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Dew Drop – December 18, 2024 (#4324)

Top Links

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Release v10.0.0: .NET 9 support is here! (Gerald Versluis)
Bringing AI to the Browser – On-Device AI with the Web AI Toolkit (Justin Willis)
Announcing Flutter AI Toolkit (Amanda Fitch)
Announcing New Fine-Tuning Capabilities with o1-mini Model on Azure OpenAI Service (Nandini Muralidharan)
Refresh your Find results in Visual Studio (Leah Tran)
.NET Conf 2024 Recap – Celebrating .NET 9, AI, Community, & More (.NET Team)

Web & Cloud Development

PureBlazor CMS – A .NET CMS to build drag-and-drop sites with setup infrastructure (Nick Dimitrov)
Building a Persistent Counter with Alpine.Js (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers release v0.50.0 (Anthony Fu)
Kubernetes 1.32: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to Beta (Xing Yang)
Building LaTeX projects on Windows easily with Docker (Andrew Lock)
Using WordPress as a Data-Entry Site to Power a Central API (Antonius Hegyes)
TX Text Control for Linux Preview: Document Processing in ASP.NET Core on Azure App Services (Bjoern Meyer)
What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist? (Geoff Graham)
Node.js Features You Didn’t Know About: Part 2 (Peter Mbanugo)
Building Single-Tenant vs. Multi-Tenant Apps with Auth0 (Matthew Pereira)
FHIR TL;DW: Using LLMs to Process Longtitudinal Health Records (René Spronk)
Cloud Efficiency at Netflix (J. Han & Pallavi Phadnis)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Diving Deep into .NET MAUI (David Ramel)
Syncfusion Essential® UI Kit for .NET MAUI: Accelerate App Development with Pre-Built UI Pages (Jeyasri Murugan)

Visual Studio & .NET

EF Core 9 vs. Dapper: Performance Face-Off (Vladan Petrovic)
An Introduction to Corvus.JsonSchema Code Generator for .NET (Matthew Adams)
F# Discriminated Unions with SQL Enumerations (Ben Copeland)
Deserializing JSON to a string or a value (Phil Haack)

AI

Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft 2.0.1-preview (Gemini AI Client for .NET) | NuGet Gallery (Jochen Kirstätter)
OpenAI o1 and new tools for developers (OpenAI Team)
NVIDIA Unveils Its Most Affordable Generative AI Supercomputer (Chen Su)
How to add extensions to Gemini (Barbara Krasnoff)
PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts (Brenda Potts)
5 ways AI will shape businesses in 2025 (Oliver Parker)
Try our newest 2.0 Experimental Advanced model in Gemini Advanced (Patrick Kane)
How To Use Generative AI for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (Udi Weinberg)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How to get started on open-source development (Angela Lungati)
Automating with GitLab Duo, Part 3: Validating testing (Byron Boots)
Three Approaches To Amplify Your Design Projects (Olivia De Alba)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Celebrating Flutter’s “Production Era” (Michael Thomsen)
Mixed Reality Link and Windows App on Meta Quest Updates (Andrew London)
Video & web ad support in Flutter (Zoey Fan)
What’s new in CameraX 1.4.0 and a sneak peek of Jetpack Compose support (Scott Nien)
How Instagram enabled users to take stunning Low Light Photos (Donovan McMurray)

Screencasts & Videos

Seamless Integration of Azure SQL Database and Azure Logic Apps | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & David Alzamendi)
Uno Platform Live Coding: Looking at language qualifiers for resources files (Uno Platform)
Introduction to WebAssembly for Swift Developers | SwiftLeeds 2024 (Max Desiatov)
Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Jeramiah Dooley (Isaac Levin)
Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super: The World’s Most Affordable Generative AI Computer (NVIDIA)
AI Success 2025: Why It’s Time to Adapt to AI or Be Left Behind (The Small Reset)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Aligning Metrics and Mindsets in Agile Teams | Karthiga Seturaj (Vasco Duarte)
RunAs Radio #963 – Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with Yitzak Kesselman (Richard Campbell)
Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft Roadmap: What Was Hot in 2024 and Will Matter in 2025 (Mary Jo Foley)
Software Engineering Radio #647: Praveen Gujar on Gen AI for Digital Ad Tech Platforms (Kanchan Shringi)

