Top Links
- Simplified Code Refinement and Debugging with GitHub Copilot Chat (Mark Wilson-Thomas and Mark Downie)
- Adaptive Card-based Loop components – Now in developer preview! (Shubham Chauhan)
- Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization (Stefan Kinnestrand)
- Introducing Microsoft Playwright Testing private preview (Vansh Singh)
- GraphQL-Fusion: An open approach towards distributed GraphQL (Michael Staib)
- Announcing Python in Excel: Next-Level Data Analysis for All (Christian Capdeville)
Web & Cloud Development
- Exploring Blazor Changes in .NET 8 – Capture User Input with Forms and Why to Modernize with Blazor? A Winning Strategy for Your Next Application (Jon Hilton)
- Kubernetes 1.28: Node podresources API Graduates to GA (Francesco Romani)
- ASP.NET Core Basics: Customizing the Look and Feel of Components (Assis Zang)
- Introducing Azure Artifacts support for Rust Crates (Jorge Fernandez)
- Structured Logging with slog (Jonathan Amsterdam)
- Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (Azure Team)
- Pulumi adoption made easy with the new Migration Hub (Joe Duffy)
- Microsoft Edge for Business is now available, helping organizations maximize productivity and security (Lindsay Kubasik & Arunesh Chandra)
- Introducing the New Syncfusion Grid Component for Streamlit (Piramanayagam Ramakrishnan)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7 with Keyboard Accelerators, Fixes and Improvements (Robert Krzaczyński)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Generative Builder Pattern in C# (Bnaya Eshet)
- MiniWord – Microsoft Office Word Templating (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- How to Conditionally Resolve Dependencies in .NET (Ahsan Ullah)
- Tree Grid vs. Data Grid: Which One Should You Choose? (Alan Sangeeth)
- MNW #051: Advanced Rate Limiting Use Cases In .NET (Milan Jovanović)
- Dependency Injection: How to Start with Autofac the Easy Way (Nick Cosentino)
- On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Bottlenecks of Scaleups #05: Resilience and Observability and Strategic Directions supporting the people (Martin Fowler)
- Maximize Your Potential (‘Tine Zekis)
- Adding GitHub repository info, pages links and latest commits to any page using github-include (Chris Heilmann)
- VMware Expands Tanzu into a Full Platform Engineering Environment (Joab Jackson)
- Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture (Stephan Zuercher)
- Microsoft Paint could soon get AI-enhanced features on Windows 11 (Emma Roth)
- Microsoft and Epic expand AI collaboration to accelerate generative AI’s impact in healthcare, addressing the industry’s most pressing needs (Eric Boyd)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Leveraging DevOps for Game Development and Game Development Best Practices & Tools (Claudia Fernandes)
- Unity 2023.3 coming April 2024 with updates for graphics and performance (Ralph Hauwert)
- (Re)defining Superapps (Vivek Mano)
Screencasts & Videos
- Peter Laudati on What the Hack (David Giard)
- Beautiful Blazor UI Everywhere with Telerik | On .NET (Sam Basu)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 481 (Jason Bock)
- Where did AI come from and where is it going? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
- What I Wish I Knew … about finding my career path (John Kennedy)
- Windows Terminal’s journey to Open Source | Open at Microsoft (Christopher Nguyen & Dustin Howett)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio – Microsoft Fabric with Andrew Snodgrass (Richard Campbell)
- React Native Radio 273 – Gluestack with Sanket Sahu (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Sanket Sahu)
- Python Bytes Podcast #349 – Djangonauts: Ready for Takeoff! (Michael Kennedy)
- Software Engineering Radio 578: Ori Mankali on Secrets Management using Distributed Fragments Cryptography (Nikhil Krishna)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Native American Tribes and the Post Office (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- Webinar: How to Build a Conversational Real-Time Analytics App with GenAI (SingleStore)
- If I were you: Here are the the Google Cloud Next ’23 talks for six different audiences (Richard Seroter)
Database
- Navigating SQL Server CPU and Memory Usage Woes (Pinal Dave)
- Query Multiple Azure SQL Databases and Save Results Centrally (Jim Evans)
- Delegating permission management using Roles vs WITH GRANT OPTION (Andreas Wolter)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Send Microsoft Teams activity feed notifications using resource-specific content permissions (Luyao Wang)
- Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel. (Microsoft Excel Team)
- Microsoft Teams Remarkable Journey – Unveiling the Future of Collaboration! (Sam Inogic)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Simplify Your Work with PowerShell Scripts: Running from the Command Line (Joyful Craftsmen)
- How to Use the PowerShell Get-MessageTrace Command in Office 365 (Michael Reinders)
- Create terminal themes from images. Why not? (Maanav Khaitan)
Miscellaneous
- Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac is here, adds Touch ID Windows sign-in and more (Devesh Beri)
- Threads on the web is here (Jay Peters)
- It’s now easier than ever to get Windows apps running on ChromeOS (Jess Weatherbed)
- Introducing a new resource for all role-based Microsoft Certification exams (Liberty Munson)
- Python 101 – Expanding Paths and Variables (Mike Driscoll)
- A new Atari 2600 will play your old cartridges (Wes Davis)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3765 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – August 22, 2023 (#148) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Ace your Microsoft certification exams! – Microsoft Press Exam Ref Certification eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle & Pearson)