Top Links
- First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9 (Mads Kristensen)
- Announcing Uno Platform Solution Template Wizard for JetBrains Rider (Uno Platform Team)
- Announcing a new way to build technical skills: 30 Day Plans on Microsoft Learn (Phil Evans)
- Easily Convert Your PDF to Images in C# (Vikas S.)
- .NET Conf 2024 – Celebrating the Release of .NET 9! – Save the Date! (Mehul Harry)
- Maddy Montaquila to Keynote at TechBash 2024 (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes v1.31: Accelerating Cluster Performance with Consistent Reads from Cache (Marek Siarkowicz)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 7 (Rahul Bhandari & James Montemagno)
- Blazor Basics: Blazor JavaScript Interop—Calling JavaScript from .NET (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Deprecation of Password Logins on CLI with Docker SSO Enforcement (Francesco Corti)
- Kubernetes-native Option for Pulumi Deployments Customer-Managed Agents (Meagan Cojocar)
- blocking=render: Why would you do that?! (Harry Roberts)
- Build better HTTP APIs (Derek Comartin)
- “Smart” Layouts With Container Queries (Kevin Powell)
- FHIR Security Labels and ABAC (John Moehrke)
- Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail (Markus Wüstenberg)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Radar Chart to Visualize Wind Directions (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.6.240807006-preview1 (NuGet)
Visual Studio & .NET
- 4 Simple Ways to Split Word Documents Using C# (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
- Temporarily dropping a lock: The anti-lock pattern (Raymond Chen)
- Rider 2024.2: Full Line Code Completion, Reader Mode, Major Enhancements to Debugging, and More. and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2024.2 Have Been Released! and ReSharper 2024.2: Deepened C#12 and Initial C#13 Support, New AI Capabilities, Localization, and More (Sasha Ivanova)
- TimeProvider and Autofixture AutoMoq Issue (Adam Storr)
- C# updates in .NET 9 Preview 7 (Rahul Bhandari & James Montemagno)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- 30 Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned In 30 Years of Leading Teams (Dan Green)
- How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale (Gaurav Sharma)
- Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix (Mike Hanley)
- Localizing GitHub Repositories with LLMs (Timothy Chung)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Build a text-based adventure game with Gemma 2 (Ju-yeong Ji)
- Developers can soon offer in-app NFC transactions using the Secure Element (Apple Newsroom)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 222 – Selling Out (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- The Future of VMware Is in Azure: Explore Azure VMware Solution – A faster path to the cloud (ITOpsTalk Crew)
- Deployment Options for .NET Aspire Apps | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Maddy Montaquila & Brady Gaster)
- .NET Aspire Dashboard & Telemetry | .NET Aspire Developers Day (Leslie Richardson)
- How do SLMs differ from LLMs? | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: InfoQ AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends in 2024 (Mandy Gu, Namee Oberst, Srini Penchikala, Roland Meertens, Anthony Alford & Daniel Dominguez)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Crafting Culture, A Three-Step Approach to Agile Organizational Change | James Gifford (Vasco Duarte)
- The Cloud Pod #271: AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Crafting Code and Community: AI, LeetCode, and Meetups – JavaScript Jabber #644 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Steve Edwards)
- Practical AI Podcast #282 – Only as good as the data (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Changelog #604 – Why we need Ladybird (Andreas Kling, Chris Wanstrath, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Community & Events
- Thoughts Before Speaking at the Software Architecture Conference (Lukas Vileikis)
Database
- A Little About Out Of Date Statistics In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Download AWS RDS SQL Server Backup (Rajendra Gupta)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Improved sense of time to Copilot in Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
- Updates on deprecating legacy Exchange Online tokens for Outlook add-ins (David Chesnut)
PowerShell
- PowerShell & Intune, Automate your Work – Part 4: Retrieve Win32 Superseding Apps and Part 5: Check for Win32 App Relationships (Alex Marin)
Miscellaneous
- X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (Adi Robertson)
- Intel Sells $147 Million Stake In Arm (BeauHD)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – August 14, 2024 (#376) (Richard Seroter)
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