Top Links
- Top 5 GitHub Copilot Features in Visual Studio from Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Amy Nguyen)
 - Announcing TypeScript 5.7 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
 - Introducing Microsoft Edge Game Assist (Preview)—a seamless, full-featured in-game browser (Microsoft Edge Team)
 - Welcome to the Microsoft for Developers blog and Software is a team sport: Building the future of software development together (Amanda Silver)
 - Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7 (Eben Upton)
 - Previewing Recall with Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating A Step-By-Step End-To-End Database Server-Side Blazor Application (updated to .NET 9) and .NET Aspire: Publishing to an Existing Azure Container Registry (Michael Washington)
 - Using Bluesky posts as blog comments (Emily Liu)
 - Building Oqtane Modules with Syncfusion Components for Blazor [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
 - Microsoft Fabric vs Azure Service Fabric: Understanding the Differences (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Event Broker Implementation in C# Using Azure Service Bus (Daniel Azevedo)
 - Nue: A New Static Site Generator Taking on Next.js (David Eastman)
 - Red Hat Developer Hub: The fastest path to Backstage on Kubernetes (Evan Shortiss)
 - Using SignalR for real-time IoT device coordination (Fiodar Sazanavets)
 - Solved by CSS: Donuts Scopes (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
 - Docker Desktop 4.36: New Enterprise Administration Features, WSL 2, and ECI Enhancements (Kat Tomrushka)
 - How to Add ‘Share on Bluesky’ Action Intent Button to Your Website (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Your Updated Guide to Building a Multi-language ASP.NET 8 MVC Application (Mark Pelf)
 - Building Async APIs in ASP.NET Core – The Right Way (Milan Jovanović)
 - How I show Bluesky likes on my blog posts (Salma Alam-Naylor)
 - Identity Server in Docker – Part 1 (Tore Nestenius)
 - Build autonomous SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric (Zachary Cavanell)
 - Microsoft Announces General Availability of Fabric API for GraphQL (Robert Krzaczyński)
 - Parallel Downloading and Fiddler – My Mistakes (Eric Lawrence)
 - BlueSky API – Domains (Scott Watermasysk)
 - How to Generate a JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for Network APIs Authentication (Alvaro Navarro)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Implementing WPF dependency properties with Metalama (Dario Macchi)
 - Error 0x80073FCA when updating or uninstalling packaged apps on Windows 10 | Windows App SDK (RD MacLachlan)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Create SVG Files Programmatically in C# .NET (Paarisha Rana)
 - Visual Studio’s AI Future: Copilot .NET Upgrades and More (David Ramel)
 - Visual Studio package security (Karen Payne)
 - Customizing unreachable code fading in Visual Studio with Visual Commander (Sergey Vlasov)
 - Fire-and-Forget Methods in C# — Best Practices & Pitfalls (Syed Shahriyar)
 - MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj v3.0.0 Release (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
 - What’s New in vcpkg (November 2024) (Augustin Popa)
 - .NET 8 upgrade – AuthenticationHandler (Bart Wullems)
 - Everything New in .NET 9: The Ultimate Developer’s Guide (ByteHide)
 - Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s Object Extension Methods (David McCarter)
 - Optimistic Locking vs Pessimistic Locking in .NET (Georgi Georgiev)
 - Nested monads (Mark Seemann)
 - In C++, how can I make a default parameter be the this pointer of the caller?, revisited (Raymond Chen)
 - What’s new in .NET 9? Key features you need to know! (David Grace)
 
AI
- Continuously monitor your GenAI application with Azure AI Foundry and Azure Monitor (amipatel)
 - Using OpenAI on Azure Web App (theringe)
 - JetBrains AI Assistant Integrates Google Gemini and Local LLMs (Irina Mariasova)
 - gemini-gradio – A Python package that makes it very easy for developers to create machine learning apps that are powered by Google’s Gemini API (Ahsen Khaliq)
 - AI workloads on Azure | Azure Well-Architected Framework (Microsoft Learn)
 - Semantic Kernel: Optimizing Chat History (Jamie Maguire)
 - Compound AI Systems: The Future of Scalable Intelligence and Responsible AI Principles for AI Adoption and My AI Philosophy: Rooted in Purpose, Empowerment, and Responsibility (JD Meier)
 - Cross-Platform Edge AI Made Easy with ONNX Runtime (Raji Rajagopalan)
 - You can now try Microsoft’s Recall AI feature on a Copilot Plus PC (Tom Warren)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub (Aaron Hallberg)
 - Solving C++ Unit Testing Challenges with Typemock Isolator++ (Eli Lopian)
 - NEWS: Azure DevOps Basic now included with GitHub Enterprise licenses (Kurt Shintaku)
 - GitHub Local Actions | Visual Studio Code Marketplace (Sanjula Ganepola) – Run your GitHub Actions locally from VS Code
 - “Always use early returns” – LinkedIn Edition (Steven Giesel)
 - Speed vs. Quality in Software Testing (Amy Reichert)
 - Inner World, Outer Results and Magnificent 7 Leadership Principles and What are Leadership Principles? and Codify Culture for Greater Impact and The Ultimate Guide to Culture Quotes: Fueling Success Through Values and Behaviors and Cheat Sheet – Future Self on a Page (J.D. Meier)
 - Communication Structures in a Growing Organization (Jessica Kerr)
 - How to Bring the Joy Back to Your Job (Suzanne Scacca)
 - Chat about your merge request with GitLab Duo (Torsten Linz)
 - Figma Releases the Pattern Library (WDD Staff)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module Guide out now: build amazing vision-based projects (Lucy Hattersley)
 - Why IoT Failed & Can AI Fix It? (Om Malik)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Jerry Nixon on Data API Builder (David Giard)
 - WinUI Partial Observable Property (preview) (Andrew KeepCoding)
 - Building Counter app with Hot Design | Uno Platform (Matthew Mattei)
 - AI Confidential Podcast: Building Trust in AI with Mark Papermaster (AMD) & Mark Russinovich (Azure) (Opaque Systems)
 - MassTransit SQL Transport Dashboard – ResQueue (Chris Patterson)
 - Tell us a bonus story about breaking the build | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
 - Exploring MongoDB Backups: Insights from Evin Roesle at MongoDB Local London (MongoDB Team)
 
