Top Links* Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in VS Code for C++ Developers (Erika Sweet) * What’s New in React 19? (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy) * New Breakpoint S4: Episode 1 – Fireside chat with Scott Hunter on .NET Aspire (Michelle Sandford) * Building a Graph Connector with the TypeScript project generator (Matteo Pagani) * Where to see Text Control in the Second Half of 2024? (Bjoern Meyer) * Add AI to Your .NET Apps Easily with Prompty (Bruno Capuano)
Web & Cloud Development* aspireify.NET (aspireify Team) * How to Create an Employee Directory with the React MultiColumn ComboBox [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris) * XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2) (Dennis Garavsky) * Alvaro Montoro: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project (Geoff Graham) * Vue Basics: Intro to Vue.js Watchers (Marina Mosti) * What’s New for JavaScript Developers in ECMAScript 2024 (Mary Branscombe) * Overriding MSAL’s HttpClient with IHttpClientFactory (Anthony Simmon)
Visual Studio & .NET* Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.11 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn) * Visual Studio Uses RUBICON to Improve AI Conversations (David Ramel) * Organizing the five creation dispositions of the CreateFile function (Raymond Chen) * Work around the WebView2 NavigateToString() 2mb Size Limit (Rick Strahl) * Using Dev Containers in JetBrains IDEs – Part 1 (Yuri Trukhin) * Beyond Boundaries – Networking Programming with C# 12 and .NET 8 Book Home (Chris Woodruff)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Playwright adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives (Antonello Zanini) * Exploring the Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Service (Freist Li) * Making UX Research Insights and Frameworks Beautiful (Michael O’Sullivan) * 3 ways to get Remote Code Execution in Kafka UI (Michael Stepankin) * Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator (Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang & Anjali Norwood) * AI Coding: Human Engineers Are More Important Than Ever (Zachary Proser)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Raspberry Pi but it’s a TRS-80 (Rob Beschizza)
Screencasts & Videos* Generative AI with Microsoft Fabric (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts* Merge Conflict #420: Life, VS Code, All The TOPS, and .NET 9 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * Angular Projects with Zama Khan Mohammed – Adventures in Angular #419 (Brian Love & Aaron Frost) * The PowerShell Podcast – Interactive Shell Sessions and Language Models: Steven Bucher on Project Mercury (James Petty) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to Speedup Agile Team Deliveries With Better Story Splitting | Kevin Hoey (Vasco Duarte) * The Boagworld Web Show Returns in August (Paul Boag) * Syntax Podcast #798: Self Hosting: Reverse Proxy Servers (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * The Changelog News Podcast #104 – Windows 3.1 keeps Southwest flying high (Jerod Santo) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #182 – ITDR: The Missing Piece in Your Security Puzzle or Yet Another Tool to Buy? (Anton Chuvakin) * Meta Cast – How Every Employee Can Shape Leadership and Influence Change (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – The problem with the tech debt mindset (Eira May) * Gone Mobile Podcast #114: What does your Backend look like? (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie) * Talk Python to Me #471: Learning and teaching Pandas (Michael Kennedy) * Grammar Girl Podcast – A brief history of English (aka when they spoke French in England). Killer death meat. (Mignon Fogarty)
Community & Events* CfP List Updated 2024-07-22 (Dave Aronson) * The Updated Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Program: Beyond the Classroom (David Attamah)
Database* Announcing v7.0 Support on vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Sudhanshu Vishodia) * Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB (Meagan Longoria)
PowerShell* Stop a script when an error occurs in PowerShell (Gérald Barré) * About Microsoft’s Crowdstrike recovery tool (Emin Atac)
Miscellaneous* My iPad runs Windows XP now, and it’s all I ever wanted (Wes Davis) * Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3936 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski) * Protecting users and reaffirming our commitment to combatting cyber mercenaries (Amy Hogan-Burney) * Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers (Dumebi Okolo) * Surely Microsoft Isn’t Blaming EU for Its Problems? (Om Malik)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3987 (Chris Alcock) * Interesting links of the week 2024-30 (Michael Eaton) * Sands of MAUI: Issue #152 (Sam Basu) * Daily Reading List – July 22, 2024 (#360) (Richard Seroter) * Reading Notes #613 (Frank Boucher)
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