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Web & Cloud Development

How to View Reports in Your ASP.NET Webforms Application (Chelsea Devereaux)
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 (Dan Roth)
What’s Next: The WebStorm 2024.3 Roadmap (David Watson)
45 JavaScript Super Hacks Every Developer Should Know (Amit Mishra)
Customizing the Ribbon in TX Text Control for Angular (Deepika Kathiravan)
CoreWCF Gets Azure Storage Queue Bindings (Edin Kapić)
Mastering Angular Query Builder: CEL and SpEL Integration (Satheeskumar S.)
Announcing the General Availability of Java experiences on Azure Container Apps (Sean Li)
Fullstack App with ASP.NET.Core and Angular (Riffki Krisdiyanto)
All You Need To Know About Passkeys at Auth0! (Abhishek Ambastha & Carla Urrea Stabile)
IndexNow: When and How Websites Should Notify Search Engines (Bing Team)
Master Difficult User Authentication Requirements with OAuth (Gary Archer)
What’s New in .NET Aspire 8.1: A Game-Changer for Cloud-Native Development (Murat Aslan)
More than serverless: Why Cloud Run should be your first choice for any new web app. (Richard Seroter)
Quickstart: Create and deploy functions to Azure Functions using the Azure Developer CLI (Glenn Gailey)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Microsoft’s Stalled UWP Project Supports .NET 9 to Help WinUI 3 Migration (David Ramel)
.NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 (David Ortinau)
Mastering .NET MAUI Shell—Part 1 (Héctor Pérez)
Chart of the Week: Create a .NET MAUI Drill-Down Chart to View U.S. Workforce Distribution by Industry (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
Android MAUI.NET8: Integrate Authorize Azure Function HTTP API with SQLite & Secure (Asma Khalid)
Microsoft Will Let Developers Update Legacy UWP Apps to .NET 9 (Paul Thurrott)
Request for feedback – Avalonia Accelerate (Mike James)

Visual Studio & .NET

Fix C++ warnings and errors with Copilot: Introducing AI-Assisted Code Fixes in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci)
.NET 9 RC 1 Release Notes (Jon Galloway)
The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory, revisited (Raymond Chen)
Entity Framework Core vs. Dapper? (Kushan Madhusanka)
Manage Background Tasks With The IHostedLifecycleService Interface (Bozo Spoljaric)
5 Must-Have NuGet Packages for .NET Developers: Elevate Your Code (Ken Fedorov)

AI

Semantic Kernel – Multi agent systems (Bart Wullems)
Mistral Releases Pixtral 12B, Its First-Ever Multimodal AI Model (BeauHD)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Streamlining your MLOps pipeline with GitHub Actions and Arm64 runners (Scott Arbeit)
UX Crash Course: Wireframing (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
Just rewards? (Eric Brechner)
Event Sourcing 101: Terminology & Concepts (Derek Comartin)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Streamlining Android authentication: Credential Manager replaces legacy APIs (Diego Zavala & Jason Lucibello)
RP2350: the brains of Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (Nick Francis)
7 Ways Live Updates Transforms Mobile App Deployment (Ionic Team)

Screencasts & Videos

Can we use FAISS with Azure DB today? | One Dev Question (Muazma Zahid)
Data Engineering Observability in Microsoft Fabric! (Barry Smart)
.NET Aspire with VS Code, SQLite & SQL Server (Medhat Elmasry)
The Download: Phi-3.5 Models, Nerd Fonts, JS13K and more! (Christina Warren)

Podcasts

Working Code Podcast – Episode 195: Isn’t Worth The Squeeze (Ben Nadel)
Syntax Podcast #820: Potluck: 8000 ESLint Errors × HTML Time Tag × 7 Meg React Bundle × CSS Modules (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Overcoming External Dependencies in Agile Transformations | Johann Botha (Vasco Duarte)
Practical AI Podcast #286 – Cybersecurity in the GenAI age (Dinis Cruz, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
The Cloud Pod #274: The Cloud Pod is Still Not Open Source (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
Grammar Girl Podcast – What fiction writers know about avoiding stereotypes, with Alex Temblador (Mignon Fogarty)
Software Engineering Radio #633: Itamar Friedman on Automated Testing with Generative AI (Gregory M. Kapfhammer)

Community, Social Media & Events

Stack Overflow Enterprise 2024.6: Identify and engage your subject matter experts (Carrie Koos & Natalie Rotnov)
Mindful vs. Traditional Social Media Marketing: A Tale of Two Approaches (Navani)
Share video on Bluesky! (Bluesky Team)

Database

In Memory Table Variables In SQL Server: Still Pretty Stupid (Erik Darling)
Couchbase Shell (cbsh) Reaches v1.0: Unlocking the Power of Vector Search & Beyond (Vishal)
Query Exercise: Why Are These 3 Estimates So Wrong? (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Optimizing large payloads in Fluid Framework (Rajat Chamria)

Miscellaneous

Book Review: Dead Simple Python (Ted Neward)
No, Kamala Harris wasn’t wearing these audio earrings (Emma Roth)

