Top Links
- Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023) (Jason Chlus)
- Microsoft and Mistral AI announce new partnership to accelerate AI innovation and introduce Mistral Large first on Azure (Kristin Gallagher)
- On .NET Live Topic – Building great WinUI 3 apps with WinUIEx (Morten Nielsen)
- From IoT to the Cloud: A .NET Ecosystem Showcase with GitHub, Raspberry Pi, and Azure (Jeff Fritz)
- Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation and competition in the new AI economy (Brad Smith)
- Parallel.ForEachAsync and Exceptions (Jeremy Clark)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using the Document Editor in an ASP.NET Core React Application (Bjoern Meyer)
- Vue 3.4 Released, Minimizes Reactive Computations, Speeds up Template Parsing (Bruno Couriol)
- Fetching and Sharing Data Between Components with Blazor’s Auto Render Mode (Jon Hilton)
- Advanced CSS Selectors – How and When to Use Them (Ophy Boamah)
- Blazor — Accessibility Enhancements and Options (Svetlana Nikulina)
- The FAST and the Fluent: A Blazor story (Vincent Baaij)
- A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit (Yichan Wang)
- GraphQL interview questions (Melinda Gutermuth)
- “Secret” elmah.io features #2 – Correlate messages from apps (Thomas Ardal)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Tip: IFormattable interface, to define different string formats for the same object (Davide Bellone)
- EF Core – Cannot convert from ‘string’ to ‘System.FormattableString’ (Bart Wullems)
- Reflection in C#: 4 Code Simple But Powerful Code Examples (Nick Cosentino)
- A C# LINQ one-liner to check if exactly one of a set of conditions is met (Raymond Chen)
- Lock statement patterns (Steven Giesel)
- LINQ Query Features With .NET 9 Alpha (Bora Kaşmer)
- First .NET 9 Preview Emphasizes Cloud-Native Development, AI Apps (David Ramel)
- Creating Intelligent Apps on App Service with .NET (Jeff Martinez)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Unit Test, API Test, Web Test: “The Best Test” Recording (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Devops: Supercharging your mobile app CI/CD Pipeline with Bitbucket & Expo Application Services (Joe Meyer)
- Microsoft Copilot for Security: The great equalizer for government security (Alvaro Vitta)
- Reading Righting Software (Kevin Logan)
- Advanced Installer 21.5 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Software Architecture, In Practice (Ted Neward)
- Remote Work/Life Balance and Productivity (Dave Aronson)
- How to Learn Generative AI with Microsoft’s Free Course (Lee Stott)
- Baseline OpenAI end-to-end Chat Reference Architecture (Robert Krzaczyński)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New goodies from Android, Wearables at Mobile World Congress + tune in to a new episode of #TheAndroidShow next week! (Anirudh Dewani)
- A note on iOS 17.4 and PWAs (Mike Hartington)
- Wear OS hybrid interface: Boosting power and performance (Kseniia Shumelchyk)
Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Developers should be using dotnet-outdated to update their project’s references (Scott Hanselman)
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Spacing in StackPanel (Martin Zikmund)
- Optimizing Teamwork: Harnessing Collections & Workspaces for Collaboration | Postman Intergalactic (Postman Team)
- Fluent UI Trainings: Core concepts, state management & Triggers API (Oleksandr Fediashov)
- Microsoft JDConf 2024: Java, Cloud, and AI – Sneak Peek (Microsoft Developer Team)
- Armchair Architects: The Danger Zone (Part 2) (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- Microsoft Copilot personal and work experiences explained (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts
- Revision Path – Mike Nicholls (Maurice Cherry)
- React Native Radio 289 – Real Life React Native: David Leuliette Talks Retail Shake Scanner (David Leuliette & Mazen Chami)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Using NoEstimates to Help Agile Teams Focus On Value, And Create Transparency – NoEstimates Unplugged Week | Lee Beckett (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell Podcast – From Admin to Defender: Jake Hildreth’s Security Evolution (James Petty)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 161 – Cloud Compliance: A Lawyer – Turned Technologist! – Perspective on Navigating the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Unlocking Leadership Strength Through Vulnerability (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- The Changelog News Podcast #83 – Natural Language Programming (Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How to convince your CEO it’s worth paying down tech debt (Eira May)
Community & Events
- Octopus Deploy acquires Codefresh (Paul Stovell)
- Expedia Group cutbacks will impact 1,500 roles this year, more than 8% of workforce (Todd Bishop)
- Building a Developer Community in Five Steps (Keith Casey)
Database
- SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc, now assists in selecting the best Azure SQL target (Venkata Raj Pochiraju)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Word JavaScript API 1.7 requirement set now available (Yun Wang)
- Improved hybrid meeting experience in Outlook (Giovanni Basso)
Miscellaneous
- Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year (Andrew Cunningham)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3212 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3890 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2024-9 (Michael Eaton)
- Reading Notes #592 (Frank Boucher)
- Daily Reading List – February 26, 2024 (#266) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)