Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #423 - Week ending March 7, 2025

Dew Drop Newsletter

Weekly Top Links #423

Week Ending March 7, 2025

Here are this week's top links from the Morning Dew. Got a blog, podcast, or YouTube channel I should be following? Send me the RSS feed at alvin@alvinashcraft.com.

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Monday - March 3, 2025

Announcing TypeScript 5.8 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Microsoft AI (Microsoft) – A new landing page for all things AI at Microsoft
Building Local AI Agents: Semantic Kernel and Ollama in C# (Laurent Kempé)
How to profile a .NET MAUI iOS application on macOS (Marco Siccardi)
Dustin Campbell: C# 13 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #339 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Announcing AI Shell Preview 2 (Steven Bucher)

Tuesday - March 4, 2025

Available today: DeepSeek R1 7B & 14B distilled models for Copilot+ PCs via Azure AI Foundry – further expanding AI on the edge (Vivek Pradeep)
Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET (Wendy Breiding)
Microsoft Dragon Copilot provides the healthcare industry’s first unified voice AI assistant that enables clinicians to streamline clinical documentation, surface information and automate tasks (Microsoft)
Add image generation to your apps with Imagen 3 (Miguel Ramos)
Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime (Simon Bisson)
20 year old cloud native apps with .NET – NDC London 2025 (Scott Hanselman)
Great new productivity features in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
Update for Copilot on Windows begins rolling out to Windows Insiders with new features and improvements (Brandon LeBlanc)

Wednesday - March 5, 2025

Microsoft adds incredible audio and video file conversion tools to PowerToys v0.89.0 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
EPISODE 11 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Systems Thinking (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
Building and Debugging .NET Lambda applications with .NET Aspire (Part 2) (Norm Johanson)
Leadership and the Power of Regret: Turning Emotions into Action – NDC London 2025 (Arthur Doler)
Analyzing ML Models with ML.NET and Blazor (Ed Charbeneau)
Prompt Engineering Simplified: AI Toolkit’s Prompt Builder (Shreyan Fern)

Thursday - March 6, 2025

New Debugging and Profiling Features in Visual Studio (v17.13) (Harshada Hole)
VS Code February 2025 release (version 1.98) (Visual Studio Code Team)
Angular 19.2 Is Now Available (Angular Team)
AI-Powered Text-to-Flowchart Converter Using OpenAI and Angular Diagram Library (Sarathkumar V.)
What Is The BEST Windows UI Framework For Your Project (Michael Jolley)
Migrating AppCenter Analytics Events to Application Insights (Tomasz Cielecki)

Friday - March 7, 2025

Microsoft Build 2025 registration is now open – May 19-22 (Microsoft Build)
Beyond The Hype: Every Day, Real World Uses for Copilot – NDC London 2025 (Rob Conery)
.NET AI Template Now Available in Preview (Jordan Matthiesen)
Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans – NDC London 2025 (Scott Hanselman)
Optimizing incident management with AIOps using the Triangle System (Mark Russinovich)
Announcing Hot Design Public Beta – A Visual Designer for Cross-Platform Desktop, Mobile and Web Apps (Uno Platform Team)

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