Top Links
- Microsoft’s Build developer conference starts on May 19th (Tom Warren)
- Technology & Friends Episode #839 – Alvin Ashcraft on Microsoft Learn (David Giard)
- What Is DeepSeek? Dive in Using DeepSeek, .NET Aspire and Blazor (Dave Brock)
- How to Protect Word Documents in C#: Step-by-Step Guide (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
- Introducing Azure OpenAI Realtime API Support in JavaScript (Deyaaeldeen Almahallawi)
- Your fonts are now preserved when changing theme in Visual Studio (Mark Downie)
Web & Cloud Development
- Which render mode is my component using? (Jon Hilton)
- ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework servicing release advisory: ASP.NET Core 2.3 (Daniel Roth)
- Tutorial: publishing ESM-based npm packages with TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- D2: like Mermaid, but better. Syntax, installation, and practical usage tips (Davide Bellone)
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.7.4 (Mladen Macanović)
- What’s new in Svelte: February 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- Generating Barcodes with KendoReact (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Visualizing 2024 US Stock Market Growth and Challenges with React Bar Chart (Swetha Babu)
- How to Make The Fluffiest Grass With Three.js (The Ebenezer)
- Request for feedback: Incoming call notifications API for web apps (Patrick Brosset)
- January 2025: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates (James Casey)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 5 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Vogen and Value Objects with C# and .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Supporting multiple .NET SDK versions in a source generator: Creating a source generator – Part 14 (Andrew Lock)
AI
- Using Azure OpenAI Chat Completion with data source and Function Calling (Dmytro Struk)
- A Developer’s Guide to Azure AI Agents (Janakiram MSV)
- Fine Tune Mistral Models on Azure AI Foundry (Rashaud Savage)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (Martin Fowler)
- Postman Launches AI Agent Builder (Kay Ewbank)
- Prompt Engineering for OpenAI’s O1 and O3-mini Reasoning Models (Agustin Mantaras)
- Explore and test local modals using Ollama and OpenWebUI (Bart Wullems)
- AI privacy controls (John Moehrke)
- Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool (Kyle Wiggers)
- Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance (Paresh Dave & Caroline Haskins)
- OpenAI rebrands itself (Emma Roth)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to harmonize Agile sprints with product roadmaps (Amanda Rueda)
- Full web support for conditional access policies across Azure DevOps and partner web properties (Angel Wong)
- Gain control over commit messages generated by GitHub Copilot (Tim Deschryver)
- 5 Levels of Listening According to Stephen Covey and Empathic Listening is the Highest Form of Listening (JD Meier)
- The End of Programming as We Know It (Tim O’Reilly)
- From pain to productivity: How I learned to code with my voice (Salma Alam-Naylor)
- Resisting Coercion and Conformity Demands a Conscious Design: Here’s How to Get Started (Kim Scott)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter DataGrid: How to Group Data Easily (Farjana Parveen)
- Setting Up for Pi Pico Development (2025) (j2inet)
Screencasts & Videos
- Leveraging Copilot Studio to Create Powerful Web Focused Bots for Designated Roles (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
- Creating Postman Flows with AI (Postman Team)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – AI & Exploration, with Corey Jaskolski (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Duke’s Corner Podcast – Venkat Subramaniam: Be Agile about Being Agile! (Jim Grisanzio)
- RunAs Radio Episode #970 – Microsoft Entra ID Protection with Corissa Koopmans (Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio #654 – Chris Patterson on MassTransit and Event-Driven Systems (Jeff Doolittle)
Community & Events
- CfP List Updated 2025-02-04 (Dave Aronson)
- Threads now lets you share your custom feeds (Emma Roth)
- Interview: Bill Gates on his early years, key influences, and outlook on the world today (Todd Bishop)
- Dinner and a Show: Where to Eat Near Philly Theaters (Visit Philly)
Database
- The 6 Best Things Microsoft Ever Did to SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
- Reduce NULL Storage in SQL Server with Sparse Columns (Dashrath Hapani)
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Indexed Views And Non-SARGable Predicates (Erik Darling)
- How to Learn SQL Without Quitting Your Day Job (Tracy McKibben)
- Databricks Workspace Health SQL Toolkit (Noa Shavit)
- Add New Columns Versus New Table in SQL Server (Jared Westover)
- T-SQL Tuesday #183 Invite: Tracking Permissions (Steve Jones)
- SQL Coalesce Function Examples and Use Cases (Rajendra Gupta)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- The new calendar in Microsoft Teams now generally available (Meera Ajam)
- Keeping Up with Microsoft Loop (Margaret Farmer)
- Get Started with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel (Michael Gannotti)
Current Events
- Here’s a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism and ‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government (Jason Koebler)
- [Opinion] In a trade war with a madman, hold fast, hit hard and imitate the hedgehog (Andrew Coyne)
- Elon Deletes Free Tax Program And His Fans Are Baffled – What did they think would happen? (God)
- USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos (Zeyi Yang)
Miscellaneous
- Introducing Apple Invites, a new app that brings people together (Apple)
- Pinball Restoration Revival (Erin Winick Anthony)
- The original name for Flexible Single Master Operations in Active Directory (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 4, 2025 (#486) (Richard Seroter)
