Top Links Debugging T-SQL using Visual Studio (Erin Stellato) * Developing Modern WinForms Applications | VSLive @ Microsoft HQ 2024 (Merrie McGaw & Klaus Loeffelman) * Faster Dictionary in C# (NDepend Team) * How PowerToys Decides What To Build and* The PowerToys Team Is A Fireteam (Den Delimarsky) * Evaluate Fine-tuned Phi-3 / 3.5 Models in Azure AI Studio Focusing on Microsoft’s Responsible AI (Minseok Song) * What’s your favorite performance testing story? | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
Web & Cloud Development Adding a Comment System Part 2 – Saving Comments and* Seq for ASP.NET Logging – Tracing with SerilogTracing (Scott Galloway) * What’s new in Astro – August 2024 (Sarah Rainsberger) * What’s new in Svelte: September 2024 (Dani Sandoval) * Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres) * Implement ASP.NET Core OpenID Connect OAuth PAR client with Keycloak using .NET Aspire (Damien Bowden) * StringValues in ASP.NET Core (Karthikeyan N S) * Deploy a container to Azure App Services Using a system-assigned Identity (Tore Nestenius) * VS Code Fork ‘Cursor’ – the ChatGPT of Coding? (EditorDavid) * The Digital API Supply Chain (Kin Lane) * eShopSupport Series: DataGenerator Project (Jason Haley) * How to test HttpClient inside API Tests (Steven Giesel) * HotChocolate 13 – Schema comparison (Bart Wullems) * Using the Document Editor in SPA Applications using the removeFromDom Method (Bjoern Meyer) * Dive into ARM template from a Function App (Ringe Chen)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML* .NET MAUI 9 Preview 7: Introduction of HybridWebView and Other Improvements (Almir Vuk) * Sneak Peek at 2024 Volume 3: .NET MAUI (Paul Anderson)
Visual Studio & .NET The Definitive Guide to C# .NET Subreports in Your Web and Desktop Apps (Alec Gall) * The Complete Guide to 80+ C# .NET Chart Types (Greg Lutz) * Easily Create PDF Tables with Advanced Customization in C# (Chinnu Muniyappan) * Connect a WinForms Data Grid to an Arbitrary ASP.NET Core WebAPI Service Powered by EF Core (Oliver Sturm) * Broadcasting Messages with Apache Kafka and .NET (Bryan Hogan) * Metalama Status Update, July-August 2024 (Gael Fraiteur) * Keeping cross-cutting concerns out of application code (Mark Seemann) * Introduction to Event Sourcing for .NET Developers (Milan Jovanović) * Announcing the Proxy 3 Library for Dynamic Polymorphism (Mingxin Wang) * In the Windows kernel, what is a LUID, and what makes it loo-ey? and* The CoInitializeSecurity function demands an absolute security descriptor (Raymond Chen)
AI* Bring Your Organizational Data to Azure AI Services with Microsoft Graph (Ravi Sharma) * Introducing Azure AI Inference Connector for Azure AI Studio Models (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey) * Easily deploy an Azure Open AI instance with Documents (Werner Rall) * Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained (Duen Horng Chau) * Claude Engineer Amplifies Your Code (Nikos Vaggalis) * Tech Worker Builds Free AI-Powered Tool For Fighting US Health Insurance Denials (EditorDavid) * AI Studio End-to-End Baseline Reference Implementation (Freddy Ayala) * Semantic Kernel: Implementing 100% Local RAG Using Phi-3 With Local Embeddings (Jamie Maguire) * What is the Vision, Value, Velocity AI Framework? (JD Meier) * Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development (Robert Krzaczyński) * What’s New in Copilot | August 2024 (Seth Patton)
Design, Methodology & Testing Unit Testing Umami.Net – Testing UmamiClient and Unit Testing Umami.Net – Testing UmamiBackgroundSender (Scott Galloway) * Operational limits when using Azure DevOps (Bart Wullems) * What I use for interacting with Git and* Time is a Flat Circle (Jeremy D. Miller) * Streamlined CICD for Azure Infrastructure with Bicep (Danidu Weerasinghe) * My Architecture Drivers (Oskar Dudycz) * One Company Rethinks Diff to Cut Code Review Times (David Cassel) * Surviving and Thriving in Tech: Timeless Advice from Three Decades in Software Engineering (David McCarter) * The Problem With Sprinting (George Stocker) * Engineering with Empathy: My Journey to Understanding the User Experience (Kaili Liang) * The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 3 (Microsoft Incident Response Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* Android Studio Koala Feature Drop is Stable! (Sandhya Mohan) * A Simple Archive Format for Self-Contained Executables (Dominic Szablewski) * The New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5: Another Option for Linux Sysadmins (Damon M. Garn)
Screencasts & Videos* Create and Deploy .NET Aspire project using Visual Studio and Azure Developer CLI (AZD) (Learn with Jon) * FreeCodeSession – Episode 557 (Jason Bock) * Advanced Paste in PowerToys is About to Change Your Productivity Forever (Windows Developer Team)
