Top Links
- Announcing TypeScript 5.7 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Windows Dev Chat – October 24, 2024 (Windows Developer Team) – Save the date!
- Enhancing Data Explorer: Custom Columns, Filter History, and Query Views Explained (Meredith Moore)
- Generative AI Demystified (Sam Basu)
- .NET Rocks! – Copilot Studio with Prashant Bhoyar (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Easier localization with the new Visual Studio resource (.resx) manager (McKenna Barlow)
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating Blogging Sites with Astro (Matt Scarpino)
- What’s New in Blazor Gantt Chart: 2024 Volume 3 (Jayakumar Duraisamy)
- Top 10 Reasons Why Ignite UI for Angular Is the Right Library for Your Needs (Konstantin Dinev)
- Fleet 1.41 Is Here With New Bundled Keymaps, Unlimited Splits, Improved Typing Latency and Editor Responsiveness, and Many More Enhancements (Daniela Bentrup)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- UNO Platform 5.4 Improves App Performance (Edin Kapić)
- Deprecated APIs in .NET MAUI 9 (Leomaris Reyes)
- Avalonia.Maui Hybrid: Brings templated controls, pixel perfect rendering, animations, styling and composition to Maui (Avalonia UI Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Showcase your NuGet package stats with fancy badges (Daniel Cazzulino)
- Final .NET 9 Preview Ships with Go-Live License (David Ramel)
- 9x Factor of .NET Security for New Developers : Training to Production (Is It Vritra)
- If threads are created without a message queue, why can I post to them immediately upon creation? (Raymond Chen)
- Publish MediatR Notifications in Parallel (Gergő Vándor)
AI
- Running a fully local AI Code Assistant with Continue–Part 5–Read your documentation (Bart Wullems)
- Typed chat completions with OpenAI and .NET 9 (Daniel Cazzulino)
- An update on disrupting deceptive uses of AI (OpenAI Team)
- Microsoft Eases Integration with Semantic Kernel AI SDK (David Ramel)
- 5 tips and tricks when using GitHub Copilot Workspace (Chris Reddington)
- Fine-tuning a Hugging Face Diffusion Model on CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm (Mandar Gujrathi)
- A Beginner’s Guide to Text Moderation and Prompt Shields for Large Language Model (LLM) Chatbots (Matt Peniket)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Improve Your DevOps Automation (Todd R. Weiss)
- Web-Queue-Worker Architecture Style for Scaling (Derek Comartin)
- TeamCity Pipelines Is Now Out of Beta (Olga Bedrina)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Create a Flutter Column Chart to View the Top 15 Water-Consuming Countries in the World (Preethika Selvam)
Screencasts & Videos
- Are they any cost optimization techniques for enabling disaster recovery (DR) in SQL DB | One Dev Question (Rajesh Setlem)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How To Grow Self-Sufficient Agile Teams | Dominika Bula and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Tackling Resistance to Change with Effective Communication, A Scrum Master’s Guide | Dominika Bula (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast #832: Potluck: When to Use a Framework × Goodbye Webpack × Custom Events in React + More! (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Practical AI Podcast #290 – Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets (Ben Burtenshaw, David Berenstein, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Can AI really write? A no-nonsense discussion, with Christopher Penn (Mignon Fogarty)
- Talk Python to Me #480: Ahoy, Narwhals are bridging the data science APIs (Michael Kennedy)
- Boagworld Podcast – Content Chaos to Clarity: Streamlining Your Website Copy (Paul Boag)
Community & Events
- Redgate is the proud host of PASS Data Community Summit 2024 – what to expect from us this year (Alison Leightley)
- MVPs and RDs innovate and contribute to Microsoft Global Hackathon 2024 (Claire Smyth)
- Meet the team at Microsoft Ignite – Chicago 2024 (Sonia Cuff)
- Amazon Web Services VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company (Todd Bishop)
- Threads is working on a community groups feature (Jess Weatherbed)
Database
- Audit SQL Server Extended Stored Procedures Usage (Emad Al-Mousa)
- Inconsistent Error Handling By SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance is now GA (Djordje Jeremic)
- Introducing RBAC Authentication and more for the Azure Cosmos DB Integrated Cache (Justine Cocchi)
- Debug Queries More Efficiently with the Improved Error Messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer (Meredith Moore)
- What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean? (Arthur Daniels)
- Firebase Data Connect: now in public preview! (Andrea Wu)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Automate your own Microsoft 365 Copilot trial system (Loryan Strant)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27723 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Windows 365 migration: It’s easier than you think (Christiaan Brinkhoff)
- Voting by mail is easy and convenient (Jason Weisberger)
- Webcam randomly pausing in OBS, Discord, and websites – LSVCam and TikTok Studio (Scott Hanselman)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 9, 2024 (#415) (Richard Seroter)
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