Top Links
- Recommended Microsoft Ignite 2024 Session: Modernize commercial apps with Win32 and the Windows App SDK (Khalef Hosany & Jeffrey Stall)
- Windows Server 2025 is Generally Available: New feature highlights in less than 4 minutes (ITOpsTalk Crew)
- Implement ICommand with Metalama (Dario Macchi)
- Web Search for Copilot – Gives access to search engines from within Copilot (Visual Studio Code Marketplace)
- Visual Studio: The making of Bring Back Plus/Minus (Marco Goertz)
- Windows Server 2025 now generally available, with advanced security, improved performance, and cloud agility (Ian LeGrow)
Web & Cloud Development
- Testing latency to Azure datacenters around me (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
- Getting Started with Domain-Driven Design in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- How to Create an AI-Powered Newsletter Aggregator with React and AI Agents (Dariel Vila)
- Docker Desktop 4.35: Organization Access Tokens, Docker Home, Volumes Export, and Terminal in Docker Desktop (Deanna Sparks)
- Maximizing Docker Desktop: How Signing In Unlocks Advanced Features (Fazlan Nazeem)
- Effective Techniques to Share Angular Components Across Projects (Lakindu Hewawasam)
- Create a Full-Stack App With Go and React (Mukul Mantosh)
- Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR) in ASP.NET Core 9 (Tore Nestenius)
- Programming APIs Book (Jesse Liberty)
- Add Authentication to Apps in Minutes (Joylynn Kirui)
- Make containers aware of custom local domains on the host machine using .NET Aspire (Anthony Simmon)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Memory Profiling — Identify and Fix Memory Leaks (Alexander Russkov)
- Semantic Searching using Embedding in WPF DataGrid (Susmitha Sundar)
Visual Studio & .NET
- 6 Effective Ways to Merge PDF Files Using C# (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- OpenSSF Scorecard for .NET and the NuGet ecosystem (Ioana Amarande)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Unleashing the Power of Spargine’s UlidGenerator (David McCarter)
- elmah.io Blog – .NET Technical tutorials/guides and new features (Ali Hamza Ansari)
AI
- Anthropic unveils Claude AI desktop app with Windows on Arm support as concerned users pressure on Microsoft over a ‘botched’ Copilot update (Kevin Okemwa)
- How to turn Microsoft Copilot into an automated personal assistant with Scheduled Prompts (Gabe Ho)
- Running Llama 3.2 on AWS Lambda (Jye Cusch)
- Get AI ready: Empowering developers in the era of AI (Aaron Stark)
- Using AI Tools to Convert a PDF into Images (Docker Labs Team)
- Managing Chat History for Large Language Models (LLMs) (Mark Wallace)
- Designing a successful modernization approach for AI readiness (Mike Hulme)
- You can now try out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Xbox chatbot (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Unfortunate things about performance reviews (Rachel)
- Advanced Installer 22.2 (Advanced Installer Team)
- How to Add Launch Condition in Wise Package Studio (Renato Ivanescu)
- Become an Open Source Master (Beau Carnes)
- OpenTelemetry Is expanding into CI/CD observability (Dotan Horovits & Adriel Perkins)
- Simplifying Complex Code with Typemock Isolator (Eli Lopian)
- Tools and Resources to Improve Developer Productivity (Matt Graven)
- Rethinking Trust: Advanced Security Measures for High-Stakes Systems (HotCakeX)
- Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – the Error Management Trio, and how it affects your software architecture (Davide Bellone)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter Forked As Flock (Kay Ewbank)
- Announcing the General Availability of Windows Server IoT 2025! (vlokeshwar)
- Get started with Firebase using Free Trial credits (Andrew Peynado & Rachel Saunders)
Screencasts & Videos
- Windows Terminal Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter with GitHub Copilot! (Michael Jolley)
Podcasts
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #6 – Whispers in the wires: A closer look at the new age of intrusion. (Selena Larsen, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
- InfoQ Podcast: Namee Oberst on Small Language Models and How They are Enabling AI-Powered PCs (Namee Oberst)
- Weekly Reading List Podcast – Oct 28-Nov1 2024 (Richard Seroter)
- Azure Cloud Talk 24/11/4: ️ The Return of Kevin Griffin – Master of Azure Functions and Container Magic! (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Bringing Agile to Hardware Development – Insights from Microsoft, Apple, and More | John Collins and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Future of Agile Hardware Development, A Case Study From High Power Semiconductor Industry | Milad Maleki and Markus Thut (Vasco Duarte)
- DAWbench Radio Show Episode 33 – Music Tech Pioneers V : Peter Gorges: Wizoo to UJAM and Beyond ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Peter Gorges)
- Talk Python to Me #484: From React to a Django+HTMX based stack (Michael Kennedy)
- Syntax Podcast #843: Copilot Kills Cursor? Reacting to Github Universe Keynote (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- CloudChat Episode 15 – Dude, Where’s My Server? (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- The Changelog News Podcast #119 – Tactile controls are back in vogue (Jerod Santo)
- Made by Google Podcast – Google Home’s AI Revolution (Rachid Finge)
- Abstracts: November 4, 2024 (Alyssa Hughes)
- Productive C# Podcast – From Hobbyist to Professional – Andrea Angella Quick Coding Story (Andrea Angella)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #197 – SIEM (Decoupled or Not), and Security Data Lakes: A Google SecOps Perspective (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Listen to Lead: Boost Your Leadership with These Tips (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How Google is helping developers get better answers from AI (Eira May)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Are you “pantless” or “pantsless”? Who (or what) is Beetlejuice? (Jim Norrena, Mignon Fogarty & Samantha Enslen)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 80: What Makes a Neighborhood Trader Joe’s? (Trader Joe’s Team)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #193: Here’s a Quick Way to Jumpstart a Stagnant Engineering Career (Max Ahumada)
- Python Bytes Podcast #408 – python-preference only-managed 3.13t (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode 49: Job Fair (WiT Team)
Community & Events
- Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI (Maxwell Zeff)
- Philly.NET Year-End Bash – December 11th (Philly .NET Team)
- Halo 2 celebrates 20-year milestone with classic maps and E3 demo (Athima Chansanchai)
- Tech Moves: Qualtrics taps Microsoft vet as CFO; F5 names innovation chief (Lisa Stiffler)
- X Says It Has Begun Rolling Out Controversial Change to Block Function (Thomas Maxwell)
- X is allowing people you’ve blocked to see your posts (Umar Shakir)
- The New York Times Tech Guild is on strike (Wes Davis)
Database
- Display SSRS Report in .NET Core Application (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Automating document indexing into Azure Cosmos DB with Logic Apps (Parth Shah)
- How to Convert FileTime to DateTime (Patrick Keisler)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How Microsoft Defender for Office 365 innovated to address QR code phishing attacks (Ramya Chitrakar)
PowerShell
- oh-my-posh v24.0.5 Release (Jan De Dobbeleer)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2213 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Elon Musk’s PAC admits $1 million voter giveaways aren’t ‘random’ (Gaby Del Valle)
- Removing Background Noise From A Video File (Mark Oliver)
- Windows Server 2025 Security Book (Ram Jeyaraman)
- On the limits of time travel in the face of undefined behavior in C (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2024-45 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #166 (Sam Basu)
- dotInsights | November 2024 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – November 4, 2024 (#433) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #625 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Dometrain Course Bundle: Structural Design Patterns in C# (Amichai Mantinband) – Referral Link
