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- Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3 is here! (Adrian Murphy)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 RC 2 (Daniel Roth)
- Introducing the v1.0.0 Beta1 for the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK (Matthew Bolanos)
- Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC 2: More Quality (David Ortinau)
- The List Of 50 (Somewhat) Secret Windows Tools & Tricks (Den Delimarsky)
- Announcing .NET 8 RC2 (Jon Douglas)
Web & Cloud Development
- Deploying an Astro Website to Azure Static Web Apps (John Kilmister)
- How to accept Stripe payments via Blazor in .NET 8 (Jon Hilton)
- Rendering Blazor components to a string: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 9 (Andrew Lock)
- How to Generate SVG Images from Document Pages in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Creating a Fast Static Site with Astro and Vue (Ezekiel Lawson)
- How to Build Stunning Animations with the Vue.js Transition API (Favour C. Felix)
- Hot Chocolate, GraphQL, and the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Progressively Enhanced WebGL Lens Refraction (David Lindkvist)
- Keeping secrets secure on Kubernetes (John Walsh)
- How to Implement Audit Trail in ASP.NET Core Web API (Muhammed Saleem)
- How to Keep Improving Your JavaScript Skills (25+ Resources to Check Monthly) (Nada Rifki)
- Mimic Native Transitions In Your Progressive Web App (Jaylyn Barbee)
- In a world with so much content, SEO is king (Stephanie Stimac)
- Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Pros and Cons of API Gateways (plus vendors comparison) (Davide Bellone)
- Aurelia 2 — August 2023 Update (Dwayne Charrington)
- Node v18.18.1 (LTS) (Richard Lau)
- GraphQL vs. REST: You Really Don’t Have to Choose (Aditya Gune)
- Announcing a de-identification service for Health and Life Sciences (Kimia Mavon)
- Introducing Pulumi ESC: Easy and Secure Environments, Secrets and Configuration (Luke Hoban)
- Electron 27.0.0 (Keeley Hammond)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Structured Concurrency in C# (Steven Giesel)
- EF Core 8 RC 2: Smaller features in EF8 (Arthur Vickers)
- ReSharper C++ 2023.3 EAP: Clang 17, Updated Attributes (Elvira Mustafina)
- How To Use Embedded Resources in .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Simplify Source Generator creation with RoslynQuoter (Bart Wullems)
- Customizing Telerik UI for WinForms RadOpenFileDialog (Jefferson S. Motta)
- Revisiting Various Change Feeds Consumption in .NET (Tomasz Pęczek)
- .NET October 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.12, .NET 6.0.23 (Rahul Bhandari)
- It rather required being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Knowing the domain administrator password (Raymond Chen)
- Rider 2023.3 EAP 2: Debugger Data Flow Analysis, All-In-One Diff Viewer, Better Speed Search, and More. (Sasha Ivanova)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- October patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Vertical Slice Development: A Comprehensive How To for Modern Teams (Nick Cosentino)
- Microsoft introduces new data and AI solutions to help healthcare organizations unlock insights and improve patient and clinician experiences (Alysa Taylor)
- Passwordless by default: Make the switch to passkeys (Christiaan Brand)
- Ask a Techspert: What are passkeys? (Eben Carle)
- High on high potential—drunk on a fallacy (Eric Brechner)
- Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on code quality (Mario Rodriguez)
- A Complete Guide to LangChain in Python (Matt Nikonorov)
- Decoding AI: Part 3, Making data speak human (Siddhartha Chaturvedi)
- How to build GenAI powered Smart Knowledge Search platform for enterprises (Suresh Sethuramaswamy)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Capacitor Android customScheme issue with Chrome 117 (Dallas James)
- Making a Web Crawler using the Android Web Client (j2inet)
- Kotlin Support in Fleet: Explore a New IDE from JetBrains (Daria Voronina)
- What’s new in Windows Holographic, version 23H2 (Lola Bryan)
Screencasts & Videos
- What I Wish I Knew… about working at Microsoft (Elvis Adorkor)
- Day zero with DRAFT | Open at Microsoft (David Gamero & Tatsat Mishra)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Rebuilding Scrum Team Dynamics To Overcome Remote Work Anti-Patterns | Konstantin Ribel (Vasco Duarte)
- The Rework Podcast – You Don’t Create a Culture (Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson & Kimberly Rhodes)
- Jamstack Radio Episode #135 – Maintainer Funding with Birk Jernström of Polar (Brian Douglas)
- RunAs Radio – Security Chaos Engineering with Kelly Shortridge (Richard Campbell)
- How to Become a Tech Content Creator | Multithreaded Income Episode 6 with Bret Fisher (Kevin Griffin)
- Python Bytes Podcast #356 – Ripping from PyPY (Michael Kennedy)
- Defense Unicorns Podcast – AI on the Frontline: Modern Defense with Col Rhet Turnbull (Michaela Flatau & Robert Slaughter)
Community & Events
- Microsoft employee announcement regarding the attack on Israel (Microsoft)
- The .NET Conf Student Zone is Back! (Pablo Lopes)
- Our global progress toward a sustainable future (Sundar Pichai)
- How Machine Learning GDE Henry Ruiz is inspired by resilience in his community (Kevin Hernandez)
Database
- Rounding to the Nearest Penny in SQL Server with T-SQL (Rick Dobson)
- Compare Snowflake vs SQL Server GREATEST and LEAST Functions (Sergey Gigoyan)
- SQL SERVER – Understanding When to Use DBCC UPDATEUSAGE in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
- License-free DR on Azure SQL Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022 (Danimir Ljepava)
- Free Training: Locking and Blocking – When Read Queries Block Write Queries (Erik Darling)
- Index Service Improvements in Couchbase Server 7.2.2 : Part 1 (Amit Kulkarni)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Viva | October 2023 (Michael Holste)
PowerShell
- Running Python in PowerShell Universal (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2419 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- An Eclectic Collection Of Projects For Your Solar Eclipse (Make: Editors)
- Activision Blizzard’s latest games will start arriving on Xbox Game Pass in 2024 if Microsoft deal closes (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3799 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – October 10, 2023 (#179) (Richard Seroter)
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Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
