Tag: microsoft azure

Top Links

• Azure OpenAI Service expands .NET SDK support (Travis Wilson)
• Windows Community Toolkit Release v8.1.240606-rc (Michael Hawker)
• Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs (Pavan Davuluri)
• Using .NET Aspire eShop application to collect all the telemetry (Harry Kimpel)
• Sample Code using the new OpenAI library for .NET (Bruno Capuano)
• VS Code Extensions and WebAssembly – Part Two (Dirk Bäumer)

Web & Cloud Development

• Retrying Failed HttpClient Requests in .NET Using Polly (Gergő Vándor)
• Build Your First Go Function (Jack Wallen)
• Faster Startup for Azure App Config (Kevin Logan)
• Fixing SCSS Bracket Colorization Issue in Visual Studio Code (Esther White)
• Optimize Blog Management with Angular Gantt Chart (Alan Sangeeth)
• Inject JavaScript to PDF Documents in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
• Rust Growing Fastest, But JavaScript Reigns Supreme (EditorDavid)
• Useful CSS Tips And Techniques (Cosima Mielke)
• Does an HttpClient await the Header and the body? (Steven Giesel)
• Is user-agent a privacy concern? (Alex Brown)
• FHIRlink Connector Support for EPIC on FHIR (Jim Novak)
• Caching in ASP.NET Core: Improving Application Performance (Milan Jovanović)
• Goodbye SASS , welcome back native CSS (Karsten Biedermann)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Markup Extensions and Styles (Stefan Koell)
• WinUI Templates (Andrew KeepCoding)

Visual Studio & .NET

• VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Diagnostics Explorer, XAML Support and More (Robert Krzaczyński)
• How to Use the LINQ ToDictionary Method in C# (Januarius Njoku)
• Frozen Collections in .NET 8 (Sharmila Subbiah)
• Write cleaner code in C# with changes you may not know about (David Grace)
• What’s the deal with std::type_identity? (Raymond Chen)
• Collection Performance: Enhancing Dictionary Performance with FrozenDictionary (David McCarter)
• Making C# Simple with Fluent Techniques (Niraj Ranasinghe)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Announcement!! Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors are now Generally Available (GA) (Divya Swarnkar)
• Visual Studio Code AI Toolkit: Run LLMs locally (Shreyan Fernandes & Lee Stott)
• Combining the To-Do List and the Passage Of Time patterns for resilient business workflows (Oskar Dudycz)
• Agile fails 268% of the time? (Wes Higbee)
• Build a Generative AI + RAG App in C# with Phi-3, ONNX, and SharpVector and Configuring GitHub Actions to Run Jobs on Specific Branches and What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Why pair programming should be your default way of working (Bart Wullems)
• 8 Learning Paths for Beginners on GitHub (Cynthia Zanoni)
• Why we should care about process (Dave Ogle)
• Test & Feedback Extension in Manifest V3 (Jihye Eom)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• What’s new in Swift 5.10? and What’s new in Swift 6.0? (Paul Hudson)
• Getting Started with Appwrite (Part 1/4): The Open-Source Firebase Alternative (Thomas Findlay)

Screencasts & Videos

• Can I run VS Code on a Raspberry Pi? | One Dev Question (Burke Holland)

Podcasts

• Merge Conflict #414: x86 is BACK! (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Motivating Scrum Teams with User-Centric Approaches, Product Owner Best Practices | Rebecca Cyr (Vasco Duarte)
• The NetData Impact: Transforming Real-Time Monitoring and Observability in Modern Tech Operations – Adventures in DevOps #203 (Costa Tsaousis & Will Button)
• React Native Radio #299 – What to Expect From React Native in 5 Years (Jamon Holmgren, Todd Werth & Robin Heinze)
• The .NET on AWS Show, featuring Martin Thwaites (again)! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
• Syntax Podcast #779: Why SQLite is Taking Over with Brian Holt & Marco Bambini (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
• Coding Blocks Podcast – Nuts and Bolts of Apache Kafka (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast #47 – #define: legendary (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer, Jerod Santo & Adam Stackoviak)
• A Geek Leader #368: AI Tools with Peter Guirguis (John Rouda)
• Gone Mobile Podcast #109: Dependency Injection – Beyond the Basics (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
• Talk Python to Me #465: The AI Revolution Won’t Be Monopolized (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• MVP’s Favorite Content: Copilot+ PC, AI, Identity, Aspire (Rie Moriguchi)
• Tech Presentations: Key Strategies for Success (Rochelle Sonnenberg)
• Register today to join Microsoft at the Integrate 2024 conference! (Beena More)
• What to expect at Apple’s WWDC 2024 (Umar Shakir)
• Microsoft unveils console updates, new ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Flight Simulator’ games (Thomas Wilde)
• Kubernetes is ten years old! (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)

Database

• A Very Silly Performance Tuning Trick In SQL Server (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• How to connect your Copilot to a SharePoint list with Copilot Studio and Power Automate (Vesa Nopanen)
• Northwind inventory message extension sample – Copilot for M365 Plugin Samples (Bob German)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3720 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.770 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
• Nvidia Takes 88% of the GPU Market Share (BeauHD)
• After brutal critiques, Microsoft Recall will get these major privacy and security changes (Ed Bott)
• JetBrains IDE RustRover Officially Released with Free Non-Commercial License (Sergio De Simone)
• Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (Tom Warren)
• Ikea will pay 10 Roblox players to roleplay as employees in its virtual store (Wes Davis)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3956 (Chris Alcock)
• C# Digest – A beginner’s guide to mapping arrays in EF Core 8 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #23, 2024 – Official OpenAI library for .NET (Sergey Tihon)
• Daily Reading List – June 7, 2024 (#335) (Richard Seroter)
• Collective #845 (Manoela Ilic)

The Geek Shelf

 Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link