Top Links* Add some Swagger to your Windows and Uno Platform application using Kiota and OpenAPI (Nick Randolph) * Previewing for accessing Phone Link features from the Start menu with Windows Insiders (Windows Insider Program & Phone Link Teams) * A Conversation with PowerToys Experts Clint Rutkas and Ethan Fang (Lewis Menelaws) * Try out SLMs with Ollama in GitHub Codespaces (Pamela Fox) * Getting Started with UniformItemsLayout from the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit (Leomaris Reyes) * Primary constructors – class vs record (Mark Downie)
Web & Cloud Development How to automatically setup pgAdmin with a Docker database (Oskar Dudycz) * What is a Kubernetes Workload? Resource Types & Use Cases (Jack Roper) * Color Palette Utility In Apline.js and* Exploring Randomness In JavaScript (Ben Nadel) * How to Sign Signature Fields with Custom Signer Information and Time Stamps in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer) * Testing in Angular (Dany Paredes) * WebStorm 2024.1.5 Is Now Available (David Watson) * Svelte Libraries to Help You Build Amazing Web Interfaces (Olga Tashlikovich) * Headless UI v2.1: Simplified transition API and improved multi-dialog support (Jonathan Reinink) * Building an election website (Jon Skeet)
Visual Studio & .NET* Read-Only Entities in EF Core (Ricardo Peres) * Proxy Design Pattern in C# (Ahsan Ullah) * What You Need To Know About EF Core Bulk Updates (Milan Jovanović) * The Windows Runtime winrt::hstring and the C++ std::wstring are inter-assignable (Raymond Chen) * The Final Windows Handle Leak Guide (Alois Kraus) * How to Generate Large Datasets in .NET for Excel With OpenXML (Artem Rudiakov) * Support Corner: Protecting Self-Contained and Single-File .NET Projects (Ben Nettleton) * String Performance: Improving String Formatting Performance by a Factor of 1.5 or More! (David McCarter) * Add Stripe to your .NET project to accept online payments (David Grace)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing Semantic Kernel–Change timeout value in C# (Bart Wullems) * 12 advanced ChatGPT prompts that will make you better than 99% of ChatGPT Users (Rabeya Bosri) * Unit Testing vs Integration Testing: What is Best for You (Amr Essam) * Busting common leadership myths, part 1: You definitely don’t need this to lead (Michael Eaton) * Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month (Emma Roth) * Modeling Navigation Properties Between Aggregates or Modules (Steve Smith) * How to Write an Effective Test Strategy (Amy Reichert) * Exploring Generative AI: A Hands-on Course on Prompt Engineering for non-tech students – Part 2 (Carlotta Caste) * Introduction to Building AI Agents with Microsoft Semantic Kernel and* Introduction to Building AI Agents with LangChain and Python (Chris Pietschmann) * Semantic Kernel: Working with Inline Prompt Functions (Jamie Maguire)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* The first iPhone game streaming service brings hundreds of licensed retro games (Andrew Liszewski) * MX Ink – MR Stylus for Meta Quest (Logitech) * What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 18 (Paul Hudson)
Screencasts & Videos* Tech News #39 | Adam Cogan | GitHub Copilot Extensions (SSW TV) * Microsoft options for VMware migration (ITOpsTalk Crew) * Advent of Code 2023 Day 24: Never Tell Me The Odds (Martin Zikmund) * What aspects of your job bring you joy? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Podcasts* Merge Conflict #416: Going Light + How Spatial Video Really Works (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * The Cloud Pod #264: AWS Audit Manager: Because even AI needs a Babysitter! (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn) * Docker and Container Optimization: Strategies for Efficient DevOps – Adventures in DevOps #205 (Will Button & Warren Parad) * Syntax Podcast #785: What’s Next for NextJS with Tim Neutkens (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * Coding Blocks Podcast – Alternatives to Administering and Running Apache Kafka (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack) * Changelog & Friends Podcast #49 – Where DOESN’T curl run (Daniel Stenberg, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak) * AWS Developers Podcast – CloudFront hosting toolkit (Sébastien Stormacq) * AGL 370: Powerful Phrases (John Rouda)
Community & Events* Join us in July for Securing AI Apps on Azure! (Pamela Fox) * OpenAI’s first acquisition is an enterprise data startup (Jay Peters) * 30 Years of FreeDOS (msmash) * 4 Women in Tech on What Engineering Leaders Need to Hear (Zion Samuel) * FREE Live AI Training + AI courses from Nvidia (Gina Acosta Gutiérrez)
Database* Standardize Text with Multi Search and Replace Function in SQL Server and Executing a TSQL batch multiple times using GO (Greg Robidoux) * Efficiently Finding Aggregate Values In SQL Server: Row Mode vs Batch Mode vs Indexes! (Erik Darling) * SQL Server Parallel Index Builds (Paul White) * Majoring in the Minors in SQL Server Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous* Announcing Files v3.5 (Files Team) * Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3790 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski) * The new and improved Windows PCs are finally here (David Pierce)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3966 (Chris Alcock) * C# Digest – How to Use C# to Follow OAuth Authentication Flows (Jakub Chodounsky) * F# Weekly #24, 2024 – Adding #help to fsi (Sergey Tihon) * Reading List 321 (Bruce Lawson) * Daily Links 17 Jun 2024 (Malcolm Jack)
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