Top Links
- The Visual Studio UI Refresh Preview is here! (Dante Gagne)
- Accelerating Developer Velocity with Microsoft Dev Box and Docker Desktop (Webb Stevens)
- An Efficient Design-to-Code Handoff Process Using Uno Platform For Figma (Matthew Mattei)
- Build hybrid apps with .NET MAUI | .NET Conf 2023 (Beth Massi & Eilon Lipton)
- PowerShell 7.4 General Availability (Steve Lee)
Web & Cloud Development
- Exsssspanding Possibilities with Python | Firebase (Chris Gill & Jeff Huleatt)
- TX Text Control Supports .NET 8 in ASP.NET Core Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
- Adding flexibility to authentication with Microsoft Entra External ID custom extensions (Adam Matthews)
Visual Studio & .NET
- What’s New in C# 12: Primary Constructors, Collection Expressions, and More (Almir Vuk)
- Debug vcpkg portfiles in CMake script mode with Visual Studio Code (Ben McMorran)
- Converting PDF Documents to Plain Text TXT in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Using Static Anonymous Functions in C# (Code Maze)
- Publishing Events from Marten through Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- What happened to the custom exception description I threw from a C++/WinRT IAsyncAction? (Raymond Chen)
- The CSharp Switch Statement – How To Go From Zero To Hero (Nick Cosentino)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Advanced Installer 21.2.2 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Making Accessibility Part of the Design Process – Part 1 (Benedict Ampea-Badu)
- Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook (Brad Smith & Melanie Nakagawa)
- The AI Skills Challenge: Achievement unlocked (Elham Rizi-Shorvon)
- Semantic Kernel’s Ignite release: Beta8 for the .NET SDK (Matthew Bolanos)
- Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions (Matthew Manning)
- Observability and Application Performance (Melissa Habit)
- Lessons from a UX researcher on a 0–1 product in a new team. (Michael O’Sullivan)
- How AI Will Keep Us Honest (Charlie Kindel)
- Microsoft is bringing its AI Copilot to Windows 10 soon (Tom Warren)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Unity 2023.2 Tech Stream is now available (Nancy LaRue)
Screencasts & Videos
- Migrating .NET applications to Azure | .NET Conf 2023 (Mike Rousos & Olia Gavrysh)
- Build .NET MAUI Apps with DevOps | .NET Conf 2023 (Sweekriti Satpathy & David Ortinau)
- .NET Containers advancements in .NET 8 | .NET Conf 2023 (Chet Husk & Richard Lander)
- What’s new with WinForms | .NET Conf 2023 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelmann)
- Unleashing the Power of Cross-Platform Development with Avalonia UI | .NET Conf 2023 (Mike James)
- What I Wish I Knew… about what career path to take (Divya Venkataramu)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show S06E06 – Unearthing the Secrets of Open Source and Collaborative Development with Jeremy Sinclair (Jamie Taylor)
- The Changelog – All the places Swift will go (Ben Cohen, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The AI assistant trained on your company’s data (Eira May)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 153: Our Biggest Failures (Ben Nadel)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – What’s Your Story: Desney Tan (Alyssa Hughes)
- JS Party Podcast – Building something new (Saron Yitbarek, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
- Rocket 464: Always Listen to Christina (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- Azure Podcast Episode 479 – Radius.- radapp.IO (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Jamstack Radio Episode #137 – Building Sophisticated Functionality with Steven Schkolne of MightyMeld (Brian Douglas)
- Web Rush Episode 260: Reach for the Sky with AI UI – with Mike Ryan (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- Knowing When to Pull the Plug | Multithreaded Income Episode 17 (Kevin Griffin)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #140: Grow to VP – Female Executive Journey to the Top with Megan Ford | Vice President of Engineering at Freeosk (Max Ahumada)
- Talk Python to Me #438: Celebrating JupyterLab 4 and Jupyter 7 Releases (Michael Kennedy)
- Amanda Silver Interview: Platform Engineering in the Age of AI (Audio) (Paul Thurrott)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Preparing for the 2023 Holiday Season (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- * BOOK OF NEWS * Microsoft Ignite 2023 (Mary Reynolds)
Database
- How To Limit Scalar UDF Executions In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- SQL SERVER – Exploring 3 Overutilized Features (Pinal Dave)
- Cumulative Update #10 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
- Real-Time SQL Monitoring with Visual Studio Code (Christian Shay)
- Power what’s next with limitless relational databases from Azure (Shireesh Thota)
Miscellaneous
- Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.3754 to Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2771 (Beta Channel) and Releasing Windows 11 Builds 22621.2787 and 22631.2787 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Windows Search providers (Drew Batchelor)
- Microsoft Announces New Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 Chips (Megan Crouse)
- Announcing Rust 1.74.0 (Rust Release Team)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3826 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – November 16, 2023 (#206) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)