I’ll be taking a few days off this week with family. The Dew Drop posts will resume next Tuesday or Wednesday. Cheers!
Top Links
- A Full-Stack Web App Using Angular and GraphQL: Part 2 (Ankit Sharma)
- TechBash 2024 Dates, Call for Speakers, and Sponsorship (TechBash Team)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- 2023 – a year of community experiments (Mads Kristensen)
- Microsoft PowerToys Version 0.77.0: New Features and Improvements (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Add OpenAI chat completions to your WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK desktop app (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- Build a Simple YouTube App with Vanilla JavaScript (George Martsoukos)
- Persistent permissions for the File System Access API (Thomas Steiner)
- Building a Critter Stack Application: Wolverine HTTP Endpoints (Jeremy D. Miller)
- How to Set an Authenticator for a New RestClient in RestSharp (Aneta Muslic)
- Experimenting With .NET & WebAssembly – Running .NET Based Slight Application On WASM/WASI Node Pool in AKS (Tomasz Pęczek)
- Steps to Take If Your App or Website Violates the ADA (Suzanne Scacca)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- January XAML Fest for .NET MAUI—Uber card UI (Leomaris Reyes)
- What’s New in WPF Diagram: 2023 Volume 4 (Prakash Perumal)
- What’s new in the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack (Vijay Anand E G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- What’s New in F# 8.0: Simpler, Enhanced Uniformity, and Improved Performance (Almir Vuk)
- Windows MIDI Services – Developer Preview 3 Release (Pete Brown)
- Using implicit conversion operators in C# to improve readability (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
- Encapsulating TX Text Control in Class Libraries (Bjoern Meyer)
- MSVC ARM64 optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.8 (Jiong Wang)
- .NET Framework January 2024 Security and Quality Rollup (Salini Agarwal)
- A brief look at StringValues (Andrew Lock)
- Building Distributed Applications With .NET Aspire (Code Maze)
- .NET January 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.1, 7.0.15, .NET 6.0.26 (Rahul Bhandari)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- MSIX VFS AppData – Notepad++ disable autoupdate issues (Horatiu Vladasel)
- Welcome to the LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework! (LinkedIn Team)
- How to Integrate EULA in MSIX-Deployed Applications (Renato Ivanescu)
- 3 predictions for AI in healthcare in 2024 (Aashima Gupta)
- A Global Design System (Brad Frost)
- Celebrating 20+ Years of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and EIP (Eric Newcomer)
- Putting AI to Work: Systems of Intelligence and Actionable Agency (Kawal Gandhi)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What’s new with Android for cars at CES (Guemmy Kim)
- Triangle Collision (2D) (j2inet)
- Charting Magic: A Performance Boost with Syncfusion Flutter Charts (Sheik Syed)
Screencasts & Videos
- .NET MAUI: How I create a Flyout in compact mode with Shell (Daniel Hindrikes)
- Material Design & Free Controls for .NET MAUI with UraniumUI (Gerald Versluis)
- Get your app & APIs on Kubernetes fast with Draft | Open at Microsoft (David Gamero & Suneha Bose)
- Using GitHub Enterprise as a Visual Studio subscriber | Bits & Pieces ep2 (Visual Studio Team)
- Using the Cosmos DB SQL Studio Extension | Visual Studio Toolbox and Creating a Visual Studio Code Extension | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Hasan Savran)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 512 (Jason Bock)
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 extensibility – Using Graph connectors & plugins simultaneously (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Angie Jones (Isaac Levin)
Podcasts
- Meta Cast – Agile Coaching Demystified (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Pursuing Developer Certifications – Adventures in .NET 172 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
- RunAs Radio – Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore (Richard Campbell)
- Code in Her Veins | Multithreaded Income Episode 24 with Kailee Hamre (Kevin Griffin)
- Python Bytes Podcast #366 – Put It in the Backlog (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- Humane lays off 4 percent of employees before releasing its AI Pin (Alex Heath)
- Amazon’s Twitch To Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff (BeauHD)
- Windows device partners display incredible innovations at CES 2024 (Mark Linton)
- What we announced at CES 2024 (Sameer Samat)
- Honoring the Dream: How to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at school this year with Microsoft Education (Microsoft Education Team)
Database
- Free SQL Server Troubleshooting Stored Procedures (Erik Darling)
Miscellaneous
- Sysmon v15.12 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- The Mandalorian and Grogu are getting a movie (Andrew Webster)
- How Microsoft is helping the Space Force become a Digital Service (Steve Kitay)
- Scientists knew 2023’s heat would be historic – but not by this much (Scott Dance, Sarah Kaplan & Veronica Penney)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3856 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- Daily Reading List – January 9, 2024 (#235) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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