Top Links
- Announcing NuGet 6.5 – The Sweetest Way to Manage Your Packages (Jon Douglas & Nikolche Kolev)
- Introducing Azure Communication Services UI Library to Xamarin & .NET MAUI (Josh Lai)
- Introducing the new Bing in Windows 11 (Bing Team)
- Previewing Phone Link for iPhone users on Windows 11 with Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Try Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 1 (Marian Luparu)
Web & Cloud Development
- Speed Up ASP.NET Core JSON APIs with Source Generators (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- 1. Hello, 30DaysOfLowCode! (Nitya Narasimhan & Sonja Gu)
- Beautiful CSS only Charts with Charts.css (Daniel Fisher)
- Node.js Performance: Best Ways to Notch Up the Application Speed (Hiren Dhaduk)
- How to add Docker support to Visual Studio Code (Jack Wallen)
- Load on Demand: A Solution to Handling Large Data Sets Efficiently in Blazor Gantt Chart (Jayakumar Duraisamy)
- Putting Your Application to the Test with Azure Load Test (John Kilmister)
- Blazor’s New LocationChanging Events in .NET 7 (Jon Hilton)
- Automatically generating tests for JS/TS functions in VS Code with GitHub Copilot (Chris Heilmann)
- How to Get a Responsive Data Grid (Alyssa Nicoll)
- New Microsoft Graph Planner API capabilities now available (Andrew Friedman)
- Customising the RequestDelegate with filters: Behind the scenes of minimal APIs – Part 8 (Andrew Lock)
- Map your world with Map builder! (Bing Team)
- My ScrapingBee journey (Kin Lane)
- Unlocking the data: implementing FHIR Facade in the AI sector (Rien Wertheim)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- WPF v23.1 — June 2023 Roadmap (Alexander Russkov)
- Uno Platform and Bluetooth LE: An Easy-to-Follow Guide to Building a Bluetooth Explorer (Uno Platform Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Difference Between Returning and Awaiting a Task in C# (Ahsan Ullah)
- Resiliency with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Importing ST projects into Visual Studio (Marc Goodner)
- A breaking change in .NET argument exception message formatting (Bertrand Le Roy)
- An alternative to __if_exists in ATL (Anju Del Moral Gonzalez)
- Code Quality – Formatting Classes In Microsoft .NET To Make Them Easy To Read And Modify (David McCarter)
- Sentence Similarity in ML.NET Model Builder (Luis Quintanilla)
- Metalama Status Update (February 2023) (Gael Fraiteur)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why is Satya Nadella a better example of agile leadership than Steve Jobs? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Architecture eBook (Steve Smith)
- How to build a consistent workflow for development and operations teams (Mark Paulsen)
- How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine (Bruno Verachten, Alexander Brandes & Kevin Martens)
- GitHub Announces CodeQL Improvements (Kay Ewbank)
- Microsoft Security Experts discuss evolving threats in roundtable chat (Christine Barrett)
- The Best Innovation Books of All Time (JD Meier)
- How to build a better brainstorming sesh: Try brainwriting (Kat Boogaard)
- Once you give away the farm, you can’t take it back: Recovering from a rogue administrator (Raymond Chen)
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Codespaces (Rizel Scarlett)
- How Copilot helps developers generate code for a Form Recognizer application (Ruth Yakubu)
- Reusing automation on GitHub (Simon Jackson)
- Secret scanning alerts are now available (and free) for all public repositories (Zain Malik)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Get Started With Firebase for Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
- Policy Updates: New Wear OS App Quality Requirements (Ishaan Aggarwal)
Screencasts & Videos
- Why would I use .NET in Azure Functions? | One Dev Question (Melony Qin)
- Google Maps in .NET MAUI iOS? Easy with This Plugin! (Gerald Versluis)
- Elgato Stream Deck and Microsoft Teams Integration Update (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos)
- Armchair Architects: How do you get meaning from your data? (David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann & Eric Charran)
- Calling REST endpoints from T-SQL | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Rie Irish & Rob Farley)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 443 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- CodeNewbie S23:E3 – Saying Yes to Opportunities (Frankie Nicoletti) (CodeNewbie Team)
- InfoQ Podcast: Dan Benjamin on Cloud Data Security and Data Detection and Response (Dan Benjamin)
- The Rework Podcast – The Power of Time Off (Kimberly Rhodes & Jeff Hardy)
- The State of JS Frameworks with Ryan Carniato: Part 2 – JavaScript Jabber 571 (AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
- SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 261: The Data Lakehouse (Carlos L. Chacon)
- Practical AI Podcast – Success (and failure) in prompting (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Kris Nóva (Isaac Levin)
- RunAs Radio – Reliability Management with Lesley Cordero (Richard Campbell)
- React Native Radio 261 – What’s the deal with EAS? (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze)
- Python Bytes Podcast #325 – It’s called a merge conflict (Michael Kennedy)
- A Developer Experience Podcast – Season 1 Wrap-up (Steven Hicks)
Community & Events
- EVENT: Azure Communications Services & Microsoft Teams AMA – March 8, 2023 (Kurt Shintaku)
- Join Microsoft at Embedded World 2023 (Martin Tuip)
- Reflecting on My Career So Far (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
- Top Things to Do in Philadelphia in April 2023 (Visit Philly)
- Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET (Waldek Mastykarz)
- “The moment I shared the news of my pregnancy with the recruiter was the moment I started to build a connection between my career and my personal purpose.” and Written in the Sky (Will Curry)
- The Doodle for Google student contest turns 15 (Selly Sallah)
Database
- Can You Nest Transactions in SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
- Snowflake Temporary Tables vs. Transient Tables (Sergey Gigoyan)
- How to use the SQL WHERE Clause with Examples (Hadi Fadlallah)
- 30 Interview Questions for a Database Administrator and Developer (William Assaf)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- From AI in Teams Premium to updates for Viva—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 (Colette Stallbaumer)
- Introducing apps in Microsoft Teams channel meetings general availability (Daniel Carrasco)
- What’s new in Microsoft Teams (free) | February 2023 (Miikka Oksanen)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2023 (Steve Stein)
- What’s New in Excel (February 2023) (Microsoft Excel)
Miscellaneous
- Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022 (Brian Krebs)
- Introducing the redesigned Microsoft Translator app for iOS (Microsoft Translator Team)
- Jack Dorsey-Backed Twitter Alternative Bluesky Hits the App Store As An Invite-Only App (BeauHD)
- Continuous innovation coming to Windows 11 in March (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- How to create an outstanding resume – Part 2 (Japhlet Nwamu)
- LastPass reveals attackers stole password vault data by hacking an employee’s home computer (Jess Weatherbed)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3656 (Chris Alcock)
- PHP Annotated – February 2023 (Roman Pronskiy)
- Daily Wrap Up – February 28, 2023 (#037) (Richard Seroter)
- Low Code Resources for Developers (Jeff Medford)
The Geek Shelf
Never Far from Home (Bruce Jackson) – Forward by Brad Smith
