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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 476 - Week Ending March 27, 2026

#dewdrop #newsletter #javascript #azure #aspnetcore #aspire #windowsdev #xaml #cpp #dotnet #csharp #ai #mcp #agile #devops #python #appdev #gamedev #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver #data #powershell

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #476 - Week Ending March 27, 2026

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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️3d ago

Announcing Aspire 13.2 | by Maddy Montaquila & David Fowler

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspire-13-2-announcement/

#aspire #cloudnative #cloud #telemetry #webdev #appdev #ai cli

Announcing Aspire 13.2

Just released! Aspire 13.2 is here with improvements including an AI-agent-native CLI, new and improved integrations and a smarter dashboard.

Aspire Blog

Michael Jolley Mar 16

Time you can fake, tests you can trust. This drop breaks down TimeProvider, plus a neat Aspire patch, zero-install .NET demos in the browser, and a swappable local voice AI pipeline. #dotnet #csharp #aspire

.NET drip - Saturday, March 14...

Stop Mocking the Clock: TimeProvider Makes Time Testable

Stop Mocking the Clock: TimeProvider Makes Time Testable — plus 4 curated .NET links

.NET Drip

Barret Mar 12

From the archives...

Using a Separate EF Core Data Project in .NET Aspire Solutions
https://barretblake.dev/posts/development/2025/06/efcore-migration-project-in-aspire/ #entityframeworkcore #ef-core #Aspire

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Mar 10

Build a real-world example with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP and Aspire | by Justin Yoo

https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/build-a-real-world-example-with-microsoft-agent-framework-microsoft-foundry-mcp-and-aspire

#agentframework #mcp #ai #agents #foundry #aspire #cloudnative #microsoftfoundry #dotnet

Build a real-world example with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP and Aspire - Microsoft for Developers

Building AI agents is getting easier. Deploying them as part of a real application, with multiple services, persistent state, and production infrastructure, is where things get complicated. Developers from the .NET community have requested whether a real-world example that shows running on local machine as well as on the cloud in a cloud-native way. We’ve […]

Microsoft for Developers

WIST Quotations Feb 18

A quotation from James Howell

Do thou thy best, and leave to God the rest.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 2nd Century (1659)

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/9711/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #aspire #divinefavor #divinejudgment #effort #endeavor #everyeffort #faith #giveall #God #grace #strive #struggle #try #tryhard #utmost

Howell, James - Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "New Sayings," 2nd Century (1659) | WIST Quotations

Do thou thy best, and leave to God the rest.

WIST Quotations

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Feb 16

Save the date! Aspire Conf (March 23rd)

https://aspire.dev/aspireconf/

#aspire #devcommunity #cloudnative #techevents #devconference #cloud

Aspire—Your Stack, Streamlined

Aspire streamlines your development workflow with code-first control, modularity, and observability for distributed applications.

Aspire

damienbod Feb 16

Blogged: Add application security to the swiyu generic management verifier APIs using OAuth

https://damienbod.com/2026/02/16/add-application-security-to-the-swiyu-generic-management-verifier-apis-using-oauth/

#aspnetcore #oauth #swiyu #swiss #openid #yarp #aspire #container #api #iam #security #dotnet

Add application security to the swiyu generic management verifier APIs using OAuth

The article looks at implementing security using OAuth for the swiyu Public Beta Trust Infrastructure generic containers. The container provides endpoint for OpenID verification and the management …

Software Engineering

Isaac Levin Feb 13

Aspire app lifecycle guide
#dotnet #aspire

https://isaacl.dev/g09

damienbod Feb 9

Blogged: Secure the swiyu container using a YARP proxy

https://damienbod.com/2026/02/09/isolate-the-swiyu-public-beta-management-apis-using-yarp/

#swiyu #yarp #aspire #aspnetcore #dotnet #identity #network #oauth #openidconnect #oidc

Isolate the swiyu Public Beta management APIs using YARP

This post looks at hardening the security for the swiyu public beta infrastructure. The generic containers provide both management APIs and wallet APIs which support the OpenID for Verifiable Prese…

Software Engineering