Month: November 2023

Top Links

• Cookies, Tokens, or JWTs? The ASP.NET Core Identity Dilemma (Andrea Chiarelli)
• Microsoft Graph CLI v1.0.0 is now generally available (Carol Mbasinge Kigoonya)
• Best Black Friday Software Deals in 2023 (Meikanda Nayanar)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Modern Cloud Engineering with Adora Nwodo (Scott Hanselman)
• Exploring what is inside the ASP.NET Core cookies (Tore Nestenius)
• Community Feedback Building 17.8 & 17.9 Preview 1 (Jason Chlus)

Web & Cloud Development

• Blazor .NET 8 – Enhanced Form Navigation (Steven Giesel)
• How to include an Angular Project within .NET Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
• Easily Draw any Polygon (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• ASP.NET Core Basics: Essential NuGet Packages for Beginners (Part 1) (Assis Zang)
• How to Manipulate the Document using the WebSocketHandler and Store and Merge Templates in a Database using LiteDB and ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• How to Create a Sortable and Filterable Table in React (Ferenc Almasi)
• CSS Responsive Multi-Line Ribbon Shapes (Part 2) (Temani Afif)
• Syncfusion Blazor Components Are Compatible with .NET 8.0 (Rajendran R.)
• Fleet 1.27 Is Here With Emmet Support in PHP, a Compare With Clipboard Action, the Global Status Bar, New WSL Networking Mode Support, and More. (Roman Prokashev)
• .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) is Generally Available (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• PhpStorm 2023.3 Beta 2 (Tania Goral)
• Node v20.10.0 (LTS) (Michael Zasso)
• Attack Techniques: Steganography (Eric Lawrence)
• An Introduction To Full Stack Composability (Facundo Giuliani)
• Getting Your Halo Infinite Service Record Directly From The API (Den Delimarsky)
• Building an event-driven architecture in the cloud? These are three approaches for generating events. (Richard Seroter)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Announcing .NET 8 Support for Syncfusion .NET MAUI Controls! (Paul Anderson)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.4.231115000 Released (Windows App SDK Team)
• Microsoft.UI.Xaml (WinUI 2) v2.8.6 Released (Ranjesh) – Get it on NuGet here.

Visual Studio & .NET

• F# 8 Makes Code More Uniform and Performant (I Programmer)
• How to Harness System.Reactive for the Observer Pattern (Nick Cosentino)
• REST vs WebSockets in C# (Code Maze)
• Primary Constructors – Using C# 12 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
• On the need to keep most event sources alive if you want them to raise events (Raymond Chen)
• This looks like a NuGet bug – but isn’t (Matt Lacey)
• MassTransit–Quorum queues and .NET 8–JSON Source Generator improvements (Bart Wullems)
• Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control 32.0 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
• Upgrade to .NET 8 (Peter Smulovics)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Microsoft has released free courses on AI (Roni Rahman)
• When You Get a Lot of Comments on a Pull Request or Merge Request (Iris Classon)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Cordova Plugin InAppBrowser 6.0.0 Released! (Niklas Merz)
• Turn an old phone into a robotic personal assistant | HackSpace #73 (Ashley Whittaker)
• Test the latest AI features in Kotlin (Craig Dunn)

Screencasts & Videos

• .NET MAUI – How to create menus for desktop apps (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Building an Apple 1 Computer – Part 4 (Scott Hanselman)

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks! – Sustainable Development with Lea Mladineo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 154: Premortems And Log Levels (Ben Nadel)
• InfoQ Podcast: Kanban is a Tool for Continuous Improvement (Todd Little)
• Software Engineering Radio 591: Yechezkel Rabinovich on Kubernetes Observability (Phillip Winston)
• Syntax Podcast Episode 696: How to Build a Website or App (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
• Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Confidential Computing, with Fabian Kammel (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
• Made by Google Podcast – Chip Chat (Rachid Finge)
• PPP 397 | Keeping Your Poise When Emotions are Rising, with Neuropsychologist Dr. Julia DiGangi (Andy Kaufman)
• The Changelog – Bringing Dev Mode to Figma (Emil Sjolander, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Rocket 465: Succession Main Theme Dot Mp3 (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode 142: Special Thanks and Special Announcement You Don’t Want to Miss (Max Ahumada)
• Talk Python to Me #439: Pixi, A Fast Package Manager (Michael Kennedy)
• Software Defined Talk Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software (Brandon Whichard)
• Duke’s Corner Podcast – Stéphane Nicoll on Contributing to and Growing Communities (Jim Grisanzio)

Community & Events

• Announcing the Cordova User & Contributor Survey! (Niklas Merz)
• A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella (on OpenAI) (Microsoft)
• Why Microsoft Has to Save OpenAI (Mary Branscombe)
• Other Developer Advent Calendars! (Matthew Groves)
• Microsoft Announces New Tools at Ignite (Kay Ewbank)
• OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough Ahead of CEO Ouster (BeauHD)
• OpenAI drama is over. (Om Malik)
• freeCodeCamp’s Top Open Source Contributors of 2023 (Quincy Larson)

Database

• Optimizing Paging Queries With Indexes In SQL Server and Methods For Optimizing Paging Queries In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
• Exploring the Query Store on Secondary Replicas in SQL Server 2022 (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
• SQL SERVER – Escape Single Quotes and SQL SERVER – How to Convert Month Number to Month Name and SQL SERVER – Fibonacci Series with T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio (Japhlet Nwamu)
• What is Microsoft Fabric all about? (Fabriano Richard)
• A SQL Prompt AI Experiment with Window Clauses (Steve Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Fortran ISO/IEC 1539-1:2023 Published (ISO Standards)
• Writing a Debugger From Scratch – DbgRs Part 6 – Stacks (Tim Misiak)
• Microsoft, can we please just call it Windows 11.1 already? (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3830 and The Morning Brew #3831 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Reading List – November 22, 2023 (#210) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)