Top Links
- Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 1 has arrived! (Adrian Murphy)
- TechBash 2023 Workshop Duo Spotlight: Azure MLOps -&- Troubleshooting and Monitoring Production Applications Using OpenTelemetry (TechBash Team)
- Introducing the new IHostedLifecycleService Interface in .NET 8 (Steve Gordon)
- Announcing TypeScript 5.2 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Welcome to the Microsoft Learn Contributor Home! (Kiran Chandratrey)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure AI Hub – A curated list of the official Microsoft SDKs, Samples and other guidance around Azure OpenAI and other Cognitive Services (Azure Team)
- Collaborating with Open Web Docs for great PWA docs (Patrick Brosset)
- Build a real-time voting app with WebSockets, React & TypeScript ⚡️ (Vince Canger)
- ASP.NET Core Basics: Tag Helpers (Assis Zang)
- Docker Desktop 4.22: Resource Saver, Compose ‘include’, and Enhanced RBAC Functionality (Chris McLellan)
- Auth0 Stable Support For Next.js App Router! (Juan Cruz Martinez)
- A Beginner’s Guide to CSS Grid Layout (Ralph Mason)
- How to Make Automatic WordPress Backups on the Cloud (Rob Pugh)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
- Node v16.20.2 (LTS) and Node v18.17.1 (LTS) and Node v20.5.1 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- How to run a monitor with the Postman API (David Espi Hernandez)
- How BoldSign Helps Developers (Meikanda Nayanar)
- Google Makes it Easier to Create Go Applications on Google Cloud (Sergio De Simone)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Calendar is Now Here: Easy to Use, Feature-Rich and Customizable (Rossitza Fakalieva)
- Chart of the Week: Creating a .NET MAUI Box and Whisker Chart for Machine Impact Test Analysis (Sowndharya Selladurai)
- Background Work in Uno Platform Applications (Uno Platform Team)
- .NET MAUI + Azure Pipelines + iOS TestFlight! (Walter Aguilar)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Generate a Loan EMI Schedule as an Excel Document Using C# (Mohan Chandran)
- Introducing CMake Debugger in VS Code: Debug your CMake Scripts using Open-Source CMake Debugger (Sinem Akinci)
- Create, Fill, and Edit Fillable PDF Forms Using C# – A Complete Guide (Sowmiya Loganathan)
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.29 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- .NET 8 Interceptors (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Announcing ODP.NET 23c Dev Release (Alex Keh)
- How to Configure Rolling File Logging With Serilog (Code Maze)
- Best practices for OpenTelemetry in .NET (Dennis Fruhauff)
- Using the parameters of a method in a Moq setup to define the return value (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
- Inside STL: The deque, design (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- The ABCs of AI Transformers, Tokens, and Embeddings: A LEGO Story (Dan Wahlin)
- Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure (Jaroslav Lobacevski)
- GitHub: Enhanced push protection features for developers and organizations (Zain Malik)
- Container Security and Why It Matters (Kat Yi)
- Navigating the Future with a Fine-Tuned Product Backlog (Martin Hinshelwood)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Introducing Jetpack Emoji Picker: A New Way to Add Emojis to Your Android App (Lin Guo)
- Generative Art in Flutter (Roaa)
- Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable: check out new features! (Anna Bernbaum & Kseniia Shumelchyk)
- What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’23 release (Ben Trengrove)
- Roblox is aiming for Westworld-like ease of design with generative AI tools (Jay Peters)
- Getting Started with Compose for Wear OS (Ravikant Sahu)
Screencasts & Videos
- Frontline updates in Microsoft Teams, Windows 365, Copilot & Dynamics 365 Field Service (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Live Coding – Adding .NET 8 Preview 7 and WPF folder picker to Uno Platform (Martin Zikmund)
- Debugging a ChatGPT Plugin with .NET and DevTunnels | On .NET (Luis Quintanilla)
- Does my code get used to train GitHub Copilot? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
- What I Wish I Knew… about handling rejection (Nick Ryan)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Leveling up your Architecture Game with Thomas Betts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 139: New Tables vs New Columns (Ben Nadel)
- Practical AI Podcast – Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Changelog – Thinking outside the box of code (Leslie Lamport & Jerod Santo)
- The CSS Podcast #68: Why isn’t the margin applying? (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- Software Engineering Radio 576: Jens Neuse on Back Ends for Front Ends (Jeff Doolittle)
- Talk Python to Me #426: What’s New in PyScript [August 2023] (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- What’s going on in Moq? SponsorLink and burnt soil! (Steven Giesel)
- Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data (BeauHD)
- Moq adds nagware; Where’s the .NET Foundation in all this? (George Stocker)
- You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (Jay Peters)
- On Moq and our Part in the OSS Sustainability Social Contract (Sean Killeen)
- Gates Foundation selects 48 projects in AI ‘Grand Challenge’ (Todd Bishop)
Database
- Use T-SQL to Perform Statistical Calculations on SQL Server Data (Rick Dobson)
- Enhancements to Microsoft Purview policies for Arc-enabled SQL Server (Vlad Rodriguez)
- Maximizing SQL Server Security: Instance Hiding vs SQL Browser Disable (Pinal Dave)
- Stop Azure SQL Database (Edita Hovhannisyan Topalyan)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Integrate Azure OpenAI into Microsoft Teams with the Teams Toolkit (Aman Panjwani)
- Use Windows 365 and Teams Walkie Talkie on ThinkPhone (Athima Chansanchai)
- Goal Broadcasts for Leaders: Communicating Goals to Your Team Just Got Easier (Vidarth Jaikrishnan)
PowerShell
- Use PowerShell to remediate Non-Compliant Policy Definitions (Basvan Bennekom)
- PowerShell Functions Explained: WhatIf, Verbose, and Passing Parameters (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (David Pierce)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25926 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Full Stack Developer Openings at biBERK (Jason Gaylord)
- Introducing Kids to Coding Through Tkinter: A Fun Path to Python’s Graphical User Interfaces (Phylis Jepchumba)
More Link Collections
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- Daily Reading List – August 9, 2023 (#139) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3 (Skye Hoefling) – Referral Link
