lottie animations – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – August 5, 2025 (#4473)

Top Links

Introducing OpenSilverShowcase.com: 200+ Live .NET UI Samples, Free for the Community (OpenSilver Team)
Automate your project with GitHub Models in Actions (Kevin Lewis)
Visual Studio Productivity Tips and Tricks | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Leslie Richardson)
Enhancing .NET MAUI App Appearance Using Lottie Animations (Héctor Pérez)
The new Dependabot NuGet updater: 65% faster with native .NET (Jamie Magee & Brett Forsgren)
Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security (Laura Jiang)

Web & Cloud Development

Implementing k-Nearest Neighbors Regression Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
Animating our Grid (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
5 Methods to Keep Docker Container Running for Debugging (James Walker)
Frontend Development Trends 2025: Top Trends, Tools & Frameworks You Need to Know (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
Passkey support for ASP.NET Core identity: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 6 (Andrew Lock)
WebStorm 2025.2: TypeScript-Go Language Server Support, Baseline Support, Bun Improvements, and More (David Watson)
The Problems With React Server Components (Loraine Lawson)
Building React Apps with Bun: A Modern Development Experience (Peter Mbanugo)
Creating a Calendar with BoxLang – Part JavaScript (Raymond Camden)
How to integration test exception handlers in ASP.NET Core (Thomas Ardal)
How to Create a Virtual Green Screen Using the Vonage Video API (Richard Sabbarton)
Best Practices of Web Application Security in 2025 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access (Irina Nechaeva)
How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (Patrick Thier)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

InfluxDB and C# (Bryan Hogan)
Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.11 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
How can I read more than 4GB of data from a file in a single call to ReadFile? (Raymond Chen)
Dynamically Update C++ syntax using Next Edit Suggestions (Sinem Akinci)
C# 14 Extension Members: Also Known as Extension Everything (NDepend Team)
Syncfusion Excel Library: A Powerful Alternative to Aspose.Cells (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
Day 19: Scheduling with DNA: Using GAs for Class and Work Timetables (Chris Woodruff)

AI

How Docker MCP Toolkit Works with VS Code Copilot Agent Mode (Hamida Rebaï)
What’s new in Copilot Studio: July 2025 (Kendra Springer)
Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] Now Available in Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
What we’re optimizing ChatGPT for (OpenAI Team)
What Is MCP? Model Context Protocol Explained Simply (Ioannis Moustakis)
Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part IV–Telemetry integration and Microsoft.Extensions.AI –Part V–Chat history (Bart Wullems)
What is Langflow? The Visual Framework to Build LLM Apps Without Writing Code (Mahesh Chand)
I Built a Custom MCP Server in Golang To Make Claude Smarter—Here’s How (Rajashree M.)
Microsoft study shows jobs most — and least — impacted by generative AI (Taylor Soper)
NotebookLM is now available to younger users. (Tin-Yun Ho)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Introducing Approvals in Pulumi ESC (Claire Gaestel)
Cross-pollination as a strategic advantage for forward-thinking organizations (Phoebe Sajor)

Screencasts & Videos

On .NET Live | Supercharge your SQL development with modern .NET (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
Zune vs. iPod: What Microsoft Got Right (and Wrong) and AI Model Life Cycle: From Planning to Deployment to Retirement (Frank LaVigne)
16 Cool GitHub Repos You WILL Use (no pressure) (The Coding Sloth)
How to use AI models in your GitHub Actions workflows (GitHub Team)
Random.Code() – More Refactoring Work in AutoDeconstruct (Jason Bock)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: The Financial Architecture of Software with Ian Miell (Ian Miell)
The PowerShell Podcast – From EntraAuth to PSConfEU with Fred Weinmann (James Petty)
The Productive C# Podcast – Want to Level Up Faster in Your Career? Say YES to These Two Questions (Andrea Angella)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #237 – Making Security Personal at the Speed and Scale of TikTok (Anton A. Chuvakin)
PPP 473 | Beyond the Hype: The Science of Impactful Leadership, with Jeffrey Hull & Margaret Moore (Andy Kaufman)
The Changelog News Podcast Episode #155 – The smell of vibe coding (Jerod Santo)
Only Malware in the Building Episode #14 – Work from home, malware included (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
Python Bytes Podcast Episode #443 – Patching Multiprocessing (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
Grammar Girl Podcast – How pronouns reveal our psychology. How’d we get our alphabet? Tabagogox. (Mignon Fogarty & Valerie Fridland)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Being unambiguous in what you want: the software engineer in a vibe coding world (Phoebe Sajor)
When Knowledge Hoarding Destroys Team Dynamics | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Florian Georgescu)
Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Legal Must-Knows for Business Owners: Don’t Build Without This (with Temi Siyanbade) (‘Tine Zekis)
Syntax Podcast Episode #925 – Scott & CJ’s Fave Productivity Apps & Web Apps (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Community & Events