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict #438: Jon Galloway – From Submarine Office to Software Developer (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
 - GeekWire Podcast: Elon Musk’s problem with Microsoft; What the GeekWire 200 says about the startup scene (Todd Bishop)
 - Syntax Podcast #851: The Future of VS Code and Copilot (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - To embrace DevOps, how important it is to be skilled in containerization and CI/CD tools? (Andrea Angella)
 - CI/CD Tools for Dummies – Adventures in DevOps #224 (Jillian Rowe, Jonathan & Will Button)
 - Building a Chatbot or Voicebot with Dialogflow in React ft. Victory Nwani – React Round Up #275 (Jack, Paige Niedringhaus & TJ VanToll)
 - Performant Applications using the Actor Pattern & Akka.NET with Aaron Stannard – Adventures in .NET #206 (Shawn Clabough, Caleb Wells & Joel)
 - New Horizons in Web Development with Danny Moerkerke – JavaScript Jabber #658 (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal & Dan Shappir)
 - Changelog & Friends Podcast #71 – Local-first, y/n? (Johannes Schickling)
 - AGL 392: Eileen Forrestal (John Rouda)
 - Talk Python to Me #486: CSnakes: Embed Python code in .NET (Michael Kennedy)
 - freeCodeCamp Podcast (Interview) #151 – Automating a coffee shop chain using self-taught coding skills with Eamonn Cottrell (Quincy Larson)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Growing Trust As A Product Owner, A PO Superpower | Gosia Smoleńska (Vasco Duarte)
 
Community & Events
- MVP’s Favorite Content: Fabric, Azure, Windows Security (Rie Moriguchi)
 - Meta scrambles to respond to upstart social platform Bluesky’s surge (Will Oremus & Naomi Nix)
 - Relevance! Relevance! Relevance! Microsoft at 50 Is an AI Giant—and Still Hellbent on Domination (Steven Levy)
 - Should you join Bluesky? (Tom Johnson)
 - Highlights in gRPConf 2024: Customer Showcase, Developer Engagement, Birds of Feathers Discussions and more. (gRPC Team)
 - Rise of Python, Generative AI, and Global Developer Communities: Insights from GitHub Octoverse 2024 (Aditya Kulkarni)
 - Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky (Jay Peters)
 - Join us at the Women in AI Summit 2024! (Joana Carrasqueira)
 - Why You Should Speak At Events As An Early-Career Professional (Victoria Nduka)
 - Validate your identity on Bluesky with your GitHub account (Mark Downie)
 - Amazon to invest another $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic (Mia Sato)
 - 70+ Great Holiday Events & Festivals in Philly for 2024 (Visit Philly)
 
Database
- The Broken fn_xe_file_target_read_file DMF In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
 - SQL SERVER – Understanding WITH RECOMPILE in Stored Procedures (Pinal Dave)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell & Terminal
- How To Create Responsive Dialog Boxes in PowerShell (Brien Posey)
 - Lifting the login requirement | Warp (Zach Lloyd)
 - Warp Is a Power User’s Dream Terminal for Linux (Jack Wallen)
 
Miscellaneous
- University of Texas, MIT and others announce free tuition for some undergraduates (Rachel Treisman)
 - Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale (Paul Kiel)
 - Gifts For Geeks 2024 (Lucy Black)
 - Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4515 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
 - Coding Boot Gamp Graduates Find Tough Prospects In an AI-Powered World and Microsoft’s Controversial ‘Recall’ Feature is Already Experiencing Some Issues (EditorDavid)
 - Mozilla Warns DOJ’s Google Breakup Plan May Hurt Small Browser Makers and SiriusXM Made It Too Tough For Customers To End Their Subscriptions, NY Judge Rules (msmash)
 - Introducing Windows 365 Link and Windows 365 Frontline updates: New shared mode (Zachary Cavanell)
 
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #47, 2024 – Oxpecker 1.0 (Sergey Tihon)
 - Dev News: Highlights From Deno, Android and Angular Releases (Loraine Lawson)
 - Daily Reading List – November 22, 2024 (#447) (Richard Seroter)
 - Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 17, 2024 (GeekWire Team)
 - Collective #883 (Manoela Ilic)
 
