Top Links* Copilot Content Exclusion Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 (Rhea Patel) * Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – August 2024 (Junjie Li) * GitHub scales on demand with Azure Functions (Scott Hunter) * Dapr v1.14 is now available (Dapr Team) * What is Advanced Paste? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen) * .NET 9 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)

Web & Cloud Development* Astro 4.14 (Matt Kane & Erika) * Extending Microsoft Copilot for Security Capabilities with Azure Function Apps (cbelwal) * How to Create A Color Picker Tool Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Fanny Nyayic) * Vue Basics: How to Use Vue with Firebase (Hassan Djirdeh) * Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in (Naj Shahid & Bill DeForeest) * Preview 1 of AWS SDK for .NET V4 (Norm Johanson) * How are the colspan and rowspan attributes different? (Geoff Graham)

Visual Studio & .NET* Artificial Immune Systems for Intrusion Detection Using C# (James McCaffrey) * The 2024.2 Versions of JetBrains IDEs Are Here With Enhanced FLCC and Remote Development, the New UI as the Default, and More (Aleksandra Krupskaya) * Instead of putting a hash in the Portable Executable timestamp field, why not create a separate field for the hash? (Raymond Chen) * Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) using TX Text Control in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing* Onboarding to a “legacy” codebase with the help of AI (Martin Fowler) * Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) (Cameron R. Wolfe) * How To Defend Your Design Process (Vitaly Friedman) * OpenAI’s new voice mode threw me into the uncanny valley (Kylie Robison) * How to level up your Git game with GitHub CLI (Michelle Duke) * Did a Chatbot just improve me? (Robin Osborne) * Customer Case Study: Orion Innovation’s usage of Kernel Arguments (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Android 15 Beta 4 Now Available for Developers to Bring their Apps Up to Date (Sergio De Simone)

Screencasts & Videos* Reducing Bugs with Raygun, .NET Aspire, and Local AI | .NET Aspire Dev Conference (John-Daniel Trask) * Native Windows principals for SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts* The Hanselminutes Podcast – GitOps on the Edge with Octopus Deploy’s Dan Garfield (Scott Hanselman) * Azure Podcast Episode 502 – Azure Open AI and Security (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello) * Manipulating Language Models for Real-World Applications in DevOps – Adventures in DevOps #211 (Wil Button & Warren Parad) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Creating Self-Organizing Agile Teams, Tips for Scrum Masters | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte) * JS Party Podcast #334 – Forging Minecraft’s scripting API (Raphael Landaverde, Jake Shirley & Jerod Santo) * PPP 430 | How to Talk With a Stakeholder (or That Relative) You Don’t Agree With–Without Starting a Fight, with Steven T. Collis (Andy Kaufman) * .NET Rocks! – Low-Code Solutions for .NET Developers with Serge Sarafudinov (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell) * Directions on Microsoft – Stuck in a VMware Squeeze? You’ve Got Microsoft Options (Mary Jo Foley)

Community & Events* Cisco Slashes Thousands of Workers As It Announces Yearly Profit of $10.3 Billion (BeauHD) * At the Rise25 Awards, the future of AI is ethical, inclusive and accountable (Kristina Bravo) * GeekWire 200: Latest update highlights hottest tech startups across Seattle and Pacific Northwest (Taylor Soper)

Database* Five Reasons Why Your SQL Server Is Slow Right Now (Erik Darling) * Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model (CockroachDB Team)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* M365 Developers Update | August 2024 Edition (Justin Royal)

PowerShell* Unlock inline PowerShell capabilities to streamline Logic Apps workflows (Parth Shah)

Miscellaneous* Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)

More Link Collections* Daily Reading List – August 15, 2024 (#377) (Richard Seroter)

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