Top Links
- Microsoft Build Cloud Skills Challenge 2021 (Microsoft Learn)
 - Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser (Eric Simons)
 - Announcing new file components, MSAL 2 Provider, and SharePoint Framework library in Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MIcrosoft Graph Toolkit Team)
 - New Uno Platform Docs Launched (Uno Platform Team)
 - TechBash 2021 CFP – Two Weeks Left! Submit Your Sessions Today!! (Jason Gaylord)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- React UI Libraries 2021 (Moritz Klack)
 - Angular 11 Tutorial: Code a Project from Scratch (Beau Carnes)
 - The fastest way to get started with Microsoft Azure (Abhijit Jana)
 - Preparing ASP.NET for Long JSON Requests (Bjoern Meyer)
 - JSON in CSS (Chris Coyier)
 - How To Implement Authentication In Next.js With Auth0 (Facundo Giuliani)
 - Part 2: Run Adobe Target NodeJS SDK for Experimentation and Personalization on Edge Platforms (Jaemi Bremner)
 - Receiving JSON Objects Stream (NDJSON) in ASP.NET Core MVC (Tomasz Pęczek)
 - Troubleshooting Node down Scenarios in Azure Service Fabric – Part II and Part III (Reshma Vishwanath)
 - Increase Efficiency with Azure Functions and Power Platform (Ricardo Duncan)
 - How to Get the Query String in JavaScript (Sajal Soni)
 - A visual guide to Azure Data Factory (Nitya Narasimhan)
 - How to Use TypeScript and Deno to Build a CLI (Maciej Treder)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Moddable, Windows, & Visual Studio Code (John M. Wargo)
 - Rider NuGet Credential Provider for JetBrains Space private repositories (Maarten Balliauw)
 - .NET Framework May 2021 Cumulative Update Preview (Tara Overfield)
 - Dapper.FSharp – Lightweight F# extension for StackOverflow Dapper with support for MSSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL (Roman Provazník)
 - Authenticated Encryption in .NET with AES-GCM (Scott Brady)
 - Obtaining network usage information from the Windows Runtime (Raymond Chen)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- TeamCity 2021.1: Kotlin and Node.js Build Runners, Trigger-Defined Parameters, High Availability, and more (Alexander Rassokhin)
 - Programming Is Hard – A Comment To The Future Me (Mike James)
 - Resilience through innovation – Stories of pandemic resilience (Microsoft)
 - How To Run Large-Scale Virtual Meetings That Aren’t A Waste Of Time (Anjana Vasan)
 - Testing your Domain when Event Sourcing (Derek Comartin)
 - Tools & Tips for Building Apps with an Accessibility-First Mindset (Sara Faatz)
 - What is Test Design and Test modeling (Shrini Kulkarni)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Foldables at Google I/O (Cesar Valiente)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – ABI Stability with Marshall clow (Rob Irving)
 - Flutter 2.2 GPay Apple Pay Integration Tutorial (MTechViral)
 - Hanselminutes – Developers and Security with Rey Bango (Scott Hanselman)
 - Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes on Bare Metal with Andrey Kvа́pil – Adventures in DevOps 069 (Jeffrey Groman)
 - Pass Data From and To Popups with Xamarin Community Toolkit (Gerald Versluis)
 - Dynamic App Themes in Xamarin.Forms – Light, Dark, & Custom Modes (James Montemagno)
 - Migrating to SQL: Validate Migrated Object Using SSMA (Ep. 4) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Alexandra Ciortea & Xiao Yu)
 - Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Jason Lowe on the Benefits of Participating in Hackathons at the Hackmakers World Innovation Day (Bob Rhubart)
 - Rocket 334: Apple is Killing Games (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – Build engineering at Apple and the future of deploy previews (Eric Silverman, Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Cassidy Williams)
 - UX Podcast #263 – Creating a better society with Don Norman (part 1) (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
 - Talk Python to Me #317 – Python at the US Federal Election Commission (Michael Kennedy)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 378 – VMSS Flex (Sujit D’Mello)
 
Community & Events
- What Not to Miss at DockerCon 2021 (William Quiviger)
 - IoT at Microsoft Build 2021 (Olivier Bloch)
 - Cloud-Heavy Microsoft Build Conference Starts Tuesday: Here’s What to Look for (David Ramel)
 - Microsoft BUILD 2021: Digital Swag Downloads (Richard Hay)
 - Join us at Microsoft Build on May 25-27 (Karina Ung)
 - Microsoft Build May 25-27 & Wrap Up Show Friday, May 28! (Katie Akrop DeSantis)
 - 2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech (Kurt Schlosser)
 
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server Linux-based container images to be available only from the Microsoft Container Registry (Amit Khandelwal)
 - RavenDB Discussions on GitHub (Oren Eini)
 - Excel – Sum vs SubTotal – SQL in Sixty Seconds #167 (Pinal Dave)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Do you need ngrok to develop Microsoft Teams apps? (Bob German)
 - How to disable attendee video/camera in Microsoft Teams meetings (Vesa Nopanen)
 
PowerShell
- Announcing PlatyPS 2.0.0-Preview1 (Jason Helmick)
 
Miscellaneous
- Power Automate Desktop May 2021 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
 - Relaunching verification and what’s next (Twitter)
 - Applications for GPU Based AI and Machine Learning (Exxact Team)
 - Prevent Windows from Sleeping (David Walsh)
 - How to download and install the Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - ‘Extend to many’: Explore Microsoft features that improve computing for everyone (Steve Clarke)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3236 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2021-05-21 (Dan Rigby)
 - Collective #662 (Mary Lou)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Me) – Referral Link