Top Links
- Using Figma to Develop Windows and Uno Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
- Highlights from Git 2.46 (Taylor Blau)
- Sign VSIX packages with Sign CLI (Maia Kelner)
- Azure SDK Release (July 2024) (Hector Norzagaray)
- Visual Studio Toolbox Live – Live from VSLive Redmond (Robert Green & Leslie Richardson)
- Uno Platform Error & Performance Monitoring with Raygun (Uno Platform Team)
- Easily Create Bindings for .NET MAUI with Native Library Interop (Rachel Kang)
Web & Cloud Development
- Learn how to Create an Azure Function using Visual Studio Code (Levi Masonde)
- FusionCache – An easy to use, fast and robust hybrid cache with advanced resiliency features (Jody Donetti)
- Azure Functions Best Practices for Performance, Reliability and Security (Chris Pietschmann)
- Introducing Docker Build Checks: Optimize Dockerfiles with Best Practices (Colin Hemmings)
- Docker Desktop 4.33: GA Releases of Docker Debug and Docker Build Checks Plus Enhanced Configuration Integrity Checks (Deanna Sparks)
- The React useSyncExternalStore Hook (Hassan Djirdeh)
- React Hooks vs. Redux in 2024 (Prashant Yadav)
- Unofficial Azure Adaptive Cloud Lab Kit x Arc Jumpstart (Thomas Maurer)
- Replacing IdentityModel with MSAL’s support for generic OIDC-compliant authorities (Anthony Simmon)
- Microsoft Entra External ID: Secure, scalable external identity management for your apps and resources (Adam Matthews)
- Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- Introducing the Adobe PDF Watermark API (Raymond Camden)
- Explanation of HTTP Status Codes in C# (Ahmed Eprahim)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chasing Curiosity (David Ortinau)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio Premium Subscribers Get New Benefits (Kay Ewbank)
- Using Entity Framework Core with MongoDB (Beau Carnes)
- Advantages of Flow Type Layout Reporting vs. Banded Reporting or PDF Template Engines in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 (Sarthak Tamboli)
- Metalama 2024.2 Generally Available: Class Introductions, Observability, and Much More (Gael Fraiteur)
- Easily deploy .NET apps to Azure Container Apps with default configuration for data protection (Jiachen Jiang)
- My Love Hate Relationship With Pattern Matching (Adam Storr)
- Why don’t Windows Imaging Component pixel format GUIDs continue their nice pattern? (Raymond Chen)
- Create a PlantUML Markdown RenderExtension (Rick Strahl)
- Visual Studio — Tips to Increase Productivity (Henrique Siebert Domareski)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Octopus Deploy: Kubernetes agent now generally available (Alastair Pitts)
- Google Extends Free Use of VS Code AI Assistant Until Nov. 8 (David Ramel)
- With bugs, failures and errors: ever chugging forward (Oren Eini)
- How to Create Dockerfiles with GenAI (Docker Labs Team)
- Support for Azure.AI.OpenAI and OpenAI v2 is coming (Mark Wallace)
- Exploring Azure AI Services : Introduction and its use cases (Shivam Goyal)
- Protecting the public from abusive AI-generated content (Brad Smith)
- Testing Basics: Why Test? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Thinking Like an Architect (Gregor Hohpe)
- How To Build an AI Agent That Uses RAG To Increase Accuracy (Janakiram MSV)
- Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation (Judson Althoff)
- What’s new in Git 2.46.0? (Justin Tobler)
- Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Adding code to your repository (Kedasha Kerr)
- What is Continuous Software Development? (Matthew Groves)
- AI Won’t Replace Human Workers, But People Who Use It Will Replace Those Who Don’t, Andrew Ng Says (msmash)
- The Path to Platform Engineering: Insights from a CNCF Platform Working Group Member (Sara Huddleston)
Screencasts & Videos
- Using SwipeCardView to Create the Next Tinder in .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
- Extending Copilot and connect to your API’s with Power Platform Connectors | The Low Code Revolution (April Dunnam & Shefaali Patankar)
- How do I get started using Microsoft Copilot? | One Dev Question (Dona Sarkar)
Podcasts
- Balancing Security and Scalability in DevOps – Adventures in DevOps 210 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- InfoQ Podcast: Communication Patterns for Architects and Engineers with Jacqui Read (Jacqui Read)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Learning to Collect Feedback from the Right Source Instead of Listening Only to the Agile Team! | Karina Margole (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Unveiling the Power of Generative AI with Chrissy LeMaire (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast #801: 6 New JavaScript Proposals (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- CloudChat Episode #10 – Risky Bidness: Ripped from the Headlines (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- The Changelog News Podcast #105 – The Swiss government goes open source (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 183 – Cloud Security Journeys: Improve, Evolve, Transform with Cloud Customers (Anton Chuvakin)
- Gene Kim: Wiring a Winning Software Organization – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 308 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- AGL 375: Chad Brown (John Rouda)
- Gone Mobile Podcast #115: All the AI (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #179: Beware the Lazy Engineer’s Way to Promotion (Max Ahumada)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why ‘I’ takes plural verbs. Making names that end in S, like Harris and Biles, possessive. Marinate. (Neal Whitman & Mignon Fogarty)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Loop | Live, Five-Part Learning Series (Ron Pessner)
- Philly .NET Meetup (Aug 14) – Developer Productivity with Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Copilot (Bill Wolff)
Database
- Making Marten Faster Through Table Partitioning (Jeremy D. Miller)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New for Planner in Teams in July 2024 (Nancy Wang)
- New Microsoft-compliant Contact Editor now available on Outlook Mobile (Surya Lashmi)
PowerShell
- Top 10 PowerShell Tips and Tricks of 2024 (So Far) (ITPro Today Staff)
- Use WinGet 1.8 to download Microsoft Store apps (Roy MacLachlan)
Miscellaneous
- Kids Still Need Computer Science Education (Sue Gee)
- Microsoft’s earnings report will offer a new gauge for AI demand and cloud investments (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3992 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2024-31 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #153 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – July 29, 2024 (#365) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #614 (Frank Boucher)
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