Top Links
- Our Favorite NEW Visual Studio Features of 2024 (Jason Chlus)
- Fine-Tuning and Deploying Phi-3.5 Model with Azure and AI Toolkit (Sharda Kaur)
- AI Transformations for Sustainability (Brad Smith & Melanie Nakagawa)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Quantum Advantage with Dr Krysta Svore (Scott Hanselman)
- Tutorial: Run JavaScript code in a code interpreter session in Azure Container Apps (preview) | Microsoft Learn (Ishita Asthana, Anthony Chu & Craig Shoemaker)
- Meet the .NET Team at NDC London 2025 (Mehul Harry)
Web & Cloud Development
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.7.3 (Mladen Macanović)
- Easily Visualize Complex Data Flows With Blazor Sankey Diagram (Bhuvanesh Valarman)
- Special Edition – This Month in Azure Static Web Apps | November and December 2024 (Glaucia Lemos)
- The GoLand 2025.1 Early Access Program Has Started! (Ruslan Akhmetzianov)
- Introducing Customizable Resource Auto-naming in Pulumi (Mikhail Shilkov)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Windows developer FAQ (Microsoft Learn) – Recently update answers and guidance
Visual Studio & .NET
- Working with JsonSerializerContext in System.Text.Json and Refit (Tomasz Cielecki)
- Mastering C# – Pattern Matching (Jesse Liberty)
- In a C++ class template specialization, how can I call the unspecialized version of a method? (Raymond Chen)
- Understand NuGet Central Package Management and Transitive Pinning with Examples (NDepend Team)
- C# Enum: Definition and Best Practices (Stackify Team)
AI
- ChatGPT macOS App – Release Notes – Jan 15, 2025 (OpenAI Team)
- Phi-4 now available locally through Ollama (Bart Wullems)
- AI chatbots vs. AI agents: Which AI tool fits your business needs? (Emily Shin)
- On-Device AI: Building Smarter, Faster, And Private Applications (Joas Pambou)
- Turn Your Weather into Poetry with GenAI (Raymond Camden)
- Phi-3.5-vision Fine tuning (xinyuwei)
- Customer Case Study: Pushing the Boundaries of Multi-Agent AI Collaboration with ServiceNow and Microsoft Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Mastering Docker and Jenkins: Build Robust CI/CD Pipelines Efficiently (Vladimir Mikhalev)
- Event-Driven Architecture Issues & Challenges (Derek Comartin)
- GitLab 17.8 released (Joe Randazzo)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- React Native list components: FlashList, FlatList, and more (Chimezie Innocent)
- Vision Pro & Lessons of the MacBook Air (Om Malik)
Screencasts & Videos
- Improving your dev experience with .NET Aspire | NDC Porto 2024 (Chris Klug)
- 5 things to know about SQL and AI | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Muazma Zahid)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Techniques for Improving Communication and Connection in Technical and Social Settings (Geoffrey Huck)
- UX Podcast Episode #330 – The Great Amazon Heist with Oobah Butler (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- AGL 400: Becoming Fearless with Dr. Benjamin Ritter (John Rouda)
- Under the Radar Episode #310 – What’s In Our Toolbox: Task Management (Marco Arment & David Smith)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #502 – Have a Plan or Throw It Away (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: Engineering Leadership, Automation, and Trust with Dan Hollinger (Vasco Duarte)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The developer skill you might be neglecting (Eira May)
Community & Events
- Building Blazor Applications at VSLive! Las Vegas (David Ramel)
- The death of DEI in tech (Steven Vaughan-Nichols)
- WordPress: Improving Fediverse Engagement With the Reactions Block (Matt Wiebe)
Database
- How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly: Joins With OR Clauses Part 2 (Erik Darling)
- Cumulative Update #17 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (Harvey Mora)
- ANSI PADDING and Storage – SQL in Sixty Seconds 210 (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How to enable Copilot Agents in SharePoint for non-Copilot users (Vesa Nopanen)
- Microsoft bundles Office AI features into Microsoft 365 and raises prices (Tom Warren)
- Automate app compliance with ACAT (Yan Jin)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27774 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- AT&T Kills Home Internet Service In New York Over Law Requiring $15 Plans (BeauHD)
- As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance (Gaby Del Valle)
- New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – January 16, 2025 (#474) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)
