Top Links
- Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 (Daniel Roth)
- Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 (David Ortinau)
- Announcing C# 12 (Kathleen Dollard)
- Introducing Native Authentication for consumer mobile applications (Kaushik Kislay)
- Visual Studio 17.8 now available! (Adrian Murphy)
- Announcing .NET 8 (Gaurav Seth)
- Introducing .NET Aspire: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8 (Glenn Condron)
Newsletter RoundTable
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- Navigating Negotiations with Confidence in a Volatile Economy (TechWhispers Newsletter)
Web & Cloud Development
- Powering Azure Docs with CoPilot (John Folberth)
- What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components version 4.0.0 (Vincent Baaij)
- .NET Aspire Dapr sample app (Paul Yuknewicz)
- .NET Aspire documentation (Preview) (Microsoft Learn)
- Automatically Analyze ASP.NET Core Performance With Dynamic Program Analysis (Maarten Balliauw)
- Just in Time for Angular 17 – It’s Ignite UI 17.0.0! (Radoslav Mirchev)
- Boost Blazor Dropdown List Performance with Virtualization (Saravanan G.)
- Azure Well-Architected Review Assessment Updates (Stephen Sumner)
- Node v21.2.0 (Current) (Michael Zasso)
- The Markdown Web (Kroc Camen)
- Troubleshooting Edge (or Chrome) Broken UI (Eric Lawrence)
- Introducing Kubescape 3.0 (Craig Box)
- GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model (Azure Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- What’s new in C# 12 (Laurent Kempe)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Preview 1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) is available today (Arthur Vickers)
- Unreal Engine and C++ Game Development Made Easy with Visual Studio 2022 (David Li)
- .NET Framework November 2023 Security and Quality Rollup (Immo Landwerth)
- Announcing F# 8 (Tomáš Grošup)
- What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.8 (Sy Brand)
- VestPocket: File-based Data Storage for AOT .NET Applications (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- A more flexible and enhanced way of logging in .NET 8 (Stephen Giesel)
- How to Get a Database Row as JSON Using Dapper (Code Maze)
- .NET November 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.14, .NET 6.0.25 (Rahul Bhandari)
- Starting on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Running a program that leaks memory (Raymond Chen)
- Easier packaging for .NET (Jose Manuel Nieto)
- .NET 8 Breaking Change: BinaryFormatter disabled across most project types (Microsoft Learn)
- What .NET 8 Means for the Telerik Developer Toolbox for .NET MAUI, Desktop and Reporting Tools (Rossitza Fakalieva)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- November patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
- OpenAI Assistants: The power of templated assistant instructions (Matthew Bolanos)
- How to Automate Contract Management in Pipedrive with BoldSign using Zapier (Gopinath Kannusamy)
- A Walkthrough of Adopting Infrastructure as Code (Joe Duffy)
- 7 eSignature Workflow Automation Ideas with BoldSign and Zapier (Lakshmi Priya Soundar Rajan)
- CC golf (Mark Seemann)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Code Editor update: Support for HTML and mobile devices (Mel Farrington)
- Bringing New Input Support to Desktop AVD (Joshua Hale)
- Snapchat integrated new camera features 50% faster with the Camera2 Extensions API (Fred Chung)
- MonoGame on the Web, No Really! (Simon Jackson)
Screencasts & Videos
- Free and Complete Calendar Control for .NET MAUI: Plugin.Maui.Calendar (Gerald Versluis)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 496 (Jason Bock)
- What’s new in the Well-Architected Framework | The Azure Enablement Show (Thomas Maurer & Dom Allen)
- What I Wish I Knew… about getting the most from an interview (Leslie Richardson)
Podcasts
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – .NET Conf 2023 – with Scott Hunter (Dan Clarke)
- Searching for SAAS | Multithreaded Income Episode 16 with Nate Bosscher (Kevin Griffin)
- Behind the Tech – David Kirtley, Co-Founder and CEO, Helion (Kevin Scott)
- RunAs Radio – Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does. (Ryan Donovan)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Surface at Ignite 2023 (Chauncey Larsen)
- X continues to suck at moderating hate speech, according to a new report (Jess Weatherbed)
- Tech Moves: Madrona investor returns to Microsoft; Edifecs adds CFO; and more (Taylor Soper)
- Igniting the Tech Passion: My Must-See Sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (Vesa Nopanen)
- Critter Stack at .NET Conf 2023 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Database
- How To Rewrite Scalar Functions In SQL Server To Fix Performance Problems (Erik Darling)
- The Evolution of Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2022 (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Building the next era of AI: Teams AI Library and API message extensions (Joey Glocke)
- New Excel aggregation functions: GROUPBY and PIVOTBY (Joe McDaid)
- Introducing new chat components with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit (Sébastien Levert)
PowerShell & Terminal
- PowerShell Universal v4.2 (Adam Driscoll)
- PowerShell Commands to Administer Virtual Machines on Amazon AWS – Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
- New utilities for your terminal, inspired by text editors (Melanie Crissey)
Miscellaneous
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3824 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #790 (Manoela Ilic)
- Daily Reading List – November 14, 2023 (#204) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies, 2nd Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link