Top Links
- Build Your First Application with Blazor with Jeffrey Fritz (Jason Gaylord)
- Enhancing Code Comprehension: GitHub Copilot’s Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 (Rhea Patel)
- Announcing the General Availability of the VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning (Leo Yao)
- Windows App SDK Version 1.6 Preview 2 (1.6.0-preview2) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Visual Studio Tips & Tricks | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Mads Kristensen)
- Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v8.1 (Michael Hawker)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor and Tailwind – Quick Setup Without npm and Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.6.1 (Blazorise Team)
- Exploring Lazy Evaluation Of Computed Signals In Angular 18 (Ben Nadel)
- Enhance Your Next.js Applications with Server Actions: A Step-by-Step Guide (Adhithi Ravichandran)
- Build Scalable Azure Static Web Apps for Handling High Traffic Websites (Lakindu Hewawasam)
- Farewell Spring Cloud Azure 4.x, Hello 5.x: The Future is Now! (Muyao Feng)
- Optimize Memory Management in JavaScript Pivot Table: Best Practices and Tips (Sastha Prathap)
- Ripper – A graphics extraction tool (Keith Clark)
- OpenAPI As Executable (Kin Lane)
- Node v22.7.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- The Anatomy of .NET Aspire Application (Fiodar Sazanavets)
- Callbacks on Web Components? (Geoff Graham)
- Scroll-based SVG Filter Animations on Text (Manoela Ilic)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET 8– Improved build output (Bart Wullems)
- Document Viewer: Setting the Rendering Mode (Bjoern Meyer)
- Prevent Critical Bugs with MSVC Code Analysis (Mryam Girmay)
- The role of the activation factory in the Windows Runtime (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Integrated vectorization with Azure OpenAI for Azure AI Search now generally available (Gia Mondragon)
- Gemma explained: What’s new in Gemma 2 (Ju-yeong Ji & Ravin Kumar)
- Discover the New Multi-Lingual, High-Quality Phi-3.5 SLMs (Adina Trufinescu)
- Celebrating an important step forward for Open Source AI (Ayah Bdeir)
- Diving into Function Calling and its JSON Schema in Semantic Kernel Python (Evan Mattson)
- Building a productive AI-powered workplace (Microsoft in Business Team)
- AI and Data Centers: What Do the Numbers Say? (Om Malik)
- MIT’s AI risk database exposes 700+ ways AI could ruin your life (Thom Dunn)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Who Benefits from Agile processes? (George Stocker)
- Rewriting Strangler Fig (Martin Fowler)
- The 3 Most Common Security Mistakes Developers Make (Ben Nettleton)
- Mastering Typography In Logo Design (Levi Honing)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Create a MacOS App with React Native (Beau Carnes)
- Kotlin 2.0.20 Released (Sarah Haggarty)
Screencasts & Videos
- Fast Focus: Visual Studio Debugging & Diagnostics: Tips & Tricks | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Harshada Hole)
- Fast Focus: Upgrade Your Git Game in Visual Studio 2022 | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Jessie Houghton)
- Native Windows principals for SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed and Data Classification and Labelling in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- Building Planet Scale .NET Apps with Azure Cosmos DB | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Justine Cocchi)
- Developing Modern WinForms Applications | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelman)
- What is Quickstart Playground? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: The State of Engineering Management in 2024 (Andrew Lau)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Fine tuning Products with Stanza System’s Stacie Frederick (Scott Hanselman)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how one backend engineer evolved over time (Ben Popper)
- Incident Response Essentials: From Postmortems to Communication Strategies – Adventures in DevOps #212 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Success Metrics for Scrum Masters, How to Define and Track Them | Keir Lumsden (Vasco Duarte)
- Practical AI Podcast #283 – Threat modeling LLM apps (Donato Capitella & Daniel Whitenack)
- JS Party Podcast #335 – There be a11y dragons (Eric Bailey & Jerod Santo)
- How Do You Grow? – Adventures in .NET #197 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
- Bazel with Alex Eagle – Adventures in Angular #422 (Jennifer Wadella, Aaron Frost & Joe Eames)
- The CSS Podcast #087: Anchor positioning (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 481: There Never Was a Rug (Brandon Whichard & Cote)
- Software Engineering Radio #630: Luis Rodríguez on the SSH Backdoor Attack (Robert Blumen)
- What’s Your Story: Lex Story (Brenda Potts)
Community & Events
- Developer Day 2024: A Sneak Peek (Ana Cidre)
Database
- How to Access the SQL Server Error Log (Jim Evans)
- Effective Strategies for Storing and Parsing JSON in SQL Server (Edward Pollack)
- A Little About Computed Columns, Filtered Indexes, and Indexed Views in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.1.7 (David Engel)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
Miscellaneous
- Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.4842 to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
- 6 design details in the new Pixel devices (Molly McHugh-Johnson)
- Brave Gets Major Privacy Updates on Desktop and Mobile (Paul Thurrott)
- paint.net 5.1 beta (build 9000) (Rick Brewster)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – August 22, 2024 (#382) (Richard Seroter)