Top Links
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9 (Mads Kristensen)
 - Introducing Copilot Edits (Isidor Nikolic)
 - DirectML unlocks new silicon for AI experiences across Windows Copilot+ PCs (Chad Pralle, David DeMarco & Jason Cook)
 - Announcing .NET 9 (.NET Team)
 - What’s new in .NET MAUI for .NET 9 (Microsoft Learn)
 - EPISODE 4 – Scott and Mark Learn To… Pick a Programming Language (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s new in .NET Aspire 9.0? and Custom resource commands in .NET Aspire (David Pine)
 - Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dapr Graduation (CNCF)
 - Make a Web Reporting App Using a Blazor Reporting Tool & Microservices (Sergey Abakumoff)
 - What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2024 (Brendan Burns)
 - Microsoft Applied Skills: Build distributed apps with .NET Aspire (Microsoft Learn)
 - Introducing the Modern Web App (MWA) Pattern for Java (Rory Preddy)
 - WebStorm 2024.3: Built-In Database Tools and SQL Support, Better AI-driven Code Completion, and More (David Watson)
 - Wasmer 5 Adds iOS Support (Alex Denham)
 - Modern Web App pattern for .NET | Azure Architecture Center (Microsoft Learn)
 - Introducing the New Blazor Smart Paste Button Component (Muthukumar Kannan)
 - WordPress 6.7 Brings New Power and Flexibility (Tanya Thibodeau)
 - Node v18.20.5 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
 - Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 9 (Dan Roth)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 GA and .NET MAUI Product Survey (David Ortinau)
 - .NET MAUI 9.0.0 Release on GitHub (Rui Marinho)
 - How to Integrate Search-as-You-Type into Your .NET MAUI DataGrid (Héctor Pérez)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET 9 – General Availability Release (James Montemagno)
 - .NET and C# Versions – 9/13 Update (Nietras)
 - Authentication and Authorization Enhancements in .NET 9.0 (Andrea Chiarelli)
 - How to Build a C# .NET Scheduler Windows App (Nitin Sharma)
 - Create Fillable PDF Forms in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
 - C# Language Support in ReSharper and Rider 2024.3 (Matthias Koch)
 - What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12 (Sy Brand)
 - Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.42 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 1 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
 - Cake v5.0.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
 - .NET 9 has been released and this is how you update (David Grace)
 - Remote Development in Rider 2024.3 (Sasha Ivanova)
 
AI
- Automate code commenting using VS Code and Ollama (Megan Lee)
 - How real-world businesses are transforming with AI (Alysa Taylor)
 - Blown Away (Mike Loukides)
 - Accelerating AI Development with the Docker AI Catalog (Michael Donovan)
 - Multi model support in Github Copilot (Bart Wullems)
 - Exploring how well Experience AI maps to UNESCO’s AI competency framework for students (Ben Garside)
 - Particle is a new app using AI to organize and summarize the news (David Pierce)
 - How AI is reshaping creativity: Insights from art, tech and policy (Manuel Sainsily)
 - Transforming Semantic Kernel Functions (Mark Wallace)
 - Hugging Face Launches SmolTools: Practical AI Apps Powered by SmolLM2 Model (Robert Krzaczyński)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why scrum is dumb (Nick Hodges)
 - November Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
 - What to Do When Scrum Collides with the Reality of Your Organization (Mike Cottmeyer)
 - What, me worry? Promotions and confidence (Eric Brechner)
 - Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments (Iaroslav Titov)
 - Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction (Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk & Kartik Sathyanarayanan)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- My First Step into Unit Testing in Flutter: Simple Explanations (Surajbhandari)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Rhia Dixon on Code Reviews (David Giard)
 - The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits | CPH DevFest 2024 (Brandon Minnick)
 - Welcome to .NET 9 – .NET Conf 2024 Keynote (.NET Team)
 - How Microsoft’s Copilot Team Rebuilt Their Backend with .NET & .NET Aspire (Pedram Rezaei)
 - Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Composite AI, with Hiromichi Kobashi (John Maeda)
 
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio #958 – SQL Server Management Studio with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell)
 - Productive C# Podcast – What’s the minimal foundation you need on C#? (Andrea Angella)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reviving Dysfunctional Teams with Trust and Collaboration | Mike Bowler (Vasco Duarte)
 
Community & Events
- Bluesky is seeing an exodus of unhappy X users following the election (Sarah Perez)
 - The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms (Sarah Jeong)
 - MVP Milestone Series: Celebrating MVPs Achieving their 15 Year Milestone (Christina Liang)
 - Upcoming Speaking Engagements as of 2024-11-12 and CfP List Updated 2024-11-12 (Dave Aronson)
 - 23andMe To Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce, Discontinue All Therapy Programs (BeauHD)
 - Attend Microsoft Ignite between November 19-21 from anywhere in the world and Partner Blog | Accelerating growth through partners in the era of AI (Jill Armour)
 - Why I’m Excited for .NET Conf 2024 (Harry Kimpel)
 - Know Before You Go: Security Copilot at Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Rod Trent)
 
Database
- Obfuscating data in SQL Server (Tim Deschryver)
 - A Little About Optimizer Timeouts In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
 - Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio 21 Preview 1 (Erin Stellato)
 - Elevate Your Skills with Azure Cosmos DB: Must-Attend Sessions at Ignite 2024 (Jay Gordon)
 - Calculate a Moving Average with T-SQL Windowing Functions (Jared Westover)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Copilot in Excel: Excel Chat Helper (Oryan Rokeah Chen)
 - Using the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (pri2agarwalz)
 
Miscellaneous
- VW and Rivian officially kick off $5.8 billion joint venture, announce leadership (Andrew J. Hawkins)
 - Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach (Troy Hunt)
 - Windows Holographic: Final Feature Release (lolaball)
 - Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? (Raymond Chen)
 - Paint.NET 5.1 is now available! (Rick Brewster)
 - Microsoft is killing off Windows 11’s Mail and Calendar apps by the end of the year (Tom Warren)
 - VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone (Umar Shakir)
 
More Link Collections
- Collective #880 (Manoela Ilic)
 - Daily Reading List – November 12, 2024 (#439) (Richard Seroter)
 
