Dew Drop – August 12, 2025 (#4475)

Top Links

• VS Code July 2025 Release (version 1.103) (Visual Studio Code Team)
• Blueberry Hill (Kieran Healy) – How many b’s in blueberry, ChatGPT?
• 5 Copilot Chat Prompts .NET Devs Should Steal Today (Wendy Breiding)
• Merge Conflict Episode #475 – We Built 6 Apps with GitHub Spark (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Introducing GPT-5 and Introducing GPT-5 for developers and GPT-5 and the new era of work (OpenAI Team)
• How to use GitHub Copilot to level up your code reviews and pull requests (Melissa Pastore)
• Prompt Engineering + Vibe Coding: A New Era for Software Developers (Jeyasri Murugan)
• Why Writing Matters (to the Technical Professional) (Ted Neward)

Web & Cloud Development

• Running .NET in the browser without Blazor (Andrew Lock)
• Dev Proxy v1.0 with new features for building robust AI-powered apps (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
• Aurelia 2 Documentation Just Leveled Up (again) and Aurelia 2 Beta 25: Binding updates, HTML Dialog, State Middleware and Router Rename (Dwayne Charrington)
• How To Securely Convert HTML To PDF In .NET Using Syncfusion (Ramkumar Ravy)
• GitHub – dawidpereira/opentelemetry-demo: Comprehensive OpenTelemetry demo with .NET 9, Serilog, and .NET Aspire showcasing OTLP configuration (Dawid Pereira)
• The 5 Most Common API Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) (Milan Jovanović)
• Using GitHub Pages as a URL shortener / redirection service (Chris Heilmann)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Slides and sample apps for my WinUI talks (Alvin Ashcraft)
• How to Develop a Health Monitoring Interface with WinUI Charts (Tinesh Kumar Sivakumar)
• WinUI TableView Samples | Microsoft Store (Waheed Ahmad)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

• Building High-Performance .NET Apps With C# Channels (Anton Martyniuk)
• VS Code for Education – Content Authoring General Availability (Microsoft)
• Newtonsoft.Json vs System.Text.Json: The Battle That’s Reshaping .NET APIs (Yaseer Arafat)
• Messaging Made Simple: Choosing the Right Framework for .NET (David Ramel)
• PostSharp Is Now Source Available (Gael Fraiteur)
• Developers, Don’t Miss This! The Ultimate .NET Guide To PDF Layers (Chinnu Muniyappan)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Simplify Date & Time Formatting with Spargine’s DateTimeFormat (David McCarter)
• Under what conditions could a Read­File or Write­File fail to transfer all of the bytes, and how do I detect that? (Raymond Chen)
• .NET 10 Package Publishing (Rich Lander)

AI

• GPT-5 Family of Models & GPT OSS Are Now Available in AI Toolkit for VS Code (Junjie Li)
• What’s new in Azure AI Foundry | July 2025 (Nick Brady)
• GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here (Steve Sweetman)
• Build a Recipe AI Agent with Koog and Docker (Philippe Charrière)
• Announcing the Browser Automation Tool (Preview) in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service (Linda Li)
• Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone | The Keyword (Google)
• Sick of AI in your search results? Try these 7 Google alternatives with old-school, AI-free charm (Jack Wallen)
• Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises (Julien Simon)
• Generative AI for Software Developers Specialization (Coursera)
• Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part VII–MCP integration (Bart Wullems)
• Bing Image Creator adds GPT-4o alongside DALL-E3 for even more free ways to create (Bing Team)
• ‘Hour of Code’ Announces It’s Now Evolving Into ‘Hour of AI’ and As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame (EditorDavid)
• Tooling ≠ Glue: Why changing AI workflows still feels like duct tape (Gerardo López Falcón)
• Testing with AI: Overcoming Tester’s Block (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Junior developers aren’t obsolete: Here’s how to thrive in the age of AI (Gwen Davis)
• The Future of AI: An Intern’s Adventure Improving Usability with Agents (Harry Cheng)
• New Gemini app tools to help students learn, understand and study even better (Jennifer Shen)
• Building Application with gpt-oss-20b with AI Toolkit (Kinfey Lo)
• What is Agentic AI? A simple guide for absolute beginners (Kunal Chowdhury)
• ‘Gaslit’ and ghosted: New tech grads face AI-driven hurdles in search for jobs (Kurt Schlosser)
• How I Use AI in My UX Research Workflow — Without Losing My Mind (or My Craft) (Maryam Maleki)
• GPT-5: Will it RAG? (Pamela Fox)
• A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge (Phoebe Sajor)
• How to build a simple agentic AI server with MCP (Saroj Paudel)
• Building AI Agents with the A2A .NET SDK (Sergey Menshykh, Adam Sitnik & Brandon H.)
• What’s New in GPT-5: Features, Updates & Why It’s a Game-Changer (Stephen Simon)
• Bringing the best of AI to college students for free (Sundar Pichai)
• Microsoft brings GPT-5 to Copilot with new smart mode (Tom Warren)
• We found stuff AI is pretty good at (Victoria Song)
• Why Can’t I Just Use an API? Because Your AI Agent Needs MCP (Will Johnson)
• Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents (Yosh Wuyts)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Case for Continuous Unit Testing in 2025: Why It’s More Important Than Ever (Eli Lopian)
• Sharing practical guidance: Launching Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices (Joy Chik & Ann Johnson)
• Advanced Installer 22.9.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
• Levelling Up Security with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (Martin Costello)
• Stop Hunting 10x Engineers: Build a 10x Organization Instead (Anastasija Uspenski)
• Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says (Antonija Bilic Arar)
• Announcing GA of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Entra ID resources (Dan Kershaw)
• The Complete Playwright End to End Story, Tools, AI, and Real-World Workflows (Debbie O’Brien)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova Common 6.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
• Building an AI Home Security System Using .NET, Python, CLIP, Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi 4 – Part 5: Refinements and Recap (Jamie Maguire)
• What is HDR? (John Reck)
• Gaming Copilot (Beta) available on Game Bar for Windows PC for Xbox Insiders (Athima Chansanchai)
• Media3 1.8.0 – What’s new? (Toni Heidenreich)
• What’s the Best Programming Language for Game Development? (Christopher Tozzi)
• Rejected by 58 publishers then made $750k, and AI closer to making games? (Code Monkey)

