Top Links
- Debugging T-SQL using Visual Studio (Erin Stellato)
- Developing Modern WinForms Applications | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelman)
- Faster Dictionary in C# (NDepend Team)
- How PowerToys Decides What To Build and The PowerToys Team Is A Fireteam (Den Delimarsky)
- Evaluate Fine-tuned Phi-3 / 3.5 Models in Azure AI Studio Focusing on Microsoft’s Responsible AI (Minseok Song)
- What’s your favorite performance testing story? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Web & Cloud Development
- Adding a Comment System Part 2 – Saving Comments and Seq for ASP.NET Logging – Tracing with SerilogTracing (Scott Galloway)
- What’s new in Astro – August 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- What’s new in Svelte: September 2024 (Dani Sandoval)
- Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
- Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect OAuth PAR client with Keycloak using .NET Aspire (Damien Bowden)
- StringValues in ASP.NET Core (Karthikeyan N S)
- Deploy a container to Azure App Services Using a system-assigned Identity (Tore Nestenius)
- VS Code Fork ‘Cursor’ – the ChatGPT of Coding? (EditorDavid)
- The Digital API Supply Chain (Kin Lane)
- eShopSupport Series: DataGenerator Project (Jason Haley)
- How to test HttpClient inside API Tests (Steven Giesel)
- HotChocolate 13 – Schema comparison (Bart Wullems)
- Using the Document Editor in SPA Applications using the removeFromDom Method (Bjoern Meyer)
- Dive into ARM template from a Function App (Ringe Chen)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 9 Preview 7: Introduction of HybridWebView and Other Improvements (Almir Vuk)
- Sneak Peek at 2024 Volume 3: .NET MAUI (Paul Anderson)
Visual Studio & .NET
- The Definitive Guide to C# .NET Subreports in Your Web and Desktop Apps (Alec Gall)
- The Complete Guide to 80+ C# .NET Chart Types (Greg Lutz)
- Easily Create PDF Tables with Advanced Customization in C# (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- Connect a WinForms Data Grid to an Arbitrary ASP.NET Core WebAPI Service Powered by EF Core (Oliver Sturm)
- Broadcasting Messages with Apache Kafka and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
- Metalama Status Update, July-August 2024 (Gael Fraiteur)
- Keeping cross-cutting concerns out of application code (Mark Seemann)
- Introduction to Event Sourcing for .NET Developers (Milan Jovanović)
- Announcing the Proxy 3 Library for Dynamic Polymorphism (Mingxin Wang)
- In the Windows kernel, what is a LUID, and what makes it loo-ey? and The CoInitializeSecurity function demands an absolute security descriptor (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Bring Your Organizational Data to Azure AI Services with Microsoft Graph (Ravi Sharma)
- Introducing Azure AI Inference Connector for Azure AI Studio Models (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
- Easily deploy an Azure Open AI instance with Documents (Werner Rall)
- Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained (Duen Horng Chau)
- Claude Engineer Amplifies Your Code (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Tech Worker Builds Free AI-Powered Tool For Fighting US Health Insurance Denials (EditorDavid)
- AI Studio End-to-End Baseline Reference Implementation (Freddy Ayala)
- Semantic Kernel: Implementing 100% Local RAG Using Phi-3 With Local Embeddings (Jamie Maguire)
- What is the Vision, Value, Velocity AI Framework? (JD Meier)
- Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development (Robert Krzaczyński)
- What’s New in Copilot | August 2024 (Seth Patton)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Unit Testing Umami.Net – Testing UmamiClient and Unit Testing Umami.Net – Testing UmamiBackgroundSender (Scott Galloway)
- Operational limits when using Azure DevOps (Bart Wullems)
- What I use for interacting with Git and Time is a Flat Circle (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Streamlined CICD for Azure Infrastructure with Bicep (Danidu Weerasinghe)
- My Architecture Drivers (Oskar Dudycz)
- One Company Rethinks Diff to Cut Code Review Times (David Cassel)
- Surviving and Thriving in Tech: Timeless Advice from Three Decades in Software Engineering (David McCarter)
- The Problem With Sprinting (George Stocker)
- Engineering with Empathy: My Journey to Understanding the User Experience (Kaili Liang)
- The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 3 (Microsoft Incident Response Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Studio Koala Feature Drop is Stable! (Sandhya Mohan)
- A Simple Archive Format for Self-Contained Executables (Dominic Szablewski)
- The New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5: Another Option for Linux Sysadmins (Damon M. Garn)
Screencasts & Videos
- Create and Deploy .NET Aspire project using Visual Studio and Azure Developer CLI (AZD) (Learn with Jon)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 557 (Jason Bock)
