Top Links* Dive into native Windows development with new WinUI workload and template improvements (Duncan MacMichael) * All the Lists in .NET MAUI (David Ortinau) * How to use the Tasks View in JetBrains Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh) * Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.82.0 and it’s chock-full of massive changes (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson) * The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman (Raymond Chen) * Windows App SDK Version 1.6 Experimental (1.6.0-experimental2) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development* HTML Range Inputs with ASP.NET Core TagHelpers (Khalid Abuhakmeh) * Blazor Basics: Accessing Browser Storage in Blazor Web Applications (Claudio Bernasconi) * The React useDebugValue Hook (Hassan Djirdeh) * WebAssembly vs JavaScript: A Comparison (Kaan Güner) * React vs. Angular: The Ultimate Frontend Showdown (Paul Ofili) * Fast and compliant routing in Azure Fluid Relay (Pradeep Vairamani) * Inside today’s Azure AI cloud data centers (Simon Bisson) * Announcing the end of support for Node.js 16.x in the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) (Trivikram Kamat) * The Anatomy of .NET Aspire Application (Fiordar Sazanavets) * Node v22.4.0 (Current) (Michael Zasso) * Elevating BFF Apps with .NET Aspire (Andreas Helland) * Is GraphQL Over or Do We Just Need to Rethink It? (David A. Ventimiglia)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Easily Export .NET MAUI DataGrid to Specific PDF Page (Jayaleshwari N.)
Visual Studio & .NET* Visual Studio – FastUpToDate warning (Bart Wullems) * A Quick Introduction to Cosmos DB in C# (j2inet) * JetBrains Toolbox App 2.4 Gets a Refreshed UI Theme, Right-Click Context Menu, and Other Updates. (Aleksandra Krupskaya) * Exploring the generated code: the spread element: Behind the scenes of collection expressions – Part 4 (Andrew Lock) * Enterprise Architecture with .NET [Book Presentation] (NDepend Team)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Arc42 Documentation, for a comprehensive description of your project (Davide Bellone) * How to Implement Platform Engineering (Flavius Dinu) * Strategy Design Pattern Explained (Anton Angelov) * GraphRAG: New tool for complex data discovery now on GitHub (Brenda Potts) * Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design (Jay Peters) * Poor Documentation Is Costly: Here’s How to Fix It (Knut Sveidqvist) * Fine-Tune and Integrate Custom Phi-3 Models with Prompt Flow: Step-by-Step Guide (Minseok Song) * 6 Ways to Make Your Managers More Effective (Gaurav Sharma) * 4 Ways to Beat Procrastination (Michael Eaton) * The future of financial services: AI and Microsoft Copilot (Ryan Blakely)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Get started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico with our latest book (Brian Jepson) * How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Android Projects (Olga Bedrina) * Apple’s Vision Pro: five months later (David Pierce) * Atari 400 Mini minier than expected (Rob Beschizza)
Screencasts & Videos* Take Pictures in Your App with CameraView for .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis) * Real World Apps with Blazor and .NET Aspire | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Eduardo Fonseca) * Build Web Sites for fun (Jeff Fritz)
Podcasts* The Work Item #81 – Making A Career Out Of A Hobby – Kirupa Chinnathambi (Product Manager – Google) (Den Delimarsky) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to Foster Long-lasting Change for Agile Teams Without Micromanagement | Milica Lubinic (Vasco Duarte) * Maintaining and Curating Resources for Optimal DevOps Practices – Adventures in DevOps #206 (Will Button & Warren Parad) * PPP 421 | A Leader’s Guide to More and Better Sleep, with sleep specialist Dr. Bijoy John (Andy Kaufman) * RunAs Radio #939 – NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam (Richard Campbell) * Practical AI Podcast #276 – Stanford’s AI Index Report 2024 (Nestor Maslej & Daniel Whitenack) * Directions on Microsoft – Onboarding AI With ROI: A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley) * Only Malware in the Building Podcast – Operation Endgame: The ultimate troll patrol. (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard) * The Happy Engineer Podcast #175: Do You Make These 3 Mistakes in Mentorship? (Max Ahumada) * Python Bytes Podcast #390 – Coding in a Castle (Michael Kennedy) * Software Engineering Radio #623: Michael J. Freedman on TimescaleDB (Gavin Henry)
Community & Events CfP List Updated 2024-07-02 (Dave Aronson) * Mastodon rolls out built-in bylines for journalists in the fediverse and* Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board (Emma Roth) * Celebrating 2024 Partner of the Year Awards Social Impact Category Winners (Gena Goh)
Database* A Little About Sort Spills And IO_COMPLETION waits In SQL Server (Erik Darling) * Export Azure SQL DB to Storage (Josephine Bush) * Now use role-based access control in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer (Meredith Moore)
PowerShell* PowerShell Universal v5.0 Portal Pages and Widgets (Adam Driscoll)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3973 (Chris Alcock) * Radar Trends to Watch: July 2024 (Mike Loukides)
The Geek Shelf The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI (Pieter Nijs) – Referral Link