Top Links
- Invoking Async Power: What Awaits WinForms in .NET 9 (Klaus Loeffelmann)
- Building a Neumorphic UI with .NET MAUI Column Chart to Showcase Genz’s Favourite Social Media Platforms (Dhanaraj Rajendran)
- LINQPad 8 for macOS (Early Preview Release) (Joe Albahari)
- Navigating Hot Design’s UI (Matt Mattei)
- ONNX GenAI Connector for Python (Experimental) (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
- Windows Dev Chat (Choosing the Ideal Dev Platform) – Dec 12, 2024 @ 9am PST (Windows Developer Team)
- Effortless publishing to Azure WebJobs on Linux (Brady Gaster)
Web & Cloud Development
- Protect your ASP.NET site using FIDO2 Passkeys (Kai Ito)
- How to Add an Angular Report Viewer to Your Web Application (Joel Parks)
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.7.1 (Mladen Macanović)
- AWS Releases Lambda SnapStart For .NET Functions (Kay Ewbank)
- Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler – Kubernetes Scaling Tools (Ioannis Moustakis)
- What’s new in the Twilio helper library for ASP.NET (v8.1.1 – December 2024) (Amanda Lange)
- Compute scaling in Azure Fluid Relay (Arik Ter-Galstyan)
- Build GitHub Timeline with Kendo UI for Angular Timeline (Dany Paredes)
- React v19 Now Stable: What Developers Need to Know and Getting Started with React: A Simple Guide (Deepak Tewatia)
- How to Dockerize a React App: A Step-by-Step Guide for Developers (Vladimir Mikhalev)
- MassTransit – Sending a Message to a Single Consumer (Bryan Hogan)
- Node v23.4.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Hoppscotch vs. Postman: a guide to open source API testing (Chigozie Oduah)
- Secret Rotation with Pulumi ESC (Claire Gaestel)
- Geocoding: The first step towards unlocking location intelligence (Priyanka Rawat)
- Why FHIR Packages are essential for implementation guide development (Ward Weistra)
- XSS Ranked #1 Top Threat of 2024 by MITRE and CISA (Scott Helme)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- OpenSilver 3.1 Unveils Drag-and-Drop XAML Designer for VS Code (David Ramel)
- Free offline AI in .NET MAUI Application (Vladislav Antonyuk)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Using the YamlDotNet source generator for Native AOT (Andrew Lock)
- Free eBook – Practical debugging for .NET Developers (Bart Wullems)
- 7 Things About C#: Methods (Joe Mayo)
AI
- Local GenAI Processing: Implementing WebLLM with Blazor WebAssembly (Ed Charbeneau)
- Surprise, Microsoft’s new “native” Copilot app for Windows 11 is still just a website (Zac Bowden)
- AI workloads on Azure (Microsoft Learn)
- Improve learners’ literacy skills with AI-powered Reading Coach (anpadt)
- Update for Copilot for Windows begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Windows Insider Program Team)
- Microsoft is giving Copilot a new taskbar UI and keyboard shortcut on Windows (Tom Warren)
- AI for Operations (TaleTom)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Designing Data Products: next steps (Martin Fowler)
- Advanced Installer vs. EMCO MSI Package Builder: Comparison in Features, Strengths, and Limitations (Alex Marin)
- Advanced Installer 22.3 (Advanced Installer Team)
- The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure as Code (Aaron Kao)
- Irresponsibility: Estimates and NoEstimates (Tim Ottinger)
- Code Coverage Sucks! (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Introducing Git triggers (Harriet Alexander)
- Navigating Workplace Tensions: Stuck Between Ruinous Empathy and Obnoxious Aggression (Brandi Neal)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Easily Manage Multiple PDFs Simultaneous Using Flutter PDF Viewer (Deepak G.)
- Microsoft launches Mixed Reality Link for Windows 11 — connect your PC to your Meta Quest headset! (Zac Bowden)
Screencasts & Videos
- Advent of Code 2024 Day 11: Plutonian Pebbles in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Upgrading the Uno Calculator to WinUI and Single Project (Uno Platform)
- Advent of Code: TDD in C# (Day 10) (Brad Wilson)
- Overwatch and C# Web Development (Jeff Fritz)
- Day 10 of F# Advent Calendar: Intro to FS.FluentUI (Andrew Sutton)
- Intelligent apps: The future of user experience | GitHub (GitHub Team)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Responsible AI, with William Bartholomew (John Maeda)
- Introduction to LibVLCSharp, the cross-platform multimedia SDK for .NET | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Martin Minkel)
Podcasts
- Azure Podcast Episode 510 – Azure Fleet (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Human-Centric and Transformational Leadership for Agile Teams | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)
- Behind the Tech Podcast – Year in Review 2024 (Kevin Scott)
- Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – OneDrive’s Year in Review & Unlicensed User Changes (Microsoft 365 Team)
- RunAs Radio #962 – M365 Copilot in Government with Angela Dugan (Richard Campbell)
- Azure Cloud Talk Podcast 24/12/10 – 2,500 Person Product Team To Small AI Startup Tim Huckaby (Alec Harrison & Brian Gorman)
Community & Events
- Lifelong Learning in Tech (Claire S.)
- It’s not what you know, it’s how you know you know it (Erin Yepis)
- 5 Technical Trends To Help Web Developers Stand Out in 2025 (Alexander T. Williams)
- Microsoft shareholders reject proposals to further study AI’s risks to its business (Todd Bishop)
- The State of Python 2024 (Evgenia Verbina)
- What the EU’s new software legislation means for developers (Felix Reda)
- In a Post Developer Relations World: Fix or Fire? and 20 Years of Blogging and I’m still a n00b (Keith Casey)
- My $8,000 Serverless Mistake (Kevin W. Griffin)
- Career Chutes and Ladder (Phil Haack)
- Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Expedia as new product chief; Avanade names president (Taylor Soper)
Database
- MySQL Shorts Revisited – Working with JSON (Scott Stroz)
- SQL Create Database Tutorial (Nisarg Upadhyay)
- Release notes for SQL Server Management Studio 21 Preview 2 (Microsoft Learn)
- How to Send Email with SQL Server’s sp_send_dbmail (Brent Ozar)
- Designing for Multi-Platform Databases: A SME’s Perspective (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
- When Function Rewrites Need Query Rewrites In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Using Row Constructor Comparisons In MySQL (Ben Nadel)
- Databricks Compute Comparison: Classic Jobs vs Serverless Jobs vs SQL Warehouses (Jeffrey Chou)
- A gentle introduction to dbt (Koen Verbeeck)
- Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust (Pekka Enberg & Glauber Costa)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Full-Stack Developer’s Recap to Ignite 2024 (Andrew Connell)
- What’s new for Microsoft Planner in December 2024 (NancyatMSFT)
- Introducing External Camera Support for iPads in Microsoft Teams (Will Dixon)
PowerShell
- PowerShell Universal v5.1 (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Files Preview now available on the Microsoft Store (Files Team)
- How to free up space on a Windows PC (David Nield)
- It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Disabling anti-malware scanning (Raymond Chen)
- Books for Beginner Programmers: Part 2 (Regina Muradova)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 10, 2024 (#457) (Richard Seroter)
- Collective #888 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
From Zero to Hero: LINQ in .NET | Dometrain (Hannes Lowette) – Referral link