Top Links
- Visual Studio Performance Highlights Delivered in 2023 (Nayana Srikanth)
- What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components version 4.3.0 (Vincent Baaij)
- Handling Missing Members when Reading .NET Objects | On .NET (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
- Why knowing WHO you’re building for is so important to a PM (Part 2) (Jeremiah Marble)
- #include Diagnostics in Visual Studio (Mryam Girmay)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core 8.0 uses C# 12.0’s experimental interceptors to enable AOT (Ian Griffiths)
- How to Use CSS Flexbox to Break Elements Out of Their Containers (Kheoh Yee Wei)
- Integrating Code with the Telerik UI for Blazor Form Component (Peter Vogel)
- Introducing Customer-Managed Agents for Pulumi Deployments (Germán Lena)
- Easily access your billing data with the Postman API (Christos Gkoros)
- Announcing Fluid Framework 2.0 Beta (Kashif Qureshi)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Bottom Sheet – 3 Ways to Optimize Mobile Screen Space (Anthony Sameishchev)
- MaterialFrame MAUI: blur effect, acrylic brush, dark theme… (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Append or Update Query String Values in C# (Code Maze)
- .NET 8– System.Text.Json serializer error (Bart Wullems)
- How do I prevent my C++/WinRT implementation class from participating in COM aggregation? (Raymond Chen)
- .NET APIs Part 5 – All the CRUD APIs (Jesse Liberty)
- Some Stream.Read Guidelines (Mark Heath)
- TIOBE Index for January 2024 – C# is programming language of the year 2023! (TIOBE Index)
Design, Methodology AI & Testing
- Serverless Architecture Patterns and Best Practices (Faith Oyama)
- OpenAI and journalism (OpenAI Team)
- Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Tracking decision with Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) (Davide Bellone)
- Leveraging Chat GPT for Development: Balancing Privacy, Security, and Integrity (Mitchel Sellers)
- How to build a Kernel Memory connector and use Elasticsearch as vector database (Alessandro Federici)
- Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations’ (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Never a waste: How missteps can lead us to meaningful change (Chris Ferguson)
- How generative AI is unleashing human creativity and innovation? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Frenemies to friends: Developers and security tools (Shelby Gluck)
Screencasts & Videos
- How Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 works (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts
- Revision Path – Anne H. Berry (Maurice Cherry)
- Merge Conflict #392: The One Billion Row Challenge – .NET Edition (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 714: CSS :has() in Every Browser! 10 Uses (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksy)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Prioritizing People, Strategies for Helping Agile Teams In Trouble | Nimi Bello (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell PM Roundtable: 2024 Areas of Excitement (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 154 – Mike Schiffman: from Blueboxing to LLMs via Network Security at Google (Anton Chuvakin)
- The Changelog News Podcast – The I in LLM stands for intelligence (Jerod Santo)
- The Amp Hour #655 – The Twelfth Day of Keyzermas (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Maximum Glitch: How to break Tetris (Eira May)
- 2024 Kickoff – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 279 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Behind the Tech – Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD (Kevin Scott)
- Tools and Weapons Podcast – U.S. Ambassador Nate Fick: Choosing a radio over a rifle in combat (Brad Smith)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 159 – Select * Wastes Money (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Software Engineering Radio 597: Coral Calero Muñoz and Félix García on Green Software (Giovanni Asproni)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode 150: Victory Over Imposter Syndrome and Burnout with Jimmy Burroughes (Zach White)
Community & Events
- Unity is laying off 25 percent of its staff (Emma Roth)
- A Conversation with Imagine Cup Director, Tina Jones (Maddy Epstein)
- New year; new ways to connect with the Semantic Kernel team! (Matthew Bolanos)
- Succinctly Readers Awards 2024 Are on the Way! (Rajeshwari P.)
- Wasm ahead – Joining Fermyon (Thorsten Hans)
- Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024 – Call for Speakers (Cosmos DB Team)
Database
- Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink (Azure Team)
- Best Practices for Re-modeling Graph database to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (Subhasish Ghosh)
PowerShell
- Microsoft PowerToys Getting New PowerShell Module (David Ramel)
Miscellaneous
- Discontinued and Unreleased Microsoft Peripherals Revived By Licensing Deal (BeauHD)
- Turn your ideas into songs with Suno on Microsoft Copilot (Bing Team)
- Wi-Fi 7 gets certified (Brian Fagioli)
- GitHub Certifications are generally available (Kedasha Kerr)
- It’s a new year: Sharpen your skills (Matt Graven)
- Apple Vision Pro prescription lenses will cost $149 extra (Richard Lawler)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3855 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2024-2 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – January 8, 2024 (#234) (Richard Seroter)
- .NET Digest | January 2024 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)