Top Links* Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9 (Mads Kristensen) * Introducing Copilot Edits (Isidor Nikolic) * DirectML unlocks new silicon for AI experiences across Windows Copilot+ PCs (Chad Pralle, David DeMarco & Jason Cook) * Announcing .NET 9 (.NET Team) * What’s new in .NET MAUI for .NET 9 (Microsoft Learn) * EPISODE 4 – Scott and Mark Learn To… Pick a Programming Language (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
Web & Cloud Development What’s new in .NET Aspire 9.0? and* Custom resource commands in .NET Aspire (David Pine) * Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dapr Graduation (CNCF) * Make a Web Reporting App Using a Blazor Reporting Tool & Microservices (Sergey Abakumoff) * What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2024 (Brendan Burns) * Microsoft Applied Skills: Build distributed apps with .NET Aspire (Microsoft Learn) * Introducing the Modern Web App (MWA) Pattern for Java (Rory Preddy) * WebStorm 2024.3: Built-In Database Tools and SQL Support, Better AI-driven Code Completion, and More (David Watson) * Wasmer 5 Adds iOS Support (Alex Denham) * Modern Web App pattern for .NET | Azure Architecture Center (Microsoft Learn) * Introducing the New Blazor Smart Paste Button Component (Muthukumar Kannan) * WordPress 6.7 Brings New Power and Flexibility (Tanya Thibodeau) * Node v18.20.5 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel) * Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 9 (Dan Roth)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML .NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 GA and* .NET MAUI Product Survey (David Ortinau) * .NET MAUI 9.0.0 Release on GitHub (Rui Marinho) * How to Integrate Search-as-You-Type into Your .NET MAUI DataGrid (Héctor Pérez)
Visual Studio & .NET .NET 9 – General Availability Release (James Montemagno) * .NET and C# Versions – 9/13 Update (Nietras) * Authentication and Authorization Enhancements in .NET 9.0 (Andrea Chiarelli) * How to Build a C# .NET Scheduler Windows App (Nitin Sharma) * Create Fillable PDF Forms in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer) * C# Language Support in ReSharper and Rider 2024.3 (Matthias Koch) * What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.12 (Sy Brand) * Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.42 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 release notes and* Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 1 release notes (Microsoft Learn) * Cake v5.0.0 released (Mattias Karlsson) * .NET 9 has been released and this is how you update (David Grace) * Remote Development in Rider 2024.3 (Sasha Ivanova)
AI* Automate code commenting using VS Code and Ollama (Megan Lee) * How real-world businesses are transforming with AI (Alysa Taylor) * Blown Away (Mike Loukides) * Accelerating AI Development with the Docker AI Catalog (Michael Donovan) * Multi model support in Github Copilot (Bart Wullems) * Exploring how well Experience AI maps to UNESCO’s AI competency framework for students (Ben Garside) * Particle is a new app using AI to organize and summarize the news (David Pierce) * How AI is reshaping creativity: Insights from art, tech and policy (Manuel Sainsily) * Transforming Semantic Kernel Functions (Mark Wallace) * Hugging Face Launches SmolTools: Practical AI Apps Powered by SmolLM2 Model (Robert Krzaczyński)
Design, Methodology & Testing* Why scrum is dumb (Nick Hodges) * November Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales) * What to Do When Scrum Collides with the Reality of Your Organization (Mike Cottmeyer) * What, me worry? Promotions and confidence (Eric Brechner) * Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments (Iaroslav Titov) * Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction (Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk & Kartik Sathyanarayanan)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development* My First Step into Unit Testing in Flutter: Simple Explanations (Surajbhandari)
Screencasts & Videos* Technology & Friends – Rhia Dixon on Code Reviews (David Giard) * The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits | CPH DevFest 2024 (Brandon Minnick) * Welcome to .NET 9 – .NET Conf 2024 Keynote (.NET Team) * How Microsoft’s Copilot Team Rebuilt Their Backend with .NET & .NET Aspire (Pedram Rezaei) * Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Composite AI, with Hiromichi Kobashi (John Maeda)
Podcasts* RunAs Radio #958 – SQL Server Management Studio with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell) * Productive C# Podcast – What’s the minimal foundation you need on C#? (Andrea Angella) * Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Reviving Dysfunctional Teams with Trust and Collaboration | Mike Bowler (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events Bluesky is seeing an exodus of unhappy X users following the election (Sarah Perez) * The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms (Sarah Jeong) * MVP Milestone Series: Celebrating MVPs Achieving their 15 Year Milestone (Christina Liang) * Upcoming Speaking Engagements as of 2024-11-12 and CfP List Updated 2024-11-12 (Dave Aronson) * 23andMe To Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce, Discontinue All Therapy Programs (BeauHD) * Attend Microsoft Ignite between November 19-21 from anywhere in the world and* Partner Blog | Accelerating growth through partners in the era of AI (Jill Armour) * Why I’m Excited for .NET Conf 2024 (Harry Kimpel) * Know Before You Go: Security Copilot at Microsoft Ignite 2024 (Rod Trent)
Database* Obfuscating data in SQL Server (Tim Deschryver) * A Little About Optimizer Timeouts In SQL Server (Erik Darling) * Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio 21 Preview 1 (Erin Stellato) * Elevate Your Skills with Azure Cosmos DB: Must-Attend Sessions at Ignite 2024 (Jay Gordon) * Calculate a Moving Average with T-SQL Windowing Functions (Jared Westover)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams* Copilot in Excel: Excel Chat Helper (Oryan Rokeah Chen) * Using the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (pri2agarwalz)
Miscellaneous* VW and Rivian officially kick off $5.8 billion joint venture, announce leadership (Andrew J. Hawkins) * Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach (Troy Hunt) * Windows Holographic: Final Feature Release (lolaball) * Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? (Raymond Chen) * Paint.NET 5.1 is now available! (Rick Brewster) * Microsoft is killing off Windows 11’s Mail and Calendar apps by the end of the year (Tom Warren) * VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone (Umar Shakir)
More Link Collections* Collective #880 (Manoela Ilic) * Daily Reading List – November 12, 2024 (#439) (Richard Seroter)
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