Top Links
- Copilot Content Exclusion Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 (Rhea Patel)
- Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – August 2024 (Junjie Li)
- GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions (Scott Hunter)
- Dapr v1.14 is now available (Dapr Team)
- What is Advanced Paste? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)
- .NET 9 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Astro 4.14 (Matt Kane & Erika)
- Extending Microsoft Copilot for Security Capabilities with Azure Function Apps (cbelwal)
- How to Create A Color Picker Tool Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Fanny Nyayic)
- Vue Basics: How to Use Vue with Firebase (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in (Naj Shahid & Bill DeForeest)
- Preview 1 of AWS SDK for .NET V4 (Norm Johanson)
- How are the `colspan` and `rowspan` attributes different? (Geoff Graham)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Artificial Immune Systems for Intrusion Detection Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- The 2024.2 Versions of JetBrains IDEs Are Here With Enhanced FLCC and Remote Development, the New UI as the Default, and More (Aleksandra Krupskaya)
- Instead of putting a hash in the Portable Executable timestamp field, why not create a separate field for the hash? (Raymond Chen)
- Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) using TX Text Control in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Onboarding to a “legacy” codebase with the help of AI (Martin Fowler)
- Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) (Cameron R. Wolfe)
- How To Defend Your Design Process (Vitaly Friedman)
- OpenAI’s new voice mode threw me into the uncanny valley (Kylie Robison)
- How to level up your Git game with GitHub CLI (Michelle Duke)
- Did a Chatbot just improve me? (Robin Osborne)
- Customer Case Study: Orion Innovation’s usage of Kernel Arguments (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- Reducing Bugs with Raygun, .NET Aspire, and Local AI | .NET Aspire Dev Conference (John-Daniel Trask)
- Native Windows principals for SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – GitOps on the Edge with Octopus Deploy’s Dan Garfield (Scott Hanselman)
- Azure Podcast Episode 502 – Azure Open AI and Security (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Manipulating Language Models for Real-World Applications in DevOps – Adventures in DevOps #211 (Wil Button & Warren Parad)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Creating Self-Organizing Agile Teams, Tips for Scrum Masters | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast #334 – Forging Minecraft’s scripting API (Raphael Landaverde, Jake Shirley & Jerod Santo)
- PPP 430 | How to Talk With a Stakeholder (or That Relative) You Don’t Agree With–Without Starting a Fight, with Steven T. Collis (Andy Kaufman)
- .NET Rocks! – Low-Code Solutions for .NET Developers with Serge Sarafudinov (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Directions on Microsoft – Stuck in a VMware Squeeze? You’ve Got Microsoft Options (Mary Jo Foley)
Community & Events
- Cisco Slashes Thousands of Workers As It Announces Yearly Profit of $10.3 Billion (BeauHD)
- At the Rise25 Awards, the future of AI is ethical, inclusive and accountable (Kristina Bravo)
- GeekWire 200: Latest update highlights hottest tech startups across Seattle and Pacific Northwest (Taylor Soper)
Database
- Five Reasons Why Your SQL Server Is Slow Right Now (Erik Darling)
- Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model (CockroachDB Team)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- M365 Developers Update | August 2024 Edition (Justin Royal)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – August 15, 2024 (#377) (Richard Seroter)
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