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- How Inline Return Values Simplify Debugging in Visual Studio 2022 (Harshada Hole)
- Master Copilot Your Way: Unlocking the Power of Copilot Instructions in Visual Studio! (Jessie Houghton)
- Build an advent calendar app your friends can actually use (Uno Platform Team)
- A Simple Voice Controlled AI Assistant in C# (Lee Englestone)
- What’s New in .NET MAUI 9 – Window TitleBar (Vijay Anand E G)
- Integrating Microsoft Entra ID for enhanced security in three-tier architecture (Pramod HK)
Web & Cloud Development
- On Blazor Component Reusability – From Day 0 (David Ramel)
- How to Launch a WordPress Site: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (Jen Swisher)
- Festive Tech Calendar – Building Personalized Cloud Year in Review Videos (John Kilmister)
- Go 1.23.4-1 and 1.22.10-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
- Url Shortener API with .NET 9, Aspire, PostgreSQL, Hybrid Cache, and Redis (Poorna Soysa)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Create a .NET MAUI Spline Area Chart to Track Annual Gold Price Fluctuations Across Major Global Currencies (Sowndharya Selladurai)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Query Snowflake in ADO.NET Using C# (Prabhat Sharma)
- The Factory design pattern in C# (Metalama Team)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.12.3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- C# 13 Features: What’s New and How to Use It (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Why does my DLL reference count go up by one every time I create and exit a thread? (Raymond Chen)
- Using Testing.Platform with NET 9 (Dennis Fruhauff)
AI
- Entity extraction with Azure OpenAI Structured Outputs (Pamela Fox)
- The AI Showdown: Discover Why Azure OpenAI Models Are the Ultimate Game-Changers (Savita Mittal)
- Inside Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Connect AI Assistants to Data (Jesus Rodriguez)
- OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning model (Kylie Robison)
- Fixing LLMs: Retrieval Augmented Generation (Peter Vogel)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Generalizing the design of data products (Martin Fowler)
- Effective Technical Leads (Ian Mundy)
- Frameworkism: Senior Software Developers’ Pit of Doom (Aaron Stannard)
- Prepare for the GitHub Foundations Certification (Syed Shahriyar)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- Advent of Code 2024: TDD in C# (Day 3) and Advent of Code 2024: TDD in C# (Day 4) (Brad Wilson)
- C# Web Development on SharpSite with a focus on Auth (Jeff Fritz)
Podcasts
- Azure Podcast Episode 509 – Azure Functions Flex Consumption (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Practical AI Podcast #298 – Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai (Alexandre Défossez, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Syntax Podcast #856: Loading UIs, Rust Webpack, New Cookie Types, Conference Talks + More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- .NET Rocks! – Grasping Code Quality with Richard Gross (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Changelog Podcast #620 – Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Acon & Jerod Santo)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Making your own dictionary, with Erin McKean (Erin McKean & Mignon Fogarty)
- RunAs Radio Episode #961 – A SysAdmin Christmas with Rick Claus and Joey Snow (Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- INFO: Microsoft on BlueSky and INFO: Microsoft Copilot Discord Server (Kurt Shintaku)
- Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey (The Rust Survey Working Group)
- Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration (Wes Davis)
Database
- Finding Bad Density Vector Estimates In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Latest enhancements in Fluid Framework 2 (Kashif Qureshi)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27758 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Bitcoin just hit $100,000 (Emma Roth)
- Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech (Lindsey Lionheart O’Brien)
- Paint.NET 5.1.1 is now available (Rick Brewster)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 4, 2024 (#453) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9, Blazor, and EF Core 9 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link