Month: March 2024

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.9: A Comprehensive Update for C++ Developers (Mryam Girmay)
• .NET Monthly Roundup – February 2024 – Top blog posts, VS News, .NET 9 Vision, and more! (Jon Galloway)
• GitHub Copilot Chat General Availability in JetBrains IDE (GitHub Team)
• Navigating the Transition: Semantic Kernel .NET V1 Migration Guide (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
• A curated list of .NET + AI resources (Jordan Matthiesen)
• Building AI Bots, Extending Copilot for Microsoft 365, and more with .NET and Teams Toolkit (Ayca Bas)

Web & Cloud Development

• Angular has your back when it comes to XSS (Tim Deschryver)
• Recent Critter Stack Multi-Tenancy Improvements (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Future of WordPress Hosting is Here (Jesse Friedman)
• Astro’s Journey from Static Site Generator to Next.js Rival (Richard MacManus)
• Improved Next.js support (Preview) for Azure Static Web Apps (Thomas Gauvin)
• What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor libraries 3.6 and 4.5 (Vincent Baaij)
• Browser Extensions: Powerful and Potentially Dangerous (Eric Lawrence)
• Design Better Add-Ons for Adobe Express with Our UX Guidelines (Joel Ebner)
• WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser (Tyler McMullen)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps in WinUI 3 App (Vijay Anand E G)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Difference Between Abstraction and Encapsulation in C# (Almir Tihak)
• A primer on transaction management in Entity Framework (Dennis Fruhauff)
• async void Methods In C# – The Dangers That You Need to Know (Nick Cosentino)
• In C++/WinRT, you shouldn’t destroy an object while you’re co_awaiting it (Raymond Chen)
• General Performance Tip: Hashing Data (David McCarter)
• New in .NET 9: Your Guide to the Latest and Greatest (DeeDee Walsh)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Building a Copilot Code-First with Azure AI (Nitya Narasimhan)
• Testing Copilot and ChatGPT as Coding Assistants: What We Found (Alex Williams)
• The Resurrection of Software Testing (James Whittaker)
• Evolving user enablement in the era of AI (Karuana Gatimu)
• AI Automation Essentials (Lindsay Burk)
• What Is a Modular Monolith? (Milan Jovanović)
• Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix (David J. Berg, Romain Cledat, Kayla Seeley, Shashank Srikanth, Chaoying Wang & Darin Yu)
• Data residency in the AI era: New capabilities to manage your data (Paul Lorimer)
• 4 Ways to Boss Up Your Leadership Communication Skills (Radical Candor Team)
• Hard and soft skills for developers coding in the age of AI (Sara Verdi)
• Improving LLM understanding of structured data and exploring advanced prompting methods (Alyssa Hughes)
• Making collaboration intuitive and meaningful (Carrie Koos & Natalie Rotnov)
• Event-Driven Architecture lost its way (Derek Comartin)
• Large Language Models On-Device with MediaPipe and TensorFlow Lite (Mark Sherwood & Juhyun Lee)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Better, faster, stronger time zone updates on Android (Almaz Mingaleev & Masha Khakhlova)
• Effortlessly Fill and Share PDF Forms using Flutter PDF Viewer (Ramkumar Ravy)
• Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0 (Swift Team)
• Introducing the Fused Orientation Provider API: Consistent device orientation for all (Geoffrey Boullanger, Shandor Dektor, Martin Frassl & Benjamin Joseph)

Screencasts & Videos

• Livestream Recording – Debug Like a Pro: JavaScript Edition (Aleksandra Aganezova)
• Why would you want to build a hybrid app with .NET MAUI? | One Dev Question (Beth Massi)
• MongoDB C# Driver and Azure App Services (MongoDB Team)
• Instant File Initialization for the transaction log | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show – Navigating the Web of HATEOAS and HTMX: Unleashing the Power of Hypermedia and Simplified Front-End Wizardry with Sander ten Brinke (Jamie Taylor)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – eSports for the next generation with Davin Jackson (Scott Hanselman)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Ted Lasso Lessons That Help Define Success For Scrum Masters | Stephanie Cully (Vasco Duarte)
• JS Party Podcast – Getting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals (Rick Viscomi, Annie Sullivan, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
• Azure Podcast Episode 489 – Storage Revisited (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – A leading ML educator on what you need to know about LLMs (Eira May)
• Web Rush Episode 271: Should You Learn Container Apps? (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Sync Up, A OneDrive Podcast – Creating a new future in OneDrive (Stephen Rice & Arvind Mishra)
• UI Breakfast Episode 280: User Interviewing Techniques with Steve Portigal (Jane Portman)
• Software Engineering Radio 606: Charlie Jones on Third-Party Software Supply Chain Risks (Priyanka Raghavan)

Community & Events

• Stories of Women Empowerment with Microsoft MVPs (Rie Moriguchi)
• Microsoft confirms next Windows, Surface, and AI event. Here’s what to expect (Sabrina Ortiz)
• Ability Summit 2024: Advancing accessibility with AI technology and innovation (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
• Celebrating Women’s History Month, with Cherie Griffith-Dunn (Justin Royal)
• Microsoft confirms Surface and Windows AI event for March 21st (Tom Warren)

Database

• SQL Server Index Design: Getting Key Column Order Right (Erik Darling)
• Vector search is coming to Couchbase Lite, sign up for beta! (Mark Gamble)
• Welcome to 14 days of Data Science! (Renee Noble)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Accessibility in Microsoft 365 Core Apps (Ales Holecek)
• Your path to value with Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Cynthia Johnson)
• Advancing Trust, Transparency, and Control with Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Dan Narloch)
• Important update on OneDrive URL upload feature (Patrick Rodgers)

Miscellaneous

• Apple is in its Ballmer era and Committing to Windows (David Heinemeier Hansson)
• Hugging Face is launching an open source robotics project led by former Tesla scientist (Carl Franzen)
• Microsoft releases KB5001716 update for Windows 10 to give Windows Update a new UI… and to push users towards Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• The underappreciated feature you never knew you needed: Clipboard History in Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Kristina Terech) – Also use it via the WinRT APIs

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3898 (Chris Alcock)
• dotInsights | March 2024 (Rachel Appel)
• Daily Reading List – March 7, 2024 (#273) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI Projects – Third Edition: Build multi-platform desktop and mobile apps from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2022 (Michael Cummings & Daniel Hindrikes) – Referral Link