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Web & Cloud Development

Using Kudu in Azure to Debug an Azure Function (Paul Michaels)
Using the Oracle Cloud TypeScript SDK Part 7 – Retrieving Reference Lists (Scott Stroz)
A Full-Stack Web App Using Angular and GraphQL: Adding Login and Authorization Functionalities (Part 5) (Ankit Sharma)
Blazor Basics: Improved Performance with Component Virtualization (Claudio Bernasconi)
Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers (Fernando Mejia)
Unveiling the New Angular 3D Circular Charts Component (Gowrimathi S.)
Configure Azure Functions to use Identity Based Connections (Mark Heath)
What is cloud native and how can it generate business value? (Holly Cummins)
Twitter Cards in Hugo: Avoid the relURL and absURL pitfalls (Jessica Deen)
Node v20.12.1 (LTS) and Node v21.7.2 (Current) and Node v18.20.1 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)
Jetpack’s Newest Features: From AI-powered Content Feedback to Faster Site Loads (Mike Stott)
Tips and Tricks to Make Your Web Apps Crazy Fast (Thomas Findlay)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Brings Touch Behavior (Edin Kapić)
Chart of the week: Creating a WPF 3D Column Chart to Visualize the Panama Canal’s Shipment Transit Data (Surya Karan Raja)
.NET MAUI – Styles (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

Abstract Class vs Interface in C# (NDepend Team)
Create a Custom Static Code Analysis Rule for Azure SQL Database / SQL Server with .NET (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
Examples of Inheritance in C# – A Simplified Introduction to OOP (Nick Cosentino)
CSLA 8.0.0 release (Rockford Lhotka)
Boosting Performance and Memory Efficiency: Introducing ToDelimitedString() with Source Generators in Spargine (David McCarter)
Improve Performance With Source-Generated RegEx in .NET (Ivan Gechev)
Windows debugger trick: Breaking when a specific debugger message is printed (Raymond Chen)
fennecs – a tiny, tiny, high-energy ECS (fennecs Team)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

End of Support for Microsoft products reliant on older Azure DevOps authentication (Angel Wong)
Developers with AI assistants need to follow the pair programming model (Ryan Donovan)
Adding generative AI to your Cloud Flows with AI Prompts (April Dunnam)
Electronic Signatures for Healthcare Consent Forms (Caroline Dolly)
Not everything is a service. (Derek Comartin)
Security research without ever leaving GitHub: From code scanning to CVE via Codespaces and private vulnerability reporting (Jorge Rosillo)
Migrate to GitHub Actions from Pages Legacy Worker (Joseph Guadagno)
Understanding Identity Verification and Its Critical Role in eSignature Processes (Meikanda Nayanar)
Beyond Newsletters: Reimagining communications & engagement in the age of AI (Mike Gannotti)
From RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to Riches: The Evolution and Impact of Advanced AI Systems (Peter Smulovics)
RAG without OpenAI: BentoML, OctoAI and Milvus (Yujian Tang)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Cordova iOS 7.1.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers (Kuba Mracek)
Visual Studio Code: Unity Extension Is Now Generally Available (Almir Vuk)

Screencasts & Videos

GCast 172: Using M365 Copilot with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint (David Giard)
IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 203 – What is Ancient is New (The Tech Lifecycle) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)

Podcasts

CodeNewbie S27:E4 – Living the Dream with AI (Rob Frelow) (CodeNewbie Team)
Syntax Podcast Episode 751: UI Components: ShadCN, Tailwind UI, Headless, React Aria, Radix UI (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Chapter Leads to Champions, Value Over Velocity in Scaled Agile | Joe Scherler (Vasco Duarte)
Tools and Weapons Podcast – Bill Anderson: Using AI to combat hunger (Brad Smith)
Made by Google Podcast – Get Ready to ‘Wow!’ Pixel Video Boost Upgrades Your Videos (Rachid Finge)
The Amp Hour #664 – Simulating doors falling off (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Software Engineering Radio 610: Phillip Carter on Observability for Large Language Models (Giovanni Asproni)

Community & Events

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS (Haleluya Hadero)
Firebase at Cloud Next ’24 (Vikas Anand & Rich Hyndman)
Oh to be a dev at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Vesa Juvonen)
Pure Virtual C++ 2024 Sessions Announced (Sy Brand)
2024 James Beard Awards: Three Philly Food Stars Named as Finalists (Visit Philly)

Database

Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2 (Subhojit Basak)
How to Use Data Manipulation Language (DML) in SQL (Gerald Venzl)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

The new Microsoft Planner begins roll out to General Availability (Roberto Bojorquez)
Update on the future of the Script Lab Office add-in (Alexander Jerabek)

Miscellaneous

Eclipse Clouds (Randall Munroe)
Enhanced governance control for desktop flow logs (Apostolis Papaioannou)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100 (Canary and Dev Channels) (Amanda Langowski)
Microsoft reveals how much you’ll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft)

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