Top Links
- Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update with new AI chat bot template (Junjie Li)
- New in Visual Studio: Compare Files with Solution Explorer (Dalia Abo Sheasha)
- Writing Component Specs (Rob Eisenberg)
- Why Do You Have to Return “Task” Whenever You “await” Something in a Method in C#? (Jeremy Clark)
- Highlights from Git 2.42 (Taylor Blau)
Web & Cloud Development
- Implement API Key Authentication in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
- How to Create Custom Cross-Form Control Validator in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Using ETags and Patching Rows in Azure Table Storage (Mark Heath)
- VMware Unveils New Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes Tools (Wylie Wong)
- Fleet Preview Update 1.22: Terraform Support, Attach to Process for C#, Quick-Fixes Preview, and More. (Roman Prokashev)
- VMware extends Windows 365 Cloud PCs to new audiences: public preview available now (Andrej Radinger)
- Jest mocks broke updating to jest 29 (Charlie Greenman)
- Custom Search Parameters (David Hay)
- Bring visual collaboration to life with Postman and Miro APIs (Will Bishop)
- APIs Aren’t Just For Devs Pt. 10 – AuthN and AuthZ Plus REST APIs Explained! (Shannon Kuehn)
- Migration of containerized services from GKE to AKS (Narendra Rao Sunkada)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Summer Coding Adventure (Bruno Capuano)
- Writing apps for Windows: Selecting a development technology (Microsoft Learn)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio : Power Of TODO (Hasan Elsherbiny)
- Reinventing the Wheel Again – Bluetooth on Linux (Peter Foot)
- Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Do More using GitHub Copilot with AI and VS Code (John Papa)
- IBM launches generative AI tool to help modernize mainframe software (Ian Barker)
- What is the SPACE developer productivity framework? (James Wood)
- Microsoft and CEO Satya Nadella are winning the perception war on AI (Kareem Anderson)
- Balancing Learning with Practical Application in Programming: A Deep Dive (Nick Cosentino)
- Using Planners in the SK Java Kernel (Soham Dasgupta)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- AdDuplex Post-Mortem. Part 4: VC Money (Alan Mendelevich)
- Microsoft kills Kinect again (Jay Peters)
- Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) moves to an independent organization within GitHub (Robin Seiler)
Screencasts & Videos
- Igniting developer innovation with Vector search and Azure OpenAI | The AI Show and Revolutionizing Image Search with Vectors | The AI Show (Microsoft Developer)
- Webinar Recording: Essentials of React Server Components (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- Build Your First Plugin for .NET MAUI with this FREE Template! (Gerald Versluis)
- Live Coding – Enter Key Hint in WebAssembly (Martin Zikmund)
Podcasts
- Revision Path – Maya Gold Patterson (Maurice Cherry)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The History of Data with Ted Neward (Scott Hanselman)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Shell-Shocked: PowerShell Gallery Security, Reddit Questions, and more (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 656 – 8 Tricks When Using the Fetch() API (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – LeakSignal with Wesley Hales and Max Bruce (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 135 – AI and Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Magical (Anton Chuvakin)
- Changelog News Podcast – All your CAPTCHAs are belong to bots (Jerod Santo)
- The Amp Hour #643 – Calibration & Repair with Ian Johnston (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 601 – Medical research made understandable with AI (Ryan Donovan)
Community & Events
- Join the DataGrip community on Slack (Alisa Lukonina)
- Regional Microsoft Build 2023 Events with MVP, RD, and MLSA (Rie Moriguchi)
Database
- SQL Server Execution Plan Issues when using TOP Clause and Various Parameters (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- SQL SERVER – Scripts to Retrieve Column Names (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft announces 7 updates to OneNote Android app (Devesh Beri)
PowerShell
- Tracking Windows Group Policy Changes With PowerShell (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Restructure Proposed Acquisition and Notify Restructured Transaction to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (Brad Smith)
- Bing Chat Enterprise is in preview for Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 licenses for faculty users (Microsoft Edge Team)
- 1.72.0 pre-release testing (Rust Release Team)
- How to Write a Technical Blog That Gets Read (Simple Talk Team)
- Microsoft is treating Windows 10 users to more apps from Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3764 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2023-34 (#86) (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #114 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – August 21, 2023 (#147) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #568 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Apps and Services with .NET 7: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link