Top Links
- Introducing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program and 2023 Microsoft Work Trend Index (Jared Spataro)
- Language models can explain neurons in language models (Jan Leike, Jeffrey Wu, Steven Bills, William Saunders, Leo Gao, Henk Tillman & Daniel Mossing)
- Do you really need MVVM? (Matt Lacey)
- What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components version 2.3.0 (Vincent Baaij)
- Upcoming availability of .NET Framework 4.8.1 on Windows Update and Catalog (Brett Lopez)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor Basics: What is Blazor—Introduction to Blazor Development (Claudio Bernasconi)
- An Introduction to Container Queries in CSS (Stephanie Eckles)
- Understanding Kubernetes: A Developer’s Guide to Containerized Applications (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Manage Vite Assets Like A Pro (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Migrating comments from Disqus to giscus (Andrew Lock)
- Microsoft Purview: Comprehensive solutions for data governance, protection, compliance & management. (Jaswant Singh)
- API Security Checklist: How to Protect Your APIs (John Iwuozor)
- From a Desktop App to Web App: How To Start the Transition? (Katie Mikova)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Toast in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Multidimensional Array vs Jagged Array in C# (Dusko Mirkovic)
- 7 Things about C#: The Platform and 7 Things about C#: Introduction (Joe Mayo)
- What are the duck-typing requirements of MFC IPTR? (Raymond Chen)
- How to start using .NET Background Services (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Myths about F#: F#’s strict ordering is dumb! No, it’s great for taming dependencies. (Urs Enzler)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 (Gloridel Morales)
- You Are MORE than Enough (‘Tine Zekis)
- An open proposal to OpenAI, Bard, Amazon, et al…: GPTeachers (Chris Heilmann)
- How companies are boosting productivity with generative AI (Chris Reddington)
- How To Use AI Tools To Skyrocket Your Programming Productivity (Shane Duggan)
- In the middle of planning (Eric Brechner)
- How To Balance Your Vision with Customer Needs (JD Meier)
- Infrastructure as Code in Any Programming Language (Joe Duffy)
- How to fix a ReDoS (Kevin Backhouse)
- GitHub Code Search and Code View: A New Era of Code Intelligence (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Microsoft Work Trend Index: AI will work alongside employees (Megan Crouse)
- Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories (Zain Malik)
- The New Learning Center Is Now Available in TeamCity Cloud (Olga Bedrina)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Introducing the new Google Pay button view on Android (Jose Ugia)
- Kotlin News: 1.8.20 Release, KotlinConf Keynote, Redesigned Mascot, Kotlin Foundation News, and More (Daria Voronina)
- Now available: Sponza scene remaster for Unity devs (Kristijonas Jalnionis)
Screencasts & Videos
- Server-Side Render Blazor Apps in .NET 8 (Isaac Levin)
- Building an app with .NET MAUI and Telerik Components – Part 2 – Charts (Daniel Hindrikes)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 454 (Jason Bock)
- Learn About Windows on Arm with the NPU-accelerated Windows Arm Developer Kit | Let’s Get Personal : Computing (Jim Bennett & Ivette Carreras)
Podcasts
- CodeNewbie S24:E1 – From Customer Service to Code (Tae’lur Alexis) (CodeNewbie Team)
- RunAs Radio – Azure Virtual Desktop Accelerator with Jen Sheerin (Richard Campbell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Challenging the Team, The Scrum Master’s Role as a Change Agent | Manuele Piastra (Vasco Duarte)
- The ReadME Podcast – The open/closed equilibrium (Avi Press, Jessica Januik, Ben Johnson, Martin Woodward, Kelsey Hightower & Neha Batra)
- Azure Podcast Episode 459 – AIOps (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Coffee and Open Source Podcast – Chris O’Dell (Isaac Levin)
- Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Engineering the Digital Future with Matt Zimmermann (Rob Slaughter)
Community & Events
- Free Webcast Next Week! What’s New (and Actually Good) in SQL Server 2022 (Brent Ozar)
- LinkedIn Will Cut Over 700 Jobs Worldwide and Shut Its China App (msmash)
Database
- New SQL Server Feature – WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY option to create indexes (Daniel Calbimonte)
- SQL SUBSTRING Function Code Examples (Rajendra Gupta)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams apps now available in public preview in the Microsoft 365 iOS app (Sheena Makker)
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17.2 for Microsoft 365 extensibility (Vesa Juvonen)
- Introducing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program and new capabilities in Copilot (Colette Stallbaumer)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Porting System.Web.Security.Membership.GeneratePassword() to PowerShell (Francisco Nabas)
- Restart Mac From Command Line (David Walsh)
Miscellaneous
- right person (ThreddyRex)
- Astronomers claim to have solved mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.1755 and 22624.1755 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Firefox 113 significantly boosts accessibility performance (Kristina Bravo)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3702 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – May 9, 2023 (#085) (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
