TechBash 2024 is happening this week. I may miss a Dew Drop post or two later this week while I help organize the event.
Top Links
- Achieve agility and scale in a dynamic cloud world (Mark Russinovich)
- Dependency Injection Basics in .NET MAUI | On .NET (James Montemagno)
- .NET Aspire & Dapr: What Are They, & How Do They Complement Each Other For Distributed Apps? (Marc Duiker)
- Create a single-instanced WinUI app with C# (Microsoft Learn)
- Blazor hybrid apps in Avalonia UI (Vladyslav Lubenski & Anna Dolbina)
- Building RAG on Phi-3 locally using embeddings on VS Code AI Toolkit (Vinayak Hegde & Shreyan Fernandes)
Web & Cloud Development
- Swagger Replacement in ASP.NET 9 (Steven Giesel)
- A Software Architect’s Guide to Choosing Next.js for Your Project (Adhithi Ravichandran)
- Implement a Geo-distance search using .NET Aspire, Elasticsearch and ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
- Multi-Tenancy in Wolverine Messaging (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Boost Your Development with Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code (Misty Miller)
- ESLint v9.11.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- How I Implemented Full-Text Search On My Website (Milan Jovanović)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Conditional compilation symbols in C# (Bart Wullems)
- FSZipper in C# (Mark Seemann)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.11.4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Preparing for .NET 9 (Mattias Karlsson)
- How to Use the REPR (Request-Endpoint-Response) Pattern in .NET (Januarius Njoku)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s Assembly Extensions (David McCarter)
AI
- Running a fully local AI Code Assistant with Continue–Part 2–Configuring the VS Code extension (Bart Wullems)
- eShopSupport Series: Evaluator Project (Jason Haley)
- Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI (Alex Cranz)
- Boosting Database Development Efficiency Using AI SQL Code Generators (Boemo Mmopelwa)
- Advancing automation with new AI capabilities in Power Automate (Joe Fernandez)
- Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs (Tom Warren)
- Unlock the Power of AI with GitHub Models: A Hands-On Guide (Zil e Huma)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How can I check that all the changes in a git branch have been cherry-picked or rebased into its upstream branch? (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft’s new Fluent illustrations are more 3D and playful (Tom Warren)
- High Availability Architecture: Requirements & Best Practices (Tyler Mitchell)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift Testing is a New Framework from Apple to Modernize Testing for Swift Across Platforms (Sergio De Simone)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Esteban Garcia on Prompt Engineering with GitHub Copilot (David Giard)
- How to setup the TinyInsights Website with Entra Id (Daniel Hindrikes)
- Coding in VR with Immersed (Jeff Fritz)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 563 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- CppCast – CppCon 2024 Live Special (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
- Merge Conflict – Hands-on with iPhone 16 Pro… Apple Intelligence Coming Soon (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s quest to become a startup again; Plus, 6 years of progress in driverless cars (Todd Bishop)
- Syntax Podcast #824: Taylor Otwell’s opinions on PHP, React, Laravel and Lamborghini Memes (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Feedback-Driven Product Owner | Anita Kalmane-Boot (Vasco Duarte)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast – Kaizen! Just do it (Gerhard Lazu, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Mentorship in Tech: Balancing Professionalism and Friendship for Maximum Growth and Accountability – JavaScript Jabber #649 (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Cutting Through Copilot Complexity (Mary Jo Foley)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Detecting errors in AI-generated code (Eira May)
- Ryan Riley: Leading a Software Engineering Team – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 316 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- AGL 383: Douglas Squirrel (John Rouda)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #187: How to Win at Office Politics and Keep your Integrity (Max Ahumada)
- Talk Python to Me #477: Awesome Text Tricks with NLP and spaCy (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- Driving a Project: Intern Edition (Dylan Steen)
- Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2024 and learn to build a security-first culture with AI (Benjamin Lim)
- MVP’s Favorite Content: Q&A, Copilot Studio, Security, Copilot (Rie Moriguchi)
Database
- SQL Server Reporting Services Security (Scott Murray)
- Query Plan Patterns For Windowing Functions: Aggregate Function Atrocities (Erik Darling)
- Rounding Numbers (Joe Celko)
- A Nonclustered Index Update Disaster (Paul White)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Copilot - Small Business Guide to Prepare your Data for Search (Zachary Cavanell)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4225 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1843 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Plugable launches 15.6-inch USB-C Portable Display (USBC-PDMON) with integrated hub (Brian Fagioli)
- Scientists Again Link Covid Pandemic Origin to Wuhan Market Animals (EditorDavid)
- US announces $3 billion in funding for new battery projects (Justine Calma)
- Report: Qualcomm Made a New Bid to Purchase Intel (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft’s Copilot key will be able to launch apps on Windows 11 soon (Tom Warren)
- How to Learn Rust in 2024: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Rust Programming (Vitaly Bragilevsky)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #38, 2024 – Having lunch with (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – September 20, 2024 (#402) (Richard Seroter)
- C# Digest – Anatomy of the .NET dictionary (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Collective #865 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
