Top Links
- Making you more productive with Visual Studio v17.12 (Mads Kristensen)
- Announcing the GA Release of the OpenAPI Plugin for .NET and Python in Semantic Kernel (Sergey Menshykh)
- Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11 (Microsoft Learn)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Kotlin from Scratch with Dante Lex (Scott Hanselman)
- Students: Start building your skills with the GitHub Foundations certification (Morgan Ersery)
- Windows App SDK v1.7.0 Experimental 1 (Roy MacLachlan)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core TagHelpers: underrated feature of an underrated framework (Alexander Zeitler)
- Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1 (Adam Wathan)
- Announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console (preview) (Prasad Rao)
- Mermaid Live Preview – Real-time preview of Mermaid diagrams directly in VS Code (Abdelhak Akermi)
- Secure JWT Storage: Best Practices (Binara Prabhanga)
- A Guide to Building GraphQL APIs with NestJS (Christian Nwamba)
- Shadow DOM: Locating Elements with XPath Workaround (Miriam Kyoseva)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.7.241114004-experimental1 release (NuGet)
- The lack of a visual designer is actually offensive (Matt Lacey)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Microsoft Introduces Vector Abstractions Library For .NET (Kay Ewbank)
- How can I detect which menu my item was invoked from? (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Announcing an accelerator for GenAI-powered assistants using Azure AI Language and Azure OpenAI (Yanling X.)
- Announcing the GA Release of Filters for .NET and Python in Semantic Kernel (Roger Barreto)
- Building smarter maps with GPT-4o vision fine-tuning (OpenAI Team)
- Trippy: Your AI travel guide built with Firebase and Gemini (Lloyd Hightower)
- School Did Nothing Wrong When It Punished Student For Using AI, Court Rules (BeauHD)
- Google’s approach to learning in the AI era (Ben Gomes)
- Boost productivity: Automate emails, documents, and images with Microsoft AI Builder (Gwenael Bego)
- How developers are using Gemini API (Mat Velloso)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Logging in Testing (Matt Lacey)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Data Connect Pricing (Andrea Wu)
- File Plugin 8.1.3 Released! (Norman Breau)
- Prospera: using Flutter to bring AI to the frontline of sales (Todd Volkert)
- App development on iPad (James Froggatt)
Screencasts & Videos
- Dive into the Future: .NET and AI! | .NET Conf 2024 Student Zone (Bruno Capuano & Olanrewaju Oyinbooke)
- Switching Gears: Heather’s Path to .NET Development | .NET Conf 2024 Student Zone (Heather Walicki)
- Tell us a bonus story about 18 wheelers and Slurpees | One Dev Question (Larry Osterman)
- Announcing SQL database in Microsoft Fabric public preview | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Bob Ward)
- Implement authentication on mobile apps with Native Authentication for Microsoft Entra External ID (Joylynn Kirui, Danilo Raspa & Kaushik Kislay)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Cleipnir and Beyond: On Resilient Development Practices with Thomas Sylvest (Jamie Taylor)
- We’ll Be In Touch – A New Podcast From Stack Overflow! (Kyle Mitofsky)
- InfoQ Podcast: Participatory Leadership and Developing a Culture of Psychological Safety (Nick Takavadii)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Signs of Scrum Master Success | Gosia Smoleńska (Vasco Duarte)
- Boagworld Podcast – WP Engine vs WordPress, SUPA, and AI-Powered UX Reviews (Paul Boag)
- JS Party Podcast #347 – Nine pillars of great Node apps (Natalia Venditto, Matteo Collina & Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The app that fights for your data privacy rights (Eira May)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 494 – We are going to move the couch (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO) (Lenny Rachitsky)
Community & Events
- Back from Florida: Impressions from VSLive! Orlando 2024 (Bjoern Meyer)
- MVP Milestone Series: Celebrating MVPs Achieving their 20+ Year Milestone (Christina Liang)
- Gaze Link Wins Best Android App in Gemini API Developer Competition (Thomas Ezan)
- Starting A Local Meetup (Mark Oliver)
Database
- How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL (Josephine Bush)
- Of RECOMPILE Hints And Query Store: Where Are My Parameter Values?! (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Python Editor – Now Available (Chris Gross)
Miscellaneous
- Chrome Alone – If Google were to sell off Chrome, who would benefit? Anyone? (M.G. Siegler)
- Announcing Files v3.8 (Files Team)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 21, 2024 (#446) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Dometrain – Getting Started: Blazor (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral link