Top Links
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Release v10.0.0: .NET 9 support is here! (Gerald Versluis)
- Bringing AI to the Browser – On-Device AI with the Web AI Toolkit (Justin Willis)
- Announcing Flutter AI Toolkit (Amanda Fitch)
- Announcing New Fine-Tuning Capabilities with o1-mini Model on Azure OpenAI Service (Nandini Muralidharan)
- Refresh your Find results in Visual Studio (Leah Tran)
- .NET Conf 2024 Recap – Celebrating .NET 9, AI, Community, & More (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- PureBlazor CMS – A .NET CMS to build drag-and-drop sites with setup infrastructure (Nick Dimitrov)
- Building a Persistent Counter with Alpine.Js (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers release v0.50.0 (Anthony Fu)
- Kubernetes 1.32: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to Beta (Xing Yang)
- Building LaTeX projects on Windows easily with Docker (Andrew Lock)
- Using WordPress as a Data-Entry Site to Power a Central API (Antonius Hegyes)
- TX Text Control for Linux Preview: Document Processing in ASP.NET Core on Azure App Services (Bjoern Meyer)
- What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist? (Geoff Graham)
- Node.js Features You Didn’t Know About: Part 2 (Peter Mbanugo)
- Building Single-Tenant vs. Multi-Tenant Apps with Auth0 (Matthew Pereira)
- FHIR TL;DW: Using LLMs to Process Longtitudinal Health Records (René Spronk)
- Cloud Efficiency at Netflix (J. Han & Pallavi Phadnis)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Diving Deep into .NET MAUI (David Ramel)
- Syncfusion Essential® UI Kit for .NET MAUI: Accelerate App Development with Pre-Built UI Pages (Jeyasri Murugan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- EF Core 9 vs. Dapper: Performance Face-Off (Vladan Petrovic)
- An Introduction to Corvus.JsonSchema Code Generator for .NET (Matthew Adams)
- F# Discriminated Unions with SQL Enumerations (Ben Copeland)
- Deserializing JSON to a string or a value (Phil Haack)
AI
- Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft 2.0.1-preview (Gemini AI Client for .NET) | NuGet Gallery (Jochen Kirstätter)
- OpenAI o1 and new tools for developers (OpenAI Team)
- NVIDIA Unveils Its Most Affordable Generative AI Supercomputer (Chen Su)
- How to add extensions to Gemini (Barbara Krasnoff)
- PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts (Brenda Potts)
- 5 ways AI will shape businesses in 2025 (Oliver Parker)
- Try our newest 2.0 Experimental Advanced model in Gemini Advanced (Patrick Kane)
- How To Use Generative AI for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (Udi Weinberg)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to get started on open-source development (Angela Lungati)
- Automating with GitLab Duo, Part 3: Validating testing (Byron Boots)
- Three Approaches To Amplify Your Design Projects (Olivia De Alba)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Celebrating Flutter’s “Production Era” (Michael Thomsen)
- Mixed Reality Link and Windows App on Meta Quest Updates (Andrew London)
- Video & web ad support in Flutter (Zoey Fan)
- What’s new in CameraX 1.4.0 and a sneak peek of Jetpack Compose support (Scott Nien)
- How Instagram enabled users to take stunning Low Light Photos (Donovan McMurray)
Screencasts & Videos
- Seamless Integration of Azure SQL Database and Azure Logic Apps | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & David Alzamendi)
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Looking at language qualifiers for resources files (Uno Platform)
- Introduction to WebAssembly for Swift Developers | SwiftLeeds 2024 (Max Desiatov)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Jeramiah Dooley (Isaac Levin)
- Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super: The World’s Most Affordable Generative AI Computer (NVIDIA)
- AI Success 2025: Why It’s Time to Adapt to AI or Be Left Behind (The Small Reset)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Aligning Metrics and Mindsets in Agile Teams | Karthiga Seturaj (Vasco Duarte)
- RunAs Radio #963 – Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with Yitzak Kesselman (Richard Campbell)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft Roadmap: What Was Hot in 2024 and Will Matter in 2025 (Mary Jo Foley)
- Software Engineering Radio #647: Praveen Gujar on Gen AI for Digital Ad Tech Platforms (Kanchan Shringi)
Community & Events
- Celebrating a Successful 2024: Key Achievements and Exciting Outlook for 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
- W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group (W3C)
- Threads starts testing scheduled posts (Chris Welch)
- Tech Moves: Allen Institute names new VP; Nordstrom board member steps down; and more (Kurt Schlosser)
- Hackathons: Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration (Rochelle Sonnenberg)
- CfP List Updated 2024-12-17 (Dave Aronson)
- Philly .NET January 2025 Meetup – Black Hat, DEFCON, Remote Code Execution. Oh, my! with John Iwasz (Philly .NET Team)
Database
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- 2024 in Review (Ms. Excel)
Miscellaneous
- Developing on Windows 11 ARM64, one year in (Michael Niehaus)
- Microspeak terms that didn’t take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI (Raymond Chen)
- Paint.NET 5.1.2 Beta (build 9118) (Rick Brewster)
- Honda and Nissan explore merger to navigate uncertain EV future (Umar Shakir)
More Link Collections
- 32 More Links and Resources for Technical Teams, Developers, Managers and Architects (John Kilmister)
- Daily Reading List – December 17, 2024 (#462) (Richard Seroter)
- Collective #890 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET: Build faster, more responsive, and asynchronous apps (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link