Podcasts Merge Conflict #426: Designing, Developing, Testing, & Productizing a Board Game with Ben Ruiz (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * GeekWire Podcast: New Starbucks CEO’s supercommute, SeaTac cyberattack, more on AI music (Todd Bishop) * The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Laïla Bougriâ (again!) (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche) * Syntax Podcast #815: Deno 2 with Ryan Dahl and Syntax Podcast #816: Why Your CSS Sucks (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * Accessibility in Angular with Vitalii Bobrov – Adventures in Angular #423 (Alyssa Nicole, Chris Ford & Eddie Hinkle) * PPP 433 | The Power of Curiosity and Learning with Michelle LaBrosse (Andy Kaufman) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – CTO Series: A Masterclass in Product, Process, and Leadership | Alexander Grosse and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Role of Business Knowledge in Effective Product Ownership | Pooja Gupta and* Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Output to Outcome, The Customer-Focused OKRs | Jeff Gothelf (Vasco Duarte) * Achieving Engineering Excellence: Training, Innovation, and the Cloud – Adventures in DevOps #213 (Will Button & Warren Parad) * Matt Gordon: Database DevOps – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode #313 (Jeffrey Palermo) * The PowerShell Podcast – Being a Lazy Administrator with Bradley Wyatt (James Petty) * Changelog & Friends Podcast #59 – #define: piggyback (Carol Lee, Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert, Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak) * Made by Google Podcast – Pixel 9 Pro Fold: The Next Generation of Foldable Phones (Rachid Finge) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #188 – Beyond the Buzzwords: Identity’s True Role in Cloud and SaaS Security (Anton A. Chuvakin) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – At scale, anything that could fail definitely will (Ben Popper) * Meta Cast – Building a Culture of Agility by Addressing Sunk Costs (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson) * Building a Seamless Image Zoom Feature – React Round Up #265 (Chris Frewin, Lucas Paganini & Peter Osah) * Only Malware in the Building Episode 4 – RATs in the tunnel: Uncovering the cyber underworld (Selena Larsen, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard) * The Amp Hour #676 – Moving House (And Lab) (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell) * The Happy Engineer Podcast #184: Give Me 90 Days and I’ll Give You a Career Transformation with Bruno Yoshioka | Principal Manager at Microsoft (Max Ahumada) * Grammar Girl Podcast – The language of liars. ‘Legendary,’ ‘famous,’ or ‘notorious’? Fish shapes. (Valerie Fridland)
Community & Events* Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams webinar registration now generally available (Annie Wang) * MVP’s Favorite Content from Azure MVP and AI Platform MVPs (Rie Moriguchi) * Join Us for JetBrains .NET Days Online 2024 (Alexandra Kolesova) * Speaking at TechBash 2024 on Windows UI Framework Choices (Alvin Ashcraft) * Hachyderm’s Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: The Report Feature and Moderator Actions (Hachyderm Moderators)
Database* Identify CPU Intensive SQL Server Queries from an Implicit Conversion (Edwin Sarmiento) * New Couchbase Capella Advancements Fuel Development (Mark Gamble)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2024 (Pete Daderko) * Elevating Efficiency: How Microsoft Customer Experience & Success streamlines operations with process mining in Power Automate (Harysh Menon) * Accessibility and Usability Improvements in the new Outlook for Windows (Jayla Williams)
Miscellaneous iPhone 16 Pro specs predictions: what we expect from Apple’s most powerful phones (Jamie Richards) * Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages and Apple AirTags Track ‘Recycled’ Plastic to Unprocessed Piles in an Open-Air Lot (EditorDavid) * How to place or lift a security freeze on your credit report (USAGov) * Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4145 (Beta Channel) and* Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27695 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski) * SSN Data Breach and Securing Your Data (Jason Gaylord) * Trump forgets he tried to have Mike Pence killed (Jason Weisberger) * Abolish the Penny? (msmash) * What’s New in Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Paul Thurrott) * Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections Interesting links of the week 2024-36 (Michael Eaton) * F# Weekly #35, 2024 – |> for Google SQL and FSI diagnostics (Sergey Tihon) * Daily Reading List – August 30, 2024 (#388) (Richard Seroter) * Developer Toolbox (Matt Graven) * Collective #860 (Manoela Ilic) * C# Digest – Understanding .NET stack traces (Jakub Chodounsky) * Reading List 324 (Bruce Lawson) * Reading Notes #616 and* Reading Notes #617 (Frank Boucher)
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