Top Links
- Visual Studio Subscriptions – A Product Manager’s Journey (Jacqueline Widdis)
- Why choose Uno Platform for your next .NET Project? (Uno Platform Team)
- Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 (Tom Warren)
- What is the database behind ChatGPT? | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman & Kirill Gavrylyuk)
- Designing and Building Windows Applications using Figma and the Uno Platform (Nick Randolph)
- WinUI Community Call – March 6, 2024 (Windows Developer Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Geographically Visualizing Customer Data with Blazor and ArcGIS (David Ramel)
- Blazor Basics: Validating Form Data with Blazor (Claudio Bernasconi)
- How to Integrate HTMX and Shoelace Web Components (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Optimize your Impact with IndexNow Insights and What’s New: Top Insights for Maximum Visibility and Performance (Bing Team)
- Serverless Authentication methods in web apps. (Goodness Woke)
- Adding Form Fields into eSignature Documents via API (Gopinath Kannusamy)
- Postman v10 wrap-up—with more to come at POST/CON 24! (Joyce)
- New Privacy-Preserving Ads API coming to Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Edge Team)
- WebKit Features in Safari 17.4 (Jen Simmons & Jon Davis)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Using parameters in BenchmarkDotNet (Bart Wullems)
- How to Create an Outer Join in LINQ – (Left and Right) (Kamil Pakula)
- Voice Setup in CodeRush for Visual Studio and Voice Commands in CodeRush for Visual Studio and Voice to Code in CodeRush for Visual Studio and String Dictation in CodeRush for Visual Studio and Comment Dictation in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
- How to Use BenchmarkDotNet: 6 Simple Performance-Boosting Tips to Get Started (Nick Cosentino)
- General Performance Tip: Creating an Object (David McCarter)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Patterns of Legacy Displacement: Event Interception (Martin Fowler)
- .NET Aspire Azure AI OpenAI component (Microsoft Learn)
- Personalize Your eSignature Requests with Your Brand Identity (Caroline Dolly)
- Productive power-sharing (Eric Brechner)
- Java 1.0 Release Candidate for Semantic Kernel now available (Martijn Verburg)
- Evaluating RAG chat apps: Can your app say “I don’t know”? (Pamela Fox)
- Engineering software in a remote work world: Perspectives from the Microsoft Entra Verified ID team (Preeti Rastogi)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Ship Enterprise Apps Faster with Ionic’s Enterprise SDK (Conner Simmons)
- Sneak Peek at 2024 Volume 1: Flutter (Karthikeyan V.)
- Swift 5.10 Released (Swift Team)
- Unit testing UI interaction with MRTK3 (Joost van Schaik)
- AI model improvements for higher-quality textures in Unity Muse (Unity Team)
- Introducing a new Text-To-Speech engine on Wear OS (Ouiam Koubaa & Yingzhe Li)
Screencasts & Videos
- Build & test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy | On .NET (James Montemagno, Garry Trinder & Waldek Mastycarz)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Justin Garrison (Isaac Levin)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 525 (Jason Bock)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Presenting to an AI Audience, with Nancy Duarte (John Maeda)
- AI-in-a-Box: Unpacking AI and ML | Open at Microsoft (Chris Ayers & Neeraj Jhaveri)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How a Misunderstanding Created the Opportunity for Collaboration Between a Scrum Team and Their Product Owner | Stephanie Cully (Vasco Duarte)
- Forks in the Road | Multithreaded Income Episode 32 with Sarah Shook (Kevin Griffin)
- Python Bytes Podcast #373 – Changing Directories (Michael Kennedy)
- Defense Unicorns Podcast – From Teen Developer to Defense Tech Leader: A Journey Unveiled with Nicolas Chaillan (Michaela Flatau & Robert Slaughter)
- RunAs Radio – Upgrading TLS with Scott Helme (Richard Campbell)
- Pivotal with Hayete Gallot – How the UAE is closing the education gap with AI tutors (Hayete Gallot)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Investment Scams (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- Don’t miss the 2024 Azure Developers JavaScript Day! (Bruno Capuano)
- Microsoft Design Week 2024: A comprehensive guide of what’s what for Microsoft Design Week (Microsoft Design Team)
- CfP List Updated 2024-03-05 (Dave Aronson)
- I found inspiration in India (Bill Gates)
- OpenAI and Elon Musk (OpenAI Team)
- Where to see Text Control: Conferences in 2024 (Bjoern Meyer)
Database
- Archive SQL Server Data using the SQL OUTPUT Clause (Jim Evans)
- How To Tell If Lazy Table Spools Are Slowing Your SQL Server Queries Down, And Fix Them (Erik Darling)
- Marten 7 makes “Write Model” Projections Super (Jeremy D. Miller)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Simplify your work with Table rules in Microsoft Loop (Ravon Lingard)
- Enhanced collaboration in Project for the Web with your Microsoft 365 license (Nancy Wang)
Miscellaneous
- Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right (Chris Welch)
- Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC (Danny Thomas)
- In domain\user syntax, you can often use the period as an abbreviation for “this computer” (Raymond Chen)
- paint.net 5.0.13 is now available (Rick Brewster)
- How to Write a Successful Job Description for a Developer Role (Sean Killeen)
- Microsoft to reveal Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 later this month (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3896 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – March 5, 2024 (#271) (Richard Seroter)
- Collective #818 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
