Top Links
- 7 Things about C#: Operators (Joe Mayo)
- How To Use Microsoft Fabric with Semantic Kernel (John Maeda)
- Supporting custom protocols in WebView2 (Gérald Barré)
- Damian Brady: GitHub Copilot – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 258 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Performance Enhancements (Nayana Srikanth)
Web & Cloud Development
- Step by Step Guide: Migrating v3 to v4 programming model for Azure Functions for Node.Js Application (Glaucia Lemos)
- Electron 26.0.0 (Keeley Hammond)
- React Basics: Best Practices for Updating React (Ifeoma Imoh)
- Exploring the Power of CSS Nesting: Simplifying Styling and Enhancing Readability (Jan-Niklas Wortmann)
- Wolverine’s Improved Azure Service Bus Support (Jeremy D. Miller)
- The future of API gateways on Kubernetes (Pubudu Gunatilaka)
- Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 and Forward Compatibility and Toolchain Management in Go 1.21 (Russ Cox)
- Amazon Releases .NET Lambda Annotations Framework (Kay Ewbank)
- Fetching JSON over streaming HTTP (Pamela Fox)
- All New Have I Been Pwned Domain Search APIs and Splunk Integration (Troy Hunt)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Fixing COM Aggregation and XAML reference tracking on .NET AOT (Manodasan Wignarajah) – This PR will enable AOT with Windows App SDK apps in .NET 8!
Visual Studio & .NET
- Create, Pre-Select, Flatten and Extract PDF Form Fields using C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Inside STL: Smart pointers (Raymond Chen)
- Differences Between Const and Readonly in C# (Code Maze)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- A Brief Overview of Responsible AI (David Giard)
- 5 Benefits of a Container-First Approach to Software Development (Ben Cotton)
- Getting started with GitHub Copilot (Birgitta Böckeler)
- Source Code Security Best Practices: A Complete Guide and The Advantages of Using Cloud Version Control Systems (Claudia Fernandes)
- Decoding the Buzzwords: The Difference Between Change Management and Organizational Development. and Emotional Intelligence Unleashed: Mastering each Stage of Change in Change Management (Daniel Lock)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Test Mobile Apps on a Real Device Cloud (SitePoint Team)
- HLSL 2021 Migration Guide (Greg Roth)
Screencasts & Videos
- Amazing Free DataGrid, Tab Control, Calendar and More for .NET MAUI! (Gerald Versluis)
- Creating a story arc | Richard Campbell and Adam Cogan | Tech Yak (SSW TV)
- Igniting Developer Innovation with Vector Search | The AI Show (Microsoft Developer)
- .NET Bootcamp – Session 5 (Women Who Code)
Podcasts
- Revision Path – Eric Thompson (Maurice Cherry)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Shaun Lawrie: Procrastination, Pixels and PowerShell (James Petty)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 155 – Kevin Chant (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- RiYL Episode 594: Alex Winter (Brian Heater)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 134 – How to Prioritize UX and Security in the Cloud: UX as a Security Capability (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- The Changelog News Podcast – HashiCorp means business (source), why Tailwind won, WarpStream, managing difficult devs & an update on Go 2 (Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Want better answers from your data? Ask better questions (Eira May)
- AGL 324: Dynamic Reteaming with Heidi Helfand (John Rouda)
Community & Events
- Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media (Chris Freeland)
- A few sick days made it clear – Twitter is dying, and so it social media as we know it (Brian Merchant)
- Join us for Hack Together: JavaScript on Azure Global Hack from Aug 16 – 31, 2023 (Julia Muiruri)
- The role of GitHub in paying for Open Source Software (Oren Eini)
- Discord.io Temporarily Shuts Down After Breach Affecting 760,000 Members (BeauHD)
- Dealing with Layoffs – A Guide for the Unemployed and the Survivors (David Giard)
- Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: bUnit (Matthias Koch)
- My Next Adventure: Joining SCT Software as VP of Innovation & Products! (Sean Killeen)
- Nine years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program (Jill Moné-Corallo)
Database
- Working around schema drift in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- Cumulative Update #22 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Hristina Sarankin)
- SQL SERVER – Banker’s Rounding (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Motorola partners with Microsoft to load phones with Windows 365 (Kareem Anderson)
- Microsoft’s new Office default theme and font arrives in September (Tom Warren)
Miscellaneous
- Enforcing SmartScreen with Policy (Eric Lawrence)
- Microsoft Surface: Built to bring out the best of Windows 11 (Jonna Bell)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2023-33 (#85) (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #113 (Sam Basu)
- Reading Notes #567 (Frank Boucher)
- Daily Reading List – August 14, 2023 (#142) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 11 and .NET 7, 2nd Ed (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link