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Top Links

• Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Thomas Dohmke)
• Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code (Burke Holland)
• .NET Aspire and Dapr: How These Tools Complement Each Other in Distributed Applications (Murat Aslan)
• .NET Rocks! – GitHub in 2025 with April Yoho (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GitHub Copilot Subscription Tiers: A Technical Breakdown (Rory Preddy)
• GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)

Web & Cloud Development

• Client-side validation using .NET WebAssembly – An Experiment (Damian Edwards)
• Sending (browser) OpenTelemetry traces from an Angular Application to .NET Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
• Wijmo Supports React 19 (Chris Bannon)
• Drawing a Perfect Grid on the Canvas (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Five Candidate Recommendation Snapshots Published by the Verifiable Credentials Working Group and W3C Invites Implementations of WebGPU and First Public Working Draft: CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 2 and First Public Working Draft: CSS Display Module Level 4 (W3C)
• Effortlessly access cloud resources across Azure tenants without using secrets (Arturo Lucatero)
• Crafting a Dreamy Particle Effect with Three.js and GPGPU (Dominik Fojcik)
• How to test Azure OpenAI Realtime API using Postman (faizchachiya)
• How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS (Fatuma Abdullaho)
• Managing Content Collections with Astro and KendoReact Typography (Hassan Djirdeh)
• Inbound private endpoint for Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management (Sreekanth Thirthala)
• What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor library 4.11 (Vincent Baaij)
• Docker Desktop 4.37: AI Catalog and Command-Line Efficiency (Yiwen Xu)
• Story About Insecure Implementation with Google OAuth (Dan Arias)
• Fleet 1.44 Is Here With New UI, Zig Language Support, and More Enhancements (Daniela Bentrup)
• Introducing Fleet’s New Islands UI (Daniela Bentrup)
• Cloud-native Windows endpoints: Begin by beginning (MS Intune Support Team)
• Static asset file sizes can be reduced by over 80% in .NET 9 (David Grace)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Everything we shipped in 2024 (Uno Platform Team)
• Simplifying User Choices with .NET MAUI ToggleButton (Héctor Pérez)
• Visualizing Skyscraper Data with .NET MAUI Doughnut Chart and Maps (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Hi-Res Logging in .NET Aspire Without Touching Business Code (Metalama Team)
• Sequential GUIDs with .NET 9 (Bart Wullems)
• Automating Santa’s Workshop with NServiceBus (Kyle McMaster)

AI

• Announcing the o1 model in Azure OpenAI Service: Multimodal reasoning with “astounding” analysis (Steve Sweetman)
• Compare New GitHub Copilot Free Plan for Visual Studio/VS Code to Paid Plans (David Ramel)
• Building an AI Assistant Using gpt-4o Audio-Preview API (srikantan)
• Use These Two Approaches To Deploy ML Models on AWS Lambda (Gaurav Mittal)
• Dive Deep into Gemini: Explore Starter Apps in AI Studio (Kat Kampf)
• Generative AI and its use cases for enterprise applications (Abdul Rafae Mohammed, Aby Joy & Shaibal Talukder)
• Build Go applications using Project IDX and the Gemini API (Suzy Mueller & Nooras Saba)
• Agentic AI: the rise of agents (Abhinav Asthana)
• Bringing more magic to Bing Image Creator (Bing Team)
• Announcing SPARROW: A Breakthrough AI Tool to Measure and Protect Earth’s Biodiversity in the Most Remote Places (Juan Lavista Ferres)
• You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT (Kylie Robison)
• Microsoft Acquires Twice as Many Nvidia AI Chips as Tech Rivals (msmash)
• From Creativity to Sustainability with AI (Peter Smulovics)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• The Agile Manifesto was ahead of its time (Nick Hodges)
• If It’s Hysterical, It’s Historical: Understanding Emotional Triggers (J.D. Meier)
• Using Kubernetes to enhance CD best practices (Liam Mackie)
• Adobe Premiere vs. Apple Final Cut: A Comparison for Technical Writers (Curt Robbins)
• How to Start Learning Actor-Based Programming (Aaron Stannard)
• 3 signs your team is ready to uplevel security controls in GitLab (Julie Griffin)
• Is there a way to split the git history of a file or combine the histories of two files without a merge commit? (Raymond Chen)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How we think about Threads’ iOS performance (Dave LaMacchia & Jason Patterson)
• The Second Developer Preview of Android 16 (Matthew McCullough)