Amazon lays off staff and restructures Wondery podcast unit (Taylor Soper)
September 2025 in Philly: The Biggest Events, Fests & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)
Microsoft cuts another 40 jobs in Washington state, continuing layoffs amid AI investment surge (Todd Bishop)

Database

How to Use the psql Command-Line Tool with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server (Robert Sheldon)
Mastering SQL VIEWs: Syntax, Use Cases, and Best Practices (Joe Celko)
When Your Relational Database Isn’t the Right Tool Anymore (Heather Downing)

PowerShell

Securing PowerShell: How to Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Part 2 (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Files Preview v3.9.14 (Files Team)
Current Events (Chris Given)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-32 (Michael Eaton)
Daily Reading List – August 4, 2025 (#601) (Richard Seroter)
Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – August 4 (Peter Ritchie)
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025) (Danilo Poccia)
The .NET News Daily Issue #254 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link

Dew Drop – October 31, 2023 (#4058)

Top Links

PowerShell 7.4 Release Candidate 1 (Sydney Smith)
How to Add a Blazor WebAssembly Project to an ASP.NET Core App (Satheeskumar S.)
Discover What’s New in PowerToys v0.75.0: Environment Variables, Peek Updates, and More (Kunal Chowdhury)
Creating Animated Login UI in .NET MAUI with Lottie (Leomaris Reyes)
.NET 8: What’s New for Authentication and Authorization (Andrea Chiarelli)
Deep Dive Analysis: Why did this dll increase in file size by 50%? (Keith Mahoney)

Web & Cloud Development

E-Sign: Validating Signature Hashes Generated from Vector Data in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Assume breach and minimize the impact with network security groups (Patrick van Kleef)
Authenticating Users with Appwrite and Vue (Ezekiel Lawson)
What Exactly is “Modern” CSS? (Geoff Graham)
Wolverine and Serverless (Jeremy D. Miller)
Docker Desktop 4.25: Enhancements to Docker Desktop on Windows, Rosetta for Linux GA, and New Docker Scout Image Analysis Settings (Mihaela Stoica)
Blazor Unit Testing Tutorial – How to Master with Practical Examples in C# (Nick Cosentino)
Rust + WebAssembly: building infrastructure for Large Language Model ecosystems (Sam Liu & Miley Fu)

Visual Studio & .NET

Strangler Fig Architectural Pattern in C# (Code Maze)
A C# port of validation with partial round trip (Mark Seemann)
Publish .NET Docker images using .NET SDK and GitHub Actions (Laurent Kempe)
Metalama Status Update, October 2023 (Gael Fraiteur)
What are the dire consequences of not removing all the properties that were set via SetProp? (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

Azure DevOps Workload Identity Federation (Emmanuel Knafo)
AI.gov – Making AI Work for the American People (U.S. Govt.)
Learn about Azure OpenAI Model Version Upgrades (Keiji Kanazawa)
How to Determine URL a Local Git Repository was Originally Cloned From (Chris Pietschmann)
All treats, no tricks: 6 solutions to common developers challenges (Google for Developers Team)
Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer on the Future of Password-Less Authentication (Neal Fennimore)
The architecture of today’s LLM applications (Nicole Choi)
Conflict Resolution: Navigating Disagreements with Soft Skills (Peter Smulovics)
How AI Can Supercharge Observability (Tomer Levy)
Semantic Kernel-Powered OpenAI Plugin Development Lifecycle (Vivek Garudi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

