Top Links
- Level up your collaborations with the pull request experience in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)
- Securing our future: September 2024 progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) (Charlie Bell)
- OpenSilver XAML Designer v0.2 – Early Access, Looking for Feedback (Userware)
- The Future of AI: Unlocking the Power of Azure AI with the Book of AI (Rob Chambers & Courtney Brewer)
- AI-Driven Smart Location Search in .NET MAUI Maps (Muniappan Subramanian)
- Introducing the OpenAI Academy (OpenAI Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Container Registry More Than Just an Image Store (John Kilmister)
- Using XRechnung / ZUGFeRD XML to Create PDF/A-3b Invoices with ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Integrating .NET Aspire With Azure Storage (Fiodar Sazanavets)
- Dapr v1.14.4 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Hannah Hunter)
- How to Optimize Your Code with React Compiler (Still in Beta) (Hassan Djirdeh)
- 5 Modern CSS Styles You Should Know In 2024 (Poorna Theekshana)
- New VDI solution for Teams on AVD/Windows 365 environments now generally available (Fer K.)
- ESLint v9.11.1 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- Using Any Terraform Provider in Pulumi: A Guide with Netlify provider (Alexandre Nédélec)
- Simplifying Local Development Environment and Testing with .NET Aspire (Steven Hoang)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Build a WPF Gantt Chart Control (Nitin Sharma)
Visual Studio & .NET
- 3 Essential Techniques for Managing Transactions in EF Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Improved Command Line Tooling with Oakton (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Beyond Boundaries – Network Programming with C# 12 and .NET 8 eBook – Chapter 9: Working with REST APIs (Chris Woodruff)
- Boosting Loop Performance in .NET: The Simple Trick of Caching Array Length (David McCarter)
AI
- Watermarks in preview in Azure OpenAI Service (Ken Archer)
- Running a fully local AI Code Assistant with Continue–Part 3–Editing and Actions (Bart Wullems)
- VS Code Extension For Python Data Science (Mike James)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Integrating ServiceNow and Octopus to increase efficiency: Unily’s story (Ella Pradella)
- Interfaces Describe What – Implementations Describe How (Steve Smith)
- GitLab Pages features review apps and multiple website deployment (Janis Altherr)
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub (Jim Wang)
- Going beyond the empty set: Embracing the power of other empty things (Raymond Chen)
- Build GitHub Actions faster with act (Jim Bennett)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift 6 Improves Linux Support (Kay Ewbank)
- OUT NOW: The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2025 has landed (Rob Zwetsloot)
- New Meta for Developers Experience (Ashli Sebranek)
Screencasts & Videos
- Updates for TinyInsights, what is new for NET MAUI developers that want to use Application Insights! (Daniel Hindrikes)
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave Two updates – Pages, Excel, OneDrive, and agents (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts
- Python Bytes Podcast #402 – How to monetize your blog (Michael Kennedy)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Power of Team Ownership When Defining and Implementing Architectural Decisions | Richard Coplan (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast #825: Syntax Assistant Desktop App (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Enhanced API Management for Modern DevOps Practices – Adventures in DevOps #215 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Innovating with PowerShell: Micah Shonyo’s Path to C# Mastery (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast #113 – Imagine Fly.io on your own VPS (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 191 – Why Aren’t More Defenders Winning? Defender’s Advantage and How to Gain it! (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Ten Books That Will Change How You Lead (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Azure Cloud Talk Podcast 24/9/23 – AI, Work, and Teaching (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
- React Native Radio #308 – Coding and ADHD with Chris Ferdinandi (Jamon Holmgren)
- The Amp Hour #677 – Watt Is The Deal (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark (Eira May)
- Gone Mobile Podcast #120 – Buffet Style Show (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why some verb sets are so odd (like ‘go/went’). Corporate euphemisms. Goggy. (Kate Suslava, Valerie Fridland & Mignon Fogarty)
Community & Events
- 14 AI projects to watch: Mozilla’s first Builders Accelerator cohort kicks off (Jenifer Boscacci)
- X will let people you’ve blocked see your posts (Kylie Robison)
- Microsoft AI Tour Live (Mark Kashman)
Database
- New features for RavenDB Cloud (Oren Eini)
- Additional Use for sp_statement_completed (Grant Fritchey)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams team updates: General channel (Vesa Nopanen)
- See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 6) (Ms. Excel)
PowerShell
- SQL Query Stats via PowerShell (Andy Levy)
Miscellaneous
- Book Review: Effective C (2nd Ed) (Ted Neward)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.1876 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.4247 and 22631.4247 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2024-39 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #160 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – September 23, 2024 (#403) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf (Referral)
