Top Links
- .NET Conf 2023 Recap – Celebrating Community, Innovation, and the Launch of .NET 8 (Jon Galloway and Mehul Harry)
- Visual Studio Code November 2023 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made (Will Douglas Heaven)
- Cross-platform Christmas Countdown App in C# (Martin Zikmund)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Education should be Free with FreeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson (Scott Hanselman)
- .NET 8 Networking Improvements (Máňa and Natalia Kondratyeva)
Web & Cloud Development
- Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints and Azure API Management (Andre Dewes)
- Improve your security by hiding your Application Insights instrumentation key from the browser (Sander ten Brinke)
- ASP.NET Core Basics: Working with a Database (Assis Zang)
- AWS Step Functions in C# – Part 2 (Camilo Reyes)
- Azure Communication Services December 2023 Feature Updates (Daysha Carter)
- Blazor WebAssembly Ahead of Time Compilation (Januarius Njoku)
- Exploring An Example Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core – What You Need To Know (Nick Cosentino)
- Designing a React E-Commerce App for Digital Products—Part 2 (Handling Authentication and Authorization) (Prashant Yadav)
- Wham! Authentication broker support lands in the Azure Identity libraries. (Scott Addie)
- This Month In Azure Static Web Apps | November & December 2023 (Thomas Gauvin)
- Defense Techniques: Blocking Protocol Handlers (Eric Lawrence)
- GraphQL vs. REST (Gbadebo Bello)
- FHIR Starter #2 (Jeff Helman)
- Advancing PDF Handling with Standalone Essential JS 2 PDF Viewer (Sasidharan Karuppiah)
- Kotlin for WebAssembly Goes Alpha (Sebastian Aigner)
- Maglev – V8’s Fastest Optimizing JIT (Toon Verwaest, Leszek Swirski, Victor Gomes, Olivier Flückiger, Darius Mercadier & Camillo Bruni)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Dealing with Zip Files in C# (Paul Michaels)
- Use Rust or C#, abandon C++: Five Eyes agencies warn about memory safety in programming languages (Alfonso Maruccia)
- Announcing Oracle Entity Framework Core 8 (Alex Keh)
- Streamlining Developer Productivity with the PayPal Visual Studio Code Extension (Asish Mohanty)
- Rider 2023.3: Support for .NET 8 SDK, the Latest From C# 12, Performance Enhancements, Predictive Debugging, and More AI-powered Features. and ReSharper 2023.3: Support For C# 12, Performance Enhancements, and More AI-Powered Features and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2023.3 Release (Sasha Ivanova)
- In C++, how can I make a default parameter be the this pointer of the caller? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Enterprise 2023.3: Enriching the Stack Overflow for Teams Essentials (Carrie Koos)
- How we’re enriching the Teams essentials to make collaboration easier (Kara Tully)
- On the Importance of RFCs in Programming (Matija Sosic)
- LLMLingua: Innovating LLM efficiency with prompt compression (Alyssa Hughes)
- DOWNLOAD: Microsoft Copilot Adoption Kit (Kurt Shintaku)
- Harnessing the power of APIs for AI-powered innovation (Microsoft in Business Team)
- Microsoft Readies ‘Groundbreaking’ AI-focused Windows Release (msmash)
- What Is Reverse Engineering? (PreEmptive Team)
- From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions (Rachel Siemens)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Build a watch app using Flutter (Bo Hellgren)
Screencasts & Videos
- XAML tools in Visual Studio | .NET MAUI Minutes (Maddy Montequila)
- Develop Your AI Coding Skills (Part Two) | Azure Enablement Show (Microsoft Developer)
- What is an AI plugin? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)
- Securing Your Multicloud Databases with Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – From Atari to Sep: Unleashing the Power of Performance in Programming with Niels Rassmussen (Jamie Taylor)
- InfoQ Podcast: Frugal Innovation Saving Lives (Jason Friesen)
- Server-Side Rendering in Angular 17 – Adventures in Angular 397 (Armen Vardanyan & Lucas Paganini)
- JS Party Podcast – From WebGL to WebGPU (Gregg Tavares, Jerod Santo & Amal Hussein)
- Rocket 467: Turn on Push Notifications (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – One weird trick for teaching users your software (Eira May)
- Web Rush Episode 262: 0 to Web Developer with Jasmine Greenaway (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- UI Breakfast Episode 277: Designing for Technical Domains with Ridhima Gupta (Jane Portman)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Building a community of builders (Sarah Rainsberger & Elian Van Cutsem)
- Threads has hashtags now (Jay Peters)
- Zulily shutting down offices and laying off 292 employees in Seattle (Taylor Soper)
Database
- The Art Of The SQL Server Stored Procedure: Formatting Code (Erik Darling)
- Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 (Jiaqi Liu)
- Microsoft Fabric Data Ingestion Methods and Tools (Koen Verbeeck)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- The future of collaboration and AI: Opportunities for partners in the Microsoft Teams AI ecosystem (Joey Glocke)
- The 12 Days of Copilot – Day 4 Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint – HLS Show Me How (Mike Gannotti)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Email, Attachments, Query, and Microsoft Graph PowerShell (Liam Cleary)
- Easily open Docker containers in your Warp terminal (David Melvin)
Miscellaneous
- ProcDump 3.0 for Linux and Sysmon 1.3.2 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
- PowerToys Release v0.76.1 (Clint Rutkas)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23601 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26010 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Skilling Up for the Future: A Guide for Students and Entrepreneur (Lee Stott)
- Announcing Rust 1.74.1 (Rust Release Team)
- Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3841 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – December 7, 2023 (#219) (Richard Seroter)
- Code Maze Weekly #195 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Geek Shelf
A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure (Anuraj Parameswaran & Tamir Al Balkhi) – Referral Link