Next week, I’ll probably only publish a couple of Dew Drops. I will be at VSLIve in Redmond for the week. Back to normal service on Monday, Aug 12th.
Top Links
- Visual Studio Code July 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Building Apps with Visual Studio in the Cloud with Dev Box | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Isaac Levin)
- Introducing Agents in Semantic Kernel (Chris Rickman)
- Windows Dev Chat – August 15, 2024 (Windows Developer Team)
- Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available (Seneca Friend, Femi Adebayo & Ron Martinsen)
- Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub (Thomas Dohmke)
Web & Cloud Development
- .NET Aspire : Supercharge your .NET DX (Divyesh Bhandari)
- Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 is now available! (Zach Leatherman)
- Windows 365 management capabilities now on N-able Cloud Commander (Ivaylo Ivanov)
- Astro 4.13 (Erika)
- How to Resize JavaScript DataGrid Columns Using Your Keyboard (Chris Bannon)
- Adding Serilog to ASP.NET Core: a practical guide (Metalama Team)
- How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js (Tim Benniks)
- The Evolution of Web Development: From HTML5 to JavaScript and Beyond (Janus Atienza)
- AI-driven insights reduce TCO for Windows 365 Cloud PCs (Ben Murphy)
- How to Harden WordPress: An 18-Step Guide with Essential Tools (Jen Swisher)
- HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier! (Kev Bonett)
- ASP.NET Core 8 using DataTables.net – Part 9 – Advanced Filters (Mark Pelf)
- How Astro and Its Server Islands Compare To React Frameworks (Richard MacManus)
- Reduce allocations and comparison performance with the new unique package in Go 1.23 (Joseph Woodward)
- ESLint adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives (Sebastian Weber)
Visual Studio & .NET
- The Singleton Pattern in C# Today Is Not Your Dad’s One! (Metalama Team)
- What’s the difference between DataPackageView.GetUriAsync and DataPackageView.GetWebLinkAsync? (Raymond Chen)
- What’s New in vcpkg (July 2024) (Augustin Popa)
- The Worst .NET Bug I’ve Ever Fixed (Aaron Stannard)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Integrate Test Driven Development With CI/CD (Boemo Wame Mmopelwa)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- VirtualBox for Windows IoT development (Paul Guerin)
Screencasts & Videos
- What are GitHub Copilot Extensions? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
- ICYMI: Video Series on TCP/IP Application Protocol Design (Stephen Cleary)
- Connect your Minecraft Game with MongoDB. (MongoDB Team)
- Aspireify.. its a thing we do (Jeff Fritz)
- GitHub Models DEMO | AI models for developers on GitHub (GitHub Team)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Founding and Growing an Engineering Company with Dr. Olga Kubassova (Olga Kubassova)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The True Purpose of Scrum Ceremonies, and How They Help to Grow Self-organizing Agile Teams | Karina Margole (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast #333 – A Nick-level emergency (Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball & Nick Nisi)
- The CSS Podcast 085: Linear easing function fun (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- Azure Podcast – Cobalt 100 Processor (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- UI Breakfast Episode 285: Designing for Real-world Experiences with Dave Waddell (Jane Portman)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet (Eira May)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 478: Beware of the Llama (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will cut $10 billion in costs (Sean Hollister)
- Bungie CEO Faces Backlash After Announcing 220 Employees Will Be Laid Off (BeauHD)
Database
- JDBC Driver 12.8 for SQL Server Released and ODBC Driver 18.4 for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
- A T-SQL Query To Get The Text Between Two Delimiters In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Cumulative Update #28 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
- Azure SQL free database: Azure Data Studio, PowerApps, GitHub copilot, Power BI, and Generative AI (Marisa Mathews)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Up to speed with Copilot and Teams (Vesa Nopanen)
- Built for today, designed for the future – The new Outlook for Windows is ready when you are (Margie Clinton)
- New Windows 365 features help provide a more secure workspace (Lavanya Kasarabada)
- Windows 365 at three years: Customer-centric solutions for security, management and productivity (Scott Manchester)
Miscellaneous
- Apple reports third quarter results (Apple)
- Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo (Erica Brozovsky)
- Windows App general availability coming soon (Hilary Braun)
- Microsoft Now Lists OpenAI as a Competitor in AI and Search (msmash)
- Arm Revenue Jumps 39 Percent to $939 Million and Qualcomm Revenues Up 11 Percent to $9.4 Billion (Paul Thurrott)
- Amazon sales miss expectations, profits nearly double (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3995 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- dotInsights | August 2024 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – August 1, 2024 (#368) (Richard Seroter)
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