Top Links
- Testing Your Native AOT Applications (Marco Rossignoli, Jakub Jareš & Jakub Chocholowicz)
 - Free eSignature Plan: A Win-Win Strategy for Both Users and BoldSign (Meikanda Nayanar)
 - Advancing science: Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrate the most reliable logical qubits on record with an error rate 800x better than physical qubits (Jason Zander)
 - Bringing the latest capabilities to Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers (Jared Spataro)
 - How Copilot is being used by the Time Travel Debugging team for repetitive C++ coding (Sinem Akinci)
 - How do I use .NET MAUI in VS code? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montequila)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Using Kudu in Azure to Debug an Azure Function (Paul Michaels)
 - Using the Oracle Cloud TypeScript SDK Part 7 – Retrieving Reference Lists (Scott Stroz)
 - A Full-Stack Web App Using Angular and GraphQL: Adding Login and Authorization Functionalities (Part 5) (Ankit Sharma)
 - Blazor Basics: Improved Performance with Component Virtualization (Claudio Bernasconi)
 - Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers (Fernando Mejia)
 - Unveiling the New Angular 3D Circular Charts Component (Gowrimathi S.)
 - Configure Azure Functions to use Identity Based Connections (Mark Heath)
 - What is cloud native and how can it generate business value? (Holly Cummins)
 - Twitter Cards in Hugo: Avoid the relURL and absURL pitfalls (Jessica Deen)
 - Node v20.12.1 (LTS) and Node v21.7.2 (Current) and Node v18.20.1 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)
 - Jetpack’s Newest Features: From AI-powered Content Feedback to Faster Site Loads (Mike Stott)
 - Tips and Tricks to Make Your Web Apps Crazy Fast (Thomas Findlay)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Brings Touch Behavior (Edin Kapić)
 - Chart of the week: Creating a WPF 3D Column Chart to Visualize the Panama Canal’s Shipment Transit Data (Surya Karan Raja)
 - .NET MAUI – Styles (Vijay Anand E G)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Abstract Class vs Interface in C# (NDepend Team)
 - Create a Custom Static Code Analysis Rule for Azure SQL Database / SQL Server with .NET (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
 - Examples of Inheritance in C# – A Simplified Introduction to OOP (Nick Cosentino)
 - CSLA 8.0.0 release (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Boosting Performance and Memory Efficiency: Introducing ToDelimitedString() with Source Generators in Spargine (David McCarter)
 - Improve Performance With Source-Generated RegEx in .NET (Ivan Gechev)
 - Windows debugger trick: Breaking when a specific debugger message is printed (Raymond Chen)
 - fennecs – a tiny, tiny, high-energy ECS (fennecs Team)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- End of Support for Microsoft products reliant on older Azure DevOps authentication (Angel Wong)
 - Developers with AI assistants need to follow the pair programming model (Ryan Donovan)
 - Adding generative AI to your Cloud Flows with AI Prompts (April Dunnam)
 - Electronic Signatures for Healthcare Consent Forms (Caroline Dolly)
 - Not everything is a service. (Derek Comartin)
 - Security research without ever leaving GitHub: From code scanning to CVE via Codespaces and private vulnerability reporting (Jorge Rosillo)
 - Migrate to GitHub Actions from Pages Legacy Worker (Joseph Guadagno)
 - Understanding Identity Verification and Its Critical Role in eSignature Processes (Meikanda Nayanar)
 - Beyond Newsletters: Reimagining communications & engagement in the age of AI (Mike Gannotti)
 - From RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to Riches: The Evolution and Impact of Advanced AI Systems (Peter Smulovics)
 - RAG without OpenAI: BentoML, OctoAI and Milvus (Yujian Tang)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova iOS 7.1.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
 - Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers (Kuba Mracek)
 - Visual Studio Code: Unity Extension Is Now Generally Available (Almir Vuk)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 172: Using M365 Copilot with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint (David Giard)
 - IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 203 – What is Ancient is New (The Tech Lifecycle) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
 
Podcasts
- CodeNewbie S27:E4 – Living the Dream with AI (Rob Frelow) (CodeNewbie Team)
 - Syntax Podcast Episode 751: UI Components: ShadCN, Tailwind UI, Headless, React Aria, Radix UI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Chapter Leads to Champions, Value Over Velocity in Scaled Agile | Joe Scherler (Vasco Duarte)
 - Tools and Weapons Podcast – Bill Anderson: Using AI to combat hunger (Brad Smith)
 - Made by Google Podcast – Get Ready to ‘Wow!’ Pixel Video Boost Upgrades Your Videos (Rachid Finge)
 - The Amp Hour #664 – Simulating doors falling off (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 - Software Engineering Radio 610: Phillip Carter on Observability for Large Language Models (Giovanni Asproni)
 
Community & Events
- Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS (Haleluya Hadero)
 - Firebase at Cloud Next ’24 (Vikas Anand & Rich Hyndman)
 - Oh to be a dev at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Vesa Juvonen)
 - Pure Virtual C++ 2024 Sessions Announced (Sy Brand)
 - 2024 James Beard Awards: Three Philly Food Stars Named as Finalists (Visit Philly)
 
Database
- Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2 (Subhojit Basak)
 - How to Use Data Manipulation Language (DML) in SQL (Gerald Venzl)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- The new Microsoft Planner begins roll out to General Availability (Roberto Bojorquez)
 - Update on the future of the Script Lab Office add-in (Alexander Jerabek)
 
Miscellaneous
- Eclipse Clouds (Randall Munroe)
 - Enhanced governance control for desktop flow logs (Apostolis Papaioannou)
 - Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100 (Canary and Dev Channels) (Amanda Langowski)
 - Microsoft reveals how much you’ll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- dotInsights | April 2024 (Rachel Appel)
 - Daily Reading List – April 3, 2024 (#290) (Richard Seroter)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft)

