.NET Weekly Digest #2: Copilot are now everywhere

01–07 Jan 2024

Welcome to .NET Weekly Digest! The headline news: Microsoft’s Copilot is now making waves throughout the digital realm, reaching into different parts of our lives. And that’s not all! Find out about cool tools like Kiota and AppCAT. Get practical coding tips, explore C# features, and stay in the loop on performance boosts.

Complexity: 🟢 Easy, 🟠 Intermediate, 🔴 Advanced. Happy reading!

News

1. 🟢 Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs
2. 🟢 GitHub Copilot Chat Heralds Speech as ‘New Universal Programming Language’
3. 🟢 GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
4. 🟢 Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS
5. 🟠 Kiota: Introducing our generated Go and .NET SDKs
6. 🟠 AppCAT: Announcing the Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET

Tips and Best Practices

1. 🟢 How To Understand A New Codebase — Tips And Tricks For Tackling Complex Code
2. 🟢 Deep Dive into Conversions in C# With the Convert Class
3. 🟠 C# 12: Introducing the spread operator on collections
4. 🟠 PeriodicTimer in C#
5. 🟠 Understanding ThreadPool in C#

Guides

1. 🟠 How to Write a .NET Markdig Extension for Markdown Processing
2. 🟠 Domain-Driven Design With Entity Framework Core 8
3. 🟠 Using MassTransit with RabbitMQ and Azure Service Bus
4. 🔴 An asynchronous lock free ring buffer for logging

Performance

1. 🟠 Boosting string search performance in .NET 8.0 with SearchValues

DevOps

1. 🟠 Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion
2. 🔴 8 Top Docker Tips & Tricks for 2024

Testing

1. 🟢 Differences Between NUnit, xUnit and MSTest

Discourse

1. 🟢 .NET Developer Roadmap 2023
2. 🟢 Mistakes Made By Developers
3. 🟢 Not all issues are complex, some are complicated. Here’s how to deal with them

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Big thanks to amazing authors for their fantastic articles! 👏
Thanks a lot to DALL·E 3 for visual magic in this article! ✨