Top Links
- PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Fall 2023 Update (Sydney Smith)
- Anatomy of a .NET devcontainer (Tim Heuer)
- Announcing Microsoft Applied Skills, the new credentials to verify in-demand technical skills (Laura Longcore)
- Boost your app’s visibility and engagement in Microsoft 365 (Nnamdi Onuorah and Daniel Carrasco)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 5 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.10 expected on November 8 (Azure Sphere Team)
- Blazor Basics: Blazor Component (Re-)Rendering (Claudio Bernasconi)
- A CSS Property for Creating Depth (Geoff Graham)
- Integration Testing GraphQL Endpoints with Alba (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Examining use cases for asynchronous APIs: webhooks and WebSockets (Ian Douglas)
- MDX with Web Components (Dave Rupert)
- Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
- WebKit Features in Safari 17.1 (Jen Simmons)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- CRUD Operations & EF Core Migrations with Telerik UI for .NET MAUI (Part 1) (Rossitza Fakalieva)
- Chart of the Week: Creating a WPF Column Chart for Countries with the Most Active Volcanoes (Saiyathalifathimabee Moidhinabdhulkathar)
- Visual Studio Developer Community – .NET Desktop Workload doesn’t include WinUI Project templates (VOTE) (Morten Nielsen)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Read a String From a .resx (Resource) File in C# (Code Maze)
- Secure Your PDF Documents Like a Pro Using C# and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Made Easy with the .NET PDF Library in C# (Sowmiya Loganathan)
- The format of icon resources, revisited (Raymond Chen)
- How to Master the Art of Reflection in CSharp and Boost Your Programming Skills (Nick Cosentino)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Salesforce Code Builder Is Now Generally Available (Stephanie Maddox & Mohith Shrivastava)
- Clean Architecture Example (Kevin Logan)
- Converting Full Terraform States to Pulumi (Fraser Waters)
- Pulumi Deployments is Generally Available: Scale Your Infrastructure, Not Your Headcount (Meagan Cojocar)
- Embracing the Strangler Fig pattern for legacy modernization [Part one] (Premanand Chandrasekaran)
- 5 Tried-and-Tested Tactics to Motivate Your Hybrid Team (Radical Candor Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- iOS 17.1 has officially been released (Jon Porter)
- Teacher’s Pi cluster controls digital learning classroom (Ashley Whittaker)
- 3 ways we work to make Google Play more accessible (Deepthi Menon)
- Valve officially releases SteamVR 2.0 (Jay Peters)
Screencasts & Videos
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Porting WinUI 3 code! (Martin Zikmund)
- Recordings From JetBrains GameDev Day 2023 Are Available (Anna Ruban)
- What is meant by GitHub Copilot X is a vision? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
- What I Wish I Knew… About Thriving at Microsoft (John Kennedy)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Observability Engineering with Charity Majors (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 150: What’s On Your Workbench (Ben Nadel)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Strategies for Aligning Distributed Agile Teams In A Large Scale Agile Adoption | Anna Mbengam (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 – Part 2 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Rework Podcast – Build an Audience (Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson & Kimberly Rhodes)
- Practical AI Podcast – Deep learning in Rust with Burn (Nathaniel Simard, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Code, Write, Play Podcast – 20 Years Without a Chance (Todd Mitchell)
- Jamstack Radio Episode #136 – Serverless Postgres with Nikita Shamgunov of Neon (Brian Douglas)
- Talk Python to Me #435 – PyPI Security (Michael Kennedy)
- Software Engineering Radio 587: M. Scott Ford on Managing Dependency Freshness (Sam Taggart)
Community & Events
- Why Women Are Underrepresented in Open Source (Barbaño González)
- We’re Hiring A Senior Technical Program Manager (Den Delimarsky)
- Celebrating accessibility and disability inclusion at Google (Laura Allen)
- Twitter alternative Pebble — previously known as T2 — announces shock closure (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Database
- Learn MySQL – Beginner’s Course (Beau Carnes)
- SQL SERVER – Comparing LIKE vs LEFT for Column Comparisons (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- REFRESH: PowerShell Commands Every Developer Should Know: 50+ Cmdlets for Getting Things Done, Monitoring Performance, Debugging (HitSubscribe)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25982 (Canary Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
- You can help Mystery Science Theater 3000 make a 14th season (Dan Selcke)
- 5 Ways to Clean the AppData Folder in Windows (Michael Reinders)
- A new report suggests Copilot may replace the iconic Start Button on the rumored Windows 12 (Priya Walia)
- Satya Nadella: Microsoft ‘doubling down’ as a game publisher after Activision Blizzard deal (Robert Collins)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3810 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – October 25, 2023 (#190) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link
