Top Links Visual Studio Code April 2024 (Visual Studio Code Team) Exploring multi-window support for Linux, macOS, and Windows (Uno Platform Team) Microsoft introduces passkeys for consumer accounts (Vasu Jakkal & Joy Chik) WinGet: Enabling experimental features in production (Roy MacLachlan, Demitrius Nelon and Heather Poulsen) The Hanselminutes Podcast – Exploring Decentralized Tech with TBD’s Rizel Scarlett (Scott Hanselman) What’s new in Azure Data, AI, and Digital Applications: Harness the power of intelligent apps (Jessica Hawk)   Web & Cloud Development Blazor Basics: Gl ..read more

Top Links Windows App SDK Version 1.5.3 (1.5.240428000) | Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn) Announcing General Availability (GA) of Microsoft Entra External ID (James Casey) So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Xamarin End of Support (Almir Vuk) Semantic Kernel Hello World Plugins Part 3 (Jason Haley) What are your top 3 .NET 8 MAUI features? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montequila) Providing further transparency on our responsible AI efforts (Brad Smith) Web & Cloud Development ASP.NET Core API Versioning (Ricardo Peres) Azure Static Web App–Data API Builder (Bart Wullems) B ..read more

Top Links Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0 (Scott Hanselman & Jeff Wilcox) Secure your container build and publish with .NET 8 (Richard Lander) The Journey to Accessible Apps: Keyboard Accessibility and .NET MAUI (Rachel Kang) Embrace AI-Driven Productivity in .NET with JetBrains AI Assistant in ReSharper (Sasha Ivanova) OData .NET 8 Preview Release (Clément Habinshuti) Easily Export WinUI DataGrid to Excel (Amal Raj Umapathy Selvam) GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment (Thomas Dohmke) Cascadia Code 2404.23 (Christopher Nguyen) TechBash 2024 Early Bird Tic ..read more

I’ll be traveling to VSLive Chicago early next week. No Dew Drop posts on Monday and Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, definitely back on Thursday. Top Links An even DEEPER Dive into LINQ with Stephen Toub | On .NET and Open Sourcing DOS 4 (Scott Hanselman) What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04 (Richard Lander) Uno Platform 5.2 Webinar (Uno Platform Team) Introducing API Manifest Plugins for Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey) Announcing TypeScript 5.5 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser) Web & Cloud Development Kubernetes 1.30: Multi-Webhook and Modular Authorization Made Much Easier (Rita Zhang, J ..read more

Top Links Unit Testing with Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey and Dmytro Struk) Unlock the Power of Small Language Models with Phi-3 and Azure AI Studio (Lee Stott) Join us for Azure Developers – .NET Day on April 30! (Jon Galloway) Thoughts on Primary Constructors in C# (Jeremy Clark) Introducing .NET MAUI Community Tookit v8: TouchBehavior support is here! (Gerald Versluis) Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 5 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)   Web & Cloud Development How to upload a file with Blazor SSR in .NET 8? (Jon Hilton) What’s New in .NET Aspire Preview 6 (Mi ..read more

Top Links Exploring the AskVS command in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Cynthia Zanoni & Laurent Bugnion) Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen Desserts Corner – What is AI? (John Maeda, Eleanor Lewis & John Kennedy) Introducing Phi-3: Redefining what’s possible with SLMs (Misha Bilenko) Getting Started – Generative AI with Phi-3-mini: A Guide to Inference and Deployment (Kinfey Lo) Making Plans with Semantic Kernel: Implementing the Microsoft Graph Plugin (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Jose Luis Latorre Millas) Refactor your C# code with primary constructors (David Pine)   Web & ..read more

Top Links Announcing the first-ever true .NET Single Project for Mobile, Web, Desktop, and Embedded apps (Uno Platform Team) Join tech enthusiasts at MS Build ’24: Exploring AI, Machine Learning, Azure, and More! (Suniti Panwar) Reducing the environmental impact of Windows devices (Josh Salyers) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (Emilia David) Mastering SOLID Principles in C#: A Practical Guide (A. Yohan Malshika) How we built “Ask Learn”, the RAG-based knowledge service (Sarah Luck & Bob Tabor) Web & Cloud Development Kubernetes 1.30: Read-only volume mounts can b ..read more

Top Links How to Create a Trial Version for a C# Windows Forms application (Renato Ivanescu) Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform? (NDepend Team) React Native Radio #294 – RIP App Center (and other news) (Mazen Chami & Robin Heinze) Wolverine’s New PostgreSQL Messaging Transport (Jeremy D. Miller) A short guide to mastering keyboard shortcuts on GitHub (Sara Verdi) Build your first ML-Model with ML.NET Model Builder (Hamna Khalil)   Web & Cloud Development Kubernetes 1.30: Beta Support For Pods With User Namespaces (Rodrigo Campos Catelin, Giuse ..read more

Top Links Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day (Mehul Harry) Join the Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon and Win Up to $10K in Prizes! (Lee Stott) Python Kernel Updates: A Closer Look at Our Redesigned Plugin and Function Integration (Evan Mattson) The Download: How GitHub Uses GitHub Copilot, FFMmpeg 7, Fallout TV Show and more (Christina Warren) Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date (Meta) Introducing Meta Llama 3 Models on Azure AI Model Catalog (Thasmika Gokal & Sharmila Chockalingam) Web & Cloud Development Shopping for a Javascript ..read more

Top Links How to use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio (Cynthia Zanoni and Laurent Bugnion) Check out the TechBash 2024 workshops! (TechBash Team) – Speakers include Jeffrey T. Fritz, Erissa Duvall, and Jeremy Clark! Windows Photos adds new Microsoft Designer integration (Mala Srivatsa) RunAs Radio – GitHub Copilot with Damian Brady (Richard Campbell) Accessibility in Flutter on the Web (Thomas Steiner) Build & test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy (Waldek Mastykarz)   Web & Cloud Development Event Queues and Buffering Functions with JavaScript (Khalid Abuhakmeh) Mockin ..read more