinze, Mazen Chami & Jamon Holmgren)
Betatalks, the Podcast #113 – Vector Databases and RAG for Grounding AI in Reliable Data – with Christian Peeters (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #484 – Navigating a 20 year Career in Tech w/ Sunil Pai (Taylor Desseyn)
Problems vs. Solutions: The Great Product Owner Distinction | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bernie Maloney)
Batteries Included Podcast #109 – Awesome EVs Of IAA Munich Auto Show, Driving Lucid Sapphire At 200 MPH (Batteries Included Team)
Exploring Vibe Coding and the Future of Product Management with Gunnar Berger – JavaScript Jabber #690 (Charles Max Wood)
Meta Cast Podcast – How Great Leaders Create Win-Win Outcomes (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
A Geek Leader #434 – The Vale by Abigail Wen (John Rouda)
The Real Python Podcast Episode #265 – Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python’s History (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
Dev Leader Podcast – From Spanish Teacher to GREAT Software Engineer – Interview With David Weiss (Nick Cosentino)
The Amp Hour #702 – Test Point Accupuncture (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Lenny’s Podcast – The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Season 2 opener! Now co-hosted with Sarah Withee! (Pam Selle)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Planning to Arm mobile devices with chips that handle AI (Ryan Donovan)

Community & Events

Google kicks off the Pennsylvania AI Accelerator for small businesses | The Keyword (Google)
xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team (Anthony Ha)
More Return-to-Office Crackdowns, with 61.7% of Employees Now in Office Full-Time (EditorDavid)
Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk (Jay Peters)
IndiaAI Pre-Summit Events 2025: How to Apply and Draft a Winning Proposal (Rohit Gupta)
Discover what’s in store at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and 🚀 Join Us for the Migrate and Modernize Summit – September 23-24, 2025 (Jill Armour)
Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse (Emma Roth)

Database

Enhancing Group Security Improvements in Azure PostgreSQL (Joey Dantoni)
Visualize Graphs in SQL Developer for VS Code (Ramu Murakami Gutierrez)
Innovation or Fragility? Help shape the State of the Database Landscape (David Gummer)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Read Committed, Not So Committed (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Evolving our productivity offerings to resolve European competition concerns about Teams (Microsoft 365 Team)
Show or hide the Copilot icon in OneNote on Windows (Bola Soneye)

PowerShell & Terminal

Codebuff AI Coding Assistant – Generate code from the terminal (James Grugett)
Warp Code Gets Closer to an Emacs for the Modern AI Era (David Eastman)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files Preview v4.0.6 (Files Team)
Why the Zork Trilogy is still worth playing (and how to play it!) (Derek)
Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.6713 and 26200.6713 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6682 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6682 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Bradon LeBlanc)
Most Earth-Like Planet Yet May Have Been Found Just 40 Light Years Away (EditorDavid)
Enable Nested Virtualization on Windows Server 2025 (Orin Thomas)
Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement (Terrence O’Brien)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #37, 2025 – .NET 10 RC1 & FScrobble (Sergey Tihon)
Links For You (9/13/25) (Raymond Camden)
Azure Weekly #531 – 14th September 2025 (The Editor)
The .NET News Daily Issue #283 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link

Dew Drop – September 12, 2025 (#4496)

Top Links

MAUI Blazor Hybrid: Build Fast, Beautiful Desktop Apps (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
GitHub Copilot coding agent 101: Getting started with agentic workflows on GitHub (Alexandra Lietzke)
Generating and Viewing Mermaid Diagrams with Copilot (Simona Liao)
Democratizing Performance: The Copilot Profiler Agent in Action on Real Code (Harshada Hole)
The Gaps and Richness of the .NET Ecosystem (Sam Basu)
VS Code August 2025 Release (version 1.104) (Visual Studio Code Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.8.2 (Mladen Macanović)
Kubernetes v1.34: Mutable CSI Node Allocatable Graduates to Beta (Eddie Torres)
Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE (Micah Walter)
Secure your Yarp BFF with cookie-based authentication (Tim Deschryver)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