Screencasts & Videos

• How to get started with GitHub Copilot Free in Visual Studio Code and Build Conway’s Game of Life with GitHub Copilot Free (GitHub)
• Unlock Outlook Productivity with Snooze and new Calendar Scheduling with Copilot (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)

Podcasts

• Syntax Podcast #862: Svelte 5 Is Here! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• The Changelog Podcast #622 – We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! (Mitchell Hashimoto, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leading Agile Transformations with the Flow Framework | Karthiga Seturaj (Vasco Duarte)
• DAWbench Radio Show Episode 34 : The Art Of Analog Modeling II : Cherry Audio : Reviving Analog Legends ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown, Dan Goldstein & Mitchell Sigman)
• Duke’s Corner Podcast – Sharat Chander: Celebrating the Java Community (Jim Grisanzio)
• Grammar Girl Podcast – Struggling with AI: Job loss, energy use, and more, with Christopher Penn (Mignon Fogarty)

Community & Events

• CSharpCorner Relaunches as CSharp.com, an AI-Powered Upskilling and Growth Platform for Software Developers and IT Professionals (PR Newswire)
• The age of Sports Bluesky is upon us (Devin Raab)
• Butterfly puts Bluesky on your Apple Watch with a beautiful app (Zac Hall)
• With 25M users, Bluesky gets a $1M fund to take on social media and AI (Julie Bort)
• Ph.D. Internship Opportunity studying Organizational Copilot Adoption (Nancy Baym)
• Proposed Contractual Remedies in United States v. Google Threaten Vital Role of Independent Browsers (Sarah Vasquez)
• Amazon delays return-to-office in some cities due to lack of space and Perplexity acquires Carbon, a Seattle startup that helps developers connect data sources to LLMs (Taylor Soper)

Database

• MySQL Retrospective – MySQL 3.20 (Frederic Descamps)
• SQL Server OPTION RECOMPILE for Simple Queries (Jared Westover)
• IF Branching In SQL Server Stored Procedures: Patterns And Problems (Erik Darling)
• Announcing the Release of SSMS Preview 2.1 (Erin Stellato)
• Understanding Optimized Locking in Azure SQL Database (Mattcc)
• SQL Exists: Usage, Syntax, and Examples (Jaimin Shethiya)
• New MSSQL Extension for VS Code Promises Enhanced Developer Productivity (Almir Vuk)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Make the most of your time off this holiday season with Copilot (Alyse Maguire)
• New Microsoft 365 Copilot App to Replace Microsoft 365 App in January (Paul Thurrott)

Miscellaneous

• Trump’s Billionaire Cabinet Is Unprecedented – But there’s one ominous parallel for how it could turn out (Tim Murphy)
• Releasing Real-Time Translation in Live Captions to More Copilot+ PCs in the Dev Channel (Amanda Langowski)
• CDC Confirms First Human Case of Severe Bird Flu In US (BeauHD)
• 8 great games for your Steam Deck (Jay Peters)
• California can ban new gas cars starting in 2035, EPA says (Tim De Chant)
• A new era for Windows: Can Microsoft’s longtime engine power another tech revolution? (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Must-read MySQL blog posts from ACEs in November 2024 (Oana Bonu)
• Daily Reading List – December 18, 2024 (#463) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 From Zero to Hero: Blazor | Dometrain Training Bundle (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral link