Top Links
- Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.4! Partial properties support for MVVM, new analyzers, and more! (Sergio Pedri)
- Keep Your Windows PC Awake – With PowerToys Awake (Den Delimarsky)
- An introduction to Multi-Agent AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure OpenAI (Theo van Kraay)
- Introducing the Android XR SDK Developer Preview (Matthew McCollough)
- Boost your Git confidence with the new file rename notification (Jessie Houghton)
- Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning (ecekamar)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor EditForm OnSubmit behavior (Rocky Lhotka)
- Kubernetes v1.32: Memory Manager Goes GA (Talor Itzhak)
- Getting Started with API Gateways in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- ASP.NET Core 9.0: Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi and Swagger UI (Jaliya Udagedara)
- Announcing the Pulumi Copilot REST API Preview (Artur Laksberg)
- Build Micro Frontends with single-spa: A Guide (Thamodi Wickramasinghe)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- OpenSilver Adds XAML Designer For Visual Studio Code (Kay Ewbank)
- AI Dev Gallery (Bruno Sonnino)
Visual Studio & .NET
- MessagePack for C# v3 Release with Source Generator Support (Yoshifumi Kawai)
- Your First day on the team = releasing Your first feature (Urs Enzler)
- C# Advent 2024 – Making a List, Checking It Twice (Barret Blake)
- Hello Linux! Almost There – A Game-Changer for Document Processing (Bjoern Meyer)
- Syncfusion Essential Studio® 2024 Volume 4 Is Here! (Lucy Njeri Muturi)
- .NET Cancellation Tokens (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- AI Engineering Lessons from Building Pulumi Copilot (Adam Gordon Bell)
- Exploring AI’s Role in Automating Software Testing (Ben Linders)
- Inside the launch — and future — of ChatGPT (Kylie Robison)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Securing The NuGet Supply Chain: A Case Study (Andy Wilson)
- Your guide to evolving company culture—one step at a time (Cinthiya)
- Master the Basics (Donn Felker)
- Let’s Get Containerized: Simplifying Complexity for Modern Businesses (Kenan Salihbegovic)
- Application Shielding: A Helpful Guide (PreEmptive Team)
- API naming principles for conditional operations: On, When, and If (Raymond Chen)
Screencasts & Videos
- Building a plugin system with C# (Jeff Fritz)
- GraphQL for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Buck Woody)
- Advent of Code 2024 Day 12: Garden Groups in C# ✅✅ and Advent of Code 2024 Day 13: Claw Contraption in C# ✅✅ (Martin Zikmund)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Open-Source and Our Digital Legacies with Scott Harden (Jamie Taylor)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Empowering Teams and Retrospective Tools | Sara Caldwell (Vasco Duarte)
- AGL 395: Adrian Kelly (John Rouda)
- The Changelog Podcast #621 – Building the developer cloud (Kurt Mackey & Adam Stacoviak)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #68 – How to build a mixed reality headset (Pascal Hartig & Alfred Jones)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 497: Big Math (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #143 – Jeff Barr: 20 years of blogging (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Talk Python to Me #488 – Multimodal data with LanceDB (Michael Kennedy)
Database
- T-SQL Shortcomings With Merge And Triggers And Stuff (In SQL Server) (Erik Darling)
- Marten Improvements in 7.34 (Jeremy D. Miller)
Miscellaneous
- My favorite Mac Apps 2024 (Julian)
- Year in Search 2024: The Breakout searches of the year (Simon Rogers)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – December 12, 2024 (#459) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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