No More Copy-Paste: Try the New .NET MAUI Markdown Viewer (Dhanaraj Rajendran)
WinUI.TableView v1.3.2 Release (Waheed Ahmad)
Simplifying Implicit and Global XML Namespaces in .NET 10 for .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

C# Magical Syntax (Ricardo Peres)
Why can’t std::apply figure out which overload I intend to use? Only one of then will work! (Raymond Chen)

AI

Bringing memory to teams at work (Anthropic Team)
Taming Chaos with Antifragile GenAI Architecture (Shreshta Shyamsundar)
The Future of AI Is Responsible—And Azure AI Foundry Is Leading the Way (Priyanka)
Tool-space interference in the MCP era: Designing for agent compatibility at scale (Adam Fourney, Tyler Payne, Maya Murad & Saleema Amershi)
Ollama– Running LLM’s locally (Bart Wullems)
AI Use At Large Companies Is In Decline, Census Bureau Says (BeauHD)
Tricks from OpenAI gpt-oss YOU 🫵 can use with transformers (Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Sergio Paniego, Vaibhav Srivastav, Pedro Cuenca, Arthur Zucker, Nathan Habib & Cyril Vallez)
The Agentic Web: How AI Agents Are Shaping the Web’s Future (Richard MacManus)
Integrate Your Auth0 Secured Remote MCP Server in ChatGPT Developer Mode (Will Johnson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Day 30: Unit Testing Your Evolution: Making Genetic Algorithms Testable and Predictable (Chris Woodruff)
The 7 Best Code Obfuscation Tools to Protect Your Applications (Michelle Pruitt)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Shader Model 6.9 and The Future of Cooperative Vector (Serena Tang)

Screencasts & Videos

What is the relationship between Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry? | One Dev Question (Scott Durow)
Azure AI Translator API (Public Preview) in Azure AI Foundry (April Gittens)
Building a Snapshot Backup Catalog with SQL Server 2025 and Pure Storage FlashArray | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Dhananjay Mahajan (DJ Data) & Anthony Nocentino)
.NET MAUI Community Standup – Talking RC1, iPhone, and more (David Ortinau & Gerald Versluis)
Install and Configure Windows Server 2025 Server Core | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Cool web coding and chat | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Why Software Development Sucks And 7 Mental Models To Help Fix It (Thanos Diacakis)
From Permission-Seeking to Forgiveness-Begging—Agile Team Evolution in Self-Management | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bernie Maloney)
AWS Developers Podcast Episode #181 – Lambda Runtimes deep dive: Behind the serverless curtain (Maxime David)
Dev Leader Podcast – How to Structure to Data with AI: Interview With Kirk Marple of Graphlit (Nick Cosentino)
Lenny’s Podcast – $46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Software Defined Talk Episode #537 – YOLO acquisitions (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Grammar Girl Podcast – From clay tablets to the Gutenberg press, with Keith Houston (Mignon Fogarty)
Practical AI Podcast Episode #328 – Cracking the code of failed AI pilots (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)

Community & Events

The MCP Maintainers Meet In New York (Den Delimarsky)
Statement on OpenAI’s Nonprofit and PBC (OpenAI Team)
Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2025 (Michael Price)
A joint statement from Microsoft and OpenAI (Microsoft)

Database

Troubleshooting SQL Server – Starting with the Error Log (gbargsley)
Real AI development and real wins with the new VS Code extension for PostgreSQL (JoshMSFT)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: Reads Deadlocking Writes Under Read Committed (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling (Tom Warren)

PowerShell & Terminal

When Az CLI and Windows Stop Playing Nice (Shannon Kuehn)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files Preview v4.0.4 (Files Team)
Microsoft September Security Patch: 8 Critical Bugs, 2 Publicly Disclosed Zero-Days (Chris Paoli)
Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5982 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.6388 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – September 11, 2025 (#626) (Richard Seroter)
The .NET News Daily Issue #282 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

.NET MAUI Cookbook: Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more (Alexander Russkov) – Referral Link

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