Top Links
- VisualStudio.Extensibility: Install extensions without restarting Visual Studio! (Maia Kelner)
- Blazor’s Enhanced Navigation Fully Explained (Ed Charbeneau)
- Microsoft Learn for Organizations: Jump-start team technical training (Natalie Duryea)
- Electron 29.0.0 (Keeley Hammond)
- Easily Assess On-Premise .NET Apps for Azure Migration | On .NET (Olia Gavrysh)
- Join Microsoft’s AI Communities: Empower Your AI Learning Journey (Lee Stott)
Web & Cloud Development
- Getting Started With Azure Serverless (Verah Ombuiis)
- Look Who is Back: jQuery 4.0.0 is Coming to Town (Jenuel Oras Ganawed)
- Testcontainers in ASP.NET Core – A Simplified Beginner’s Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- Reading Raw ASP.NET Request.Body Multiple Times (Rick Strahl)
- Ramblings about JavaScript scope, weird errors and frameworks (Salma Alam-Naylor)
- webcare-webshare Web Component (Zach Leatherman)
- Public preview: Configuration-as-code customizations in Microsoft Dev Box (Azure Team)
- Dart Adds WebAssembly Support (Kay Ewbank)
- Cloaking, Detonation, and Client-side Phishing Detection (Eric Lawrence)
- What is API mocking? (Allen Helton)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Bar Chart to Visualize the Homelands of America’s International Students (Saiyathalifathimabee Moidhinabdhulkathar)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Map SQL Results To Any Object Using Entity Framework Core 8 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- How to Get the Number of Lines in a Text File in C# (Karthikeyan N S)
- A Detailed Guide to String Concatenation in .NET (Aleksei)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Fragile Tests vs Flaky Tests (Gil Zilberfeld)
- What’s new in MSIX: February 2024 (Sushant Bansal)
- On Your Data is now Generally Available in Azure OpenAI Service (Pavan Li & Andy Beatman)
- Demo Review: Azure Search OpenAI Javascript/Typescript (Jason Haley)
- 10 Figma accessibility plugins that make up for the lack of inbuilt options (Chinwe Uzegbu)
- A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People (Vitaly Friedman)
- Walking Meetings vs. Whiteboard Meetings and How To Use the Fieldstone Method to Build Your Second Brain (JD Meier)
- Inside OpenAI Sora: Five Key Technical Details We Learned About the Amazing Video Generation Model (Jesus Rodriguez)
- Microsoft to invest $2.1B in Spain to expand AI and cloud infrastructure (Kurt Schlosser)
- Unraveling the Costs of Bad Code in Software Development (Liz Ryan)
- Adobe Acrobat Adds Generative AI To ‘Easily Chat With Documents’ (msmash)
- Microspeak: Closing out, duping out (Raymond Chen)
- Figma Caters to Developers with Dev Mode and AI Integrations (Richard MacManus)
- How to Set up Netlify Deploys for Docfx using GitHub Actions (Sean Killeen)
- Prompt engineering: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams (Tom Johnson)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- App Check comes to Google Identity for iOS! (Victor Fan & Charlotte Liang)
- On-device ML research with MLX and Swift (Swift Team)
- Catching Up With The Latest Features In Angular (Mike Hartington)
- Video capture tips for the Apple Vision Pro (James Ashley)
Screencasts & Videos
- Advanced scenario with FluentUI-Blazor | Open at Microsoft (Pablo Lopes & Denis Voituron)
- What is ASP.NET Core? | Web Development with .NET for Beginners (Safia Abdalla & Daniel Roth)
- Generate PDF Files in Your .NET MAUI App or ANY .NET Application! (Gerald Versluis)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 521 (Jason Bock)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Stephanie Stimac (Isaac Levin)
- Advent of Code 2023 Day 22: Sand Slabs ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Inclusive Healthcare with AI, with Wendy Johansson (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Disjoint Silos, The Illusion of Teamwork and How it Affects Agile Coaches’ Work | Johannes Andersen (Vasco Duarte)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – API Machinery, Chaos and Dishwashers, with Lucas Käldström (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- RunAs Radio – Windows Server vNext with Jeff Woolsey (Richard Campbell)
- The 20 Mile March | Multithreaded Income Episode 30 with Brian Gorman (Kevin Griffin)
- Python Bytes Podcast #372 – uv – an impressive pip alternative (Michael Kennedy)
- The Amp Hour #659 – Altium…Acquired! (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Community & Events
- How does a changed market affect Developer Relations? (Chris Heilmann)
- Rockin’ the Code World Season 4 Panel Show: The Importance of Attending In-Person Conferences (David McCarter)
- Happy 10th Anniversary: Xbox Insider Program (Ian)
Database
- SSRS 2022 Install, Setup and Configuration (Joe Gavin)
- Update records in a Kusto Database (Public Preview) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Fixing Windowing Functions (Erik Darling)
- Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 7: Materialized View (Jay Gordon)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3886 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – February 20th, 2024 (#262) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link