Top Links
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is now available (Marian Luparu)
- EF Core 8 Preview 2: Lite and familiar (Arthur Vickers)
- GPT-4 (OpenAI Team)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2 (Daniel Roth)
- Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 (Bing Team)
- Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2 (Alexandra Barry)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure SDK Release (March 2023) (Azure SDK Team)
- Microsoft Learn Catalog API feature overview (Microsoft Learn)
- 4 Best Angular Charts for Revealing Trends Over Time (Bhuvanesh Valarman)
- PhpStorm 2023.1 Beta 2 (Brent Roose)
- How to Validate React Props Using PropTypes (John Au-Yeung)
- Unit Testing Your Auth0 Protected React Application (Juan Cruz Martinez)
- Easily Integrate Blazor Components into Any SPA Framework as Custom Elements (Navin Vinayagam)
- Enable CBOR within ASP.NET Core OData (Sam Xu)
- Easy way to migrate an existing PHP site with MySQL to Azure App Service. (Vinod Kumar)
- Fleet 1.16 Comes With Code Foldings Support, VS Code Keymap Improvements, Automatic Indentation Support, and More (Roman Prokashev)
- Node v19.8.0 (Current) (Michael Zasso)
- Open Container Initiative: A technical overview of its specifications and benefits (David Thor)
- New tools to help developers build better health apps (Fred Hersch)
- APIs to enhance application security (Khushboo Goel)
- Microsoft Edge: Taking control of your application’s title bar (Diego Gonzalez)
- Making gRPC Compatible with the Rest of the World … and the Rest of Your Application (Peter Vogel)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Sneak Peek at 2023 Volume 1: Xamarin.Forms (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- LINQ // Skip and Take (Steven Giesel)
- Extending Visual Studio CodeLens Functionality – Part II (Calvin Allen)
- Using Trie Class for Efficient Text Pattern Searching in C# (Code Maze)
- Static Interface Members, Generic Attributes, Auto-Default Structs – Using C# 11 in Rider and ReSharper (Matthias Koch)
- Use XML Literals in Visual Basic .NET to generate TwiML (Niels Swimberghe)
- System.Text.Json Serializing Hierarchical Data (Christian Nagel)
- Solving .NET JSON Deserialization Issues (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Pi to 100 places with Amazon Polly and .NET (Bryan Hogan)
- Code Quality: Formatting Classes in Microsoft .NET to Make Them Easy to Read and Modify (David McCarter)
- .NET March 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.4, .NET 6.0.15 (Rahul Bhandari)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet (Chris Pietschmann)
- How does scrum help leadership teams pick the most valuable work to focus on? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Microsoft Open-Sources Weather Forecasting Deep Learning Model ClimaX (Anthony Alford)
- How eBay Made Its New Accessibility Tool — And Made It Available to All (Dan Nosowitz)
- An introduction to marketplace deployment architectures (David Starr)
- PaLM API & MakerSuite: an approachable way to start prototyping and building generative AI applications (Scott Huffman & Josh Woodward)
- Building and testing a .NET project with GitHub Actions (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
- 7 Tips for Giving Humble Feedback (Kim Scott)
- Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations (Guru Tahasildar, Amir Ziai, Jonathan Solorzano-Hamilton, Kelli Griggs & Vi Iyengar)
- Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions (Nsikan Essien)
- Sprint Pre-Planning: A Panacea for Poor Performance? (Tyler Hakes)
- Language-generative AI tools (Tom Johnson)
- How HPC & AI Transform Sports (Exxact Team)
- Accessibility Testing 101—Test Strategies & Tools (Amy Reichert)
- Working with Git in JetBrains Rider (Andrew Lock)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Firefox Android’s new privacy feature, Total Cookie Protection, stops companies from keeping tabs on your moves (Jenifer Boscacci)
- Celebrate Pi Day by supporting the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Philip Colligan)
- Unlock seamless gameplay across mobile and PC with Google Play Games (Arjun Dayal)
- Key product updates from the 2023 Google for Games Developer Summit (Greg Hartrell)
- How to Play an Audio Stream Into a Phone Call With Python (Oleksii Borysenko)
- Improving job system performance scaling in 2022.2 – part 2: Overhead (Kevin MacAulay Vacheresse)
Screencasts & Videos
- Build a 3D Printed Clippy Powered by ChatGPT from OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services | Let’s Get Personal : Computing (Jim Bennett & David Packman)
- Technology & Friends – Mike Shelton on Data Lakehouses (David Giard)
- Let’s play with OpenAI GPT-4! (Martin Zikmund)
- Armchair Architects: Data Mesh Architecture (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- What are the advantages of .NET in an isolated worker model? | One Dev Question (Melony Qin)
- GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video series (Ed Summers)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Address conflicts in your Agile Team, or else… | Caterina Palmiotto (Vasco Duarte)
- Introducing Codux With Nadav Abrahami & Tom Raviv – JavaScript Jabber 573 (AJ ONeal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
- Azure for Executives Podcast – Mastodon and federated systems with Sujit D’Mello (David Starr)
- Sad Python Girls Club Episode 16 – Isidor Nikolic (Kim Adeline-Miguel & Luciana Abud)
- RunAs Radio – Incident Management with Hila Fish (Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- Here Are 3.14 Projects To Make Your Pi Day Complete (Caleb Kraft)
- Meta is laying off 10,000 more employees in a series of cuts and Microsoft Build 2023 kicks off on May 23rd (Emma Roth)
- 10 years of Electron (Erick Zhao)
- Technology and Developer Events and Conferences for 2023 (Jason Gaylord)
- Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB (Tracy Boggiano)
Database
- Book Review: SQL Server 2022 Revealed (Ian Stirk)
- Working with Date and Time Data Types in SQL Server (Hadi Fadlallah)
- Enabling real-time dashboards: Power BI DirectQuery mode and Dataflows support in Azure Cosmos DB (Rodrigo Souza)
- Integrating Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Teams Plugin for Elgato Stream Deck Re-Released! Also, Run with PowerPoint Plugin! (Mike Gannotti)
- Introducing Teams Classwork: The One-Stop-Shop for Managing Your Class Resources (Samantha Fisher)
- Using Inline Bing Generative AI with Microsoft Viva Today! – HLS Show Me How (Mike Gannotti)
PowerShell
- Run PowerShell Scripts with SQL Server Agent or Windows Task Scheduler (Alejandro Cobar)
- Creating Pester Unit Tests in PowerShell (Charlotte Gayton)
- New module for Malware Bazaar API (Emin Atac)
- PowerShell AI module for OpenAI GPT-3 and DALL-E (Doug Finke)
Miscellaneous
- Email protection just got easier in Firefox (Jenifer Boscacci)
- Microsoft signs third 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to another platform (Kareem Anderson)
- Microsoft Releases Moment 2 for Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Paul Thurrott)
- Did Vienna ever exist or was it just misinformation? (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3666 (Chris Alcock)
- Build5Nines Weekly – March 15, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)
- Daily Wrap Up – March 14, 2023 (#045) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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