MonoGame, the order of things! (Simon Jackson)

Screencasts & Videos

Exploring Postman’s VS Code Extension | Postman Intergalactic (Postman Team)
Visual Studio Miniseries – Interviews with the tool makers! (Visual Studio Team)
#MSIgnite Coffee Break with Rick Claus (ITOpsTalk Crew)

Podcasts

Revision Path – Manny Ikomi (Maurice Cherry)
Merge Conflict 382: Let’s Talk Dark Forces Remastered (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
The Changelog News Podcast – What will React come up with Next? (Jerod Santo)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte (Eira May)
The PowerShell Podcast – DSC, Community, and PowerShell: A conversation with Michael Greene (James Petty)
Syntax Podcast Episode 686: We Need Your Help With The Secret Sauce (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
Meta Cast – The Art of Effective Communication (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
Matthew Casperson: Platform Engineering – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 269 (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community & Events

Database

Change the default SQL Server locations for database data files, transaction log files and backup files (Nisarg Upadhyay)
Why IF Branching Causes Performance Problems In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
SQL SERVER – An In-Depth Look at MIXED_PAGE_ALLOCATION and Changes in Page Allocation (Pinal Dave)
Part 5 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process (John Folberth & Joe Fitzgerald)
Scraping Database Metrics from Couchbase Capella with Prometheus (Chris Malarky)
How we reduced our DocumentDB cost by nearly 50% and optimized performance (Divyanshu Singh)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Transition to Microsoft Graph Search endpoint for OneDrive and SharePoint (Patrick Rodgers)

PowerShell & Terminal

OhMyPosh and CascadiaCode not working on PowerShell? How to fix it in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Integrated Terminal (Davide Bellone)
How To Find a File’s Path in PowerShell (Brien Posey)

Miscellaneous

X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it (Alex Heath)
Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news (Jay Peters)
Windows CE Reaches End of Life, If Not End of Sales (msmash)
Rethinking “code-adjacent” talks (Matt Lacey)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3813 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting links of the week 2023-44 (#96) (Michael Eaton)
Daily Reading List – October 30, 2023 (#193) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Happy publication day! Get your Kindle or print copy today. Watch for giveaways online and at TechBash too.

Dew Drop – June 29, 2022 (#3712)

Top Links

Getting Started with DevOps and .NET MAUI (Sweeky Satpathy)
Learning .NET MAUI – Part 5 (Jesse Liberty)
MRTK3 Public Preview! (Grace Hsu)
Understanding your middleware pipeline .NET 6 with the Middleware Analysis package (Andrew Lock)
Uno Platform 4.4 – Wasm Threading+Exception Handling, Rich Animations, GamePad APIs and more (Uno Platform Team)

Web & Cloud Development

Testing Library and Angular (Kevin Logan)
Working with the file system on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
Building and Running a Docker Container (David Giard)
Getting Started with Lottie.js (Alex Walker)
Integrating Google Places Autocomplete API in a React App (Chinedu Imoh)
Azure AD OAuth client credential flow with custom certificate walk-through (Nicola Delfino)
Angular 14—Introducing Standalone Components (Dhananjay Kumar)
ASP.NET Core CRUD with NoSQL: Part 4 (Matthew Groves)
Blazor – New Accordion Control (v22.1) (Mehul Harry)
Developing a Web Application with Netlify Serverless Functions and MongoDB (Nic Raboy)
Micro Frontends in Action With ASP.NET Core – Server-Side Routing via YARP in Azure Container Apps (Tomasz Pęczek)
What is Memoization in React? (Piumi Liyana Gunawardhana)
Minimal API Route Handler Filters (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
TypeScript Vaults Ahead of Java to Crack Stack Overflow Top 5 (David Ramel)
Taking screenshots of streaming video services using Browser Developer Tools (Chris Heilmann)
Make Way Grid Effect (Mary Lou)
This might be the cleanest way I’ve seen parallel processing done in a (serverless) workflow engine (Richard Seroter)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI Progressing From a Default Project Part 1 – Adding the View Model and .NET MAUI Progressing From a Default Project Part 2 – (The Problem With) Basic Unit Testing (Charles Flatt)

