Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Building Cloud Native in Azure with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 Release (Christopher Nguyen)
 - Vue Basics: Getting Started with Vue.js and Visual Studio Code (Marina Mosti)
 - .NET 9 LINQ Performance Edition (Steven Giesel)
 - Uno Platform 5.2 | Release Webinar (Uno Platform Team)
 - Refactor your code with C# collection expressions (David Pine)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s Next: The WebStorm 2024.2 Roadmap (David Watson)
 - Halo Infinite Career Ranks (Den Delimarsky)
 - Cursor Declarations That Use OPENJSON() Can Bloat Your Plan Cache (Joe Obbish)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Line Chart to Analyze Wage Trends in the Texas Oil Gas Extraction Industry (Nanthini Mahalingam)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Dev Kit Update Helps Wrangle NuGet Packages and More in VS Code (David Ramel)
 - Referencing a file in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Laurent Bugnion)
 - Count the Number of Vowels in a String in C# (Semir Teskeredžić)
 - What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024) (Augustin Popa)
 - Reference Type & Structure Performance: Constant vs. Read-only Property (David McCarter)
 - gRPC, .NET 8.0 and Kestrel in Easy Samples (Nick Polyak)
 - Awaiting a set of handles with a timeout, part 7: Just doing it one at a time (Raymond Chen)
 
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- It’s time to retire the term “user” (Taylor Majewski)
 - How we developed Chrome’s first AI tools (Molly McHugh-Johnson)
 - Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content (Simon Willison)
 - A Guide to Open Source Software Security (Aaron Linskens)
 - Implementing pilot projects: Purpose, process, and best practices (David Pereira)
 - How Data-Driven Testing Benefits Your Software Quality (Dennis Martinez)
 - Non-Functional Requirements (K. Brian Kelley)
 - Microsoft is ‘turning everyone into a prompt engineer’ with new Copilot AI features (Tom Warren)
 
Screencasts & Videos
Podcasts
- CodeNewbie S27:E6 – The Crossover of Health, Technology and Art (Daniel Bourke) (CodeNewbie Team)
 - Working Code Podcast – Episode 177: Infinite Invisibility Timeout (Ben Nadel)
 - Syntax Podcast #766: React Server Components: Form Actions + Server Actions (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Agile Beyond Teams, Leading Organizational Change | Mike Lyons (Vasco Duarte)
 - Rework Podcast – A Matter of Ambition (Kimberly Rhodes, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
 - Productive C# Podcast – Ask Me Anything – Free Webinar (Andrea Angella)
 - The Changelog Podcast #590 – Good timing makes great products (Interview) (Paul Orlando, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
 - Practical AI Podcast #268 – Autonomous fighter jets?! (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
 - The Amp Hour #666 – Good Energy Citizen (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 
Community & Events
- Azure Developers – .NET Day 2024 – Recap (Bruno Capuano)
 - Meet the JetBrains Team at Microsoft Build 2024 (Alexandra Kolesova)
 - How Women Lead Data Engineering at Slack (Lakshmi Mohan)
 - Developer Ecosystem Survey Insights: A Comparative Look at Students and Professionals (Raisa Kanischeva)
 - Building securely: Microsoft Build 2024 (Rod Trent)
 - Inside Microsoft’s Xbox turmoil (Tom Warren)
 
Database
- Loops, Transactions, and Transaction Log Writes In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
 - Scaling Marten with PostgreSQL Read Replicas (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Who’s Changing the Table? Answers and Discussion (Brent Ozar)
 
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26212 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
 - I regret to inform you that LinkedIn’s games are very fun (David Pierce)
 - I made Microsoft Edge my default browser because of these three killer features (Ed Bott)
 - Awesome Regex: The best regex resources for all major regex flavors (Steven Levithan)
 - The Xbox app on Windows is getting even more handheld-friendly (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3935 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily Reading List – May 8, 2024 (#314) (Richard Seroter)
 
The Geek Shelf
 C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals – Eighth Edition: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link

