Top Links
- Visual Studio 2022 – Recent performance enhancements (Mads Kristensen)
- An AI companion for everyone (Microsoft)
- Announcing the stable release of the official OpenAI library for .NET (.NET Team)
- Using JSON Schema for Structured Output in .NET for OpenAI Models (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Dmytro Struk)
- New experiences coming to Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11 (Pavan Davuluri)
- Kickoff the 2025 Imagine Cup: Unleash Your Innovation Potential! (Lee Stott)
- Windows App SDK 1.6.1 (1.6.240923002) (Duncan MacMichael)
Web & Cloud Development
- Unbundling the JavaScript ecosystem (Eric Simons)
- How to Migrate from WP Engine to WordPress on App Service? (Abhishek Reddy)
- Learn ASP.NET Core MVC with .NET 9 (Beau Carnes)
- Docker Best Practices: Using Tags and Labels to Manage Docker Image Sprawl (Jay Schmidt)
- Multi Step Workflows with the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Announcing the General Availability of Pulumi’s AWS Cloud Control Provider (formerly AWS Native) (Matt Jeffryes)
- Integrating AI Analysis with Telerik PDF Viewer in ASP.NET Core (Peter Vogel)
- Introducing new features for the Threads API (Dil Ibrahim)
- Major updates to NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders (Andrew Lock)
- Connecting the TXWebSocketMiddleware to a Separate, External TCP Synchronization Service (Bjoern Meyer)
- Uploading Files and Sending data using HttpClient: A Simple Guide (Hariom Dubey)
- FHIR TL;DW: 9 Key Problems When Connecting to 400+ Servers (René Spronk)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 8 Supports Apple Xcode 16: How to Update (Vijay Anand E G)
- Windows App SDK Version 1.6.1 (1.6.240923002) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.6.240923002 Release (NuGet)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Avoiding Identity Obsession in .NET with Entity Framework Core (Peter Ritchie)
- Win32 App Isolation overview and Packaging a Win32 app isolation application with Visual Studio (Microsoft Learn)
- Implementing k-NN Classification Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- An Efficient Dictionary for IPAddress Tracking using .NET 9 with AlternateLookup and IAlternateEqualityComparer (Steve Gordon)
AI
- Can an AI Compose Music? (Charles Petzold)
- Introducing vision to the fine-tuning API and Introducing the Realtime API (OpenAI Team)
- An Introduction to Privacy and Safety for Gemini Nano (Terence Zhang & Adrien Couque)
- Semantic Kernel–Giving the new Ollama connector a try (Bart Wullems)
- The next step in Bing generative search (Bing Team)
- The Future of AI: Single Agent or Multi-Agent – How Should I Choose? (Marco Casalaina)
- Prompt AI Directly in the Editor (Valeria Letusheva)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Understanding Scope Creep: Causes and Prevention Strategies in Agile Sprints (Allison Bokone)
- Book Review: The Async-First Playbook (Kay Ewbank)
- One more tool in my productivity tool chest (Michael Eaton)
- Advanced Installer 22.1 (Advanced Installer Team)
- NIST Password Guidelines – The Nine Commandments (Sue Gee)
- TeamCity 2024.07.3 Bug Fix Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image (Eric van Wijk)
- Clean All The Tests! (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Working With Legacy Code (Quintus Flannagan)
- Enhancing TeamCity AWS Agents’ Performance (Iaroslav Molochkov)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Gemini Nano is now available on Android via experimental access (Taj Darra)
- Introducing the New Flutter Chat Widget (Vijayakumar Mariappan)
- It’s all hands OFF deck with this Pi-powered LEGO card shuffler (Rosie Hattersley)
- Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Jason Bock on C# Source Generators (David Giard)
- TypeScript Full Course – From Beginner to Advanced | Tech with Tim (Tim Ruscica)
- Transforming Blazor Applications into 2D Games with Blazorex | Open at Microsoft (Pablo Lopes & David Guida)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – AI Avatars, with Cenyu Zhang (John Maeda)
- Windows 11, version 24H2 | Security, experience, performance, and migration updates. | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- Enable Sudo on Windows 11 (ITOpsTalk Crew)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 566 (Jason Bock)
- EASIEST Way to Fine-Tune LLAMA-3.2 and Run it in Ollama (Prompt Engineering)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Generally AI – Season 2 – Episode 1: Generative AI and Creativity (Anthony Alford & Roland Meertens)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – KCP, with Marvin Beckers (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- PPP 437 | Future-Prepping Your Career in the Age of AI, with Dr. Nada Sanders (Andy Kaufman)
- AGL 384: Maximillian Naza (John Rouda)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – From game boards to boardrooms. Commas with participial phrases. Gritties. (Mignon Fogarty, Bonnie Mills & Samantha Enslen)
- RunAs Radio #952 – Data Security and Governance in M365 with Nikki Chapple (Richard Campbell)
- Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Keeping Open Source Software Secure with Eddie Zaneski (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Software Engineering Radio #636: Sriram Panyam on SaaS Control Planes (Brijesh Ammanath)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How A/B Testing Can Derail Product Development, A Product Leadership Story | Eli Goodman (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- CfP List Updated 2024-10-01 (Dave Aronson)
- Just One Week Away from Our Digital OneDrive Event! (Rob Nunez)
- Get ready for the 2025 Microsoft Imagine Cup: Let the innovation begin! (MS Student Developer Team)
- Celebrating Coolest Projects 2024, plus dates for 2025 (Vicky Fisher)
- Your Complete Guide to RockyFest 2024 in Philly This December (Visit Philly)
Database
- Announcing Private Preview: Read and Read/Write Privileges with Secondary Users for vCore-Based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
- What is Data Storytelling? Guide, Best Practices, and Examples (Rob Pugh)
- Mostly Some Updates To sp_QuickieStore, But Some Other Stuff Too! (Erik Darling)
- T-SQL Tuesday #179: What’s In Your Data Detective Toolkit? (Tim Mitchell)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Using TypeScript v5 in SharePoint Framework Projects and SharePoint Framework v1.20 – What’s in the Latest Release (Andrew Connell)
- Microsoft Office 2024 is now available for Macs and PCs (Tom Warren)
Miscellaneous
- Windows 11, version 24H2: What’s new for IT pros (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- Trump lies, sows division, and wastes recovery resources as Americans suffer (Jason Weisberger)
- How to get new experiences for Windows 11 (John Cable)
- Markdown-Powered Slides in JetBrains IDEs (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Adobe Announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2025 (Paul Thurrott)
- Capture Circular ProcMon Logs for an intermittent issue (Pradeep Sharma)
- Misunderstanding the “Prevent access to registry editing tools” policy (Raymond Chen)
- Windows 11, version 24H2 security baseline (Rick Munck)
More Link Collections
- Collective #868 (Manoela Ilic)
- Daily Reading List – October 1, 2024 (#409) (Richard Seroter)
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