Community & Events

Celebrating a Successful 2024: Key Achievements and Exciting Outlook for 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group (W3C)
Threads starts testing scheduled posts (Chris Welch)
Tech Moves: Allen Institute names new VP; Nordstrom board member steps down; and more (Kurt Schlosser)
Hackathons: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration (Rochelle Sonnenberg)
CfP List Updated 2024-12-17 (Dave Aronson)
Philly .NET January 2025 Meetup – Black Hat, DEFCON, Remote Code Execution. Oh, my! with John Iwasz (Philly .NET Team)

Database

SQL Server Column Encryption and Decryptionand#8203; with Code Examples (Rick Dobson)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

2024 in Review (Ms. Excel)

Miscellaneous

Developing on Windows 11 ARM64, one year in (Michael Niehaus)
Microspeak terms that didn’t take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI (Raymond Chen)
Paint.NET 5.1.2 Beta (build 9118) (Rick Brewster)
Honda and Nissan explore merger to navigate uncertain EV future (Umar Shakir)

More Link Collections

32 More Links and Resources for Technical Teams, Developers, Managers and Architects (John Kilmister)
Daily Reading List – December 17, 2024 (#462) (Richard Seroter)
Collective #890 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET: Build faster, more responsive, and asynchronous apps (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link

Dew Drop – December 10, 2024 (#4318)

Top Links

Ultra – An advanced profiler for .NET Applications on Windows (Alexandre Mutel)
Getting Started with the AI Dev Gallery (zteutsch)
Sora is Here (OpenAI Team)
Using Local AI models with .NET Aspire (Aaron Powell)
Keep working with non-blocking Code Cleanup in Visual Studio (Leah Tran)
EPISODE 6 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Take a Dump (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering tomorrow!
Ravi Ram: TechBash & Community Conferences – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #327 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Web & Cloud Development

Gluing JSON (Karl Seguin)
Manually Implementing an Identity Store for Asp.Net Identity (Paul Michaels)
Preserving the Pixel Art Look in Web Content (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Docker – Environment variable is not picked up (Bart Wullems)
Make an ASP.NET Core Controller API Culture-Sensitive with IValueProviderFactory (Jeremy Clark)
Easily Convert Excel to HTML in 3 Steps With C# (Kurmitha Manickhaperumal)
Blazor Solar Power Hour Recap (Lance McCarthy)
Unidirectional clipboard for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 (Ryan C. Clark)
Master Asynchronous JavaScript with RxJS (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
Feliz Navidad (jkone27)
Discover ideas with the Threads API (Dil Ibrahim)
First Public Working Drafts: Open Screen Application Protocol and Network Protocol (W3C Team)
Mastering SVG Arcs (Akshay Gupta)
Yet Another Anchor Positioning Quirk (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
Accessibility Best Practices for Single Page Applications (SPAs) (Ran Ronen)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

The State of Aspect-Oriented Programming in C# [2025] (Gael Fraiteur)
Issue: Windows Defender incorrectly detects malware in ZIP files containing .NET 9 AOT binaries (Dylan Beattie)
Visual Studio Dev Vexed by Copilot’s Obtuse ‘Responsible AI’ Refusal (David Ramel)
FSharp fsx scripts as a project’s viable starting point (Raphael)
Command Pattern with Undo and Redo in C#.NET (Ali Kolahdoozan)
What’s New in .NET 9 and C# 13 (Ricardo Peres)
C# 12: The Experimental Attribute (Thomas Claudius Huber)
The Gödelian Toolkit: Systematically Testing Simple Languages (Steve Goguen)
How to write Fable compiler plugin (Vladimir Shchur)
Updating to .NET 9 Has Benefits! Performance! (Mitchel Sellers)
How to Monitor Your App’s Performance with .NET Benchmarking (Ali Hamza Ansari)
Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Failing to create a shared_ptr (Raymond Chen)
Using the binary log to find the source of a .NET dependency (Gérald Barré)

