Top Links
- Fine-Tuning Fundamentals – Generative AI For Beginners (v2) (Nitya Narasimhan)
- Marten 7.0 is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Demo Review: Azure Vector Search AI Assistant (Jason Haley)
- Lightweight In-Memory Message Bus Using .NET Channels (Milan Jovanović)
- Jared Parsons: Designing C# and Testing a Compiler – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 287 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Free eBook: .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Succinctly (Alessandro Del Sole)
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s new in Svelte: March 2024 (Dani Sandoval)
- Managing your Azure Resources with Deployment Stacks (John Kilmister)
- Azure Static Web App–Assign roles through an Azure Function (Bart Wullems)
- Multi client blob storage access using ASP.NET Core with Entra ID authentication and RBAC (Damien Bowden)
- Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 1) (Temani Afif)
- An Intro to Minimal APIs with ASP.NET Core and .NET 8.0 (Jamie Maguire)
- How to create and add custom middleware in ASP.NET Core (David Grace)
- How to craft a great, measurable developer experience for your APIs (Ankit)
- Fleet 1.31: Improved Markdown Experience, Additional Run Configuration Macros, Support for Vitest, and More (Daniela Bentrup)
- Threads’ API is coming in June (Emilia David)
- Give me a cyber security check list for FHIR RESTful API Systems (John Moehrke)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Debugging MAUI for Beginners and the Erroneous Cursor Position and Element Shadow Not Showing When Inside a ScrollView in MAUI (Iris Classon)
- A light tutorial of CommunityToolkit.Mvvm and Dependency Injection (Brian Mullen)
- Revisited – let‘s publish a WinUI 3 app as a single exe (Joachim Leonfellner)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Data Clustering Using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with C# (James McCaffrey)
- ReSharper 2024.1 EAP 7: Updates to C# and C++ Support and Rider 2024.1 EAP 7: C# Updates, New Product Icons, Bundled Kubernetes Plugin (Alexander Kurakin)
- How to Get the Quarter of a Given Date in C# (Martin Chege)
- Scrutor in C# – 3 Simple Tips to Level Up Dependency Injection and How To Use Polly In C#: Easily Handle Faults And Retries (Nick Cosentino)
- C++/WinRT performance trap: Switching to Windows Runtime too soon (Raymond Chen)
- Having Fun With IT Event Calendars (Alexandre Nedelec)
- ConfigureAwaitOptions in .NET 8 (Bart Wullems)
- Introduction to Brighter in .NET (Code Maze)
- Unveiling Spargine 8: A Comprehensive Guide to .NET 8 Integration and Exciting Feature Updates (David McCarter)
Design, Methodology, AI & Testing
- How To Use the Ladder of Inference to Avoid Cognitive Biases (J.D. Meier)
- Microsoft unveils Copilot Lab to help users get the most out of its AI assistant (Sabrina Ortiz)
- GitHub Copilot Analysis, Customized Rules, and more come to the Azure Migrate application and code assessment (Mike Rousos)
- Here’s how generative AI is about to revolutionize audio creation and editing (Adobe Research Team)
- Is Efficiency A Good Thing? Part II: All the Things That Can Go Wrong (Holly Cummins)
- The four tenets of SOA revisited (Mark Seemann)
- How Sora (actually) works (Mike Young)
- RAG techniques: Function calling for more structured retrieval (Pamela Fox)
- diffie – Library for making textual reports, similar to a simplified `diff` command-line utility, of the differences between two strings, or two lists of objects (of whatever type) (Dave Aronson)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Spotify and Epic criticize Apple’s iOS changes as ‘a mockery of the DMA’ (Emma Roth)
- Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0 – Resources, UI Testing, iOS Accessibility, and Preview Annotation (Sebastian Aigner)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 198 – The Hype Fix (Live from MWC 2024) #mwc2024 (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 524 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast – AI and the Future of Education with Seth Goldin (Quincy Larson)
- Gone Mobile Podcast 96: Selling Jon on Reactive Extensions (Jonathan Dick & Allan Ritchie)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode 109 – AWS Certification Exam Prep – Part 1/6 with Anya Derbakova and Ted Trentler and Episode 110 – AWS Certification Exam Prep – Part 2/6 with Anya Derbakova and Ted Trentler and Episode 111 – AWS Certification Exam Prep – Part 3/6 with Anya Derbakova and Ted Trentler (David Isbitski)
- The .NET on AWS Show, Featuring Dennis Doomen! (Brandon Minnick & Francois Bouteruche)
- React Native Radio – The State of React Native survey with Bartłomiej Bukowski (Bartłomiej Bukowski & Mazen Chami)
- Unraveling Tech Challenges: DevOps Reflections, Disaster Recovery, and Financial Insights – Adventures in DevOps 192 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Syntax Podcast Episode 737: JSR: The New TypeScript Package Registry (NPM Killer) (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Coding Blocks Podcast – Multi-Value, Spatial, and Event Store Databases (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast – Zed’s secret sauce (Nathan Sobo, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Azure Podcast Episode 488- Express Route Monitoring (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- AGL 354: Hannah Ryu and Veronica Shelton (John Rouda)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #158: How to Minimize Regret and Maximize Success with Omar Halabieh | Tech Director at Amazon Payment Services (Max Ahumada)
- Talk Python to Me #451: Djangonauts, Ready for Blast-Off (Michael Kennedy)
Community & Events
- TRAINING: VSLive! “From Zero to .NET MAUI” – 2-Day Hands-On Training – March 19-20, 2024 (Kurt Shintaku)
- Time to share your RSS feeds ❤️ (Thomas Bnt)
- Microsoft Build 2024 – Save the date (In Seattle and Online: May 21-23, 2024 PT) (Microsoft)
Database
- SQL Server Plan Cache Bloat Performance Impacts (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Building MongoDB Aggregations (Robert Sheldon)
- Why Multiple Seeks Are Slower For Some SQL Server Queries (Erik Darling)
Miscellaneous
- The Value of Conference Speaking (Jason Romans)
- Volkswagen ID.7 review: a superior EV that happens to be a sedan (Tim Stevens)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3894 (Chris Alcock)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #135 (Sam Basu)
- F# Weekly #9, 2024 – Should Hedgehog be an official F# mascot? (Sergey Tihon)
- Code Maze Weekly #204 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- C# Digest – .NET Performance Optimization: Deferred Allocations (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Collective #817 (Manoela Ilic)
The Geek Shelf
Refactoring with C# (Matt Eland) – Referral Link
The C# Player's Guide (2nd Edition): RB Whitaker: 9780985580124: Books