Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Build 2021 Announcements with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - How to use GitHub actions and Contentful webhooks to show your latest blog posts on your GitHub profile README (Salma Alam-Naylor)
 - Pwned Passwords, Open Source in the .NET Foundation and Working with the FBI (Troy Hunt)
 - Build your own machine learning model and integrate it with Windows ML application! (Alex Zakhvatov)
 - Introducing #WinUI 3 – #ProjectReunion 0.8 Preview! This release provides tons of bug fixes, experimental features, & more for Windows apps (WinUI Team)
 
MS Build Recorded Sessions – My Top Picks
- Create
a web API with ASP.NET Core | CON062 (Jon Galloway & Sean Boyer) - Ask the Experts: The future of modern application development
with .NET | ATEBRK213 (Jeff Fritz, Daniel Roth, David Ortinau, Dmitry
Lyalin, Mads Torgersen, Maria Naggaga, Scott Hunter & Stephen Halter) - Application Development with Scott Hanselman & Friends |
KEY11D (Microsoft Build 2021) - Microservices made easy with Dapr | OD521 (Cecil
Phillip) - Build
Opening | KEY01 (Satya Nadella) - Increase Developer Velocity with Microsoft’s end-to-end
developer platform | TS01 (Amanda Silver) - Imagine
Cup World Championship | KEY02 (Donovan Brown) - What’s
new in Windows 10 for ALL developers | BRK210 (Kayla Cinnamon, Deondre Davis
& Craig Loewen) - Increase your .NET Productivity with Visual Studio | OD527 (Kendra Havens & Mika Dumont)
 - The
future of modern application development with .NET | BRK213 (Scott
Hunter) - What’s new for Windows desktop application development | BRK241 (Andrew Clinick & Thomas Fennel)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Creating Azure Functions, Custom Connectors and using them inside of Power apps (Charles Sterling)
 - WebStorm 2021.2 Early Access Program Is Now Open! (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
 - Announcing the new CLI and ARM REST APIs for Azure Machine Learning (Jordan Edwards)
 - JavaScript at Microsoft – Community Hub (Microsoft Docs)
 - Sparkplug — A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler (Leszek Swirski)
 - Preview of using CMake Presets for Azure Sphere development (Marc Goodner)
 - SQL and NoSQL comparison: ASP.NET application (Matthew Groves)
 - Angular Basics: Why You Should Use Services in Angular (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
 - How to Build a Simple REST API in PHP (Sajal Soni)
 - How to cancel a request using Axios in Vue JS (Karthik Chintala)
 - BlockLike.js Aims to Make it Easier to Go From MIT Scratch to JavaScript Programming (Sergio De Simone)
 - Useful VS Code Extensions For Front-End Developers (Cosima Mielke)
 - Building Microservices in Go: REST APIs – HTTP Handlers (Mario Carrion)
 - Angular: New Feature Request Process (Minko Gechev)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Theming and WinUI? No Worries, Our Theme Editor Is Here to Help (Viktoria Grozdancheva)
 - Project Reunion Update Leads Windows Dev News at Build 2021 (David Ramel)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Article: Building a Source Generator for C# (Jonathan Allen)
 - .NET Hot Reload First Look (Michael Crump)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Code Completion, Episode 1: Scenarios and Requirements (Roman Poborchiy)
 - Clear is Kind (George Stocker)
 - Organize your design workspace with Screen Variants (Zeplin Team)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Pico-controlled model railroad (Ashley Whittaker)
 - Ionic isn’t Cordova Anymore (Max Lynch)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – Spack with Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker (Rob Irving)
 - Hanselminutes – Leslie Lamport – in partnership with ACM Bytecast (Scott Hanselman)
 - Getting Started with PyTorch in VS Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Jeffrey Mew)
 - Improving Accessibility with Xamarin Community Toolkit | The Xamarin Show (Gerald Versluis, Rachel Kang & Shane Neuville)
 - Migrating to SQL: Enabling Automatic Conversions for Partitioned Tables (Ep.5) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Alexandra Ciortea & Xiao Yu)
 - Complete Developer Podcast – Dates, Times, and User Intents (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
 - Clustering in Orleans | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Reuben Bond)
 - Rocket 335: AIRBN-BS (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
 - AGL 204: Focus with Michelle Natalya Moore (John Rouda)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast 342: You’re just as likely to ruin a successful product as make it better (Paul Ford, Mike Brevoort & Ben Popper)
 - The Xamarin Podcast Episode 93: Blackbaud (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
 
Community & Events
- Pwned Passwords is now open source! (Claire Novotny)
 - Behind the scenes: How the Google I/O photo booth was made (Google Developers Team)
 - Microsoft Build 2021: .NET News (J. Tower)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Replace Rowstore Clustered Index with Columnstore Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
 - Azure Databricks Access Controls and Row Level Security (Ron L’Esteve)
 - Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB in the cloud – now easier than ever (Gahl Levy)
 - Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers (Aaron Powell)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2021 (Microsoft Teams Team)
 
PowerShell & Terminal
Miscellaneous
- Office Scripts is now generally available (Petra Ronald)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3241 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2021-05-28 (Dan Rigby)
 - Collective #663 (Mary Lou)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design Complete Study Guide: Exams AZ-303 and AZ-304 (Benjamin Perkins & William Panek) – Referral Link