Top Links
- Dev Home Preview 0.3 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Moving AI governance forward (OpenAI Team)
- Shrinking VS Code with name mangling (Matt Bierner)
- .NET Rocks! – Multi-Model Data Stores with Ted Neward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Help users resume your app seamlessly after a Windows update (Yutong Liao)
- Too many tabs open? No problem! (Mads Kristensen)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS Scroll-Driven Write-on Text Effect (Tyler Gaw)
- Public Preview: OData API type in Azure API Management (Azure Team)
- Common Web API Methods for Handling E-Signature Workflows in ASP.NET Core C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Pulumi Kubernetes 4.0: Even More Kubernetes-Native (Monica Rodriguez)
- Announcing Semantic Kernel integration with Azure Cognitive Search (Nilesh Acharya)
- A Practical Use-Case of Render Functions in Vue (Quasar Wei)
- WordPress Hosting vs Web Hosting: Key Differences Explained (Rob Pugh)
- Going Native with Blazor (Sam Basu)
- Best practices for tracing and debugging microservices (Anna Monus)
- Node v20.5.0 (Current) (Juan Jose)
- Announcing Restore Stacks: Recover Deleted Stacks in the Pulumi Cloud (Isabel Suchanek)
- Scroll-Based Layout Animations (Manoela Ilic)
- Sidebar Extensions: Boost your users’ productivity with Microsoft Edge Add-ons (Microsoft Edge Team)
- Automating Image Workflows with Power Automate and the Adobe Photoshop API (Raymond Camden)
- Fiddler Everywhere 4.4—New Layout and More! (Simona Yaneva)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- 7 Tips to Boost .NET MAUI Mobile App Performance (Alexander Russkov)
- Exploring Basic Animations in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- Introducing the New .NET MAUI Accordion Control (Piruthiviraj Malaimelraj)
- .NET MAUI 8 Preview 6: Visual Studio Code Extension, Bug Fixes & Native AOT for iOS (Almir Vuk)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Should We Use Records or Classes or Structs in C# (Alvaro Montoya)
- Upgrading a .NET Framework Windows Forms App to a .NET 6 Windows Forms App (Bjoern Meyer)
- Partnering with The Coalition to Bring Unreal Engine Find All Blueprint References to Visual Studio 2022 (David Li)
- Reverse Engineering Existing Databases with Entity Framework Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview 4 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Progress On OpenSpartan – Profile And Match Tracking (Den Delimarsky)
- How to clone a Windows Runtime map in the face of possible concurrent modification, part 1 and How to clone a Windows Runtime map in the face of possible concurrent modification, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
- How to Solve Unable to Resolve Service for a Type (Code Maze)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- What Is the Role of Software Architect in an Agile World? (Amir Rapson)
- Upgrading from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to GitHub (Dotnet Office)
- Load testing your applications using Azure Load Testing, JMeter and GitHub Actions (Dominique St-Amand)
- Create an Azure-Ready GitHub Repository using Pulumi (Alexandre Nedelec)
- Function calling is now available in Azure OpenAI Service (Derek Legenzoff)
- A-Frame Architecture with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Customizing Microsoft Dev Boxes with code (Simon Bisson)
- 9 Change Management Principles From Research (Daniel Lock)
- Reimagine Software Development With CodeWhisperer as Your AI Coding Companion (Danilo Poccia)
- Building a system that Junior Developers can be productive in (Derek Comartin)
- Semantic Kernel Personas: An Interview with SK Team Member Brian Krabach (John Maeda)
- What is Neurosecurity? (Ken Reilly)
- Our commitment to advancing bold and responsible AI, together (Kent Walker)
- GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for every organization (Mario Rodriguez)
- Create your first ChatGPT plugin for Semantic Kernel (Matthew Bolanos)
- Implementing the 5 Key Principles for Creating Effective UIs—Part 1 (Peter Vogel)
- Improvements to code coverage experience under test automation (Ravi Kumar)
- Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions (Zack Koppert)
- How to Handle Driver Installation through an MSI package? (Alex Marin)
- New topic in API course: Using AI tools to write build and publish scripts (Tom Johnson)
- Custom instructions for ChatGPT (OpenAI Team)
- The Psychology of ChatGPT (Alexandra Jayeun Lee)
- Our commitments to advance safe, secure, and trustworthy AI (Brad Smith)
- Introducing Semantic Kernel for Java (Bruno Borges)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (July 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Combining OpenAI function calls with embeddings (Craig Dunn)
- Unity support for visionOS: What you need to know (Matt Fuad & Tara A. Lexis)
- Nearby Share for Windows is now officially available (Ronald Ho)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 165 – It’s Getting Hot In Here! (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Recreating Threads App with .NET MAUI – Profile & Search Pages (James Montemagno)
- What is GitHub Copilot? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
- What I Wish I Knew… about soft skills (Tenay Barker)
- What I Wish I Knew… about programming in college vs. industry (Eleanor Lewis)
- SQL Insider Series: Microsoft Fabric (Analytics in the Era of AI) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- Debugging Just Got Way Better in .NET 8 (Isaac Levin)
Podcasts
- .NET Core Podcast – Bunifu Framework with Wilberforce and Wilfred (Jamie Taylor)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – A diverse career with Veni Kunche (Scott Hanselman)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 136: Do Words Matter? (Ben Nadel)
- Made by Google Podcast – Re: Body (Rachid Finge)
- API Security Risks with OWASP – Adventures in .NET 151 (Adam Furmanek & Christian Wenz)
- JS Party Podcast – This is going to be Lit (Justin Fagnani, Amal Hussein & Kevin Ball)
- The Changelog Podcast – Storytime with Steve Yegge (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Rocket 447: The Beginning of the End (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 592 – What it’s like to be on the Python Steering Council (Eira May)
- Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – Mentoring (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
- Web Rush Episode 243: Nx with Juri Strumpflohner (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- Software Engineering Radio 573: Varun Singh on Evolution of Internet Protocols (Nikhil Krishna)
- Women in Technology Podcast – On “Cloud” Nine (WiT Team)
Community & Events
- Clare Mukankusi will make you geek out on beans (Bill Gates)
- Why Developers Love Their Newsletters (DeveloperMedia)
- Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Arthur Doler (David McCarter)
- Food festival Bite of Seattle returns after 3-year hiatus, thanks to a local tech startup (Nate Bek)
Database
- Using SQL Variables in SQL Server Code and Queries (Kenneth A. Omorodion)
- Optimizing Queries in MySQL: Optimizing Updates (Lukas Vileikis)
- SQL SERVER 2022 – GENERATE_SERIES Function and SQL SERVER – STRING_AGG Function to Concatenate Strings (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files, version 2.5.20 (Files App Team)
- Blizzard games are coming to Steam (Ash Parrish)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23506 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Microsoft reportedly working on a Surface Laptop Studio 2 codenamed “Ersa” (David Allen)
- Microsoft Edge Canary introduces EPUB support: Read your favorite eBooks directly in the browser (Devesh Beri)
- Stop trying to have the perfect vacation. You’re ruining everyone else’s. (Rebecca Jennings)
- Microsoft and Activision Blizzard extend merger agreement to October (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3752 and The Morning Brew #3753 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #774 (Manoela Ilic)
- Daily Reading List – July 19, 2023 (#125) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3 (Alvin Ashcraft)