AI

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser (Nilay Patel)
Microsoft’s AI boss and Sam Altman disagree on what it takes to get to AGI (Wes Davis)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Effective DevOps metrics (Steve Fenton)
Observability and Performance (Caitlin Candelmo)
Implementation and usage mindsets (Mark Seemann)
Slack Audit Logs and Anomalies (Ryan Katkov)
Break Stuff on Purpose (Sean Madden)
Complaints (Seth Godin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Flutter MVVM Riverpod Starter (Nam Anh Nguyen)
Notes from Google Play: The next phase of Play (Sam Bright)
Awesome Open Source Flutter Apps (Flutter Gems Community)
Mixed Reality Link coming very soon! (KevinCol)
Meta’s new Quest update has faster hand tracking and at-a-glance PC connections (Wes Davis)

Screencasts & Videos

Advent of Code 2024 Day 9: Disk Fragmenter in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 10: Hoof It in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
[Monkey Conf 2024] Debugging memory leaks in .NET MAUI (Pedro Jesus)
Program a PXL-App and WIN – PXL-Jam 2024 (The Pure State)
“Finding your way around the Fediverse” recording (Smartman Apps)
Connect customers to agents securely with Microsoft Entra External ID and Copilot Studio integration | The Low Code Revolution (Gomolemo Mohapi, Joylynn Kirui & Fabian Alves)
Use Copilots to Break Process and Discipline Silos (Part 2) | Azure Essentials Show (Jacob Benfeldt, Uli Homann & Vijay Mital)

Podcasts

The Changelog News Podcast #124 – A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe (Jerod Santo)
How to Structure Your React Projects – React Round Up #277 (Akash Joshi, Paige Niedringhaus & TJ VonToll)
Power Up Angular with RXjs with Armen Vardanyan – Adventures in Angular #434 (Charles Max Wood)
Gaining Stability with Rule Based Policies with Shimon Tolts – Adventures in DevOps #226 (Charles Max Wood, Jeffrey & Will Button)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Vulnerability as a Tool for Overcoming Change Resistance in an Agile Transformation | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)
Syntax Podcast #858: How to Go Deeper With Your Learning (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – “You don’t want to be that person”: What security teams need to understand about developers (Eira May)
SQL Server Radio Episode 170 – Interesting topics from PASS 2023 sessions (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
React Native Radio #316 – Debugging the Debugger with Cedric van Putten and Alex Hunt (Alex Hunt, Cedric van Putten & Jamon Holmgren)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #202 – Beyond Tiered SOCs: Detection as Code and the Rise of Response Engineering (Anton Chuvakin)
Meta Cast – Your 2025 Goal: More Value, Less Effort (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
The Amp Hour #684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Happy Engineer Podcast #198 – Another Reason Why We Need a Better Goal (Max Ahumada)
Python Bytes Podcast #413 – python-build-standalone finds a home (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Positive ‘anymore.’ ‘Wreaked’ or ‘wrought’? Seat of your pants. Pecan pie. (Mignon Fogarty & Neal Whitman)
Fragmented, The Software Podcast #253 – logcat – a new look at logging with Piwai from Square (Pierre-Yves Ricau & Kaushik Gopal)

Community & Events

2025 Trends That Will Shape Our World: The Definitive Guide to Innovation, AI, and Beyond (JD Meier)
Discover the top trending searches of 2024 (Jenny Lee)
Microsoft Ignite 2024 with MVP Communities (Rie Moriguchi)
Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup (Sarah Perez)

Database

Datasets in SSRS to Define the Data Structure (Scott Murray)
Choosing Between Triggers And Foreign Keys In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Turbocharging SQL Server OLAP in the Cloud: Unveiling the Real Impact of Hyperthreading on Performance (Joey Dantoni)
Marten Event Sourcing Gets Some New Tools (Jeremy D. Miller)
Index Usage For EXTRACT(YEAR FROM …), YEAR(…) etc. (Markus Winand)
T-SQL Tuesday #181: Query Store and its evolution (Dennes Torres)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint: From Concept, to Creation, to Impact + Live AMA (Jeff Teper)
Take control during screen sharing in Teams for the web (Katarina Tranker)
Bulk export of learner completion records is now generally available in Viva Learning (John Mighell)