Screencasts & Videos

• .NET MAUI Community Standup: Apple Intelligence with .NET (David Ortinau, Gerald Versluis & Frank Krueger)
• Technology & Friends – Sarah Dutkiewicz on EventStorming (David Giard)
• Demystifying large migrations into Azure Storage | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Anusha Subramanian)
• (Unpacking) AI’s Impact on System Architecture | Update Conference Krakow 2025 (Bronwen Zande)
• Throwing AI at Developers Won’t Solve Their Problems with Chris Westerhold (Hangar DX Podcast)
• Settings You Can Use For A Better Developer Experience | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Mitchel Sellers)
• What’s the number one piece of advice you can give developers about security? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)

Podcasts

• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Learning to Code with AI and Steve Klabnik (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Improving Legacy Applications with Billy Hollis (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Meta Cast – If You Don’t Do These Things, You’re Not Leading (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Syntax Podcast Episode #926 – RSS Is NOT Dead and Syntax Podcast Episode #927 – AI Browsers, 100X Build Speed, Massive Svelte Update – Web Dev News (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• React Native Radio Episode #340 – RN Web vs React Strict DOM: Part 2, with Evan Bacon and James Ide (James Ide, Robin Heinze, Evan Bacon & Jamon Holmgren)
• Recording of Coffee and Content episode: What’s wrong with AI-generated docs? (Tom Johnson)
• Burke Holland: GitHub Copilot Agent – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #362 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• The GitHub Podcast – Unlocking the Power of MCP (Kedasha Kerr, Kathleen Speckert, Cassidy Williams, Victoria Marin, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, editaudio & Steph Colbourn)
• Lenny’s Podcast – How ChatGPT accidentally became the fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Is No-Code Really Dead? (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – AI isn’t stealing your job, it’s helping you find it (Phoebe Sajor)

Community & Events

• Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub (Thomas Dohmke)
• The Stack Overflow Survey shows docs need to evolve (Sarah S.)
• Reddit will block the Internet Archive (Jay Peters)
• Renewing Chat on Stack Overflow (Kate Smith)

Database

• Using Python Code in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Protecting You in Meetings: Sensitive Content Detection in Teams is Now GA (Will Dixon)
• Microsoft OneNote finally gets unformatted text pasting (Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson)
• Available today: GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Jared Spataro)
• Excel Turns 40: Join the Celebration! (Ms. Excel)
• 5 Microsoft 365 Copilot features to unlock everyday productivity (Shweta Bothra)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Students 13+ (J. Seghers)
• Understanding foundation model changes in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Tanner Briggs)

PowerShell & Terminal

• Securing PowerShell: How to Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Part 3 and Part 4 (Brien Posey)
• Automating .NET User Secrets with PowerShell (Max Hamulyák)
• Warp: Introducing support for GPT-5 (Olivia Johnston & Ben Navetta)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27919 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5742 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5742 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
• Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs (Andrew J. Hawkins)
• These are my favorite Switch 2 accessories (Cameron Faulkner)
• The computer science dream has become a nightmare (Connie Loizos)
• Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world (Marina Galperina)
• Microsoft Begins Outlining Its Vision for Windows in 2030 (Paul Thurrott)
• Habeas Corpus and other provisions removed from official website of U.S. Constitution (Rob Beschizza)
• PowerToys may get a new clipboard tool called ClipPing (Sofia Elizabella WyciÅ›lik-Wilson)
• Announcing Rust 1.89.0 (Rust Release Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-33 (Michael Eaton)
• F# Weekly #32, 2025 – Call for Speakers: .NET Conf 2025 & JetBrains .NET Days (Sergey Tihon)
• Sands of MAUI: Issue: #196 (Sam Basu)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025) (Veliswa Boya)
• Daily Reading List – August 6, 2025 (#603) and Daily Reading List – August 11, 2025 (#606) (Richard Seroter)
• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – August 11 (Peter Ritchie)
• Reading Notes #660 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List 345 (Bruce Lawson)
• Azure Weekly #527 – 10th August 2025 (The Editor)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #257 and The .NET News Daily Issue #259 (Jasen)
• Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 3, 2025 (GeekWire)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link