Top Links
- Building AI-powered Microsoft Copilot with SignalR and other open-source tools (Justin D. Harris, Kevin Guo and Ken Chen)
 - Uno Platform 5.1 : Live Wizard for Rider & VS Code users, New Controls, Perf improvements and more. (Uno Platform Team)
 - Preview of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions (Varshi Bachu)
 - In the Debugger’s Spotlight: A Year in Review (Harshada Hole)
 - Windows App SDK Version 1.5 Experimental (1.5.0-experimental2) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Public Preview: Azure API Center – January Updates and Public Preview: New major version of durable Functions extension (Azure Team)
 - Custom Middleware in ASP.NET Core – How to Harness the Power! (Nick Cosentino)
 - What’s new in Astro – January 2024 (Elian Van Cutsem)
 - Bringing You a Faster, More Secure Web: HTTP/3 Is Now Enabled for All Automattic Services (Andrija Vučinić)
 - Using Global Styles in Shadow DOM (Rob Eisenberg)
 - What to Expect When Your Auth0 Startup Plan Expires? (Shreya Gupta)
 - Official components for Angular – Release v17.1.0 (Andrew Seguin)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Create a .NET MAUI Stacked Column Chart for the Top-Earning Female Athletes (Dhanaraj Rajendran)
 - January XAML Fest for .NET MAUI—Instagram Suggestion Card (Leomaris Reyes)
 - What’s New in 2023 Volume 4: WinUI and WPF (Rajeshwari P.)
 - Toolkit Tuesdays: Responsive (Steve Bilogan)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- F# – The essentials (Bart Wullems)
 - Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.6 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Preview 5 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
 - How To Use ArraySegment in C# (Kamil Pakula)
 - How can I add an environment variable to a process launched via ShellExecuteEx or IContextMenu? (Raymond Chen)
 - Testing the MSVC Compiler Backend (Troy Johnson)
 - Metalama Status Update, January 2024 (Gael Fraiteur)
 - Epic: Eventing Framework in .NET 9 (Safia Abdalla)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Onboarding bottleneck: final installment (Martin Fowler)
 - Russ’s Theory of the Firm: Leadership Perspective (Russ Laraway)
 - Healio – Healthcare Chatbot using C# Semantic Kernel, planner and Azure OpenAI (Vinod Soni)
 - Blending AI with UI: Crafting LLM UIs in Blazor, Angular, React and Vue (Lyubomir Atanasov)
 - Putting the Dev in Figma’s Dev Mode (Tomek Sulkowski)
 - Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation (OpenAI Team)
 - New! Improve Team Code Quality in Unity and .NET Projects With Qodana (Kerry Beetge)
 - How does a signer attach a document while esigning? (Lakshmi Priya Soundar Rajan)
 - How to Use the Hugging Face Transformer Library (Manish Shivanandhan)
 - Beyond the Hero’s Journey (Natasha Eibich)
 - Responsible AI For Developers: Resources For Self-Guided Learning (Nitya Narasimhan)
 - Provenance use in AI (John Moehrke)
 - Best practices for designing SaaS architecture (Ramesh Thangaraj)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift OpenAPI Generator 1.0 Released (Swift Team)
 - Shipping a visionOS app for launch (Paul Hudson)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- Architecting IoT applications with .NET and Meadow | On .NET (Adrian Stevens)
 - .NET MAUI Minutes (Vijay Anand E G)
 - Why is getting started with AI so intimidating? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
 - GitHub’s GraphQL API to effectively track the health of projects and communities (GitHub Team)
 - The Download: OpenAI Update, 10 Unexpected Uses of CoPilot, Zed Goes Open Source, and more (Christina Warren)
 
Podcasts
- Generally AI Episode 2: AI-Generated Speech and Music (Anthony Alford & Roland Meertens)
 - Working Code Podcast – Episode 164: Potluck (Ben Nadel)
 - High Performance Databases with RavenDB with Oren Eini – Adventures in .NET 175 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
 - Productive C# Podcast Episode 30 – Build Amazing .NET Apps with C# and the Uno Platform (Andrea Angella)
 - .NET Rocks! – Hangfire with Sergey Odinokov (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Exploring AI Impact on Code Generation and Quality Metrics – JavaScript Jabber 618 (Conor Bronsdon, AJ O’Neal & Steve Edwards)
 - The Well Podcast – The Drop – Part 19 (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
 
Database
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Fixing Blocking and Deadlocking (Erik Darling)
 - Azure SQL Managed Instance pools: new features (Djordje Marinkovic)
 - Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.2 Preview 5 and Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1.5 (David Engel)
 - Microsoft Fabric for those who know nothing about Fabric (Olanrewaju Oyinbooke)
 - Feature Flags in Data Projects (Ben Johnston)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2 (Lori Craw)
 - Introducing the SharePoint Embedded Visual Studio Code extension (Marc Windle)
 - What’s New in Microsoft Teams | January 2024 (Steve Stein)
 - Announcing Microsoft 365 apps available on Apple Vision Pro (Gabriel Valdez Malpartida)
 - Make your Office Add-in successful by harnessing free Microsoft Partner programs! (Steve Jin)
 - How to get ready for Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Updates for 2024 (Zachary Cavanell)
 - January 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)
 - Microsoft’s new OneDrive design starts rolling out for consumers (Tom Warren)
 
PowerShell
- How To Use PowerShell To Create PDF Files (Brien Posey)
 
Miscellaneous
- Who Is Most Likely to Get Fired? Remote Workers, Middle Managers (Bloomberg News)
 - There is a new PowerToys utility on the way to bring a new File Actions menu to Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
 - Windows on Arm is Ready for Prime Time: Native Chrome Caps Momentum for the Future of Laptop Computing (David Whaley)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3872 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily Reading List – January 31, 2024 (#251) (Richard Seroter)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)

