Top Links
- Delivering Copilot for everyone (Yusuf Mehdi)
- Windows MIDI Services documentation (Pete Brown)
- Unified Blazor Web App Project Template Fully Explained (Ed Charbeneau)
- Microsoft Mesh: Now available for creating innovative multi-user 3D experiences for the workplace (Tyler Adams and Desirée Lockwood)
- Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft (Nandita Gupta)
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating an Animated 3D Starfield Effect (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- How to Get appsettings.json Content as a Dictionary in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
- Azure Communication Services February 2024 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
- Goodnotes everywhere with SwiftWasm (Pedro Gomez & Thomas Steiner)
- CSS is Logical and CSS Meditation #1: If the code works as expected and it fits your mental model, then it’s perfect. (Geoff Graham)
- Creating Azure Container Apps using Azure Python SDK (Rachit Tandon)
- Is Apple breaking PWAs out of malicious compliance? (Bruce Lawson)
- Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- On-Scroll Revealing WebGL Images (Yuri Artiukh)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- From Zero to .NET MAUI: Seeking One Codebase to Run Everywhere (David Ramel)
- Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Stacked Bar Chart to Visualize the Social Media Use of US Teens in 2023 (Karthikeyan V.)
- Easily Replicate a Waiting List UI in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Be optimistic about concurrency in Entity Framework (Dennis Fruhauff)
- Comparing for and foreach Loops in C# (Martin Chege)
- OpenMP improvements in Visual Studio C/C++ compiler: loop collapse (Natalia Glagoleva)
- Upcoming Training on Modern .NET with Vertical Slice Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)
- Why doesn’t my program get fancy drag/drop effects in high contrast mode with CLSID_DragDropHelper? (Raymond Chen)
- First look at profiling tools (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) (Microsoft Learn)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Goals vs. Objectives: It’s SMART Objectives, Not SMART Goals and 21 Examples of Personal Development Goals (J.D. Meier)
- CQRS Pattern in C# and Clean Architecture – A Simplified Beginner’s Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- The Occasionally Useful State Pattern (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Building micro services through Event Driven Architecture part25 : automate workflows to build, test, and deploy code from GitHub using GitHub Actions (Gora Leye)
- AI Controller Interface: Generative AI with a lightweight, LLM-integrated VM (Alyssa Hughes)
- Opportunities for AI in Accessibility (Aaron Gustafson)
- Microsoft Semantic Kernel and AutoGen: Open Source Frameworks for AI Solutions (Lee Stott)
- Microsoft CEO Nadella Taunts AI Rivals: Even With All the Hoopla, GPT-4 Remains the Best (msmash)
- How to use Semantic Kernel Bot in-a-box to interact with data using natural language & AI (Pascal Burume)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Extreme UI Adaptability in Flutter — How Google Earth supports every use case on earth (Craig Labenz)
- The Internet of Things — the Maturity Phase (Alon Fliess)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 195 – The Apple Vision Pro (The ultimate in digital twin tech?) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Advent of Code 2023 Day 20: Pulse Propagation in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
- What’s the biggest mistake you see teams make when adding AI to their app? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
- Microsoft Game Day Commercial | Copilot: Your everyday AI companion (Microsoft)
Podcasts
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 165: Agile Methodology With Brian Sadler (Ben Nadel)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 727: How to Code: Opinionated TypeScript Stack + Tooling Choices Explained (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- .NET Rocks! – gRPC Update with Irina Scurtu (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- The fediverse, explained (David Pierce)
- Seattle-area game developer Hidden Path Entertainment lays off 44 workers (Thomas Wilde)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Graph Java SDK v6, now generally available, helps you write simpler, faster and more accurate code (Maisa Rissi)
PowerShell
- PowerShell Team Eyes AI LLM Integration in Shell (David Ramel)
Miscellaneous
- ZoomIt v8.01 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Speedup Hiring process with Electronic Signatures (Caroline Dolly)
- Microsoft PC Manager feels like CCleaner’s little brother (Martin Brinkmann)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3877 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- Daily Reading List – February 7, 2024 (#256) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure (Anuraj Parameswaran & Tamir Al Balkhi) – Referral Link
