Top Links
- Meet Angular v19 (Minko Gechev)
- What’s new in the Windows Subsystem for Linux in November 2024 (Craig Loewen)
- VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.12: CodeLens support is here! (Tina Schrepfer)
- AI Dev Gallery (Preview) – An app designed to help Windows developers integrate AI capabilities within their own apps and projects (Nikola Metulev, Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi, Niels Laute & Greg Woo)
- Fueling the AI economy with digital skills | Microsoft Learn (jeanaj)
- Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device for Windows 365 (Anthony Smith)
- Microsoft Ignite 2024: Embracing the future of Windows at work (Pavan Davuluri)
Web & Cloud Development
- Dynamic Htmx Islands with ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Easy logging management with Seq and ILogger in ASP.NET (Davide Bellone)
- Finally! Improved Blazor Server reconnection UX (Jon Hilton)
- A Joy-Filled Release for the Holiday Season—Angular 19 (Alyssa Nicoll)
- New capabilities for GitHub Copilot for Azure (C. Harris)
- Even faster IndexedDB reads with getAllRecords (Patrick Brosset)
- Ignite 2024: Bidirectional real-time audio streaming with Azure Communication Services (Kunaal Punjabi)
- A Closer Look at WordPress 6.7: “Rollins” (WDD Staff)
- Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: preventing attacks from popups: Understanding cross-origin security headers – Part 1 (Andrew Lock)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- 10 WPF Best Practices [2024] (Metalama Team)
- Uno Hot Design aims to meet demand for a visual designer for modern .NET (Tim Anderson)
- .NET MAUI 9 Launched with Better Performance, New Controls (Edin Kapić)
- Implement ICommand with Metalama (Dario Macchi)
- Uno Announces Platform Studio (Kay Ewbank)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Syncfusion Visual Studio Extensions Are Now Compatible With .NET 9.0 (Kesavaraman Venkadesan)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.12.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- What’s New with .NET 9 (Amanda Lange)
AI
- Exploring Gen AI: Copilot’s new multi-file editing (Martin Fowler)
- Introducing Azure AI Agent Service (monalisawhalin)
- Announcing New Fine-Tuning Capabilities with Images on Azure OpenAI Service (Nandini Muralidharan)
- Ground your AI agents with knowledge from Bing Search, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint and more (pavanli)
- Introducing Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams (Jared Spataro)
- Leveraging Microsoft 365 Agents SDK with Semantic Kernel for Enhanced Multichannel AI (Ben Thomas)
- Microsoft is the mystery AI company licensing HarperCollins books, says Bloomberg (Emma Roth)
- Fueling the AI economy with digital skills (jeanaj)
- GitHub Models: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (khyewei)
- OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical (Kyle Wiggers)
- Microsoft’s new Copilot Actions use AI to automate repetitive tasks (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub (Aaron Hallberg)
- Windows security and resiliency: Protecting your business (David Weston)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The First Developer Preview of Android 16 (Matthew McCullough)
- Windows comes to the Meta Quest (Kyle Wiggers)
Screencasts & Videos
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Mathias Buus Madsen (Isaac Levin)
- All of Windows Server 2025’s Roles and Features | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Tell us a story from the era when you got your 35-year service award | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Podcasts
- Practical AI Podcast #296 – scikit-learn & data science you own (Yann Lechelle, Guillaume Lemaitre, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- RunAs Radio #959 – Testing Databases with Dan Mallott (Richard Campbell)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Behind Microsoft’s AI Curtain (Mary Jo Foley)
Community & Events
- Windows Dev Chat – Dec 12, 2024 (Windows Developer Team)
- CfP List Updated 2024-11-19 (Dave Aronson)
- Ignite 2024: Transform your workday with the latest Edge for Business features (Lindsay Kubasik)
- Layoffs hit workers at Reflector Entertainment, makers of Unknown 9: Awakening (Brendan Caldwell)
- Microsoft announces its own Black Hat-like hacking event with big rewards for AI security (Tom Warren)
- Mastodon’s weaknesses and how to fix them (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News (Microsoft)
Database
- What’s New in SQL Server 2025 (Brent Ozar)
- Advanced String Searching In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- New Vector Search, Full Text Search, and Hybrid Search Features in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (James Codella)
- Announcing Public Preview: VS Code Extension for Azure Cosmos DB (Khelan Modi)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Pete Daderko)
- Unleashing the power of agents in Microsoft Planner (Anav Silverman)
- Copilot in Excel: Transforming Data Analysis (Carlos Otero)
- What’s new for Office Add-ins at Ignite 2024 (Office Add-ins Team)
- Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK (Daniel Carrasco)
- The next frontier in enterprise intelligent automations with Microsoft Power Automate (Sangya Singh)
PowerShell
- Announcing the Public Preview of AI Shell (Steven Bucher)
Miscellaneous
- Brief and practical tips for public speaking (Stephanie Stimac)
- A wrinkle in how Windows 95 setup bootstrapped its initial GUI step (Raymond Chen)
- Do you know what’s in your QR Code? (Joseph Finney)
- Windows 11 Security Guide (Microsoft)
More Link Collections
- Collective #882 (Manoela Ilic)
- Daily Reading List – November 19, 2024 (#444) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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