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Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
By Alvin Ashcraft. A daily link blog for developers, focused on .NET, Windows, and modern web development.
Episodes
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - November 4, 2026 (#4785)
Top Links Delivering Skills in NuGet packages (Richard Lander) My Favorite Undocumented Feature in SQL MCP Server (Jerry Nixon) Raising the bar for 8 GB…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - November 3, 2026 (#4784)
Top Links TechBash 2027 - Save the Date (TechBash Team) Making the migration affordable (Mark Downie) Nine engineers, 1,211 pull requests in a day: Lessons…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - November 2, 2026 (#4783)
Top Links Everything released in October 2026 for Azure Developer CLI (Kristen Womack) Your content, your choice: clearer preferences for training and…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
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- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 30, 2026 (#4782)
Top Links Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion (Daniel Roth) TokenEconomizer: Experience-Driven Black-Box Cost Control for Coding Agents…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 29, 2026 (#4781)
Top Links Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness: Unlocking the potential of truly multi-model agentic work (Tina Schuchman & Vladimir Fedorov) Preparing…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 28, 2026 (#4780)
Top Links Visual Studio October Update – Compare Commits to Your Code, Resolve Conflicts in Bulk, Keep Coding (Mark Downie) 60k MSFT Employees can't be wrong…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 27, 2026 (#4779)
Top Links How I Develop .NET Apps With AI and Still Trust the Code (Matt Mattei) Introducing DayFrame: Everything I Check All Day, in One Window (Jeff Fritz)…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 26, 2026 (#4778)
Top Links .NET 11.0 RC 3 Release Notes (.NET Team) More AI Agents, More CI: Reducing GitHub Actions Costs & Build Time (James Montemagno) How to Build…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 23, 2026 (#4777)
Top Links Use the Azure OpenAI Decisions API (Microsoft Learn) The GitHub Copilot app Settings I Change Before Anything Else (James Montemagno) Are You Getting…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 22, 2026 (#4776)
Top Links Microsoft.UI.Reactor: a C#-first way to build WinUI apps (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi) Compare today’s code with an earlier commit (Leah Tran) React…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 21, 2026 (#4775)
Top Links AI Software Factory: How to Deliver Features During Lunch | TechBash 2026 Keynote Recording (Jeffrey Palermo) Azure DevOps available in Microsoft…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 20, 2026 (#4774)
Top Links Get Your .NET MAUI App Ready for Xcode 27 (Gerald Versluis) Securing the agentic insider (Hayete Gallot) Browser automation tool in Microsoft Foundry…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 19, 2026 (#4773)
Top Links Snippets in Uno Platform Studio: Iterate on UI Fast (Sam Basu) Muse Spark Open is available in Microsoft Foundry Models (Mahesh Balachandran) WinApp…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 16, 2026 (#4772)
Top Links What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | September 2026 (Nick Brady) What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? (Mark…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 15, 2026 (#4771)
Top Links New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What We Learned at VSLive! San Diego (James Rempt) Python 3.15 delivers a…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 14, 2026 (#4770)
Top Links Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 (.NET Team) Introducing XBOX LABS (Asha Sharma) GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 13, 2026 (#4769)
Top Links WinUI Gallery 3.0 is here: TableView, Charts, InkCanvas and more (Niels Laute) Microsoft to expand Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 12, 2026 (#4768)
Top Links Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making (Achint Srivastava) Building a TypeSafe's Jev MCP server with .NET (Laurent…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 9, 2026 (#4767)
Top Links Adding persistence to the Aspire dashboard (James Newton-King) Azure DevOps: New Wiki Editor Experience (Dan Hellem) VB6 Studio Web (Wieslaw Soltes)…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 8, 2026 (#4766)
Top Links Introducing Grok 4.7 on Microsoft Foundry (Mahesh Balachandran) Introducing the .NET MAUI Interactive Viewer Control for Interactive Content…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 7, 2026 (#4765)
Top Links Bringing Native AOT to the Aspire dashboard (James Newton-King) Building a 2D Game with WinUI and Win2D (Morten Nielsen) The results of the 2026…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 6, 2026 (#4764)
Top Links UWP and WinUI 3 apps: UI testing with MSTest (Amaury Levé) Hello, Aspire 13.6 (Maddy Montaquila) Ink comes to WinUI 3 (Pranav Gupta) Voice agents in…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 5, 2026 (#4763)
Top Links Build expressive voice experiences with new MAI models in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny) Credential Explorer - A modern WinUI 3 metadata-only…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 2, 2026 (#4762)
Top Links Bringing rich terminal experiences to Aspire (Mitch Denny) Semantic Design in Uno Themes - Part 1 (Steve Bilogan) A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - October 1, 2026 (#4761)
Top Links Updates to Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (Dan Hellem) TechBash 2026 Kicks Off in Two Weeks! (TechBash Team) .NET Rocks! - Controlling your…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 30, 2026 (#4760)
Top Links Aspire 13.6: Your dashboard gets memory (Maddy Montaquila) WSL containers is now generally available (Logan Iyer) Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol in…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 29, 2026 (#4759)
Top Links Build Agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components (Daniel Roth) Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Amar Badal) MSSQL Extension…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 28, 2026 (#4758)
Top Links AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK (Daniel Roth) Syncfusion Releases First Set of Open-Source Blazor Controls (Syncfusion Team) GitHub…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 25, 2026 (#4757)
Top Links From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available (Linda Li) winapp CLI Release v0.7.0 (Alexandre…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 24, 2026 (#4756)
