Top Links
- Getting started with delivering generative AI capabilities in SQL Server and Azure SQL (Bob Ward)
- Introducing the New Blazor TextArea Component (Saravanan G.)
- Analyze your API Specs with Azure API Center (Preview) (Azure Team)
- Is .NET Aspire NuGet for Cloud Service Dependencies? (Phil Haack)
- Updated Documentation for Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
- Can Figma’s new Design AI create concepts for Windows apps? (Joseph Finney)
Web & Cloud Development
- Is Your ASP.NET Core Application Running In A Container? (Adam Storr)
- Integrating Tailwind CSS in Blazor (Tim Deschryver)
- Using a Blazor Excel Datasheet to Update a Database (Michael Washington)
- Blazor Basics: Styling Blazor Components with CSS (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Conditionally Add Middleware in ASP.NET Core (Karthikeyan N S)
- Build exciting career opportunities with new Azure skilling options (Kristina Corbitt)
- Open Source ‘Eclipse Theia IDE’ Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code (David Ramel)
- Announcing pkg.pr.new (Mohammad Bagher Abiyat)
- .NET 9 .: Bye Swashbuckle (Mohamad Lawand)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Soft Deletes with Entity Framework Core – Bulk Deletes (Ricardo Peres)
- Writing a remove_all_pointers type trait, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
- Publish a console app as a single executable (Bart Wullems)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Postbot: a look inside Postman’s AI assistant (Postbot Team)
- Let’s build an Enterprise AI Assistant (Rinat Abdullin)
- Fine-tuning Gemma 2 with Keras – and an update from Hugging Face (Martin Görner)
- Explaining generative language models to (almost) anyone (Cameron R. Wolfe)
- Meet GitLab Duo Workflow – the future of AI-driven development (David DeSanto)
- DZone Refcard: Low-Code Development – Elevating the Engineering Experience With No and Low Code (Shantanu Kumar, Eric Goebelbecker, Stelios Manioudakis, Sudip Sengupta, G. Ryan Spain & Lucy Marcum)
- TeamCity 2024.03.3 Bug Fix Is Now Available (Olga Bedrina)
- My 5 favorite ways of keeping the technical axe sharp (Michael Eaton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift 6 Brings New Opt-In Data-Race Safe Mode (Sergio De Simone)
- Microsoft and Amazon team up to launch Xbox cloud gaming app on Fire TV devices (Thomas Wilde)
Screencasts & Videos
- Blazor, Aspire, and Open Source (Jeff Fritz)
- Similarity Search with FAISS and Azure SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- Give your PC a caffeine boost ☕ | PowerToys Awake (Martin Zikmund)
- What’s your favorite thing at Build with Jordi Adoumie | One Dev Question (Microsoft Developer Team)
- A Conversation with Windows Subsystem for Linux Expert Craig Loewen (Ale Thomas)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Breaking the Compromise: Unravelling the Truths of Cyber Security with Lianne Potter and Jeff Watkins (Jamie Taylor)
- Sync Up – The OneDrive podcast lights up YouTube (Mark Kashman)
- JS Party Podcast #328 – React Native the Expo way (Simon Grimm & Jerod Santo)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Measuring Scrum Master Impact Beyond the Lean and Agile Metrics | Avipaul Bhandari (Vasco Duarte)
- PPP 420 | Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager, with FranklinCovey’s Kory Kogon (Andy Kaufman)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How to build open source apps in a highly regulated industry (Ben Popper)
- The CSS Podcast #082: What’s new in color & color functions (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 473: RESOLVED: Unscheduled Outage (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Hampton Roads DevFest 2024 Retrospective (Kevin W. Griffin)
- MVP’s Insights on Copilot for Our Lives and Startups (Rie Moriguchi)
- 5 things we learned from sponsoring a sampling of our open source dependencies (Emma Irwin & Justin Gosses)
- Strategic Content Partnership with TIME (OpenAI Team)
Database
- Regular Expressions in MySQL (Scott Stroz)
- Some Notes On Query Tuning With Batch Mode In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- A Walkthrough – DATETRUNC Function in SQL Server and Functions and Missing Indexes – SQL in Sixty Seconds 204 (Pinal Dave)
- Using Query Store to Identify CPU Intensive SQL Queries and Creating Proper Indexes (Edwin Sarmiento)
- SQL Transpiler in 23 – automatic PL/SQL conversion into SQL (Ulrike Schwinn)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Improvements to Contacts in the Outlook for Mac (Jeremy Perdue)
PowerShell
- PowerShell & Intune, Automate your Work – Part 2: Retrieve Win32 App Assignments (Alex Marin)
- Using PowerShell 7 as a replacement for Windows PowerShell 5.1 (Michael Niehaus)
- Introducing the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module (Steve Mutungi)
Miscellaneous
- Transform Firefox into the ultimate minimalist browser (Kristina Bravo)
- Welcome to the Digital Preservation of Languages: Microsoft Language Bank (Shelby Healy)
- Windows on Arm puts Intel on notice (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3970 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – June 27, 2024 (#348) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
