Top Links
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 6 (Daniel Roth)
 - New C# 12 preview features (Kathleen Dollard)
 - Announcing .NET 8 Preview 6 (Justin Yoo)
 - Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 6: Hello VS Code & VS for Mac (David Ortinau)
 - Announcing the .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code (Maddy Montaquila)
 - Top tech conferences: The ultimate tech events guide for July 2023 (Lewis Maddison)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- HTMX, ASP.NET Core, and Bootstrap Modals (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - Creating An Azure Web App (David Giard)
 - Blazor Basics: Data Binding in Blazor (Claudio Bernasconi)
 - Announcing General Availability of Confidential VMs in Azure Virtual Desktop (dereksu)
 - Azure AD is Becoming Microsoft Entra ID (Irina Nechaeva)
 - What are HTTP headers? (Postman Team)
 - Common Mistakes When Creating Composition Functions in Vue (Marina Mosti)
 - The HTTP/1-liness of HTTP/2 (Harry Roberts)
 - Comparing WebApplication.CreateBuilder() to the new CreateSlimBuilder() method: Exploring the .NET 8 preview – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)
 - What’s Holding up WebAssembly’s Adoption? (B. Cameron Gain)
 - Integrate OpenAI, Communication, and Organizational Data Features into Your Apps (Dan Wahlin)
 - Announcing new innovations in Microsoft Entra (Irina Nechaeva)
 - What’s New in Blazor: 2023 Volume 2 (Rajendran R.)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Titlebars and Themes: A WinUI Adventure (Peter Foot)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- 7 Things about C#: Loops (Joe Mayo)
 - dotTrace comes to BenchmarkDotNet (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - #include cleanup in Visual Studio (Mryam Girmay)
 - .NET Framework July 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Salini Agarwal)
 - StyleCop Analyzers Implementation in .NET (Code Maze)
 - .NET July 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.9, .NET 6.0.20 (Rahul Bhandari)
 - Why does the compiler complain about a missing constructor when I’m just resizing my std::vector to a smaller size? (Raymond Chen)
 - Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Understanding the Importance of ConfigureAwait() in Reusable Assemblies (David McCarter)
 - .NET Community Toolkit 8.2.1: New Code Fixers, Diagnostics and QoL Improvements (Almir Vuk)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- DevOps Practices for Azure Infrastructure – Continuous Testing (Tomasz Pęczek)
 - The risks of AI are real but manageable (Bill Gates)
 - Negotiation 101 (‘Tine Zekis)
 - GitHub CLI project command is now generally available! (Ariel Deitcher)
 - New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 224 (Dan Hellem)
 - TeamCity 2023.05.1 Is Released (Dmitrii Korovin)
 - Real World Coding Issues: Part 2 – Style and Performance Issues (David McCarter)
 - A Service Boundary Homework Problem (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Help influence the public Semantic Kernel backlog on GitHub (Matthew Bolanos)
 - Prioritizing cybersecurity to better serve customers (Microsoft in Business Team)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cordova iOS 7.0.0 Released! and File Plugin 8.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
 - Android 14 Beta 4 (Dave Burke)
 - Raspberry Pi: Our Code Editor is open source (Phil Howell)
 - Enterprise Apple Certificates and Expiration (j2inet)
 - Improving Burst Inspector search performance (Jonas Reholt)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- The Download: GitHub CEO Interview, Mac Porting Toolkit, Swift in GHAS and more (Christina Warren)
 - Unveiling the Official VS Code Support for .NET MAUI on Windows, macOS, and Linux! (Gerald Versluis)
 - FreeCodeSession – Episode 469 (Jason Bock)
 - AD FS to Microsoft Entra | How to migrate your cloud apps and Automate onboarding & offboarding tasks with Microsoft Entra | Identity Lifecycle Management (Microsoft Mechanics)
 - What I Wish I Knew… about feeling intimidated (Divya Venkataramu)
 
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio – Windows 11 Deployment with Johan Arwidmark (Richard Campbell)
 - The ReadME Podcast – (De)coding conventions (Martin Woodward, Neha Batra, Jordan Harband, Mike Melanson, Kingsley Mkpandiok & Aaron Gustafson)
 - Behind the Tech Podcast – Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer, OpenAI (Kevin Scott)
 - Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum (United States Postal Service)
 
Community & Events
- Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge (Anthony Bartolo)
 - Googlers share their stories for Disability Pride Month (Aubrie Lee)
 - Get Ready for Microsoft Inspire 2023: Enable inclusive growth, together (Gena Goh)
 - Celebrating Google Dev Library’s Women Contributors in AI/ML (Swathis Dharshna Subbaraj)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Writing Function for The Rule of 72 (Pinal Dave)
 - Azure Cosmos DB: Powering the apps you use every day (Michal Toiba)
 - SQL Managed Instance now available to all subscription types in large Azure regions (Uros Randelovic)
 - FOR XML PATH Changed The Way I Think About T-SQL #TSQL2sday (Brent Ozar)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint datasets now in public preview (Philip Li)
 
PowerShell
- Introduction to AWS Tools for PowerShell to Administer Virtual Machines (Edwin Sarmiento)
 - Changing your console window title (Francisco Nabas)
 
Miscellaneous
- WordPress: Introducing Footnotes, Details Block, and Writing Flow Improvements (Jeremy Anderberg)
 - Microsoft Edge for Business available in preview! (Rick Turner)
 - Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3746 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily Reading List – July 11, 2023 (#119) (Richard Seroter)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft)