Top Links* See new possibilities in technology with Official Collections on Microsoft Learn (Kaberi Bell) * The Download: Clippy Sweaters, ChatGPT Mania, Advent of Code and more (Christina Warren) * Pointer gesture recognizer in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes) * 11 Ways of Making Your C# Harder to Use (Brendan Enrick) * Private Preview for App Store Connect API support (Jihye Eom)

Web & Cloud Development* How to set the ASP.NET Version for a Website or Application (Renato Ivanescu) * Kubernetes v1.26: Electrifying (Kubernetes Release Team) * Azure App Configuration, Key Vault and Managed Identity Implementation (Kevin Logan) * Kubernetes 1.26: We’re now signing our binary release artifacts! (Sascha Grunert) * Install and run Kubernetes on Windows Server (Thomas Maurer) * Angular Basics: How To Best Use Fonts in Angular? (Vyom Srivastava) * LibreTranslate – Free and Open Source Machine Translation API (Piero Toffanin) * ECMAScript proposal: iterator helpers (Axel Rauschmayer) * A simple stack for today’s web hacks (Evan Martin) * Getting Started with Developer Containers (Joseph Guadagno) * Microsoft Edge and Webview2 ending support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 (Microsoft Edge Team) * Building Microservices With WebAssembly and Fermyon Spin (Thorsten Hans)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Maui.Markup v2.1.0: Source Generator + VisualElement Updates! (Gerald Versluis)

Visual Studio & .NET* Delete a record without prior loading in Entity Framework (Steven Giesel) * PriorityQueues on .NET 7 and C# 11 (Davide Bellone) * Visual Studio Code File List Sort Order (Joseph Guadagno) * Karvonen Heart Rate using C# and Spectre.Console (Michael Eaton) * Creating Multi-Tier Subscriptions using C# (Jonathan Danylko) * Fun with C# and Bingo (Eric King) * Text Classification in C# Using ML.NET 2.0 (Matt Eland) * Getting started with built-in container support in .NET 7 (Markus Lippert) * How To Structure Your .NET Solutions: Architecture And Trade-Offs (James Hickey) * How can I do the opposite of compare_exchange and exchange if the value is different? (Raymond Chen) * Instrumenting .NET Apps with OpenTelemetry (Thorsten Hans)

Design, Methodology & Testing 3 Futures to Choose From (J.D. Meier) * What are the Pros and Cons of using VBScript in MSI packaging? (Alex Marin) * How to use Figma Auto Layout? and* The Definitive Guide to Figma Components (Shirish Shikhrakar) * Can the Kindle Scribe replace the yellow notepad? Notes on taking notes with Amazon’s new device (Todd Bishop)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Android 13 for TV is now available (Wolfram Klein) * Tips from Android Dev Summit 2022: How to scale made-for-mobile apps to ChromeOS (Patrick Fuentes) * Compose for Wear OS 1.1 is now stable: check out new features! (Kseniia Shumelchyk) * Per-App Language Preferences – Part 2 (Neelansh Sahai) * 8 new features to support game backend development (Danny Chalet)

Screencasts & Videos* Visual Search Toolkit with Azure AI | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez & Serge Retkowsky) * Technology & Friends – Beth Humphreys on Technical Leadership (David Giard) * FreeCodeSession – Episode 420 (Jason Bock) * Bringing app development to one compact device with Windows Dev Kit 2023 (Project Volterra) (Microsoft Developer) * Observability for APIs | Postman Intergalactic (Postman Team) * The future of App modernization with Richard Campbell and Ulysses Maclaren (SSW TV)

Podcasts InfoQ Podcast: The InfoQ Podcast: .NET Trends Report 2022 (Irina Scurtu & François Tanguay) * Revision Path – Lawrence Humphrey (Maurice Cherry) * Merge Conflict 336: ChatGPT (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * JS Party Podcast – Learning CSS in 2023 (Kevin Powell & Kevin Ball) * React Native Radio 253 – We React to News: Kotlin’s got a new daddy (Robin Heinze & Mazen Chami) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Product Ownership perfect storm, and how to solve it with the help of the Scrum team | Jill Stott (Vasco Duarte) * Yet Another Podcast – Mark Price on C# 11 and* Yet Another Podcast – Bill Wagner on C# 11 – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty) * The Changelog – Coming home to GitHub (Christina Warren, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo) * AGL 290: Faisal Hoque (John Rouda) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – The next step in ecommerce? Replatform with APIs and micro frontends (Ryan Donovan) * The .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 116: .NET Conf Recap (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)

Community & Events* Lynn Langit: Turning a passion for learning into online courses viewed by millions (Kevin Hernandez) * Release Radar · October 2022 Edition (Michelle Mannering) * The Future of Foundation (Swift.org) * Where to Celebrate Hanukkah in Greater Philadelphia in 2022 (Visit Philly)

Database* Released: SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django v1.2 (David Engel) * Intermittent ANONYMOUS LOGON of SQL Server linked server double hop (Ling Duan) * Backing up MySQL Part 8: Zmanda Backups for MySQL & Other Backup Tools (Lukas Vileikis) * Using sp_prepare and sp_execute to utilize prepared SQL statements (Eric Blinn)

Miscellaneous* Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25262 (Brandon LeBlanc) * Source Code for Adobe’s PostScript Publicly Released (EditorDavid) * 12 Days of Bluetooth – #4 Serial Port Profile (Peter Freeman Foot) * paint.net 5.0 beta (build 8378) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3605 (Chris Alcock) * F# Weekly #49, 2022 – Rider 2022.3, F# AoC board, FSSF election (Sergey Tihon) * Code Maze Weekly #151 (Vladimir Pecanac) * C# Digest Issue #434 – December 12, 2022 (Jakub Chodounsky) * The Overflow #155: Continuous security (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)

The Geek Shelf Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link