Top Links
- DirectML: Accelerating AI on Windows, now with NPUs (Chad Pralle)
- Windows AI Studio (Microsoft Learn)
- OpenAI Assistant functions on Android (Craig Dunn)
- Understanding the kernel in Semantic Kernel | Microsoft Learn (Matthew Bolanos)
- Google AI SDK for Swift (Google)
- Navigate the unexpected: using Copilot in Edge and DevTools (Patrick Brosset)
Web & Cloud Development
- Announcing SvelteKit 2 (Svelte Team)
- What are Kubernetes Manifest Files? Examples & Best Practices (James Walker)
- Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components (Michael McCune & Andrew Sy Kim)
- ASP.NET Core Basics: Understanding Dependency Injection (Assis Zang)
- Unit Testing of Azure Sphere Applications (Azure Sphere Team)
- How to Test JavaScript Code with Jest and Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900) – Pass the Exam With This Free 8-Hour Course (Beau Carnes)
- How to Get an Access Token from HttpContext in ASP.NET Core (Dona Pejnovic)
- Announcing the new (more performant!) Beta release of Azure Storage client libraries for JavaScript (Rohit Ganguly)
- Building for the Future: Next.js and KendoReact Integration Unveiled (Wissam Merhi)
- V8 is Faster and Safer than Ever! (Victor Gomes)
- Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty now generally available, opening new pathways for government innovation (Corey Sanders)
- Integrating Auth0 with Screenly (Viktor Petersson)
- App Builder Release: Financial Chart, Variables Management UI, and More (Zdravko Kolev)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Telerik UI for .NET MAUI NavigationView—Achieve Adaptive Layout in a Cross-Platform Application (Rossitza Fakalieva)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Entity Framework – Storing complex objects as JSON (Steven Giesel)
- Primary Constructor in C# (Mahesh Chand)
- What’s New for Makefile Tools in Visual Studio Code Release 0.8: Post-Configure Scripts and more… (Sinem Akinci)
- Building a Critter Stack Application: Asynchronous Processing with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- All Purpose Object Updater (James Curran)
- Solving Major Database Contention Problems with Throttling and Akka.NET Streams (Aaron Stannard)
- .NET 8– Upgrade warnings (Bart Wullems)
- How do I specify an optional parameter to a Windows Runtime method? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Updates to Azure DevOps Demo Generator and Labs (Gloridel Morales)
- VBScript Deprecation impact and solution on installer packages (Renato Ivanescu)
- Bulk Text Analytics with Azure AI Language (Matt Eland)
- Combine Semantic Kernel with Azure Machine Learning prompt flow (Roman Mullier)
- Secure Install Properties (Radu Popescu)
- Advanced Installer 21.3 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Weak-to-strong generalization (OpenAI Team)
- How AI helps make public health truly public (Dr. Garth Graham)
- How LinkedIn Levels up Your Skillset … with AI (Joab Jackson)
- DiffEdit: Editing Images using Generative AI (Jonny Spruce)
- Managing Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) access for Faculty and Higher Education 18+ student (Jethro Seghers)
- DZone Trend Report – Enterprise Security – Securing Applications Across the Software Supply Chain (Vishwa Ratna, Akanksha Pathak, Apostolos Giannakidis, Ochuko Onojakpor, Pratik Prakash, Jihana Barrett & G. Ryan Spain)
- Setup an Environment for Copilot Studio (Shantha Kumar T.)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Building Modern Angular Apps with Ionic and Standalone Components (Simon Grimm)
- SwiftUI Tutorials – Introducing SwiftUI (Apple Developer Docs) – All new and updated tutorials
- Salesforce: What’s New in Mobile SDK 11.0 and 11.1 (Galen Lewis)
Screencasts & Videos
- Azure SQL DB High Availability & Disaster Recovery overview | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- GPT-4 Turbo with Vision + Azure AI Vision | Microsoft Mechanics (Seth Juarez)
- Customizing borders & corners | .NET MAUI Minutes | On .NET (Maddy Montequila)
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Work On (Microsoft 365 Team)
- 2023: Year of AI (Satya Nadella)
- SNEAK PEAK – new custom M1 macOS runners with Christina Warren (GitHub)
- The Download: DIY Split-Flap Display, OSS Steam Deck Resources, GTA VI Trailer and more (Christina Warren)
- Why would you want to use an AI plugin? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Developer Experience for the 99% (Jean Yang)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Building a better internet with Cloudflare’s Rita Kozlov (Scott Hanselman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Measuring Autonomy, A Scrum Master’s Success Metric | Robert Briese (Vasco Duarte)
- Jamstack Radio Episode #138 – What’s New with Next.js Featuring Nick Taylor of OpenSauced (Brian Douglas)
- Authorization in Software Podcast – Fine Grained Authorization, Open Source and Topaz (Damian Schenkelman & Omri Gazitt)
- Rocket 468: This One Was Epic (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can an AI get depressed? (Eira May)
- Web Rush Episode 263: Stories Every Developer Can Relate To (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- Talk Python to Me #442: Ultra High Speed Message Parsing with msgspec (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group (W3C Team)
- Cruise lays off nearly a quarter of the company after GM slashes driverless spending (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Jodie Burchell (David McCarter)
- Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (Jon Porter)
- Webinar – Chris Woodruff – Mastering OData: An In-Depth Developer’s Guide (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Database
- Grant SQL Server Permissions to a Folder for Backups or Database Files (Levi Masonde)
- Cumulative Update #24 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
- What is OneLake in Microsoft Fabric? (Koen Verbeeck)
- Documenting What Microsoft Won’t: The sys.sp_configure_automatic_tuning Stored Procedure (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Effective file management with the next generation of OneDrive app for Microsoft Teams (Noga Ronen)
- Web content in Microsoft Mesh, powered by WebView (Sean Kerawala)
- Announcing updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability (TJ Devine)
Miscellaneous
- DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection for Android is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.2915 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1 (Vitaly Bragilevsky)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3846 (Chris Alcock)
- Code Maze Weekly #196 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- Daily Reading List – December 14, 2023 (#224) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link