Top Links
- Visual Studio Code January 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- TechBash 2024 Sponsor Prospectus Is Now Available (TechBash Team)
- Easily Load Appointments in .NET MAUI Scheduler with SQLite and Perform CRUD (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Introducing Neural Processor Unit (NPU) support in DirectML (developer preview) (Chad Pralle)
- What’s winget.pro? | Open at Microsoft (Frank Boucher & Michael Herrmann)
- .NET MAUI Tips – Some Dos and Don’ts (David Ortinau)
Web & Cloud Development
- Observability on Azure Container Apps (Abdullah Abu Hassan)
- Simplify JavaScript Development with Lodash (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Pulumi Release Notes: Pulumi ESC, Deployments GA, Pulumi AI Improvements, AWS S3 Express One Zone Support, and more! (Justin Van Patten)
- Ultimate Starter Guide to Middleware in ASP.NET Core: Everything You Need to Know (Nick Cosentino)
- Solved! Visual Studio .http File Not Sending Authorization Header (Steve Smith)
- The Good, The Bad, The Web Components (Zach Leatherman)
- Astro 4.3 (Erika, Emanuele Stoppa, Matthew Phillips, Nate Moore & Bjorn Lu)
- How to Make Your Web Sites Accessible (Beau Carnes)
- Microsoft Edge and Interop 2024 (Patrick Brosset & Dan Clark)
- How to use GraphQL subscriptions (Pooja Mistry)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Moving From Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI? Here’s How (PreEmptive Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Matrix Inverse from Scratch Using SVD Decomposition with C# (James McCaffrey)
- Different Ways to Get the First Record in Each Group With LINQ (Ivan Matec)
- MSVC Toolset Minor Version Number 14.40 in VS 2022 v17.10 (Daniel Griffing)
- Optimizing Your .NET Application with Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) and JIT Settings (Peter Smulovics)
- Using virtual memory placeholders to allocate contiguous address space for multiple purposes (Raymond Chen)
- Introducing Toolbox App 2.2 (Ivan Kuzmin)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- PSF Fixups feature – MSIX Packaging Tool (Horatiu Vladasel)
- The Art of Engineering AI Prompts (Michael Washington)
- Why Test-Driven Development? (Part 2) (Alex Bunardzic)
- Tim Cook confirms Apple’s generative AI features are coming ‘later this year’ (Chris Welch)
- A guide to smoke testing (David Pereira)
- Bard generates photos now, finally (Emilia David)
- Generative AI for Content Creation (Kunal Chowdhury)
- That’s not what code reviews are for! (Matt Lacey)
- Executive Privilege, the Illness. (Russ Laraway)
- What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) (Ethan Mollick)
Screencasts & Videos
- Save money with Arc SQL Server licensing – what you need to know | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 194 – When Old Tech Becomes New (Because it works) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- How to run Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises and Microsoft Intune Suite – beyond endpoint management in 2024 (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Introduction to APIs with .NET [Pt 1] | Back-end Web Development with .NET for Beginners (Safia Abdalla)
- Hannah Ritchie will make you optimistic about climate change (Bill Gates)
- Working with Required Properties & Fields when Reading JSON | On .NET (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
- Can I develop an AI application with Semantic Kernel that can call remote AI plugins? | One Dev Question (Mollie Munoz)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Power of Open Telemetry Dr. Sally Wahba (Scott Hanselman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Fostering Team Collaboration in Scrum, The Essence of Agile Leadership For Scrum Masters | Kulsoom Pervez (Vasco Duarte)
- JS Party Podcast – Angular Signals (Pavel Kozlowski, Alex Rickabaugh, Kevin Ball & Amal Hussein)
- PPP 404 | How Project Managers Can Move Fast and FIX Things, with Anne Morriss (Andy Kaufman)
- What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev (Alyssa Hughes)
- UX Podcast #320 – Digital Ownership with David Dylan Thomas (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Web Rush Episode 266: Why You Should Get CS Degree (John Papa, Ward Bell, Craig Shoemaker & Dan Wahlin)
- Pivotal with Hayete Gallot – BeeOdiversity uses AI and Mother Nature to protect the environment (Heyete Gallot)
Community & Events
- Top 10 reasons to attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Adam Harmetz)
- Connect with Microsoft at these cybersecurity events in 2024 (Benjamin Lim)
Database
- Conditionally Updating Columns When Using ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE In MySQL (Ben Nadel)
- Invoking REST APIs with SQLCLR and Newtonsoft’s Json.NET (Mihailo Joksimovic)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2024 (Mark Kashman)
- Announcing edit support for .vsd files in Visio for the web (Akshay Shahare)
- How Microsoft 365 Delivers Trustworthy AI (Tanner Briggs)
- General availability of Viva Connections extensibility with Bots (Vesa Juvonen)
- Tip of the day: Change quicklink navigation orientation using PnP PowerShell and M365 CLI (Valeras Narbutas)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3139 (Beta Channel) (Brandon LeBlanc)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3873 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- Daily Reading List – February 1, 2024 (#252) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Apps and Services with .NET 8: Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