PowerShell, Terminal & WSL

Running Linux GUI Apps on Windows (WSLg) is amazing! (Luis Quintanilla)

Miscellaneous

Typed Python in 2024: Well adopted, yet usability challenges persist (Aaron Pollack)
How to Build a Weather App with R Shiny (Elabonga Atuo)
Microsoft shares new data center design featuring a closed-loop water system for cooling (Lisa Stiffler)
ATTENTION: Applied Skills Update on Microsoft Learn (Mindy Rosenthal)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2024-50 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #168 (Sam Basu)
Daily Reading List – December 9, 2024 (#456) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

“Looks Good To Me”: Constructive code reviews (Adrienne Braganza) – Referral link

Dew Drop – December 2, 2024 (#4312)

Top Links

Bring Holiday Cheer to Friends & Family: Build a Cross-Platform Advent Calendar App for Every Device (Agnes Zitte)
Loading Knowledge into Copilot AI Agents with Power Automate (Mark Trinder)
.NET MAUI 9: Introducing the HybridWebView Project Template (Vijay Anand E G)
AI Audio Descriptions – Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to assist in the process of generating an Audio Description track (Saqib Shaikh)
Building Microfrontends with Firebase (Andrew Evans)
Announcing the Public Preview of OpenID Connect external identity provider support for Microsoft Entra External ID (Bora Ozbayburtlu)

Web & Cloud Development

If Not React, Then What? (Alex Russell)
Advent of Svelte (Svelte Team)
Integrations with .NET Aspire for AWS (AWS Team)
Deploy your ASP.NET Core Web API with the help of GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio Code. (Brian Kemboi)
Using ASP.NET Core with Azure Key Vault (Damien Bowden)
Building a background remover with Vue and Transformers.js (Emmanuel John)
Azure Quick Review (azqr): A Practical Overview (Gregor Suttie)
Syncfusion Essential® UI Kit for Angular: Accelerate UI Development with Customizable Blocks (Hari Venkatesh E)
From Code to Cloud: Deploy Your Java Apps to Azure in Just 2 Steps! (KenTao0903)
Monitoring C# Azure Functions in the Isolated Worker Model – Infrastructure & Configuration Deep Dive (Tomasz Pęczek)
IdentityServer in Docker Containers: Networking (Part 2) (Tore Nestenius)
Building an Azure Storage Data Integrity Checker with .NET (wernerrall)
Vite 6.0 is out! (Vite Team)
Prettier 3.4: A lot of bug fixes (Sosuke Suzuki)
ESLint v9.16.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
What’s new in Astro – November 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger)
WWWizzard Checks the WWW while you ZZZ! (Dave Aronson)
Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector (Martin Thwaites)
Using the ‘:not()’ pseudo-class to remove styles from ‘:last-child’ (Stephanie Stimac)

Visual Studio & .NET

Run Cli Commands with F# and Reflection for testing serialization (Kevin Logan)
What’s the Difference Between .NET, .NET Core ASP.NET, etc? (Pablo Aguirre de Souza)
C# 13–Implicit index access and Visual Studio 2022 17.12- Show inline return values while debugging (Bart Wullems)
Short-circuiting an asynchronous traversal (Mark Seemann)
Installing .NET 9 Alongside Older Versions on Ubuntu 22.04 (Georg Dangl)
How to Connect a SQLite Database to EF Core (Muhammed Saleem)
Bending .NET – ReadLine Patterns (Nietras)
Release Notes for .Unit.net v3 0.7.0-pre.15 [2024 November 30] (xUnit.net Team)
Transactional Emails: A long term view (Jeremy)
Assessing the attack complexity of a race condition security vulnerability (Raymond Chen)
Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s String Extension Methods (David McCarter)
Having fun with ValueTuple (Steven Giesel)
DI-Cluttering Your Code (John Waters)

