Top Links
- Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise (Faisal Hafeez)
- Using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to Generate the XAML for your Windows application (Nick Randolph)
- Load PDFs from Firebase Cloud Storage Using .NET MAUI PDF Viewer (Ramkumar Ravy)
- Running Your Very Own Local LLM (Matthew MacDonald)
- Microsoft PowerToys v0.79.0 – Redesigned Color Picker, Enhanced Keyboard Manager, and more (Kunal Chowdhury)
- TechBash 2024 Call for Speakers Ends Friday (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS Meditation #6: The color space is always calc(rgb(0 255 0)+er) on the other side of the fence. (Geoff Graham)
- Azure Functions Extensibility – Extensions and Isolated Worker Model (Tomasz Pęczek)
- Common Developer Misconceptions About Passkeys (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Get Dummy JSON Data for Development and Prototype Testing with Project DummyJSON (Dave Ward)
- Welcome to a More Powerful WP-Admin Experience (Eric Binnion)
- No cloud account, no problem. Try out change streams in Cloud Spanner locally with a dozen-ish shell commands. (Richard Seroter)
- Check the Weather With Go (Temitope Taiwo Oyedele)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI: painfully slow debugging resolved with speedscope (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
- Easier Date Range Selection in Your WPF Apps with the RadDateRangePicker (Maria Hadzhieva)
- Using WSA for .NET MAUI Android Development (Vijay Anand E G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Read a Text File Without Specifying the Full Path in C# (Aneta Muslic)
- Learn C# Programming (Beau Carnes)
- Working with Content Controls in MS Word Documents using TX Text Control in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Implicit Operators in C#: How To Simplify Type Conversions (Nick Cosentino)
- Use AI to Quickly Spin Up a Data-Driven WinForms Desktop App (David Ramel)
- Typesafety in xUnit with TheoryData (Steven Giesel)
- Optional parameters may appear in the middle of the parameter list (Gérald Barré)
- Is shadowing a member variable from a base class a bad thing? Maybe, but maybe not. (Raymond Chen)
- An introduction to the heap data structure and .NET’s priority queue (Andrew Lock)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI (Emilia David)
- Prompt engineering: Reverse engineering prompts and Prompt engineering series: Populating documentation templates using AI (Tom Johnson)
- GitHub Kills ‘Copilot Voice’ Tool (David Ramel)
- Writing for Software Engineers: Beyond the Basics and Writing for Software Engineers: Read Me First (Charles Humble)
- Guidelines for Uploading Recipes + Features to Razroo (Charlie Greenman)
- TeamCity 2023.11.4 Is Out (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Now in Beta: Explore the Enhanced Python SDK for Semantic Kernel (Evan Mattson)
- A Comprehensive Guide to Responsive Testing (Gilad David Maayan)
- GitHub Copilot Learning Pathway: Accelerate your business with AI (Ryan J. Salva)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Embracing Android 14: Meta’s Early Adoption Empowered Enhanced User Experience (Terence Zhang, Tina Ho & Kun Wang)
Screencasts & Videos
- Voice Commands in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- How to Learn the Gemini API and Create a Multi-Turn Chat Bot (1 Hour Crash Course) (Frank La Vigne)
- Asking the right questions: Q&AI with Trevor Noah (Devi Thomas)
- Fluent UI Trainings: Styling components & theming (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Continuous Architecture (Kurt Bittner & Pierre Pureur)
- Revision Path – Monique Wray (Maurice Cherry)
- Merge Conflict #400: Your Burning Questions Answered (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Conflict to Collaboration, How To Collaboration With Skeptic Scrum Product Owners | Stephanie Cully (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Crafting a Fulfilling Career: Wisdom from Industry Leaders Jeff Hicks and Mike F. Robbins (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 738: Little Scripts: Coding for your Co-workers (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- PPP 407 | How to Get Your Message Read, Understood, and Acted Upon, with author Ben Guttmann (Andy Kaufman)
- Made by Google Podcast – Get Ready to Fall in Love with Your Pixel (Again) (Rachid Finge)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 162 – IAM in the Cloud: What it Means to Do It ‘Right’ with Kat Traxler (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Grammar Girl – Where did our language start? (Mignon Fogarty)
- Meta Cast – Compassionate Leadership: The Journey Towards Understanding (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- The Changelog News Podcast – Apple backs off killing EU web apps (Jerod Santo)
- The Amp Hour #660 – My Toothbrush Is Broadcasting (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Chunking express: An expert breaks down how to build your RAG system (Eira May)
Community & Events
- Dart in Google Summer of Code 2024 (Jonas Finnemann Jensen)
- Why India’s thriving software talent base is important for the Seattle innovation ecosystem (Kellan Carter)
- The Redgate Summit in Atlanta (Steve Jones)
- Keeping repository maintainer information accurate (Zack Koppert)
- Contributor Stories: Vinodh Kumar (Sumit Ghosh)
Database
- Read This Before Your Users Install SSMS 20 (Brent Ozar)
- Revisioned Documents in Marten 7 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- RavenDB Cloud Global Status vs. Product Status (Oren Eini)
- SQL String Functions – TRIM, LTRIM, RTRIM, REPLACE, STUFF, CHARINDEX and TRANSLATE (Jared Westover)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3276 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share (BeauHD)
- In Rust we trust? White House Office urges memory safety (Ryan Donovan)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3895 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week 2024-10 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – March 4, 2024 (#270) (Richard Seroter)
- Awesome Uno Platform – List of resources for developers building cross-platform .NET apps with Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3 – Second Edition: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link