Top Links
- Live coding: Uno Platform MvvmCross, Fody, iOS Hot Restart & implementing WinUI SplitButton (Martin Zikmund)
- Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms comes to Rider (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- In the works: OpenCL™ and OpenGL® mapping layers to DirectX (Angela Jiang)
- Xamarin All The Things (Amanda Silver, James Montemagno & Maddy Leger)
- Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features (Mika Dumont)
Web & Cloud Development
- React Production Performance Monitoring (Kent C. Dodds)
- Enabling distributed tracing with the Azure SDK for Python (Adrian Hall)
- Understanding Custom React Hooks by Using Them (Angad Singh)
- Why You Should Use Blazor over JavaScript Frameworks to Build Your Single-Page Application (David Grace)
- Asynchronous Javascript: Callbacks and Promises (dianakw8591)
- It’s an OSS Nuget Release Party! (Jasper v1.0, Lamar, Alba, Oakton) (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Create a Stream Countdown Timer for Twitch with JavaScript (Nic Raboy)
- Logging in ASP .NET Core 3.1 (Shahed Chowdhuri)
- Sass !default and themeable design systems (Brad Frost)
- Headings & Accessibility (Dennis Deacon)
- Animated Custom Cursor Effects (Mary Lou)
- How To Migrate Users From One Identity System To Another (Michael Wallen)
- Application Integration Using Queues and Messages (Mithun Mallick)
- Evolutionary Change to Cloud Computing (Mark Eisenberg)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Train a Machine Learning Radial Basis Function Network Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- High-performance C#: a test pattern for ref structs (Ian Griffiths)
- Getting Started With .NET Localization (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- FbNetExternalEngine 4.0 released – .NET Core support and performance (Jiří Činčura)
- Optimize database traffic with future results in NHibernate (Gunnar Peipman)
- How to Use the Navigation or Shadow Property in Entity Framework Core (Jeetendra Gund)
- .NET Core March 2020 Updates – 2.1.17 and 3.1.3 (Rahul Bhandari)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Unit Testing Infrastructure (Sophia Parafina)
- Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 4 – Command-Line with Azure DevOps (Andy Leonard)
- Remote Work Tiny Tips – Focusing and Breaking (Charles Flatt)
- Bond At A Distance With The Remote Team Cooking Challenge (Alexia)
- Software Development the JetBrains Way: Dogfooding and Other Key Principles (Anastasia Chumak)
- Easier organization and increased scalability for repository administrators (Jarryd McCree)
- Adobe Creative Cloud Integrations to Collaborate Better and Stay Productive When Working from Home (Minson Chen)
- Every Public Engineering Career Ladder (Shawn ‘Swyx’ Wang)
- GitHub Draft Pull Requests (Steve Smith)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Yak Shaving – Swift Edition (Miguel de Icaza)
- Swift 5.2 Released! (Ted Kremenek)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – React Native with Harini Kannan and Paul Gusmorino (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- What tools should I be using to develop for Microsoft’s dual screen devices? | One Dev Question (Ross Heise & Miranda O’Neill)
- Filling the content gap for .NET developers | On .NET (Scott Hanselman & Cecil Phillip)
- MLOps feature dive: Create event driven machine learning workflows | AI Show and MLOps feature dive: Manage your assets, artifacts and code | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
- Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 76 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
- Xamarin Productivity to the Max (Maddy Leger)
- Building Beautiful Apps with Xamarin.Forms (Steven Thewissen)
- Spectacular Components for Xamarin Apps (James Montemagno)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.18, with Jorge Alarcon (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 352 | AC’s and CJ’s MS-600 results are in! Are they certified or certifiable? (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Rework Podcast – The Distance: Steeped In History (Basecamp)
- Meta Cast Episode 162 – Gratitude (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- A Software Engineer’s Guide to DevOps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
- MLOps feature dive: CI/CD with GitHub Actions | AI Show (Golnaz Alibeigi & Seth Juarez)
- RunAs Radio – Teams as an Intranet with Stephanie Donahue (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Adaptive Cards community call-March 2020 (Matt Hidinger)
- The SitePen Podcast Episode 55: AST, Uses, and Tooling (Bryan Forbes, Neil Roberts, Paul Shannon & Nick Nisi)
Community & Events
- Inspire 2020: Connect with Microsoft Partners (update: Microsoft not be holding Microsoft Inspire 2020 as an in-person event) (MS Partner Team)
- From Laura Baldwin – O’Reilly Media (O’Reilly will cancel all future O’Reilly in-person conferences and close down this portion of their business) (Laura Baldwin)
- Getting started with GitHub Sponsors (Devon Zuegel)
- Women in Tech: Names You Should Know (Grace Stewart)
- Promoting Virtual Conferences to Developers (Yolanda Fintschenko)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Msg 3254 – The Volume on Device Path\File is Empty. RESTORE DATABASE is Terminating Abnormally (Pinal Dave)
- Azure SQL Database managed instance vs. SQL Server (SQL Server Team)
- What’s in a Database Table Name? (Dave Rupert)
- Copying Data From One Table To Another Using An INNER JOIN UPDATE Query In MySQL 5.6.37 (Ben Nadel)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- SharePoint Mobile App will now allow admins to customize their tenant theme with branding (Brad McCabe)
- Host your virtual class with Microsoft Teams (Jared Spataro)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft will pause optional Windows 10 cumulative updates for testing purposes starting in May (Mary Jo Foley)
- Kubuntu Focus Laptop – The ultimate just-works power laptop (Kubuntu Focus)
- How I Setup a Windows Dev Environment (Aaron Powell)
- Venture into the digital worlds of Minecraft Marketplace’s free educational content (Athima Chansanchai)
- Welcoming the USA Government to Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2960 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-03-25 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #2560 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 251 – 20th Mar 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)
The Geek Shelf
The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim) – Referral Link