Top Links
- C# Dev Kit – Now Generally Available (Wendy Breiding)
- Visual Studio Code September 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Introducing .NET MAUI Pickers for Efficient User Interactions (Sasi Kumar Arumugam)
- Getting Started with Copilot for Power Platform: A Guide for Computer Science Students (Lee Stott)
- Upcoming features for the Windows App SDK 1.5 (Windows App SDK Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Handling Environment Variables in Next.js 13 (Both Server and Client) (Peter Kellner)
- Azure Function Timer Trigger not firing – NCrontab (Dean Hume)
- How to version your ASP.NET API (Dennis Fruhauff)
- Deploying Elasticsearch with Terraform to a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
- Should I Use Ref or Reactive in Vue 3? (Marina Mosti)
- Announcing Udemy + Docker Partnership (Walker Stone)
- Chrome now shows each active tab’s memory usage! (Addy Osmani)
- Exploring the Power of GraphQL in .NET and Building A .NET Core Hosted Service (Espresso Coder)
- Activate Passkeys and Let Your Users Log in without a Password (Joey deVilla)
- What Is API Management? (Robert Kimani)
- Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services (Zain Malik)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- WinUI vs WPF, WinForms, UWP, and MFC (Greg Lutz)
- Wrapping Text in Maui With Grids, StackLayouts, and More (Iris Classon)
- Telerik UI for .NET MAUI in Uno Platform Mobile Apps (Dan Siegel)
- Support Corner: Protecting .NET MAUI Applications (John Brawner)
- Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition book website – sign up for updates (Alvin Ashcraft)
- Contributing to Uno Platform – From Novice to Expert (Martin Zikmund)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Display a Progress Dialog Bar while Loading Data in C# .NET (Greg Lutz)
- Table Inheritance with EF Core (Ricardo Peres)
- Converting a Hexadecimal String to a Byte Array in C# (Code Maze)
- Wolverine is for the developers (Tim Deschryver)
- Using Problem Details in .NET 7 (Bart Wullems)
- Don’t Use “Task.WhenAll” for Interdependent Tasks (Jeremy Clark)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Assistant with Bard: A step toward a more personal assistant (Sissie Hsiao)
- Gall’s Law for Software Developers (Steve Smith)
- Four Tips for Working with AI (Jared Spataro)
- HELP! My system is a spaghetti code mess. (Derek Comartin)
- An Introduction to LangChain: AI-Powered Language Modeling (Dianne Pena)
- Security Tradeoffs: Privacy (Eric Lawrence)
- Microsoft Envision | The Tour: How to lead in the era of AI (Judson Althoff)
- Beginner’s Guide To Software Engineering – How To Get Started Today (Nick Cosentino)
- Skills to plugins: fully embracing the OpenAI plugin spec in Semantic Kernel (Matthew Bolanos)
- Practical steps towards an innovative future with AI (Microsoft in Business Team)
- Accelerating over 130,000 Hugging Face models with ONNX Runtime (Sophie Schoenmeyer)
- Imposter Syndrome Driven Design and a Bedfordshire Clanger (Stephanie Stimac)
- Advanced Installer 21.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Five Signs You Need to Delegate More (Suzan Bond)
- How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools (Ben Balter)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What do your favourite YouTubers think of Raspberry Pi 5? (Ashley Whittaker)
- Android 14 is live in AOSP and Android 14: More customization, control and accessibility features (Dave Burke)
- UnrealCLR – Unreal Engine .NET 6 integration (Stanislav Denisov)
- Wear OS 4 is now stable and available on Google Pixel Watch 2! (Kseniia Shumelchyk & Kevin Hufnagle)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 177 – Everything About Private 5G & IoT (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- How to migrate to Microsoft SQL with the Database Migration Service Pack for Oracle (Anna Hoffman)
- Where did GitHub Copilot come from? (Damian Brady)
- Webinar Recording: Coffee Chat About All Things Astro (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- What I Wish I Knew… about finding your competitive edge (Divya Venkataramu)
- What’s new for Windows developers September 2023 edition (Aaron Junker)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Kubernetes Tooling with Annie Talvasto (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #131: Secrets of Being a CEO Revealed with Deborah Coviello | The CEO Whisperer | Author | Podcast Host (Max Ahumada)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 147: Potluck (Ben Nadel)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Working With BDD To Help Agile Teams Understand And Deliver On Business Needs | Aki Salmi (Vasco Duarte)
- Tools and Weapons Podcast – His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama: The journey from gaming to government (Brad Smith)
Community & Events
- Announcing Code.org’s Hour of Code 2023: Creativity with AI (Code.org Team)
- Office Hours with Special Host – Brent Ozar (Pinal Dave)
- GeekWire Summit, Oct. 19: Check out the agenda and join us to explore the new era of AI (Todd Bishop)
- Deprecating NTLM is Easy and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves (Steve Syfuhs)
Database
- Connect to SQL Servers in another domain using Windows Authentication (Aaron Bertrand)
- Master SQL Server: SQL Server Management Studio Tutorial (Michael Otey)
- Defending new vectors: Threat actors attempt SQL Server to cloud lateral movement (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- Protect SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure flexibility (Debbi Lyons)
- Configure Azure Databricks as a Delta Lakehouse (John Miner)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Developer Program instant sandbox service is restored (Kelly Bowen-McCombs)
- Behind the Scenes—The Future of File Management (Microsoft)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Free preview extended for Warp AI and Warp Drive for teams (Melanie Crissey)
Miscellaneous
- Google Antitrust Trial: Microsoft-Alphabet Deal Broke Down Over Search on Duo (Leah Nylen)
- Diablo IV is coming to Steam (Ash Parrish)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23560 (Dev Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- On the confusing names for the Windows service SID types (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3795 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – October 4, 2023 (#175) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learning Blazor (David Pine) – Referral Link