Top Links
- Microsoft PowerToys will launch and automatically arrange your favorite apps (Tom Warren)
- Modernize Microsoft SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure (Debbi Lyons)
- A SimpleMDE Markdown Preview Editor with server side rendering. (Scott Galloway)
- How To Improve the Performance of a RAG Model (Exxact Team)
- Join us for .NET Conf: Focus on AI – August 20th 2024 (.NET Team)
- Brandon Minnick to Keynote at TechBash 2024 (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating A Transient View Helper In Angular 18 (Ben Nadel)
- Angular DI: Type safe Angular providers (marekozw)
- Python: How to use secrets stored in azure key vault in your Pulumi project (Adetokunbo Ige)
- React Context with the New Use API (Hassan Djirdeh)
- CSS Techniques for Cross-Browser Compatibility and Styling (Kamal Kishor)
- Announcing Public Preview of API Management WordPress plugin to build customized developer portals (Sreekanth Thirthala Venkata)
- .NET Aspire 8.1: Enhanced Container Image Building and Python Orchestrating Support (Almir Vuk)
- Hosting a Keycloak Container in .NET Aspire (Fiodar Sazanavets)
- Announcing a new learning module for evaluating and building with Microsoft Entra External ID (Linda Park)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Release v9.0.3: Transparent Status bar for Android, Icon Tint Color Updates and more! (Gerald Versluis)
- Awesome-Avalonia: A collection of interesting libraries and tools for Avalonia project. (Avalonia Community)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Optimizing old code: StreamBitArray refactoring (Oren Eini)
- Microsoft Spotlights .NET 9, Cloud in First Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview (David Ramel)
- How to run dotnet tests with automatic smart retry and Beautiful dotnet test summary reports (Daniel Cazzulino)
- Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Pt. 4) and Part 5 (Scott Galloway)
- Use dotnet pack with nuspec file (Bart Wullems)
- Advanced Debugging in C# (Kamil Pakula)
- Implementing CQRS with MediatR in .NET 8: A Complete Guide (Adrián Bailador)
- The case of the missing ordinal 380 (Raymond Chen)
- FormattableStringFactory – Creating dynamic FormattableString instances (Steven Giesel)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Agile is not a process. (George Stocker)
- Study Notes: Graph RAG – Property Graph RAG (The Projects) (Jason Haley)
- GPT-4o Long Output and The Model Spec Feedback and ChatGPT Education (OpenAI Team)
- Gemma for Streaming ML with Dataflow (Reza Rokni & Ravin Kumar)
- Creating a Web Development Bot with OpenAI ChatGPT-4o (A. Demontis)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $50 (Eben Upton)
- Retro: Setting up a BBS Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Mystic (Jamie Maguire)
- The Swift Composable Architecture Brings the Redux Model to iOS App Development (Sergio De Simone)
- Adding WiFi To The Pico 2 (Harry Fairhead)
- Can you hack our new chip? (Chris Boross)
Screencasts & Videos
- Building Accessible Apps with .NET MAUI featuring Rachel Kang | The .NET MAUI Podcast ep. 123 (David Ortianau, Matt Soucoup & James Montemagno)
- Search Your Code in Seconds with this Visual Studio Feature (Visual Studio Team)
- Video Tutorial: Creating a MailMerge Template and JSON Data Structure (Bjoern Meyer)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 553 (Jason Bock)
- What was the Mach 20? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Continuous Delivery, Psychological Safety and Inclusive Leadership in Software Engineering (Hannah Foxwell)
- Merge Conflict #424: Xamarin 2025, New Apple Tax, & Mega .NET MAUI Update (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Defending the Agile Team, A Product Owner’s Crucial Responsibility | James Gifford and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leadership Lessons Learned from Successful and not so Successful startups | Martin Gonzales (Vasco Duarte)
- Next.js Deployment Woes: Tackling Vendor Lock-In and Production Readiness with FlightControl – React Round Up #264 (Charles Frewin, Lucas Paganini & Peter Osah)
- React Native Radio #304 – React Navigation V7 with Satyajit Saho (Jamon Holmgren)
- Syntax Podcast #809 – How To Stay Up To Date with Daily.dev’s Francesco Ciulla (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #57 – The Winamp era (Jordan Eldredge, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Coding Blocks Podcast – Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar… (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce (Ben Popper)
- AGL 378: Dr. Marshall Goldsmith (John Rouda)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 480: No offsite content (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Highlighting Community Starter Packs (Bluesky Team)
- The Fediverse Files: Making Social Media Fun Again (Jeremy Anderberg)
- EVENT: .NET Conf 2024 – November 12-14, 2024 (Kurt Shintaku)
- MVP’s Favorite Content: M365 MVP Week #1 (Rie Moriguchi)
- Contributor Stories: Sean Killeen (Sherry List)
- National Public Data admits it leaked Social Security numbers in a massive data breach (Umar Shakir)
- Simplicity, Speed, and Re-use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months (Zahan Malkani)
Database
- Troubleshooting High CPU Utilization in SQL Server (Jeffrey Yao)
- Making It Easy To Tell When Data Changed With Change Data Capture In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- MariaDB Introduces Open-Source Vector Preview, Aiming to Become Default MySQL Option (Renato Losio)
- Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database (Carlos Robles)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
- PowerShell and AI: Create a Microsoft Word Copilot (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Server 2025: The upgrade and update experience (Dan Cuomo)
- Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #33, 2024 – F# from the maintainers’ perspective (Sergey Tihon)
- C# Digest – Journey through the .NET World (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Daily Reading List – August 16, 2024 (#378) (Richard Seroter)
- .NET Newsletter Episode 59: A Guide to Unit Testing Project Setup in .NET and .NET Newsletter Episode 61: Custom Type Handling with Dapper in .NET (Muhammad Waseem)
- Collective #858 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
The Nature of Code (Daniel Shiffman)