Top Links
- WinUI Community Call – June 5, 2024 (Windows Developer Team) – Live today at 12pm EDT
- Get Hands-On with Visual Studio and Azure: Live at Microsoft HQ this August! (Jim Harrer)
- The Download: Microsoft Build Recap, GitHub Copilot Extensions and More! (Christina Warren)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen Desserts Corner – AI in your daily life (John Maeda)
- Windows App SDK Version 1.6 Experimental (1.6.0-experimental1) Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Maddy Montaquila & Brandon Minnick to Keynote TechBash 2024 (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Automate your .NET SDK updates for consistent and reproducible builds with global.json and Renovate (Anthony Simmon)
- Easily Implement Google Authentication in the Blazor WebAssembly App (Alan Sangeeth)
- Creating and downloading a PDF or DOCX in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
- Angular Basics: Controlling the Flow of Your Angular Templates (@if, @for, @switch) (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Blazor in .NET 9 Takes Shape (Preview 4 Highlights) (Jon Hilton)
- Use Fluid DevTools to debug your web app (Alejandro Villarreal)
- WebAssembly JSPI has a new API (Francis McCabe, Thibaud Michaud, Ilya Rezvov & Brendan Dahl)
- Bringing the Aspire dashboard to ACA (Mark Downie)
- Browser Super Powers: getUserMedia (Robin Osborne)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- A beginner’s guide to mapping arrays in EF Core 8 (Arthur Vickers)
- Building Planet-Scale .NET Apps with Azure Cosmos DB (David Ramel)
- CSLA Sync API Poll Results (Rockford Lhotka)
- Exploring the Comprehensive Ecosystem of TX Text Control Digital Document Processing Libraries (Bjoern Meyer)
- Why does GlobalLock max out at 255 locks? (Raymond Chen)
- Celebrating One Billion MSAL.NET Downloads (Den Delimarsky)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Conditionally skipping a trigger job in GitLab based on a previous job (Andrew Lock)
- Do you feel lucky? (Eric Brechner)
- TeamCity Pipelines Pulse, Issue #2: Drag, Drop, Deploy (Olga Bedrina)
- The information we have at the time (Michael Eaton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 5 Top Benefits for Choosing React Native (Stackify Team)
Screencasts & Videos
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Marc Duiker (Isaac Levin)
- Website development with .NET Aspire and AMA (Jeff Fritz)
- Testing Library – How can *I* help? | Open at Microsoft (Chris Noring & Matan Borenkraout)
Podcasts
- The DevOps Balancing Act: SaaS Security, Business Impact, and Technical Expert Career Paths – Adventures in DevOps #202 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Only Malware in the Building Podcast – The curious case of the missing IcedID (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
- The Cloud Pod #261: Azure Will Continue Until Further Notice… Unfortunately (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Transforming Agile Team Dynamics with Structured Feedback, And The Critical Importance of Feedback Delivery | Rebecca Cyr (Vasco Duarte)
- Practical AI Podcast #272 – Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- RunAs Radio – Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping (Richard Campbell)
- Python Bytes Podcast #386 – Major releases abound (Michael Kennedy)
- Defense Unicorns Podcast – Blueprint for Catastrophic Success with Lt. Col. Casey “Waldo” Miller (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Pivotal with Hayete Gallot – How Alberta Wildfire uses AI to suppress fires and save lives (Hayete Gallot)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – 2024 Dog Bite Awareness Campaign (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Teases Discounts for August Dev Conference at Redmond HQ (David Ramel)
- Computex 2024: NVIDIA announces new technology and tools to deliver advanced AI experiences (Athima Chansanchai)
- Announcing Coaching, Mentoring, and Consulting Opportunities (Rob Eisenberg)
- MS Build Recap and Upcoming Events (Milan Kaur)
- Introducing Staging Ground: The private space to get feedback on questions before they’re posted (Jeff Tan)
- Ikea is hiring workers for its online Roblox store for £13.15 per hour, and you can even serve virtual meatballs (Elie Gould)
Database
- Large System Databases on SQL Server (Josephine Bush)
- DuckDB 1.0 Released (Kay Ewank)
- In Which I Share A Piece Of Code That I’m Not Proud Of (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: May 2024 (Mark Kashman)
- May 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop (Yiannis Mavridis)
Miscellaneous
- My memoir Source Code comes out next year (Bill Gates)
- Opening the Beta Channel for Windows Insiders on Windows 10 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Attack Techniques: Trojaned Clipboard (Eric Lawrence)
- “New Outlook” has problems miniLook is my solution (Joseph Finney)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3953 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #844 (Manoela Ilic)
- Daily Reading List – June 4, 2024 (#332) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link