Windows fixes, Cosmos connectors and C# tools

Win11 Taskbar system tray icons randomly rearrange after a display resolution change

Microsoft Tech Community - Yoazxyz370

After changing the display resolution or refresh rate, the icons in the system tray are rearranged randomly. The custom arrangement is lost, and even after restoring the display settings, these icons ...

The Mysterious Fan That Sounds Like a Jet Engine

Microsoft Tech Community - xartin

My computer’s fan has suddenly become extremely loud, sounding almost like a jet engine, even when I’m only doing light tasks. I’ve checked that the vents aren’t blocked and restarted the system, but ...

How Does Windows Know I Am About to Give Up?

Microsoft Tech Community - Coltonaip

My Windows computer seems to sense when I am frustrated and about to give up, because that is exactly when it freezes or throws an error. It feels like the system waits until my patience runs out, the...

All Icons Turn into the Same Photo of a Cat, and Restarting Doesn't Help

Microsoft Tech Community - YTheoi

I’m having a really strange problem with my computer where all the desktop icons suddenly changed into the same photo of a cat, regardless of whether they belong to folders, applications, or shortcuts...

How to transfer spotify playlist to apple music without subscription on pc

Microsoft Tech Community - Conoriss

I've been using Spotify for years and have built up a bunch of playlists over time. I recently decided to switch to Apple Music, but the thought of adding all those songs again one by one sounds prett...

Your code reads secrets from Vault. What do you test it against?

Medium - Ferhat Talha BULANIK

I wrote a small package that starts and stops a real Vault from inside .NET

Topics: Security Unit Testing

I need assistance recovering my partners portal access

Microsoft Tech Community - MMikou

I migrated my domain (clouddevfusion.com) from an old tenant to this one ( de5cd942-8e88-4f3b-a372-b07cf176da8d ) and deleted the old tenant.   Now I have lost access to the partner center portal...

Windows 11 KB5124010 update prevents WARDOG from launching

Microsoft Tech Community - antijanson

Hello, after installing the KB5124010 update, the game WARDOG won't launch. However, after rolling back the update, the game started working normally again. Is there a problem with this version?  ...

Introducing the Native Confluent Cloud Connector Experience in Azure Cosmos DB!

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Theo van Kraay

Co-authored with Praveen Raja P [alert type="tip" heading="Quick hint"]Connectors run in a Confluent organization provisioned through Apache Kafka & Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud, an Azure Native In...

Topics: Azure Cosmos DB Kafka

Google Cloud's EKS-to-GKE Migration Agent Uses Guardrails to Validate Changes

C# Corner - Nidhi Sharma

Topics: Kubernetes

GitOps with Argo CD extension for AKS is Now Generally Available

Microsoft Tech Community - Poornima99

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of GitOps with Argo CD extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)! Argo CD has become one of the most widely adopted GitOps tooling in the Ku...

Topics: Azure Kubernetes

Creating a Spec Kit Extension

YapCast – Jesse Liberty

Want to build an extension to Spec Kit? This comprehensive guide walks you through everything you need: a ready-to-drop extension layout, a complete extension.yml manifest, a slash-command file, a lif...

Scheduled PDF and Excel report emails in ASP.NET Core with Quartz.NET

Medium - Dotnet Report Builder

By Razi Syed. Sample code: github.com/dotnetreport/dotnetreport-scheduled-reports

Topics: ASP.NET Core

MCP and Microsoft Agent Framework

YapCast – Jesse Liberty

tl;dr This post explains what MCP is, how servers and clients work, and how to connect MCP tools into the Microsoft Agent Framework with short, practical C# examples (stdio client, converting tools to...

Topics: C#

I Ran a Harness Eval Loop on My Own .NET Agent. Here’s What Changed and What Didn’t

Medium - Ali Süleyman TOPUZ

For about four months I improved my coding agent the way most people do. I’d watch it fail on something, sigh, and then add a tool. Or add…

Topics: C#

Why Does My Laptop Fan Sound Like It Is Preparing for Takeoff?

Microsoft Tech Community - Everettiin

My laptop fan suddenly ramps up to full speed and sounds like a jet engine preparing for takeoff, even when I am only browsing the web or typing a document. I cannot figure out why it gets so loud and...

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 503 — Week Ending October 9, 2026

Medium - Alvin Ashcraft

Here are this week’s top links from the Morning Dew. Got a blog, podcast, or YouTube channel I should be following? Submit the link or RSS…

Automating Microsoft Entra ID User Lifecycle Management with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Tech Community - Deleted

Introduction — The Problem Managing user accounts throughout the employee lifecycle is one of the common responsibilities of an Identity or Microsoft 365 administrator. When an employee joins an organ...

Topics: Authentication Authorization Azure

Palindrome Number in C#: A Simple Guide to Solving LeetCode #9

Medium - Pavan pitthdiya

Introduction

Topics: C#

Is it MSIX? Part 2: Finding Package Identity with APIs

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Howard Kapustein

We previously determined how to tell if a process is packaged or unpackaged using Task Manager. Now let's find its package and application identity in code. Windows provides APIs to retrieve package a...

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit

Microsoft Dev Blogs - Drew Noakes

We developers know just how fast computers can be, and we want to feel that speed in our tools. Waiting for language support to load, builds to complete and tests to run is time we could better spend ...

Topics: C# Performance Visual Studio Code

Robust API Verification: Writing Unit Tests for ASP.NET Core Webhook Controllers Using xUnit and FluentAssertions

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: ASP.NET Core Web API xUnit.net

How to bypass windows 11 sign in screen during setup and installation

Microsoft Tech Community - Yosefor

I want to install Windows 11 on my new PC and set up a local account only. The apps and services associated with a Microsoft account will apparently slow down the computer, especially the device does ...

Why doesn't Disk Cleanup show "Previous Windows installation(s)" on Windows 10?

Microsoft Tech Community - BrantZhao

Why does Disk Cleanup on my Windows 10 PC never show the “Previous Windows installation(s)” option, even though I recently upgraded or installed a major update and I know that folder is taking up spac...

Automating Validation in Clean Architecture: FluentValidation with MediatR Pipeline Behaviors

C# Corner - Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Topics: Clean Architecture FluentValidation MediatR