Top Links
- AI, ChatGPT, and Bing…Oh My (Steven Sinofsky)
- Blazor United – Solving Blazor’s biggest challenges? (Jon Hilton)
- Visual Studio 2022 can now Always Update on Close! (Sayyeda Mussa)
- The new Bing preview experience arrives on Bing and Edge Mobile apps; introducing Bing now in Skype (Bing Team)
- Maximizing the value of IntelliCode with API usage examples: Real-World Code Examples at Your Fingertips (Peter Groenewegen)
- Windows App SDK Stable Channel Release Notes Version 1.2.4 (1.2.230217.4) (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- Conditional Middleware in Isolated Azure Functions (Adam Storr)
- Angular Signals Demo (Sarah Drasner)
- State of the Azure SDK 2023 (Azure SDK Team)
- Build a low code conversational SMS bot with Azure Communication Services and Azure OpenAI (David de Matheu)
- Assigning Service Principals to Groups and Roles with the Azure CLI and Fetching Credentials with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
- Helping Go teams implement OpenTelemetry: A new approach (Ran Nozik)
- Minimal API Discovery (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Bing Maps and Low-Code February and Selecting the Best Site for New Construction (Bing Team)
- How Flux and Pulumi give each other superpowers (Michael Bridgen)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Getting git version information in your C# code (Steven Giesel)
- Resolving the Call Is Ambiguous Error While Using LINQ and Passing Output Parameters to Stored Procedures with Dapper in C# (Code Maze)
- C# 11.0 new features: newlines in string interpolation expressions (Ian Griffiths)
- C# “var” with a Reference Type is Always Nullable (Jeremy Clark)
- How to Migrate Your Existing Projects to Visual Studio 2022 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Myths about F#: F# is for FP, C# for OOP (Urs Enzler)
- Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control 31.0 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
- Getting Started With dotTrace On macOS And Linux (Maarten Balliauw)
- CMake debugger allows you to debug your CMake scripts and more (Sinem Akinci)
- Beware of These Iterator and Collection Traps (Nick Cosentino)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Avoiding the redundancy of adding the object files to both the primary project and its unit test (Raymond Chen)
- Setup Azure DevOps Self Hosted Agent On-Premise & Troubleshooting Guidelines (Vinod Soni)
- End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions (Bohdan Janousek)
- How to manage agile teams: Things leaders can do and How to Lead and Manage in This Brave New Remote and Hybrid World (Ben Linders)
- Four Steps to Create an Effective Employee Engagement Survey (ReadWrite)
- ChatGPT for designers (Shriman Kalyan)
- Configuring Manual Triggers in GitHub Actions with `workflow_dispatch` (Chris Pietschmann)
- GitLab 15.9 released with new guest roles for viewing private repositories and license approval policies (Christen Dybenko)
- Responsible AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot (Colin Dembovsky)
- Re-thinking the Visitor Pattern with the Double-Dispatch Approach (Huy Luong)
- ETW Trace Processing Fails with Error Code 0x80070032 (Jayson Maxson)
- What is an Appreciative Inquiry Summit? and The Power of the Positive Core: How to Lead Change Better and Creating the Conditions for Positive Change: 6 Ways to Empower People and How To Practice Appreciative Inquiry (JD Meier)
- ChatGPT Writes Scientific Abstracts That Can Fool Experts (Kimberley Mok)
- Getting What You Want (or Something Like It): Negotiating for Techies (Peter Vogel)
- Microsoft opens up about Prometheus, the model powering Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator gets closer to launch with Bing search results tests (Kip Kniskern)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter (Codemagic)
- What’s Next, Impeller: The Next-Generation Renderer for Flutter (Rashmin Shingala)
- The next generation of VR gaming on PS5 (Jase A., Nnanna Kama, Robert Thompson, Dave Ruddell & Robin Bradley)
Screencasts & Videos
- How to Draw Anything with Azure AI and Stable Diffusion | The AI Show (Seth Juarez & Vlad Iliescu)
- Using Cameo with Recording Studio for Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
- Increasing Developer Velocity with Codespaces & Copilot AMER & EMEA (GitHub Team)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Modern Web Front End Development with Amy Kapernick (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Small Commitments for Large Organizational Change, A Practical Approach for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches | Gemma Murray (Vasco Duarte)
- Azure Podcast Episode 454 – Sustainability and Azure (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 115: Self-Care For Developers (Ben Nadel)
- Microsoft 365 Developer Podcast – Kiota and Microsoft Graph SDKs with Vincent Biret and Rabeb Othmani (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 579 – Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
- Practical AI Podcast – Applied NLP solutions & AI education (Jay Alammar, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Python Bytes Podcast #324 – JSON in My DB? (Michael Kennedy)
- Duke’s Corner Podcast – Monica Beckwith on her passion for the JVM (Jim Grisanzio)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 541 – Shorten the distance between production data and insight (Ryan Donovan)
Community & Events
- My message in India: To fight climate change, improve global health (Bill Gates)
- Celebrate Google’s Coding Competitions with a final round of programming fun (Google Coding Competitions Team)
Database
- Snowflake for SQL Server Developers – NULL Functions – Part 2 (Sergey Gigoyan)
- SELECT DISTINCT SQL Command to Return a Unique List of Values (Joe Gavin)
- How to Choose the Right Database in 2023 (Charles Mahler)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- February 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)
PowerShell & Terminal
- 17 Terminal commands every user should know (Cory Bohon)
Miscellaneous
- I’m using Google Docs to write a novel — steal my tips (Julia Lee Harter)
- A look ahead of Microsoft’s Windows 11 Moment 2 update (Kevin Okemwa)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3652 (Chris Alcock)
- Research Focus: Week of February 20, 2023 (Alyssa Hughes)
- Daily Wrap Up – February 22, 2023 (#035) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3: Hands-On Building of Cross-Platform Desktop, Mobile, and Web Applications That Can Run Anywhere (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link
