Top Links
- Go to line anywhere with Code Search for Visual Studio 2022 (Leah Tran)
- Can Microsoft avoid the ghost of Clippy? Familiar theme emerges in Copilot rollout for Office apps (Todd Bishop)
- Our Favorite NEW Visual Studio Features of 2024 (Visual Studio Team)
- What to do with a Surface Duo in 2025 (Thomas Künneth)
- Adding AI to an Uno Platform Application using AI Dev Gallery (Nick Randolph)
- Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2024 (James Montemagno)
Web & Cloud Development
- Getting Started with the Document Picture-in-Picture API (Christian Nwamba)
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.7.2 (Mladen Macanović)
- Deno 2 Released, Focuses on Interoperability with Legacy JavaScript Infrastructure and Use at Scale (Bruno Couriol)
- Deno vs. Node.js: The Showdown Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed (Saeed Ashif Ahmed)
- Microsoft Introduces Serverless GPUs on Azure Container Apps in Public Preview (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- Building a Cryptographically Secure Product Licensing System on Azure Functions and Cosmos DB (StephenMS)
- CSharp.com Unveils Real-World Web3 Skills Credentialing and Certifications to Empower Developers and Simplify Hiring (Lisa Fusco)
- Streamline Your Web Design Process: An 11-Step Checklist (Nick Schäferhoff)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- What’s New in WPF Diagram: 2024 Volume 4 (Sarathkumar V.)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Convert MS Word DOCX to SVG in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Get Package Updates in Hard-to-Reach Places With RenovateBot (Sean Killeen)
- Meet TUnit: The New, Fast, and Extensible .NET Testing Framework (Sander Ten Brinke)
AI
- AI Coding – What is it good for? (Mark Heath)
- Nvidia completes acquisition of AI infrastructure startup Run:ai (Kyle Wiggers)
- Try Llama 3.1 8B in Your Browser: AQLM.rs Delivers Al at Your Fingertips (Vladimir Malinovskii)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Architecture Patterns for Beginners: MVC, MVP, and MVVM (Chirag Aggarwal)
- Pytest is fast (Mark Seemann)
- Observability in 2025: OpenTelemetry and AI to Fill In Gaps (B. Cameron Gain)
- Color of the Year 2025 – Mocha Mousse (17-1230) (Pantone)
- UX architect vs. UX designer: Roles, responsibilities, and more (Bart Krawczyk)
- How various git diff viewers represent file encoding changes in pull requests (Raymond Chen)
- Signing commits in Git using SSH keys on Windows (Gérald Barré)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Mobile App Development with React Native (Beau Carnes)
- How to Sign Up and Log In with Passkeys in Android Using Auth0’s Native Login (Carla Urrea Stabile)
- Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling (Francisco Prieto Cardelle)
- The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s own experience (Sean Hollister)
- Maker Spotlight: DIY Games with Hamza Mahmoud (Sam Freeman)
Screencasts & Videos
- C#, Blazor, Web Dev, and your pull requests (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Advent of Code 2024 Playthrough – Part 7 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- All Things Voice Recognition and JavaScript with Ian Lavery – React Round Up #280 (Ian, Paige & TJ VanToll)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Why Agile Teams Need the Right Support, And How We Can Help Them | Robert Finan (Vasco Duarte)
- Product Management? – Adventures in .NET #211 (Shawn Clabough & Caleb Wells)
- Matchmaking NGXS and Firebase with Joaquin Cid – Adventures in Angular #437 (Charles Max Wood, Richard & Subrat)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How developers (really) used AI coding tools in 2024 (Eira May)
- Azure Cloud Talk 24/12/31 – Talking Transformations & C-Suite Thinking With Victoria Pelletier (Alec Harrison)
Community & Events
- 2024 In Review (Bluesky Team)
- Zoho Backstage 2024 in review: A year of innovation and growth (Arokia Vimal)
- A better weather forecast: Microsoft vets lead startup outperforming traditional sources (Lisa Stiffler)
Database
- How to Use JSON Data Fields in MySQL Databases (Craig Buckler)
- Microsoft Releases Update For VS Code SQL Extension (Kay Ewbank)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How to Format List Views in SharePoint (Shiv Sharma)
- Microsoft Graph connectors @ Ignite 2024 (Nikita Mittal)
- Get ready for the new year with Microsoft 365 (Alyse Maguire)
PowerShell
- Quickly Finding Previously Typed Commands With PowerShell (Den Delimarsky)
Miscellaneous
- The US Treasury Department was hacked (Emma Roth)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-01 (Michael Eaton)
- GitHub’s top blogs of 2024 (Laura Lindeman)
The Geek Shelf
