Top Links
- Visual Studio Code February 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Continue Processing with Parallel.ForEachAsync (even when exceptions are thrown) (Jeremy Clark)
- Azure Data Studio 1.48 is now available (David Levy)
- Dev Proxy v0.15 with simulating CRUD APIs secured with Microsoft Entra (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
- Copilot for M365 – Starter Series Webinars (Mike Gannotti)
- Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9.2 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
Web & Cloud Development
- An HTML Switch Control (Anne van Kesteren)
- 4 Reasons to Use Angular for Your Next Web App (Alyssa Nicoll)
- Auth0 by Okta: Teams (Abbie Carlson)
- A Full-Stack Web App Using Angular and GraphQL: Adding User Registration Functionality (Part 4) (Ankit Sharma)
- Azure SDK Release (February 2024) (Hector Norzagaray)
- Understanding CommonJS vs. ES Modules in JavaScript (Poorna Theekshana)
- WebAssembly and Containers with Docker Desktop – Hello World & Beyond (Thorsten Hans)
- Docker Desktop 4.28: Enhanced File Sharing and Security plus Refined Builds View in Docker Build Cloud (Vanessa Fournier)
- The End of Third-Party Cookies (E. Dunham)
- Apple vs. PWAs – Go act now and help avoid this disaster… (Chris Heilmann)
- How to Write Your First Rust Web App with Rocket and RustRover (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- You spoke, we listened! Postman’s response to user feedback in GitHub—February 2024 (Postman Team)
- Customizations for Signup and Login are Generally Available (Michael Swanson)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- MAUI ImageButton AspectFit and the Missing Image (Iris Classon)
- Beyond the Basics: Getting Started with the Media Picker in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- .NET MAUI – Native Embedding (Vijay Anand E G)
- OpenSilver 2.1: A Framework for Modern Business Web Apps That Support F# (Vasil Buraliev)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Advanced C# Excel Functions for Data Analysis – Part 1 (Prabhat Sharma)
- EF Core–.NET 8 update (Bart Wullems)
- How to Add Unique Constraints to a Property in EF Core Code-First (Ivan Gechev)
- What’s New in vcpkg (February 2024) (Augustin Popa)
- On the whole idea of giving away a reference to yourself at destruction (Raymond Chen)
- Activator.CreateInstance in C# – A Quick Rundown (Nick Cosentino)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- JetBrains AI Assistant – A Welcome Time Saver (Sue Gee)
- What is Product Strategy? (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Low-Code LLM Apps with LocalAI, Flowise, and Pulumi on AWS (Engin Diri)
- RAG is Dead. Long Live RAG! (David Myriel)
- App Configuration: where does it go? (Derek Comartin)
- Customizing and fine-tuning LLMs: What you need to know (Nicole Choi)
- How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned (Riley Broughten)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Announcing the Ionic 8 Beta (Liam DeBeasi)
- Essential React Native Performance Tips and Tricks (Shaik Mukthahar)
Screencasts & Videos
- How does .NET MAUI get me to market faster if I’m a startup? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montequila)
- Atlas Full Text Search in a C# Blazor Application (MongoDB Team)
- FreeCodeSession – Special Episode 8 (Jason Bock)
- Develop Your Copilot Skills (Part 2) (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 167: Do You Have A Brand? (Ben Nadel)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 736: CJ Reynolds is Joining Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinksi)
- Practical AI Podcast – Representation Engineering (Activation Hacking) (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Changelog – Dance Party (Adam Stacoviak, Jerod Santo & Breakmaster Cylinder)
- The Changelog – Leading in the era of AI code intelligence (Quinn Slack & Adam Stacoviak)
- Software Engineering Radio 605: Yingjun Wu on Streaming Databases (Brijesh Ammanath)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 71: Inside – And Outside – Trader Joe’s in Providence, RI (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Value Over Velocity, A Product Owner’s Journey to Value-Driven Development, NoEstimates Unplugged Week | Maryse Meinen (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Join us in 2024 — events to get your teams AI-ready (Takeshi Numoto)
- Partner Blog | 2024 Microsoft Partner events (Jill Armour)
- DirectX Innovation on Display at GDC 2024 (Joshua Tucker)
- Needs of a member-driven but public-interest global organization (Seth Dobbs)
- EA: Continuing to evolve our business and teams – An update on our business (Andrew Wilson) – More tech layoffs
Database
- Vote For My Idea: SSMS Right Click To Open Execution Plans In A New Tab (Erik Darling)
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-February 2024 (Azure Team)
- Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL using Azure Portal (John Miner)
- Find and Replace Text in Strings in T-SQL (Edward Pollack)
Miscellaneous
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3892 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Reading List – February 28, 2024 (#268) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
