Top Links
- Part 3 – Babylon.js 7.0: One incredible community (Steve Clarke)
- TechBash 2024 Early Bird registration is now open! (TechBash Team)
- How Microsoft discovers and mitigates evolving attacks against AI guardrails (Mark Russinovich)
- Semantic Kernel Hello World Plugins Part 1 (Jason Haley)
- Using Handlebars Planner in Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Teresa Hoang)
- Introducing MSTest SDK – Improved Configuration & Flexibility (Marco Rossignoli)
Web & Cloud Development
- Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library (Tim Deschryver)
- Referencing external Docker containers in .NET Aspire using the new custom resources API (Anthony Simmon)
- Giving the .NET smart components a try–The Smart Combobox (Bart Wullems)
- How to Test gRPC Services in ASP.NET Core (Aneta Muslić)
- Effortless AJAX: Simplifying Database Operations with jQuery (Janus Atienza)
- Quick Tip: How to Animate Text Gradients and Patterns in CSS (Ralph Mason)
- Astro 4.6 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore & Bjorn Lu)
- 3 simple design tips to improve your Web UI (Jon Hilton)
- GitHub GraphQL API Full Screen (Daniel Cazzulino)
- Your background images might be causing CLS (Salma Alam-Naylor)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Beyond the Basics: Exploring the Android Manifest in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- .NET MAUI 9.0.100-preview.3.10457 Release (Rui Marinho)
Visual Studio, Win32 & .NET
- General Performance Tip: Cloning Various Types (David McCarter)
- Why do STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE, and STANDARD_RIGHTS_EXECUTE have the same values? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership (BeauHD)
- Using keyless authentication with Azure OpenAI (Pamela Fox)
- Building an infrastructure for AI’s future (Meta Careers Team)
- You Can Now Edit ChatGPT Images, Photoshop-Style (David Nield)
- Managing Technical Debt (Brad Ediger)
- Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (Emma Roth)
- How to Write Accessible Technical Documentation – Best Practices with Examples (Ezinne Anne Emilia)
- How to Use LangChain to Build With LLMs – A Beginner’s Guide (Jacob Lee)
- A Coder Perspective: What It’s Like to Develop an AI App (Loraine Lawson)
- Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI (Mike Loukides)
- Don’t fix that bug…yet! (Matt Lacey)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android 15’s first beta release is out (Allison Johnson)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Hillel Wayne on TLA+ (David Giard)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 204 – Privacy First is Citizen First (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- How can I learn C# and get certified as a beginner? | One Dev Question (Katie Savage)
- How to Deploy a .NET isolated Azure Function using Zip Deploy in One-Click (Frank Boucher)
- Power Apps and Azure SQL Together | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – GitHub Advanced Security with Jacob DePriest (Scott Hanselman)
- .NET Rocks! – Domain Control Plane and Azure with Anthony Eden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Svelte 5: Compiler, Signals, and Web App Performance – JavaScript Jabber 627 (Charles M. Wood)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Self-Sustaining Agile Teams, The Art of Letting Go For Scrum Masters | Jörn Hendrik Ask (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit 2024 Bar Session 1 (James Petty)
- JS Party Podcast – Off to see the Wiz (Minko Gechev, Jatin Ramanathan, Kevin Ball & Jessica Sachs)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Diverting more backdoor disasters (Eira May)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 462: Lifting Code (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
- Web Rush Episode 276: What’s Possible with AI Agents? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode 018 – Beyond Boundaries Network Programming (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Build 2024 Sessions Listed: Copilots, Copilots & More Copilots (David Ramel)
- Announcing Postman has acquired Orbit (Abhinav Asthana)
- CfP List Updated 2024-04-11 (Dave Aronson)
- Build 2024: Microsoft plans to enhance PowerToys with new AI tools (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Cloud Cultures, Part 6: Accelerating collective growth in Malaysia (Jordan Davis)
Database
- SQL Server Query Transformations With ROW_NUMBER And ANY Aggregates (Erik Darling)
- #TSQL2sday Roundup: Has AI Helped You with Your SQL Server Job? (Pinal Dave)
- Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a Database (Dennes Torres)
- Optimize Your Azure Cosmos DB Costs with New Reserved Capacity Tiers (Rodrigo Souza)
- General availability: Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Srini Acharya)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Discover embedded Stream links in any SharePoint site and page (Loryan Strant)
- Enabling your AI transformation journey with Microsoft Viva (Jared Spataro)
Miscellaneous
- Releasing Windows 11 Builds 22621.3520 and 22631.3520 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard (Jess Weatherbed)
- DuckDuckGo Announces Privacy Pro Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
- Skilling snack: Windows Entra joined devices (Jason Sandys)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3917 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – April 10, 2024 (#295) (Richard Seroter)
- Code Maze Weekly #209 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Geek Shelf
Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to start building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral Link – Pre-order the 3rd edition!
WPF 4.5 Unleashed: Adam Nathan: 9780672336973: Books