Top Links
- C# 13: Explore the latest preview features (Kathleen Dollard)
- Windows App SDK Version 1.5.5 (1.5.240627000) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Announcing SSMS 20.2 … and getting feedback for SSMS 21 (Erin Stellato)
- Uno Toolkit – an Uno Tech Bite series (Uno Platform Team)
- Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 RTW now available (Gloridel Morales)
- Behind the Tech: Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of Khan Academy (Kevin Scott)
Web & Cloud Development
- HTML Datalist for ASP.NET Core Inputs (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- CSS Image Styling Techniques (Chris Pietschmann)
- “If” CSS Gets Inline Conditionals (Geoff Graham)
- Introducing the New React MultiColumn ComboBox (Indrajith Srinivasan)
- Component Composition: The Secret to Scalable and Maintainable Blazor UI (Jon Hilton)
- Easily Render Flat JSON Data in JavaScript File Manager (Keerthana Rajendran)
- What’s New in Angular Query Builder: 2024 Volume 2 (Satheeskumar S.)
- WebAssembly components: the next wave of cloud native computing (Liam Randall & Bailey Hayes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Seeding in-memory Entity Framework with realistic data with Bogus (Davide Bellone)
- .NET 9 Addresses NuGet Vulnerabilities in Preview 6 (David Ramel)
- Creating an already-completed asynchonous activity in C++/WinRT, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
- .NET and .NET Framework July 2024 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield)
- Secure cross-platform and file-based token cache for MSAL.NET (Anthony Simmon)
- Adding support for collection expressions to your own types: Behind the scenes of collection expressions – Part 5 (Andrew Lock)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Setting Up Renovate as Azure DevOps Pipeline for Automatic .NET NuGet Package Updates (Nietras)
- Azure OpenAI Extension for Function Apps Hands-on Experience (Mengyang Chen)
- Unit tests longer than the code? (Dave Aronson)
- Creating an Azure AI Speech Service and Text-to-Speech Using the AI Speech Service (David Giard)
- Five misconceptions about AI-powered software development (Zach Lloyd)
- OpenAI’s CriticGPT Catches Errors in Code Generated by ChatGPT (Anthony Alford)
- Programming, Fluency, and AI (Mike Loukides)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- UI testing improvements in Xcode 16 (Jesse Squires)
Screencasts & Videos
- Microsoft Copilot in Azure Series – Data Collection and Feedback (ITOpsTalk Crew)
- Red Point: a 3D Rock Climbing App Built with Unity & .NET MAUI | Matt Goldman & Matthew Robbins (SSW TV)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – David Giard (Isaac Levin)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Evolution of Agents with Pattie Maes (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Justin Sheehy on Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype (Justin Sheehy)
- RunAs Radio Episode 940 – The Hardware of Azure with Rani Borkar (Richard Campbell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Bridging Communication Gaps Between Agile Teams, The Communication Challenge | Esther Schmit (Vasco Duarte)
- PPP 423 | The Hidden Cost of Bad Team Habits and How to Fix Them, with author Charlie Gilkey (Andy Kaufman)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Observability & Engineering Management, with Charity Majors (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – Modular Monoliths – with Steve “ardalis” Smith (Dan Clarke)
- Python Bytes Podcast #391 – A weak episode (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024 (AWS News Blog Team)
- CfP List Updated 2024-07-09 (Dave Aronson)
- My trip to the frontier of AI education (Bill Gates)
- Engaging with our Firefox community: Highlights from our recent AMA (Mozilla)
Database
- Migrate a SQL Server Database to a PostgreSQL Database (Temidayo Omoniyi)
- SSMS 20.2 Update Resolves Certificate Chain Not Trusted with SSIS and SQL Agent (Andy Leonard)
- Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server (David Engel)
- A Little About Parallel Exchange Spills In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Get the most out of any Teams Rooms meeting with speaker recognition and Copilot (Christian Schacht)
- Figma Variables and new components available (v3.0.0) in the SharePoint Web UI Kit (Nicole Woon)
Miscellaneous
- Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales (Jowi Morales)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3978 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – July 9, 2024 (#351) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (Sarah Drasner) – Referral Link