Top Links* First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9 (Mads Kristensen) * Announcing Uno Platform Solution Template Wizard for JetBrains Rider (Uno Platform Team) * Announcing a new way to build technical skills: 30 Day Plans on Microsoft Learn (Phil Evans) * Easily Convert Your PDF to Images in C# (Vikas S.) * .NET Conf 2024 – Celebrating the Release of .NET 9! – Save the Date! (Mehul Harry) * Maddy Montaquila to Keynote at TechBash 2024 (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development* Kubernetes v1.31: Accelerating Cluster Performance with Consistent Reads from Cache (Marek Siarkowicz) * ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 7 (Rahul Bhandari & James Montemagno) * Blazor Basics: Blazor JavaScript Interop—Calling JavaScript from .NET (Claudio Bernasconi) * Deprecation of Password Logins on CLI with Docker SSO Enforcement (Francesco Corti) * Kubernetes-native Option for Pulumi Deployments Customer-Managed Agents (Meagan Cojocar) * blocking=render: Why would you do that?! (Harry Roberts) * Build better HTTP APIs (Derek Comartin) * “Smart” Layouts With Container Queries (Kevin Powell) * FHIR Security Labels and ABAC (John Moehrke) * Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail (Markus Wüstenberg)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Radar Chart to Visualize Wind Directions (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.) * Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.6.240807006-preview1 (NuGet)
Visual Studio & .NET 4 Simple Ways to Split Word Documents Using C# (Mohanaselvam Jothi) * Temporarily dropping a lock: The anti-lock pattern (Raymond Chen) * Rider 2024.2: Full Line Code Completion, Reader Mode, Major Enhancements to Debugging, and More. and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2024.2 Have Been Released! and* ReSharper 2024.2: Deepened C#12 and Initial C#13 Support, New AI Capabilities, Localization, and More (Sasha Ivanova) * TimeProvider and Autofixture AutoMoq Issue (Adam Storr) * C# updates in .NET 9 Preview 7 (Rahul Bhandari & James Montemagno)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* 30 Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned In 30 Years of Leading Teams (Dan Green) * How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale (Gaurav Sharma) * Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix (Mike Hanley) * Localizing GitHub Repositories with LLMs (Timothy Chung)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Build a text-based adventure game with Gemma 2 (Ju-yeong Ji) * Developers can soon offer in-app NFC transactions using the Secure Element (Apple Newsroom)
Screencasts & Videos* IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 222 – Selling Out (IoT Coffee Talk Crew) * The Future of VMware Is in Azure: Explore Azure VMware Solution – A faster path to the cloud (ITOpsTalk Crew) * Deployment Options for .NET Aspire Apps | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Maddy Montaquila & Brady Gaster) * .NET Aspire Dashboard & Telemetry | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Leslie Richardson) * How do SLMs differ from LLMs? | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts* InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends in 2024 (Mandy Gu, Namee Oberst, Srini Penchikala, Roland Meertens, Anthony Alford & Daniel Dominguez) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Crafting Culture, A Three-Step Approach to Agile Organizational Change | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte) * The Cloud Pod #271: AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn) * Crafting Code and Community: AI, LeetCode, and Meetups – JavaScript Jabber #644 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards) * Practical AI Podcast #282 – Only as good as the data (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack) * The Changelog #604 – Why we need Ladybird (Andreas Kling, Chris Wanstrath, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Community & Events* Thoughts Before Speaking at the Software Architecture Conference (Lukas Vileikis)
Database* A Little About Out Of Date Statistics In SQL Server (Erik Darling) * Download AWS RDS SQL Server Backup (Rajendra Gupta)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Improved sense of time to Copilot in Teams (Vesa Nopanen) * Updates on deprecating legacy Exchange Online tokens for Outlook add-ins (David Chesnut)
PowerShell PowerShell & Intune, Automate your Work – Part 4: Retrieve Win32 Superseding Apps and* Part 5: Check for Win32 App Relationships (Alex Marin)
Miscellaneous* X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (Adi Robertson) * Intel Sells $147 Million Stake In Arm (BeauHD)
More Link Collections* Daily Reading List – August 14, 2024 (#376) (Richard Seroter)
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