AI

Secure Adoption of Copilot in Organizations (Dela Nakhaei)
AWS Amplify AI Kit (Sébastien Stormacq)
Enhance AI System Accuracy using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) (Chris Pietschmann)
New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available (Veliswa Boya)

Design, Methodology & Testing

There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 (Charity Majors)
What is Burnout? and Burnout Symptoms: How to Recognize Emotional and Physical Signs Early and Burnout Explained: Freudenberger’s Model and Why It Matters Today (JD Meier)
Implementing the Saga Pattern With MassTransit (Milan Jovanović)
Command vs Control (Jessica Kerr)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Finished Course: iPhone Apps for Complete Beginners with Swift, SwiftUI & iOS17 (PacktPub) (Marco Siccardi)
Deploying Ultralytics YOLO models on Raspberry Pi devices (Naush Patuck)
CubeBouncer revisited – setting up Mixed Reality for Quest 3 with MRTK3 and Unity 6 (Joost van Schaik)

Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Joe Sharmer on Migration, Modernization and Entra (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 237 – Tech History Repeats Itself (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
Get ready for Advent of Code 2024 in 5 minutes! and Advent of Code 2024 Day 1: Historian Hysteria in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 572 and Random.Code() – Allowing Mock Types To Having Different Visibility in Rocks (Jason Bock)
GitHub Copilot code review | New feature announcement (GitHub Team)

Podcasts

React and Beyond: The Importance of Learning DOM APIs – JavaScript Jabber #659 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
The PowerShell Podcast – Jordan Returns: A Fun Dive into Life, PowerShell, and Beyond (James Petty)
JS Party Podcast #348 – WYSIWYG (Kent C. Dodds, Theo Browne, Kevin Ball & Nick Nisi)
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast #582 – The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe Book Club (with James Wynn, Craig Brewer) (David Barr Kirtley)
Practical AI Podcast #297 – Clones, commerce & campaigns (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Lenny’s Podcast – Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Talk Python to Me #487 – Building Rust Extensions for Python (Michael Kennedy)
Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Nora find technology as a way of expressing artistry (Pam Selle)
Syntax Podcast #854: Animating the Web With Matt Perry: Exploring motion.dev (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
GeekWire Podcast – AI, Google Docs, and the messiness of innovation, with Microsoft Deputy CTO Sam Schillace (Todd Bishop)

Community & Events

Deno vs Oracle: Who Really Owns JavaScript? (Abraham Dahunsi)
Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation and Y Combinator’s Demo Day is back in person (Anthony Ha)
Angular Christmas Calendar 2024 (Daniel Glejzner & Pawel Kubiak)
Ensuring Hachyderm’s Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic Placement of Infrastructure (Hachyderm Team)
C# Advent Calendar 2024 (Matt Groves)
Advent Of Code 2024 Now Underway (Lucy Black)
Bluesky implements a ‘more aggressive’ impersonation policy (Mariella Moon)
Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts ‘Scammers and Impersonators’ (EditorDavid)
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky (Bluesky Team)
MVP’s Learnings from Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Rie Moriguchi)
GitHub Deceased User Policy (GitHub Docs)

Database

MySQL Retrospective – The Early Years (Scott Stroz)
Performance Pains With NOT IN And NULLable Columns In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
Overlapping Ranges in Subsets in PostgreSQL (Lee Asher)

Miscellaneous

The Great Gift Guide for the Holidays: Top Amazon Picks for 2024 (J.D. Meier)
Files is now available on WinGet (Files Team)
Airlines redesigned the way you choose your seat—and raked in $12.4 billion in the process (Hunter Schwarz)
Ship’s Crew Suspected of Deliberately Dragging Anchor for 100 Miles To Cut Baltic Cables and Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft (msmash)
Paint.NET 5.1.1 Beta (build 9098) (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

F# Weekly #48, 2024 – Tomorrow is the first day of #FsAdvent (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Manning’s Math for Programmers 2024 Book Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link

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