Top Links
- AutoMapper 13.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
- Concurrently Asynchronous | Multithreaded Income Episode 28 with Stephen Cleary (Kevin Griffin)
- Make demo typing easy with DemoType in ZoomIt v8.0 (John Stephens)
- Beautiful Sortable Drag & Drop Lists for your Blazor Apps | On .NET (James Montemagno, Burke Holland & Jon Galloway)
- Quick Tips for using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci)
Web & Cloud Development
- HTML Web Components with Vanilla JavaScript and ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- jQuery 4.0.0 BETA! (Timmy Willison)
- Handling Electronic Signatures in a Blazor Web App using .NET 8 (Bjoern Meyer)
- Microsoft Dev Box – Make it your own (Brandon H.)
- MapControllers vs MapControllerRoute Routing in ASP.NET Core (Code Maze)
- Scaling Docker Compose Up (Milas Bowman)
- JavaScript Array Methods: Map vs Filter vs Redux (Sh Raj)
- What I Mean When I Say That APIs Reduce Everything to a Transaction and New API to Profile Bookmarklet (Kin Lane)
- Go 1.22 is released! (Ed Bendersky)
- Microsoft Entra Verified ID introduces Face Check in preview (Ankur Patel)
- Statement regarding “runAsNode” CVEs (Felix Rieseberg)
- What is API encryption? (Melinda Gutermuth)
- Using Object.fromEntries to make a new Object (Pam Selle)
- Jetpack 13.1- New Engagement Blocks (Sami Falah)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- From Stars to Hearts: Explore Creative Rating Designs in WinUI (Manivannan Elangovan)
- Expand Your Maui Paradise with the .NET MAUI TreeView (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
- OpenSilver 2.1 Adds F# Support (Alex Denham)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Clean Architecture with MediatR: How To Build For Flexibility (Nick Cosentino)
- How to Pass Complex Parameters to Theory in xUnit (Code Maze)
- Using ildasm to view IL code (Paul Michaels)
- General Performance Tip: Null Coalescing Assignment (David McCarter)
- On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency (Raymond Chen)
- .NET 8–It’s time to get rid of these flaky tests! (Bart Wullems)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Azure OpenAI service is now available in Azure Government (Candice Ling)
- Announcing OpenAI text-to-speech voices on Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech (Dave Jacobs)
- Planning for Resiliency with Azure OpenAI (Matthew Anderson)
- Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible and Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship (pcloadletter)
- Assemble Your Hype Squad (‘Tine Zekis)
- OpenAI Releases New Embedding Models and Improved GPT-4 Turbo (Anthony Alford)
- On-Device Training: Training a model in browser (Caroline Zhu)
- Lines of code – how to not measure code quality and developer efficiency (Chris Heilmann)
- Critical Security Issue Affecting TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2024-23917) – Update to 2023.11.3 Now (Daniel Gallo)
- A guide to dogfooding (David Pereira)
- OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (Emilia David)
- Empowering employees with generative AI at their fingertips (Microsoft in Business Team)
- AI for Developers (Matt Graven)
Screencasts & Videos
- Getting started with the Fluent UI Blazor library | Open at Microsoft (Pablo Lopes & Vincent Baaijnn)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 517 (Jason Bock)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen: Designing Trust with Sarah Gold (John Maeda)
- Helping GitHub Copilot help you with prompt crafting and How to code more securely with AI (GitHub Team)
Podcasts
- Generally AI Episode 3: The Founders of CS and AI (Anthony Alford & Roland Meertens)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leadership Lessons, Managing Agile Team Anxiety Sparked by Rumors | Viktor Didenchuk (Vasco Duarte)
- RunAs Radio – Managing Cloud Native with Brendan Burns (Richard Campbell)
- Practical AI Podcast – Data synthesis for SOTA LLMs (Karan Malhotra, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Python Bytes Podcast #370 – Your Very Own Heroku (Michael Kennedy)
- Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – From Waterfalls to Weekly Releases—Engineering Excellence with Steven Bailey and John Selbie (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
- Software Engineering Radio 602: Nicolas Carlo on Improving Legacy Code (Sam Taggart)
Community & Events
- Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) (Bluesky Team)
- Glowforge lays off more employees after funding round falls through at 3D laser engraver maker (Kurt Schlosser)
- DocuSign To Lay Off 6% of Workforce, or About 440 Jobs (msmash)
Database
- SQL Server Clustered Index Seek Operation Generates Poor Query Performance (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Performance Tuning Batch Mode HTDELETE and HTBUILD Waits In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 6: Event Sourcing (Jay Gordon)
- Semantic Kernel introduces SQLPlugin and UploadPlugin for efficient data insights. (Pascal Burume)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft to add Copilot AI to OneDrive, but it will cost you (Lance Whitney)
- How SharedTree supercharges and simplifies Fluid Framework 2.0 (Nick Simons)
Miscellaneous
- ProcDump 3.2 for Linux, ZoomIt v8.0, and Autoruns v14.11 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Copilot in Windows to Launch in a Wider Sidebar Pane by Default (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft’s Universal Print App Now Available for macOS Users (Rabia Noureen)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3876 (Chris Alcock)
- dotInsights | February 2024 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – February 6, 2024 (#255) (Richard Seroter)
- Daily Links – 6 Feb 2024 (Malcolm Jack)
- Collective #810 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3 (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link