- Advanced Paste in PowerToys is About to Change Your Productivity Forever (Windows Developer Team)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict #426: Designing, Developing, Testing, & Productizing a Board Game with Ben Ruiz (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- GeekWire Podcast: New Starbucks CEO’s supercommute, SeaTac cyberattack, more on AI music (Todd Bishop)
- The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Laïla Bougriâ (again!) (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
- Syntax Podcast #815: Deno 2 with Ryan Dahl and Syntax Podcast #816: Why Your CSS Sucks (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Accessibility in Angular with Vitalii Bobrov – Adventures in Angular #423 (Alyssa Nicole, Chris Ford & Eddie Hinkle)
- PPP 433 | The Power of Curiosity and Learning with Michelle LaBrosse (Andy Kaufman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: A Masterclass in Product, Process, and Leadership | Alexander Grosse and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Role of Business Knowledge in Effective Product Ownership | Pooja Gupta and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Output to Outcome, The Customer-Focused OKRs | Jeff Gothelf (Vasco Duarte)
- Achieving Engineering Excellence: Training, Innovation, and the Cloud – Adventures in DevOps #213 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Matt Gordon: Database DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode #313 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Being a Lazy Administrator with Bradley Wyatt (James Petty)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #59 – #define: piggyback (Carol Lee, Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert, Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Made by Google Podcast – Pixel 9 Pro Fold: The Next Generation of Foldable Phones (Rachid Finge)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #188 – Beyond the Buzzwords: Identity’s True Role in Cloud and SaaS Security (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – At scale, anything that could fail definitely will (Ben Popper)
- Meta Cast – Building a Culture of Agility by Addressing Sunk Costs (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Building a Seamless Image Zoom Feature – React Round Up #265 (Chris Frewin, Lucas Paganini & Peter Osah)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode 4 – RATs in the tunnel: Uncovering the cyber underworld (Selena Larsen, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
- The Amp Hour #676 – Moving House (And Lab) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #184: Give Me 90 Days and I’ll Give You a Career Transformation with Bruno Yoshioka | Principal Manager at Microsoft (Max Ahumada)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The language of liars. ‘Legendary,’ ‘famous,’ or ‘notorious’? Fish shapes. (Valerie Fridland)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams webinar registration now generally available (Annie Wang)
- MVP’s Favorite Content from Azure MVP and AI Platform MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)
- Join Us for JetBrains .NET Days Online 2024 (Alexandra Kolesova)
- Speaking at TechBash 2024 on Windows UI Framework Choices (Alvin Ashcraft)
- Hachyderm’s Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: The Report Feature and Moderator Actions (Hachyderm Moderators)
Database
- Identify CPU Intensive SQL Server Queries from an Implicit Conversion (Edwin Sarmiento)
- New Couchbase Capella Advancements Fuel Development (Mark Gamble)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2024 (Pete Daderko)
- Elevating Efficiency: How Microsoft Customer Experience & Success streamlines operations with process mining in Power Automate (Harysh Menon)
- Accessibility and Usability Improvements in the new Outlook for Windows (Jayla Williams)
Miscellaneous
- iPhone 16 Pro specs predictions: what we expect from Apple’s most powerful phones (Jamie Richards)
- Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages and Apple AirTags Track ‘Recycled’ Plastic to Unprocessed Piles in an Open-Air Lot (EditorDavid)
- How to place or lift a security freeze on your credit report (USAGov)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4145 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27695 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- SSN Data Breach and Securing Your Data (Jason Gaylord)
- Trump forgets he tried to have Mike Pence killed (Jason Weisberger)
- Abolish the Penny? (msmash)
- What’s New in Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2024-36 (Michael Eaton)
- F# Weekly #35, 2024 – |> for Google SQL and FSI diagnostics (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – August 30, 2024 (#388) (Richard Seroter)
- Developer Toolbox (Matt Graven)
- Collective #860 (Manoela Ilic)
- C# Digest – Understanding .NET stack traces (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Reading List 324 (Bruce Lawson)
- Reading Notes #616 and Reading Notes #617 (Frank Boucher)
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