Top Links* Get Hands-On with Visual Studio and Azure: Live at Microsoft HQ this August! (Jim Harrer) * WDK NuGet: A new way to develop drivers on Windows (Paul Eze) * Create a Free eSignature and Sign Documents (Lakshmi Priya Soundar Rajan) * .NET 9 Preview 6 is now available! (.NET Team) * Securely design your applications and protect your sensitive data with VBS enclaves (Harry Pulapaka, Hilal Asmat & Akash Trehan) * Making Visual Studio a bit more visual (Mads Kristensen)
Web & Cloud Development Custom model validation attributes in ASP.NET Core (Ali Hamza Ansari) * The Importance of Metadata in PDF Documents: Import and Export Metadata in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer) * Three Ways to Run Apache Kafka in the Public Cloud (Richard Seroter) * Forms in React 19 (Cory House) * WebStorm 2024.2 EAP Digest #3: Bun Debugger, Language Server Updates for Vue and Astro, and Prettier Integration by Default (David Watson) * Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set (Tom Johnson) * CSS Selectors (Geoff Graham) * Vue Basics: Exploring Vue’s Provide/Inject Pattern and* Creating Consistent Text Styling with the KendoReact Typography Component (Hassan Djirdeh) * Docker Best Practices: Choosing Between RUN, CMD, and ENTRYPOINT (Jay Schmidt) * ASP.NET8 using DataTables.net – Part3 – State saving (Mark Pelf) * Boost Your Diagram Clarity with Line Routing in Blazor (Suganthi Karuppannan) * Zoneless change detection in Angular 18 (Yan Sun) * Azure Fluid Relay: Leveraging Azure Blob Storage to scale Git (Zach Newton) * Introducing Learn Cloud: A VS Code Extension to simplify your First Deployment to the Cloud. (Julia Muiruri) * Netlify: Our Official Deployment Partner (Thuy Doan & Fred Schott) * Managing permissions with Graph Connectors (Matteo Pagani) * Caching HttpClient Requests (Ricardo Peres) * API Testing: Call the HTTP Police! (Gil Zilberfeld) * Wasp Launch Week #6: The Fun Side of Web Development (Matija Sosic) * Building Cloud Agnostic Applications with Radius and Dapr (Jonathan Smith)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Avalonia UI Object Lifecycle (Stefan Koell)
Visual Studio & .NET* Data Dimensionality Reduction Using a Neural Autoencoder with C# (James McCaffrey) * CSLA Version 9.0.0-R24070301 prerelease online (Rocky Lhotka) * Enable NuGet auditing for your .NET projects (Gérald Barré) * How To Use LINQ in C# – With Code Examples (Grant Riordan) * Introducing dotnet nuget why (Jaliya Udagedara) * Creating an already-completed asynchronous activity in C++/WinRT, part 5 (Raymond Chen) * ODP.NET 23.5 Now Available (Alex Keh) * Debug your .NET 8 code more efficiently (Bart Wullems) * NDepend: Elevating .NET Code Quality to New Heights (Peter Smulovics)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Speech-to-Text Using the AI Speech Service (David Giard) * How an AI Assistant Can Help Configure Your Project’s Git Hooks (Docker Labs Team) * Migrating Git from multirepo to monorepo without losing history (Simon Knott) * Use WebGPU + ONNX Runtime Web + Transformer.js to build RAG applications by Phi-3-mini (Kinfey Lo) * GitHub Actions Tutorial – Getting Started & Examples (Sumeet Ninawe) * Dependency Injection Design Pattern Explained (Anton Angelov) * How To Design Effective Conversational AI Experiences: A Comprehensive Guide (Yinjian Huang) * Beyond Imitation (Mike Taylor) * Microsoft CTO Says AI Progress Not Slowing Down, It’s Just Warming Up (msmash) * The end of trust? (Mark Seemann) * History and Future of LLMs (Exxact Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Easily Synchronize Multiple Charts in Your Flutter App Like a Pro (Lavanya Anaimuthu)
Screencasts & Videos* Boost Your XAML Productivity with These Tools – .NET MAUI 101 (Gerald Versluis) * Generative AI powered by your SQL data (Microsoft Mechanics) * Learn how to build Python Web Apps from our 6-part series! (Pamela Fox) * Overview and Patterns | Reliable Web App Pattern for Java (Rory Preddy) * PWABuilder from Start to Finish (Justin Willis)
Podcasts Merge Conflict #419: An Ideal Mobile Developer Setup on macOS (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * Unleashing Angular’s Potential with WebAssembly and Rust – Adventures in Angular #418 (Lucas Paganini) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Project Manager to Scrum Master, The Critical Agile Ideas we Need to Adopt | Stella Ihenacho and* Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Breaking the Blame Cycle in Agile Teams With Coaching and Customer Collaboration | Stella Ihenacho (Vasco Duarte) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 181 – Detection Engineering Deep Dive: From Career Paths to Scaling SOC Teams (Anton Chuvakin) * Syntax Podcast #795: Hosting Private Fonts on the Edge With Cloudflare (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * CloudChat Podcast Episode #9 – Knowing Your (Cloud) Tools (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez) * The PowerShell Podcast – Emrys MacInally Explores PowerShell Error Handling and Module Versioning Strategies (James Petty) * Meta Cast – Ego Management: Building Confidence Without Overstepping (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson) * The Changelog News Podcast – The six dumbest ideas in computer security (Jerod Santo) * The Amp Hour #673 – Lifelong Learning with Bitluni (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – The framework helping devs build LLM apps (Eira May) * Gone Mobile Podcast #113: What’s all the fuss about Drawn Controls? (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie) * The Happy Engineer Podcast #177: Why Recruiters Do Not Find Jobs for People | Career Transition Coaching (Max Ahumada) * Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 75: Trader Joe’s Store Recipe Contest Winner (Trader Joe’s Team)
Database* How to Choose Between Azure Cosmos DB for Table and Azure Table Storage (Chris Pietschmann) * Express a Number or Currency in Words with T-SQL Code (Sebastiao Pereira)
PowerShell* PowerShell Comments – A Comprehensive Guide to Creating and Using Comments (Bill Kindle)
Miscellaneous* Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1252 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski) * The ghost jobs haunting your career search (Eira May) * Browser Features: Find in Page (Eric Lawrence) * Appeals court halts return of net neutrality (Lauren Feiner) * Introducing Windows 11 checkpoint cumulative updates (Maliha Qureshi)
More Link Collections* The Morning Brew #3982 (Chris Alcock) * Interesting links of the week 2024-29 (Michael Eaton) * Sands of MAUI: Issue #151 (Sam Basu) * Daily Reading List – July 15, 2024 (#355) (Richard Seroter) * Reading Notes #612 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link