Visual Studio & .NET

How YOU can boost your developer productivity with Snippets for VS Code (Chris Noring)
Lambda Expressions in C# (Code Maze)
Visual Studio vs. Jetbrains Rider Performance (Patrick Smacchia)
Load x64 Plug-ins (like VSTs) from your Arm Code using Arm64EC (Pete Brown)

Design, Methodology & Testing

How security leaders can help their teams avoid burnout (Christine Barrett)
Deploying to Azure with GitHub Actions and Octopus (Terence Wong)
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub Enterprise Server (Brian Carlson)
Microspeak: Inside baseball (Raymond Chen)
Git 2.37 adds a new mechanism for pruning unreachable objects (Kunal Chowdhury)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Android 13 Beta 3 Has Been Updated 3 Times (Paul Thurrott)
Building your multiplayer VR experience: Making a simple Multiplayer VR app using the Unity SharedSpaces Sample (Navyata Bawa)
Build Cross Platform Components with Stencil and Capacitor (Anthony Giuliano)

Podcasts

Smashing Podcast Episode 48 With Stephanie Eckles: Is Sass Still Relevant? (Drew McLellan)
Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast – PowerShell and Azure AD with Merill Fernando (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
The Rework Podcast – Interruption is the Enemy of Productivity (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
UI Breakfast Episode 242: Introducing Fun Into Your Work with Rafa Conde (Jane Portman)
RunAs Radio – Creating a Data Culture with Rohan Kumar and Santosh Jamadagni (Richard Campbell)
To TypeScript or Not to TypeScript – JavaScript Jabber 538 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
Practical AI Podcast – AI’s role in reprogramming immunity (Drausin Wulsin, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)

Screencasts & Videos

Selecting Multiple CollectionView Items in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Game controller API in Uno Platform #WebAssembly running in the #Tesla Model 3 web browser (Martin Zikmund)
Test the new Blazor experimental tutorial INSIDE Visual Studio | On .NET (James Montemagno & Grace Taylor)
FreeCodeSession – Episode 373 (Jason Bock)

Community & Events

W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization (Coralie Mercier)
35 Awesome Things to Do in Greater Philadelphia in July 2022 and Your Philly Summer Concert Guide for 2022 (Visit Philly)
Congratulations to our 2022 Partner of the Year Award winners and finalists (Orla McGrath)

Database

T-SQL Comment Best Practices for SQL Server (Eric Blinn)
Is Remote Work the New Normal for DBAs? (Brent Ozar)
30DaysOfLearning: Data Science Summary (Bethany Jepchumba)
Benchmarking Data Migration from Cassandra to Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API (Alp Kaya)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Introducing new Microsoft Teams on Web features for Small Businesses (Frances Smyth)
OneDrive Roadmap Roundup Q2 CY2022 (Ankita Kirti)
Announcing the general availability of idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps (Namit Gupta)

Miscellaneous

Welcome to the Overwatch 2 Beta on Xbox (Jodie McKaughan)
How to get Power Apps for development for free #StudentEdition (Julia Muiruri)
Upgrades coming to Collections in Microsoft Edge (Liat Ben-Zur)
Rust 1.62.0 pre-release testing (Pietro Albini)
Minecraft Marketplace 5 Year Celebration Sale now underway (Steve Clarke)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #3500 (Chris Alcock)
The Wolf Report – June 29th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)

The Geek Shelf

Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI: Expand your desktop apps to support new features and deliver an integrated Windows 11 experience (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link

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