Top Links Changes to Microsoft Learn’s public documentation repositories (Martin Ekuan) Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 23, 2026 (#4755)
Top Links Creating a memory dump in C# and Today I will… debug a production crash (Aaron Powell) GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna for production AI agents in…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 22, 2026 (#4754)
Top Links Introducing XAML.io v0.9: Build .NET Apps From a Prompt, in Your Browser (XAML.io Team) Single Day Tickets Now Available for TechBash 2026 (TechBash…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 21, 2026 (#4753)
Top Links TechBash 2026 Fast Approaching (Jason Gaylord) Introducing Previews: Storybook for .NET (Sam Basu) .NET Rocks! Podcast - Post-Quantum Crypto with…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 16, 2026 (#4752)
Top Links Aspire 13.5.4 (Aspire Team) Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (Stephen Toub) Intelligent Terminal 0.2.2572: Faster, Smoother, and More Reliable…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 11, 2026 (#4751)
Top Links Final notice: TechBash 2026 Standard Registration and Room Discounts Ending (TechBash Team) Solution Colors: Telling Visual Studio Windows Apart at a…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 10, 2026 (#4750)
Top Links TechBash 2026 Welcomes Jeff Fritz! (TechBash Team) What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | July and August 2026 (Nick Brady) Introducing Fast and Reliable…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 9, 2026 (#4749)
Top Links Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 (.NET Team) TechBash 2026 Standard Registration and Room Discount End on Sunday (TechBash Team) Today I will……
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 8, 2026 (#4748)
Top Links The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary (VS Code Team) Mono vs CoreCLR in .NET MAUI: Performance, Compatibility, and What Changes in .NET 11…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 4, 2026 (#4747)
Top Links Uno Platform Studio 3.1 Release: Ship with Confidence (Uno Platform Team) GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence (OpenAI Team) GPT-6 Astra…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 3, 2026 (#4746)
Top Links The perils of binding to value types in XAML (Raymond Chen) MAUI Designer - A powerful web-based Angular visual designer for creating MAUI (Microsoft…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 2, 2026 (#4745)
Top Links ⏳ Don't Miss Out: TechBash 2026 Standard Registration & Discounted Rooms End Sept 13! (TechBash Team) Monitoring GitHub Copilot usage with the Aspire…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - September 1, 2026 (#4744)
Top Links OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (Hannes Rudolph) Adding Full-Text Search to Blazor WebAssembly with Pagefind (David Pine) Merge Conflict Episode #530 -…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 31, 2026 (#4743)
Top Links WinUI OSS Update: Phased Rollout Toward Open Collaboration (Beth Pan) - Rollout complete TechBash 2026 - Communication Workshop Spotlight (plus don't…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 28, 2026 (#4742)
Top Links How Uno Platform uses .NET, MCP, and AI to build high quality apps (Sam Basu) VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ: Developer Takeaways and Must-Watch Sessions…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 27, 2026 (#4741)
Top Links Repeating the Same AI Prompts? The Agent Skills Handbook Helps You Build Reusable Skills (Suchitha Ramesh) Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 26, 2026 (#4740)
Top Links Explore new features available in C# 15 preview (Bill Wagner) .NET Conf 2026 (Jon Galloway) Unlocking the Power of AI for Every Developer in Visual…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 24, 2026 (#4739)
Top Links Today I will… Modernize a .NET application (Matt Soucoup & Pablo Lopes) The New MCP Roadmap (David Soria Parra & Den Delimarsky) Microsoft Agent…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 21, 2026 (#4738)
Top Links WPF Hot Reload in Rider | JetBrains (Michael Hawker) GitHub: The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (Vlad Fedorov) terminal-code - VS Code Inside…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 20, 2026 (#4737)
Top Links MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Formatter, Azure SQL Database Provisioning, and More (Yo-Lei Chen) Rider 2026.2.1 and ReSharper 2026.2.1 Are Here!…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 19, 2026 (#4736)
Top Links Aspire 13.5: Fresh pixels and better workflows (Maddy Montaquila) Announcing AppxManifest IntelliSense Support in the WinApp VS Code Extension…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 18, 2026 (#4735)
Top Links Improving File Explorer & Context Menu: faster, simpler, and more customizable (Michael Novak) How canvases make agentic workflows visible…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 17, 2026 (#4734)
Top Links Windows App Development CLI v0.6 – create new WinUI applications, sign packages with Azure, and more (Zachary Teutsch) - *Release notes available on…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 14, 2026 (#4733)
Top Links Microsoft Copilot app – one app, new name, new icon, new URL! (Vesa Nopanen) Who spent all the tokens? Real-time, run-scoped cost control for AI…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 13, 2026 (#4732)
Top Links Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app (Kayla Cinnamon) Instructions Hygiene – What Frontier Models Still Need You to Say (Wendy…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 12, 2026 (#4731)
Top Links .NET 11 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team) Agentic Skills Demystified (Sam Basu) MAI-Code-1-Flash Highlights Microsoft’s Lower-Cost Approach to…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 11, 2026 (#4730)
Top Links Building Bookmark Studio: bookmarks that belong to the codebase (Mads Kristensen) PowerToys Preview v0.101.2211.0 Release (LegendaryBlair) GitHub…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 10, 2026 (#4729)
Top Links Multi-Language Support for Cross-Platform .NET (Sam Basu) How to keep thinking (Sean Goedecke) 7 Powerful Ways to Automate PowerPoint Generation in…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 7, 2026 (#4728)
Top Links Control iOS and Android Emulators Inside GitHub Copilot app Canvas (James Montemagno) Test reporting in Microsoft.Testing.Platform: from red build to…
- Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
Dew Drop - August 6, 2026 (#4727)
Top Links Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available (Dan Hellem) Uno Platform 6.6 Release: Community Standup (Sam Basu, Martin Zikmund & Jonathan…