Top Links
- Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 1 is Here! (Mark Downie)
- Angular v17.2 is now available (Minko Gechev)
- What’s new in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio 17.9 (Yu Zhang)
- .NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 Preview 1 (David Ortinau)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.4.240211001 Released (NuGet)
- Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8 (James Newton-King)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor Basics: HTML Forms and Capturing User Data (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Material 3 Experimental Support in Angular 17.2 (Miles Malerba)
- Unlocking Success: The Need for Quick Web Service Creation (Donovan Brown)
- Signal queries in Angular – what can I do with them? (Connie Leung)
- JavaScript and TypeScript Trends 2024: Insights From the Developer Ecosystem Survey (David Watson)
- Getting started with Azure’s Hybrid and Embedded Text-to-Speech (Dean Hume)
- Enhancing the Blazor File Manager Performance with Virtualization (Keerthana Rajendran)
- Mastering State Maintenance in Blazor Tabs (Mahesh Palanisamy)
- Important changes coming for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.5 targets of the AWS SDK for .NET (Norm Johanson)
- Node v18.19.1 (LTS) and Node v20.11.1 (LTS) and Node v21.6.2 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Step by Step Practical Guide to Architecting Cloud Native Applications (Abdullah Abu Hassan)
- Creating the right Postman workspace for your needs just got easier (Akshay Kulkarni)
- A Passwordless Future! Passkeys for Developers (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
- Reasons to Fall in Love with Passkeys (Juan Cruz Martinez)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Bar Chart for the US’s Most Traded Goods with China (Arul Jenith Berkmans)
- WindowsApps folder getting out of hand? (Michael Niehaus)
- Telerik RichTextEditor for .NET MAUI—Display Any HTML Text in Your Cross-Platform App (Rossitza Fakalieva)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Entity Framework Core Query Plan Visualizer (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- How to Add a .NET Spreadsheet Ribbon Bar Control using C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
- Weak Events in C# – How to Avoid Nasty Memory Leaks (Nick Cosentino)
- .NET Framework February 2024 Security and Quality Rollup Updates (Salini Agarwal)
- How to Create a Desktop Shortcut for a Windows Forms Application? (Renato Ivanescu)
- Collection Performance: Iterating Through Reference Value, and Record Types and String Performance: String Compression (David McCarter)
- Rider Splash Screens for EAPs (Early Access Pets) (Rachel Appel)
- Why Should You Care About Lambda Lifecycle As A .NET Developer? (Rahul Nath)
- Functions that return the size of a required buffer generally return upper bounds, not tight bounds (Raymond Chen)
- Enumerating over Select’s index (Jiří Činčura)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- How to publish your MSI and EXE setup applications in the MS Store (Radu Popescu)
- Reqnroll – Migrating from SpecFlow (Max Hamulyák)
- Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors (OpenAI Team)
- US Patent Office Confirms AI Can’t Hold Patents (BeauHD)
- How signers can add form fields before eSigning a document? (Evans Omondi Otieno)
- How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design (Kent Eisenhuth)
- Will Generative AI Kill DevSecOps? (Jennifer Riggins)
- Abstraction and Testing – Intro (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Drive customer engagement with the power of AI (Jill Armour)
- HIPAA Compliant Electronic Signature (Meikanda Nayanar)
- Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- Configuration as Code for TeamCity Using Terraform (Olga Bedrina)
- Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI (Tiferet Gazit)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 196 – Open (The most overused term in tech) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Rene Schulte on the Evolution of AI and Its Impact Across Industries (Frank La Vigne)
- What advice do you have for people who want to get started in AI? | One Dev Question (Rachel Shepard)
- Develop Your Copilot Skills (Part 1) (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Azure Podcast Episode 486 – Azure Savings Plans (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Assessment to Action, How Scrum Masters Can Start Their Engagement With A New Team | Freddie Brown Jr (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 730: Own Your Own PaaS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Practical AI Podcast #256 – Gemini vs OpenAI (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Subscriptions! A Directions on Microsoft Brainstorm (Mary Jo Foley)
- Jamstack Radio Episode #142 – Decoupled Authorization with Alex Olivier and Emre Baran of Cerbos (Brian Douglas)
- Software Engineering Radio 603: Rishi Singh on Using GenAI for Test Code Generation (Kanchan Shringi)
Community & Events
- MSSQLTips.com Authors and Rookie of 2023 (MSSQLTips Team)
- Cisco Layoffs Hitting More Than 4,000 Workers (Edward Gately)
- Welcoming Progress Champions 2024 (Sam Basu)
- 100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born (James W. Cortada)
- Boston Code Camp – Session Submissions are open until Friday, February 23 (Robert Hurlbut)
- Explaining Open Source to My Doctor (Jitendra Choudhary)
Database
- When SQL Server Isn’t Smart About Aggregates Part 2 (Erik Darling)
- 4 Rules to follow on Microsoft Fabric Source Control (Dennes Torres)
- Public preview: Azure SQL migration assessment enabled by Azure Arc and Public preview: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Azure Team)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Azure Metrics in Teams with Azure Functions and Adaptive Card Tables (John Kilmister)
- Visually group shapes in your diagrams with containers in Visio for the web (Karan Malik)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058 (Canary and Dev Channels) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Marvel has found its Fantastic Four (Charles Pulliam-Moore)
- DuckDuckGo Browser Adds Private Bookmark and Password Sync (Paul Thurrott)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3882 (Chris Alcock)
- dotInsights | February 2024 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)
