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Quote of the Day

“Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.”
-- Tina Fey

Developer Tools / Libraries

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 – Your feedback in action

How developers want to use AI tools

The ultimate guide to developer happiness

AI

What are AI agents and why do they matter?

Introducing the Azure AI Inference SDK: Access More AI Models with the Azure AI Model Catalog

Support for Azure.AI.OpenAI and OpenAI v2 is here

Personal Development

Think Better

Security

Microservice Vulnerability Analysis: A Literature Review with Empirical Insights

DotNet

What Are the Proposed C# Type Unions and How Do They Relate to Discriminated Unions?

Microsoft’s Alternative to Redis: A Deep Dive into Garnet

Introduction to the Wolverine Library in .NET

Database

What’s New in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer: A Better Way to Navigate Your Data

Gadgets

The best USB-C hub for 2024

Quote of the Day

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.”
-- Venus Williams

Software Development

Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures

Testing

Initialize asynchronous data in XUnit Collections for sharing data between tests

Testing Modular Monoliths: System Integration Testing

Playwright adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives

Developer Tools / Libraries

Cast Expressions, Primary Constructors, Collection Expressions, List Patterns – C# Language Support in 2024.2

AI

The future of Planners in Semantic Kernel

Using Semantic Kernel to perform RAG Queries

Visual Studio Uses RUBICON to Improve AI Conversations

Planning with Semantic Kernel using Automatic Function Calling

Exploring the Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Service

Build Powerful RAG Apps Without Code Using LangFlow and Azure OpenAI

DotNet

How to use Testcontainers with .NET Unit Tests

Implementing the Specification Pattern in C# with Entity Framework Core

Quote of the Day

“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
-- Tom Brokaw

Software Development

In Praise of Small Pull Requests

Testing

Enhancing Code Quality with Modern Cloud-Native Tools

Seeding in-memory Entity Framework with realistic data with Bogus

Developer Tools / Libraries

Raygun for .NET Aspire

Five misconceptions about AI-powered software development

AI

Semantic Kernel: Creating a Custom Webchat Agent Using Open AI GPT-4, and ASP.NET

Using Semantic Kernel to create multi-agent scenarios

My trip to the frontier of AI education

Professional Development

Lessons learned in 35 years of making software

DotNet

Build a message queue with email notification using .NET Azure storage queue function and Twilio SendGrid

Raygun For Teams

Adding Antivirus to .NET Aspire Systems

Azure Functions Best Practices for Performance, Reliability and Security

Software

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