Top Links
- Microsoft PowerToys will launch and automatically arrange your favorite apps (Tom Warren)
 - Modernize Microsoft SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure (Debbi Lyons)
 - A SimpleMDE Markdown Preview Editor with server side rendering. (Scott Galloway)
 - How To Improve the Performance of a RAG Model (Exxact Team)
 - Join us for .NET Conf: Focus on AI – August 20th 2024 (.NET Team)
 - Brandon Minnick to Keynote at TechBash 2024 (Jason Gaylord)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating A Transient View Helper In Angular 18 (Ben Nadel)
 - Angular DI: Type safe Angular providers (marekozw)
 - Python: How to use secrets stored in azure key vault in your Pulumi project (Adetokunbo Ige)
 - React Context with the New Use API (Hassan Djirdeh)
 - CSS Techniques for Cross-Browser Compatibility and Styling (Kamal Kishor)
 - Announcing Public Preview of API Management WordPress plugin to build customized developer portals (Sreekanth Thirthala Venkata)
 - .NET Aspire 8.1: Enhanced Container Image Building and Python Orchestrating Support (Almir Vuk)
 - Hosting a Keycloak Container in .NET Aspire (Fiodar Sazanavets)
 - Announcing a new learning module for evaluating and building with Microsoft Entra External ID (Linda Park)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Release v9.0.3: Transparent Status bar for Android, Icon Tint Color Updates and more! (Gerald Versluis)
 - Awesome-Avalonia: A collection of interesting libraries and tools for Avalonia project. (Avalonia Community)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Optimizing old code: StreamBitArray refactoring (Oren Eini)
 - Microsoft Spotlights .NET 9, Cloud in First Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview (David Ramel)
 - How to run dotnet tests with automatic smart retry and Beautiful dotnet test summary reports (Daniel Cazzulino)
 - Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Pt. 4) and Part 5 (Scott Galloway)
 - Use dotnet pack with nuspec file (Bart Wullems)
 - Advanced Debugging in C# (Kamil Pakula)
 - Implementing CQRS with MediatR in .NET 8: A Complete Guide (Adrián Bailador)
 - The case of the missing ordinal 380 (Raymond Chen)
 - FormattableStringFactory – Creating dynamic FormattableString instances (Steven Giesel)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Agile is not a process. (George Stocker)
 - Study Notes: Graph RAG – Property Graph RAG (The Projects) (Jason Haley)
 - GPT-4o Long Output and The Model Spec Feedback and ChatGPT Education (OpenAI Team)
 - Gemma for Streaming ML with Dataflow (Reza Rokni & Ravin Kumar)
 - Creating a Web Development Bot with OpenAI ChatGPT-4o (A. Demontis)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $50 (Eben Upton)
 - Retro: Setting up a BBS Using Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and Mystic (Jamie Maguire)
 - The Swift Composable Architecture Brings the Redux Model to iOS App Development (Sergio De Simone)
 - Adding WiFi To The Pico 2 (Harry Fairhead)
 - Can you hack our new chip? (Chris Boross)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- Building Accessible Apps with .NET MAUI featuring Rachel Kang | The .NET MAUI Podcast ep. 123 (David Ortianau, Matt Soucoup & James Montemagno)
 - Search Your Code in Seconds with this Visual Studio Feature (Visual Studio Team)
 - Video Tutorial: Creating a MailMerge Template and JSON Data Structure (Bjoern Meyer)
 - FreeCodeSession – Episode 553 (Jason Bock)
 - What was the Mach 20? | One Dev Question (Raymond Chen)
 
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Continuous Delivery, Psychological Safety and Inclusive Leadership in Software Engineering (Hannah Foxwell)
 - Merge Conflict #424: Xamarin 2025, New Apple Tax, & Mega .NET MAUI Update (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Defending the Agile Team, A Product Owner’s Crucial Responsibility | James Gifford and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leadership Lessons Learned from Successful and not so Successful startups | Martin Gonzales (Vasco Duarte)
 - Next.js Deployment Woes: Tackling Vendor Lock-In and Production Readiness with FlightControl – React Round Up #264 (Charles Frewin, Lucas Paganini & Peter Osah)
 - React Native Radio #304 – React Navigation V7 with Satyajit Saho (Jamon Holmgren)
 - Syntax Podcast #809 – How To Stay Up To Date with Daily.dev’s Francesco Ciulla (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - Changelog & Friends Podcast #57 – The Winamp era (Jordan Eldredge, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
 - Coding Blocks Podcast – Two Water Coolers Walk Into a Bar… (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce (Ben Popper)
 - AGL 378: Dr. Marshall Goldsmith (John Rouda)
 - Software Defined Talk Episode 480: No offsite content (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
 
Community & Events
- Highlighting Community Starter Packs (Bluesky Team)
 - The Fediverse Files: Making Social Media Fun Again (Jeremy Anderberg)
 - EVENT: .NET Conf 2024 – November 12-14, 2024 (Kurt Shintaku)
 - MVP’s Favorite Content: M365 MVP Week #1 (Rie Moriguchi)
 - Contributor Stories: Sean Killeen (Sherry List)
 - National Public Data admits it leaked Social Security numbers in a massive data breach (Umar Shakir)
 - Simplicity, Speed, and Re-use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months (Zahan Malkani)
 
Database
- Troubleshooting High CPU Utilization in SQL Server (Jeffrey Yao)
 - Making It Easy To Tell When Data Changed With Change Data Capture In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
 - MariaDB Introduces Open-Source Vector Preview, Aiming to Become Default MySQL Option (Renato Losio)
 - Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database (Carlos Robles)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
- PowerShell and AI: Create a Microsoft Word Copilot (Brien Posey)
 
Miscellaneous
- Windows Server 2025: The upgrade and update experience (Dan Cuomo)
 - Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #33, 2024 – F# from the maintainers’ perspective (Sergey Tihon)
 - C# Digest – Journey through the .NET World (Jakub Chodounsky)
 - Daily Reading List – August 16, 2024 (#378) (Richard Seroter)
 - .NET Newsletter Episode 59: A Guide to Unit Testing Project Setup in .NET and .NET Newsletter Episode 61: Custom Type Handling with Dapper in .NET (Muhammad Waseem)
 - Collective #858 (Manoela Ilic)
 
The Geek Shelf
 The Nature of Code (Daniel Shiffman)
