Top Links
- Nullability and Null Operators in C# | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Jeremy Clark)
- Visual Studio Code August 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Windows App SDK 1.6 Stable Version Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Uno Tidbit: Building a Carousel Experience (Steve Bilogan)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – AI Story Telling with Michael Washington (Scott Hanselman)
- TechBash and Kalahari Prices Increases Sunday (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core Features (Ricardo Peres)
- Seeding Identity Users with ASP.NET Core (Mitchel Sellers)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – September 2024 (Grace Kulin)
- Orchestrating .NET Aspire Applications with Docker Compose (Manuel Gabteni)
- Building REST and GraphQL Endpoints with Data API Builder (DAB) (Leonard Lobel)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Creating a Custom Chatbot with OpenAI APIs | Blazor and .NET MAUI Integration (Workshop Show Notes) (Carter Harris)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.6.240829007 (NuGet)
- Uno 5.3 Adds Rider Support (Kay Ewbank)
- Is .NET MAUI dead yet? (ismauidead)
Visual Studio & .NET
- What’s New in vcpkg (August 2024) (Augustin Popa)
- Introducing Blobify (Mattias Karlsson)
- The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Taking the pitch into account (Raymond Chen)
- Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches – Turning Off the Lights (Jimmy Bogard)
AI
- US and UK sign legally enforceable AI treaty (Emma Roth)
- Beginner’s Guide to OpenAI Text Embedding Models (Jason Myers)
- An update on our approach to tackling intimate image abuse (Courtney Gregoire)
- Vision Buddy – Empowering the Visually Impaired with AI and .NET Semantic Kernel (Jonathan David)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why Most Scrum Masters Are Failing and What They Should Know (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Github Actions – Change the workflow name (Bart Wullems)
- The hidden cost of speed (Brayden A. Hord)
- Present technical information using a storytelling framework (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Level Up Your Git Game with GitHub CLI (Zil e Huma)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cross-platform spatial QR code tracking for HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2 with a ServiceFramework Service, part 2 (Joost van Schaik)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Bill Sempf on Trends in Application Security and GCast 182: Using Azure AI Document Intelligence Studio Custom Classification Model (David Giard)
- Enhancing Developer Experience with Dev Container Templates for Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- Learn Blazor Hybrid – Full Course for Beginners | Build cross-platform apps in C# (Gerald Versluis)
- Let’s finish adding a feature to our website (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
- How does mirrored mode networking work in WSL? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)
Podcasts
- Practical AI Podcast #285 – AI is more than GenAI (Daniel Whitenack)
- The Changelog Podcast #607 – Open source threaded team chat?! (Alya Abbott, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- PPP 434 | The Surprising Benefits of Bad English in Leadership, with Valerie Fridland (Andy Kaufman)
- JS Party Podcast #337 – Don’t ever use these TypeScript features (Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi & Christopher Hiller)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source (Ben Popper)
- UI Breakfast Podcast Episode 286: Experience-led Branding with Doug Hughmanick (Jane Portman)
- Defense Unicorns Podcast Episode #31 – From Marine to Cyber Security Expert (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 483: [AGPL does not close deals for you] (Brandon Whichard, Cote & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer on the video games that influenced his life and career (Thomas Wilde)
- No more “Expert, Intermediate, Beginner”: Classifying talks in Call for Papers/Conference agendas (Chris Heilmann)
- GitHub Universe 2024 Session Catalog (GitHub Universe)
Database
- When To Use DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS When You’re Tuning SQL Server Queries (Erik Darling)
- Azure Cosmos DB Vector Search with DiskANN Part 1: Full Space Search (Nitish Upreti)
- Azure Managed Instance Download and Restore SQL Server Backup (Rajendra Gupta)
- Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Entra Groups (Josephine Bush)
- SQLite Gets Into Vector Search (Nikos Vaggalis)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Vulnerability scanning (Leana Gerrard)
- Skill up on Copilot and Microsoft 365 (Allie Thompson)
Miscellaneous
- iPhone 16 Launch Date Leaked? (Oliver Haslam)
- Vivaldi 6.9 is Here on iPhone, iPad, and Android (Paul Thurrott)
- Announcing Rust 1.81.0 (Rust Release Team)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 5, 2024 (#391) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf (Referral)
Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0: Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development 1, Prabhakaran Anbazhagan, eBook – Amazon.com