Top Links
- .NET MAUI Community Toolkit 2023 Highlights (Kym Phillpotts)
- WinForms Designer Selection for 32-bit .NET Framework Projects (Shyam Gupta)
- WinUI Community Call: March 6, 2024 – Ask your questions in advance (Duncan MacMichael)
- Latest (and greatest) AI-powered tools in Edge you didn’t know you needed (Roger Capriotti)
- Microsoft Copilot improvements for Windows 11 (Yusuf Mehdi)
- Stable channel release notes for the Windows App SDK version 1.5 (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using the TX Text Control Document Editor in a React Application and Using the TX Text Control Document Viewer in a React Application and TX Text Control React Packages Released (Bjoern Meyer)
- Draw.io Azure infrastructure diagrams through code like an artist (James Dumont le Douarec)
- Blazor Grid – Batch Editing with Entity Framework Core (Svetlana Mikheeva)
- Docker Init for ASP.NET Core Compared to VS or VS Code Extensions (Julie Lerman)
- What’s new in Astro – February 2024 (Elian Van Cutsem)
- How to Fix CORS Error With AnyOrigin and AllowCredentials (Code Maze)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI: Disable scrolling on Android (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Add a C# .NET Ribbon Control to Your WinForms App (Greg Lutz)
- Refactoring C# Code – 4 Essential Techniques Simplified (Nick Cosentino)
- Seamless AI integration with .NET – Elevate your apps to intelligent solutions using C# (.NET Team)
- Metalama Status Update, February 2024 (Gael Fraiteur)
- Mocking authorization tokens with WireMock.NET (Cezary Piatek)
- How to Manage User Lifecycle with .NET and SCIM (Ram Gandhi)
- .NET Performance Optimization: Deferred Allocations (Aaron Stannard)
- If a parameter isn’t used, what should I pass? (Raymond Chen)
- Text Control Breaks Ground: Unveils Plans for Highly Anticipated Linux Version, Revolutionizing Cross-Platform Document Processing (Bjoern Meyer)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Extractive Summarization with LLM using BERT (Exxact Team)
- Boost Code Quality with Qodana and GitHub Actions (Matthias Koch)
- Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud (Frederic Lardinois)
- Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance – the newest Copilot offering in Microsoft 365 designed to transform modern finance (Charles Lamanna)
- What is AI? Jared Spataro at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit (Devi Thomas)
- ONNX Runtime Web unleashes generative AI in the browser using WebGPU (Emma Ning, Yulong Wang & Satya Jandhyala)
- Keeping secrets out of public repositories (Eric Tooley)
- How to Get Started with Google’s Gemini Large Language Model (Janakiram MSV)
- Prompt Engineering Fundamentals – Generative AI For Beginners (v1) (Nitya Narasimhan)
- Defining socially responsible AI: How we select partners (Ryan Polk & Ellen Brandenberger)
- Cutting Through the Noise: Three Things We’ve Learned About Generative AI and Developer Productivity (Senthil Padmanabhan)
- Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better (Brandi Neal)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Studio Iguana is stable (Neville Sicard-Gregory)
- Getting Started with Google’s Gemini AI in Android (Wajahat Karim)
Screencasts & Videos
- Bring your data to Copilot for Microsoft 365 with .NET plugins and Azure AI Search | On .NET (James Montemagno & Ayca Bas)
- [Some] SQL Server and Azure SQL DB Security Fundamentals | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- What are your favorite VS Code extensions? | One Dev Question (Burke Holland)
- The Prompt with Trevor Noah | Episode 3: How can AI help radiologists better detect breast cancer and Episode 4: How can large language models help people combat addiction? (Trevor Noah)
- OpenAI Sora: A Closer Look! (Frank La Vigne)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Postgres Replication at speed with PeerDB’s Sai Srirampur (Scott Hanselman)
- InfoQ Podcast: Resilience and Incident Management (Vanessa Huerta Granda)
- Voice to Code inside Visual Studio – Adventures in .NET 179 (Shawn Clabough, Mark Miller, Christian Wenz & Adam Furmanek)
- The Alphabet Soup of Performance Measurements – JavaScript Jabber 622 (AJ O’Neal, Aimee Knight & Dan Shappir)
- .NET Rocks! – The Observability Tipping Point with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- JS Party Podcast – Take a look, it’s in a book (Adrienne Braganza Tacke, Dylan Hildenbrand & Nick Nisi)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – It’s RAG time for LLMs that need a source of truth (Eira May)
- UX Podcast – The right question with Meena Kothandaraman (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Web Rush Episode 270: A Day in the Life of a Software Development University Student (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 456: Second Guessing (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Mat Ray)
Community & Events
- Join us in 2024 — events to get your teams AI-ready (Takeshi Numoto)
- Unleashing the Full Potential of Tech Conferences: A Guide to Active Engagement with Speakers and Attendees for Career Growth (David McCarter)
- Meet Kayla: A college student and open source ambassador (Sarah Oyetubo)
Database
- Friendly Deletes in SQL Server (Ben Johnston)
- Supabase vs. Firebase: The Dominant Database Platform (Jonathan Gamble)
- The How To Write SQL Server Queries Correctly Cheat Sheet: EXISTS and NOT EXISTS (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: February 2024 (Mark Kashman)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2024 (Steve Stein)
- Try new ways of working with Help me create in the Microsoft 365 web app and Copilot now available for the Microsoft 365 mobile app (James Bell)
- Introducing Copilot in Forms: Redefining Your Forms Creation (Junyu Bao & Yuanquan Hu)
- Copilot in OneDrive: A New Wave of File Interaction (Paul Diamond)
Miscellaneous
- Speed up your Java Development on Windows with Dev Drive (Brian Benz)
- Ability to use a mobile device’s camera as a webcam on your PC begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Inclusive and productive Windows 11 experiences for everyone (Harjit Dhaliwal)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3893 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – February 29, 2024 (#269) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
.NET MAUI Projects, 3rd Edition (Michael Cummings & Daniel Hindrikes) – Referral Link