Top Links
- .NET MAUI Performance Features in .NET 9 (Jonathan Peppers & Simon Rozsival)
- Build an AI-Powered Smart Appointment Booking App Using WinUI Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Coding standards made easy in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- Revolutionizing AI Workflows: Multi-Agent Group Chat with Copilot Agent Plugins in Microsoft Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Fabian Williams)
- Function Calling is Now Enabled in GitHub Copilot (Rhea Patel)
- How to bind to functions from XAML in .NET MAUI (Julian Ewers-Peters)
Web & Cloud Development
- Demo: running TypeScript directly in Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Kill the Bloat: The Controversial Clash Between SPAs, Server-Side Rendering, and the Power of Simplicity (Chris Woodruff)
- Migrating from Create React App to Vite: A Modern Approach (Adhithi Ravichandran)
- Blazor Basics: Lazy Load Assemblies to Boost the Performance of Blazor WebAssembly (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Deploying WebJobs to Azure Container Apps (Debjyoti Ganguly)
- Implement Roles With Keycloak, Blazor WebAssembly and Web API (RBA) (Marinko Spasojević)
- Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0 is Now Generally Available! (Meagan Cojocar)
- From Scratch to Scale: Bootstrapping Your React App Without CRA (Prashant Yadav)
- Introducing our new and improved Edge Add-ons website (Microsoft Edge Team)
- Node v18.20.7 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Convert Word to PDF in C# with Advanced Formatting Options (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
- Visual Studio Code CMake Tools Extension 1.20 Release: Introducing Built-In CMake Language Services (Sinem Akinci)
- Enhanced In-Memory Text Vector Search in .NET with SharpVector and OpenAI Embeddings (Chris Pietschmann)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.13.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Doc-Powered AI Assistant (Igor Kulakov)
- The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI (Joan Westenberg)
- Igniting AI Innovation: The VS Code Toolkit -First of AI Sparks Episode (Shreyan Fern)
- AI Agents for Beginners – 10 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents (Microsoft)
- Azure AI Agent Service Now in Public Preview for Developers in AI Foundry SDK and Portal (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- College students and ChatGPT adoption in the US (OpenAI)
- Extracting structured data from PDFs using Gemini 2.0 and Genkit (Peter Friese)
- GitHub Copilot vs. ChatGPT: Developer AI Tools Comparison (Divine Odazie)
- GitHub Copilot Agent mode (Preview) (Bart Wullems)
- Microsoft at Legalweek: Help safeguard your AI future with Microsoft Purview (Katerina Athanasiou)
- When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds (msmash)
- I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists (Reece Rogers)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- DZone Trend Report: Developer Experience – The Coalescence of Developer Productivity, Process Satisfaction, and Platform Engineering (Luca Galante, John Vester, Apostolos Giannakidis, Fawas Ghali, Mirco Hering & G. Ryan Spain)
- Supercharge Developer Workflows with GitHub Copilot Workspace Extensions (Reed Robison)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Amazon To Shut Down Android Appstore (msmash)
- Meet the Raspberry Pi team (Sarah Cunningham)
Screencasts & Videos
- Productive, secure, future-ready: Tackling Tech season 4 begins (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- Open Source C# Web Dev (Jeff Fritz)
- Should I build hybrid apps with .NET MAUI? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
- Random.Code() – Fixing a CSLA Serialization Issue (Jason Bock)
- How to use Automatic backups in SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Strahinja Rodic)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Engineering Excellence as a Journey: Platform Engineering, Culture, and Technical Leadership (Ganesh Datta)
- The Modern .NET Show – The Infinite Game Meets Azure Security with Bojan Magušić (Jamie Taylor)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Rhasspy and Home Assistant Voice with Dr. Michael Hansen (Scott Hanselman)
- The Impact of Open Source on Business and Development Practices with Daniel Loreto – Adventures in DevOps #233 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Substack Week: The Shared Ownership Challenge, Understanding Clear Accountability in Engineering Teams | Rafa Páez (Vasco Duarte)
- A Guide to AI Models: From Tokenization to Neural Networks with Ishaan Anand – JavaScript Jabber #669 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy (Eira May)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #507 – Battery of Potential (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? (Gergely Orosz)
- Engaging with the developer community on our approach to content moderation (Margaret Tucker)
- Opengrep Launches as Free Fork After Semgrep License Shift (B. Cameron Gain)
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings (Will Knight, Paresh Dave & Leah Feiger)
- Announcing the 2025 Imagine Cup Semifinalists (MS Student Developer Team)
Database
- SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 1 (Erik Darling)
- Moving to TLS 1.2 for Azure Cosmos DB: Ensuring Secure Connections (Iria Osara)
- Azure Database for MySQL – January 2025 updates and latest feature roadmap (Shreya Aithal)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How to get started with Copilot (Chirag Fifadra)
- ClipChamp: Elevating work communication with seamless video creation in Copilot (Torin Didenko)
PowerShell
- Microsoft.Graph 2.26.0 – Microsoft Graph PowerShell module (PowerShell Gallery)
Miscellaneous
- The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug (Brian Barrett)
- Attack Techniques: “I Already Hacked You” Scams (Eric Lawrence)
- USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers (Matt Reynolds)
- Melting Glaciers Caused Almost 2cm of Sea Level Rise This Century, Study Reveals (msmash)
- Microsoft is giving Snipping Tool a major OCR upgrade in Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 (Rust Release Team)
- DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards (Zoë Schiffer)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link
