Top Links* Building a scalable gateway with .NET for Microsoft AI (Kara Saucerman) * Windows App SDK Version 1.5.2 (1.5.240404000) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn) * What are your favorite features in the C# Dev Kit? | One Dev Question (Leslie Richardson) * What’s New in the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET (Matt Soucoup) * Single, Short, Specific – Prompting GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion) * Deep Dive on LINQ with Stephen Toub | On .NET (Scott Hanselman)
Web & Cloud Development* Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes (Amit Dsouza, Frederick Kautz, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy & Natali Vlatko) * ASP.NET Core Basics: Getting Started with LINQ (Assis Zang) * DOCX to HTML: Convert Documents to HTML and Prepare for Shadow DOM Rendering (Bjoern Meyer) * WebStorm 2024.1.1 Is Now Available (David Watson) * Making 43% of the Web More Dynamic with the WordPress Interactivity API (Even Tobiesen) * Converting Plain Text To Encoded HTML With Vanilla JavaScript (Alexis Kypridemos) * Improving Code Quality in JavaScript Projects With Qodana (Maksim Grushchenko) * Top Linters for JavaScript and TypeScript: Simplifying Code Quality Management (Nipuni Arunodi) * Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web (Timmy Willison)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Stacked Area Chart to Visualize Wealth Distribution in the U.S. (Arul Jenith Berkmans) * DrawnUI for .NET MAUI – Skia Rendering Engine: Unleash Design Power with C# and XAML in .NET MAUI (Nick Kovalsky) * Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.5.240404000 Release (NuGet)
Visual Studio & .NET* Metalama 2024.1 Now Generally Available: Unified Visual Studio Extension, Overriding Constructors, and More (Gael Fraiteur) * Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn) * Visual Studio 2022 Getting VS Code ‘Command Palette’ Equivalent (David Ramel) * Baseline Styling in BenchmarkDotNet (Januarius Njoku) * C# String Interpolation Explained (NDepend Team) * The First Set of Bug Fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2024.1 Are Here! (Sasha Ivanova) * Serilog and .NET 8.0 minimal APIs (Nicholas Blumhardt) * Toolbox App 2.3: Toolbox App for Linux ARM 64, Chinese Translation, System Settings for Proxy, and More (Aleksandra Krupskaya) * Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 1 (Raymond Chen) * What’s New in .NET 8 for Developers? (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Applying Agile Techniques to AI: Lessons from Amazon Fresh (David Eastman) * Worry about Scalability or Popularity First? (Dave Aronson) * How We Built Slack AI To Be Secure and Private (Kelly Moran) * You can’t stop the signal! But you can ignore it! (Martin Hinshelwood) * Getting a Pulse on the Success of Your Security Program (Renae Kang)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Introducing Flutter Custom Carousel (Jared Bell) * Ionic 8 is here! (Liam DeBeasi) * Robot Etch A Sketch (Ashley Whittaker)
Screencasts & Videos* Build a Podcast Copilot with .NET and Power Apps: .NET APIs and Custom Connectors | The Low Code Revolution (Gomolemo Mohapi) * 3 quick steps to deploy Copilot for Microsoft 365 at scale (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts Working Code Podcast – Episode 172: Building Your Own Standard and* Working Code Podcast – Episode 174: When Good Software Goes Bad (Ben Nadel) * Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes v1.30 “Uwubernetes”, with Kat Cosgrove (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Under Pressure, Strategies for Effective Organizational Change | Tom Baldwin (Vasco Duarte) * Syntax Podcast Episode 757: Potluck: Is Gatsby Dead? Shadow Dom, AI Summaries, Self Hosting + More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * .NET Rocks! – Programming with Speech and AI with Karl Geitz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell) * The Changelog Podcast #587 – Leading and building Raycast (Interview) (Thomas Paul Mann & Adam Stacoviak) * Cloud Repatriation! A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley) * Jamstack Radio Episode #145 – The Future of Collaborative Docs with Cara Marin of Stashpad (Brian Douglas)
Database SQL Server–Export varbinary column to disk (Bart Wullems) * A Little About PAGEIOLATCH Waits In SQL Server and* Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Equality vs. Inequality Searches (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Microsoft Loop Adds New Filtering Capabilities to Tables and Boards (Rabia Noureen)
Miscellaneous* Surface delivers on simplified device repair (Katy Minahan)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3921 (Chris Alcock) * Daily Links 17 Apr 2024 (Malcolm Jack) * Daily Reading List – April 17, 2024 (#299) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link