Top Links* TechBash 2024 is One Week Away; Tickets Still Available (Jason Gaylord) * Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes (Peter Spada) * Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents (Jared Spataro) * Announcing Copilot Pages for multiplayer collaboration (Megan Dohnal) * Building Retrieval Augmented Generation on VS Code & AI Toolkit (Vinayak Hegde) * How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices (Mark Downie)
Web & Cloud Development* Blazorise 2.0: Plans and Vision for the Future (Mladen Macanović) * Blazor – Drag and Drop Modal (Byte217) * ASP.NET Core 9 RC 1: Keep-alive Timeouts for Websockets, Improved SignalR Tracing, and More (Arthur Casals) * 5 ways Microsoft Azure can reimagine student experiences and streamline operations (Microsoft Education Team) * Vue Basics: Deep Dive into Nuxt DevTools (Nada Rifki) * React Styling: Essential Tips and Tricks for Designers (Prashant Yadav) * How to Avoid These Common Deceptive Design Mistakes in Your Cookie Consent Banner (Sammi Reinstein) * ESLint v8.57.1 released (Milos Djermanovic) * TypeScript 5.6 Tightens Truthy And Nullish Checks (Ian Elliot) * WebKit Features in Safari 18.0 (Jen Simmons) * A Smarter Search Dropdown with HTMX (Scott Galloway) * Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure (Archie Gunasekara)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML Xamarin Forms Exported Needs to Be Explicitly Specified for Element and* ClassNotFoundException Didn’t Find Class SplashActivity on Path (Iris Classon)
Visual Studio & .NET* Logistic Regression with Batch SGD Training and Weight Decay Using C# (James McCaffrey) * Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 2 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI* Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure (Steve Sweetman) * An Update on Our Safety & Security Practices (OpenAI Team) * DuckDuckGo Joins AI Chat, Promises Enhanced Anonymity (Andy Wolber) * Article Series: Practical Applications of Generative AI (Anthony Alford) * Major updates to the Copilot Success Kit (Cynthia Johnson) * GenAI tools don’t increase coding efficiency (Ian Barker) * Embracing AI: Transforming the Future of Design and Creativity (Jeff Mielke) * Grab Your Board and Catch a Wave… Copilot Wave 2 That Is (Michael Gannotti) * Slack is Adding AI Agent Capabilities (Paul Thurrott) * Secure by Design for AI: Building Resilient Systems from the Ground Up (Rachel Taylor) * Llama 3 in Action: Deployment Strategies and Advanced Functionality for Real-World Applications (Tingyi Li)
Design, Methodology & Testing* Can you make us agile? (Ben Linders) * Prioritizing deployments (Susan Pan) * Introducing Reporting and Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing (Vansh Singh) * Boosting Azure DevOps Security with GHAS Code Scanning (Debjyoti Ganguly)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* iOS 18 is a smart upgrade, even without the AI (Allison Johnson) * Boost your Flutter app with the newest Dart version (Exxeta Team) * 10 amazing Raspberry Pi Zero projects | #MagPiMonday (Rob Zwetsloot) * Exploring New Dimensions: The Release of visionOS 2 for Apple Vision Pro (Peter Smulovics) * Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA clearance (Emma Roth)
Screencasts & Videos* Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher (Geoff Graham) * Windows UI Frameworks with Alvin Ashcraft | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green) * FreeCodeSession – Episode 562 (Jason Bock) * Looking Ahead: GenAI is a Journey | The Azure Enablement Show (Uli Homann & Vijay Mital) * Don’t Build Windows Apps Without This! (Michael Jolley) * How to add .NET Aspire to existing an project (Authorised Territory)
Podcasts* InfoQ Podcast: A Primer on AI for Architects with Anthony Alford (Anthony Alford) * Merge Conflict #428: Our Favorite VS Code Extensions (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger) * The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Jim Bennett! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche) * Syntax Podcast #822: Receipt Printer with JavaScript (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) * The PowerShell Podcast – Building Modern PowerShell Solutions: Justin Grote on TUIs, .NET, and Module Magic (James Petty) * The Changelog News Podcast #112 – Why GitHub actually won (Jerod Santo) * Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #190 – Unraveling the Security Data Fabric: Need, Benefits, and Futures (Anton A. Chuvakin) * Unhandled Exception Podcast – GitHub Actions – With Scott Sauber (Dan Clarke) * Gone Mobile Podcast #119: In App Purchasing Pain (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie) * Grammar Girl Podcast – Do words like ‘mandate’ and ‘cockamamie’ come from words for men? Grammatical dopplegangers. A pair of teeth. (Samantha Enslen & Edwin L. Battistella) * The Stack Overflow Podcast – Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI (Eira May)
Community & Events* The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update (Fred Schott) * Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (Jay Peters) * Announcing the New Pulumi Partner Program (Tejitha Raju) * Philly’s 100+ Biggest Events & Fests for Fall 2024 & Beyond (Visit Philly) * Microsoft will make 50 grants of $50k each in Washington state for its 50th anniversary (Todd Bishop)
Database* What is Change Management and the SQL Server DBAs Role (Terry Hurley)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: AI Innovations in SharePoint and OneDrive (Adam Harmetz) * Unlock the power of Copilot in Excel, now generally available (Catherine Pidgeon) * See what’s possible with Copilot in Excel (part 5) and* Python in Excel – Available Now (Ms. Excel) * Microsoft 365 Copilot onboarding hub—where onboarding AI is as intuitive as using it (Julie Hersum)
PowerShell & Terminal* Warp’s SOC 2 Type 2 report is available now (John Rector & Jeff Lloyd)
Miscellaneous Announcing Files v3.7.7 (Files Team) * Return to Office (Threddy) * Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.4955 to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc) * Important changes to the Windows enrollment experience coming soon (Intune Support Team) * Microsoft Has Scrapped Edge’s Big UI Refresh With Rounded Tabs and* Linux Kernel 6.11 is Out (msmash) * Some notes on Win32 carets (Raymond Chen) * Enhanced data protection with Windows and Microsoft Copilot (Reanne Wong) * Windows 12.1 is everything Windows 11 should be — and the Microsoft operating system we need! (Wayne Williams)
More Link Collections* Interesting links of the week 2024-38 (Michael Eaton) * Sands of MAUI: Issue #159 (Sam Basu) * Daily Reading List – September 16, 2024 (#398) (Richard Seroter) * Reading Notes #619 (Frank Boucher)
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