Top Links
- My favorite features in Visual Studio 17.8 (Mads Kristensen)
- What’s New in PWA – November 2023 (Zachary Teutsch)
- Use Windows 11 features to inspire creativity, speed up everyday tasks (Athima Chansanchai)
- Come hack with us on Semantic Kernel v1.0! (Alex Chao)
- Easily Explore Complex Geographical Structures with Layers and Sublayers in Blazor Maps (Hari Venkatesh E.)
- Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (OpenAI Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- How Does Blazor Compete with MVC and Razor Pages (Rocky Lhotka)
- JavaScript in 2023: A Year of Surprises and Transformations! (Bhavesh Yadav)
- .NET Native AoT Make AWS Lambda Function Go Brrr (Martin Costello)
- Add Metrics to Application Insights (Paul Michaels)
- Node v18.19.0 (LTS) (Michael Zasso)
- Why WebAssembly Is a Good Fit for Extensible Control Planes (Charles Humble)
- Mitigate OWASP Security Top Threats with an API Gateway (David Sudia)
- Pulumi Cloud Adds Multi-factor Authentication (Meagan Cojocar)
- How HubSpot Uses Apache Kafka Swimlanes for Timely Processing of Workflow Actions (Rafal Gancarz)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF 3D Pie Chart to Display the Biggest Cash Crops in the U.S (Saiyathalifathimabee Moidhinabdhulkathar)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Entity Framework in .NET Aspire (Peter Ritchie)
- Just released a new version of PolySharp w/ new polyfills to make it super easy to leverage C# 12 features downlevel! Just enable C# 12 in your .NET Standard, .NET Framework, UWP, etc. project and have fun with all the new cool features! (Sergio Pedri)
- Useful Visual Studio Extensions for Working with Blazor (Greg Lutz)
- C# Sleep: A Detailed Guide (Juan Reyes)
- The Most Upvoted Visual Studio Code Feature (Leonardo Montini)
- Automate Email Distribution of Income Tax Reports from Excel using C# (Mohan Chandran)
- The ReSharper 2023.3 Release Candidate Is Now Available and The Rider 2023.3 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Sasha Ivanova)
- Building a Critter Stack Application: Marten as Event Store (Jeremy D. Miller)
- How to Determine the Operating System in .NET Core (Code Maze)
- Introducing UnpackDacPac (Mattias Karlsson)
- How .NET 8.0 boosted AIS.NET performance by 27% (Ian Griffiths)
- Why does the Windows Portable Executable (PE) format have separate tables for import names and import addresses?, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
- Upgrading to .NET 8: Part 6 – The Stable Release (Martin Costello)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2023: Analysis of DevOps Results (Scott Matteson)
- Embracing Grace Amidst Holiday Hustle (‘Tine Zekis)
- Collaborating on Docs: Best Practices and Strategies From JetBrains Writers (Anna Gasparyan)
- Exploring DragGAN implementation using ONNX Runtime (Baiju Meswani & Ran Gal)
- AI in Canada: meeting the opportunity (Chris Barry)
- How to Set Up AI Models in Einstein Copilot Studio (Danielle Larregui)
- Understanding the waterfall methodology (David Theil)
- How Microsoft Taught Me to Test Things and Try Things to Learn Better (JD Meier)
- Microsoft Paint’s OpenAI-powered ‘Cocreator’ image generator is here (Umar Shakir)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Real-time monochrome camera input on Raspberry Pi Pico (Ashley Whittaker)
- The Pi 5 Breaks The Mold (Harry Fairhead)
- Why Kotlin Multiplatform Won’t Succeed (Donn Felker)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Applied Large Language Models with Vishwas Lele (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 155: We’re Thankful For Software (Ben Nadel)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reimagining Leadership, A Crucial Element in Agile Transformations | Jean Coetzee (Vasco Duarte)
- Practical AI Podcast – The OpenAI debacle (a retrospective) (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode 103 – Improving Developer Productivity w/ GenAI Powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst (David Isbitski)
- Software Engineering Radio 592: Jaxon Repp on Distributed Data Infrastructure (Brijesh Ammanath)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 646 – Can GenAI 10X developer productivity? (Eira May)
Community & Events
- Inside Amazon’s new Bellevue office tower, where the company is testing evolving workplace designs (Kurt Schlosser)
- Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO and Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI (Alex Heath)
Database
- Monitor for Hung SQL Server Agent Jobs (Joe Gavin)
- Optimizing SQL Server Query Plans With Table Spools In Them (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server Management Studio improvements for Always Encrypted (Pieter Vanhove)
- What Is SQL Vector Database? (Usama Jamil)
- Introducing the Revamped Datalore UI – Built for Focus (Alena Guzharina)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Boosting Teams screen sharing performance (Vesa Nopanen)
- Updates to how to install and use Add-ins and apps in Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web (Kate Everitt)
PowerShell
- Edit the Multi SZ Registry with PowerShell and Set a registry value with PowerShell (Alex Marin)
- Using PowerShell and Twilio API for Efficient Communication in Contact Tracing (Piyush Tripathi)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26002 (Canary Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23595 (Dev Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Spotify Wrapped 2023 is so popular, it’s crashing (Emma Roth)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3835 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – November 29, 2023 (#213) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)
