Top Links
- Let’s Learn .NET – Blazor Hybrid – July 28th 2022 – Free Live Stream Event (James Montemagno)
 - Azure Data Studio July Release with VS Code Updates (Timi Oshin)
 - Jetpack Compose 1.2 is now stable! (Jolanda Verhoef)
 - Promoting Empathy and Inclusion in Technical Writing (Ben Linders)
 - SQL Server 2022 community technology preview 2.1 is now available (Ajay Jagannathan)
 - Planning next to your code – GitHub Projects is now generally available (Mario Rodriguez)
 - Microsoft returns to in-person tech events in October with Ignite (Tom Warren)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Functions Boosted with .NET 7 Support (David Ramel)
 - Creating an Azure Key Vault Secret in the Portal (David Giard)
 - A Fun Look at How to Calculate the Value of Pi (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - What Does Kubernetes Cost You? (Emily Omier)
 - Angular Basics: Router Link Overview (John Au-Yeung)
 - Terry Pratchett and the Azure Static Web Apps (John Reilly)
 - Manage Shared Kubernetes Resources Safely with Pulumi (Levi Blackstone)
 - How to deploy a Local Docker Container to Azure Container Apps (vnwonah)
 - TypeScript: checking at compile time if an Array lists all property keys (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta (Eric Garcia)
 - Expanding testing for the Privacy Sandbox for the Web (Anthony Chavez)
 - New Recipes for “Cookies” (Eric Lawrence)
 - Real-Time, Live, and On-Demand Video All in One Mux API (Thuy Doan)
 - Disk caching in Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Edge Team)
 - Node 16 Now Available for Rules and Hooks (Oliver Wang)
 - Loading data directly into a warehouse via your messaging engine? Here’s how this handy new feature works in Google Cloud. (Richard Seroter)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- MSBuild Low Priority Builds in Visual Studio (Felix Huang)
 - Union types in C# (Oskar Dudycz)
 - Profiling QuestPDF: In Pursuit of Performance (Maarten Balliauw)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Agile Book Club: No Bugs (James Shore)
 - Thinking About the Costs of a Software Feature (Roland Weigelt)
 - Desktop Testing Beta and Extensionless Automation for Microsoft Edge With Test Studio R2 2022 (Asya Ivanova)
 - Fintech Mindset to Software Design (Derek Comartin)
 - A User Research Skill Tree: Career Progression Paths + Quiz (in a Far Cry 5 Theme) (Dr. Serena Hillman)
 - Infragistics’ Design-to-code Solution Explained (Konstantin Dinev)
 - Corrupting memory without memory corruption (Man Yue Mo)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 5 Flutter Dart Tips. (Dreamy Developer)
 - #JulyOT 26: Let’s get personal: Computing – Retro computing with Dave Glover and the Altair 8800 and #JulyOT 26: Exam AZ-220 Study Guide – Implement Business Integration and #JulyOT 27: Building Industrial IoT applications with the Microsoft Cloud and #JulyOT 27: Exam AZ-220 Study Guide – Process and Manage Data (Jim Bennett)
 - How to setup up MRTK3 to support HoloLens 2 and Quest 2 – including hand tracking (Joost van Schaik)
 - Compose for Wear OS is now 1.0: time to build wearable apps with Compose! (Kseniia Shumelchyk)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- New Video: Coding Shorts – Response Caching in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Coding After Work – Is Blazor the next Silverlight? (Jimmy Engstrom)
 - Microsoft Well-Architected mission-critical workloads on Azure (Microsoft Developer Team)
 - How to pin a video in a Microsoft Teams meeting (Microsoft Teams)
 - Building your backlog with Projects (GitHub Team)
 - MongoDB World 2022 Opening Keynote – The Future Runs on MongoDB and MongoDB World 2022 Keynote – Developers Build the Future (MongoDB)
 
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Passwordless Identity with Eli Holderness (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Working Code Podcast – Episode 85: Shipping Complexity (Ben Nadel)
 - Potluck! Node Versions, Old Man Internet, Responsive Design + MORE (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode 522: Noah Gift on MLOps (Akshay Manchale)
 
Community & Events
- Day In The Life Of… Laura Tombs (Web Engineer) (Laura Tombs)
 - GitHub Release Radar · June 2022 Edition (Michelle Mannering)
 - Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Aditya Oberai (MS Student Developer Team)
 - Introducing the Auth0 Research Program (Rodrigo Dalcin & Carolyn Shetter)
 - Guide to Labor Day Weekend 2022 in Philadelphia (Visit Philly)
 
Database
- Create a Table in Microsoft SQL Server (Jan Potgieter)
 - Couchbase vs MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 5 (Matthew Groves)
 - Top 10 Azure Cosmos DB Planned Features Coming Soon as of July 2022 (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Prepare for SQL as a Storage Provider (Preview) Refresh (Kent Weare)
 - DZone Refcard #382 – Getting Started With Apache Iceberg (Ted Gooch)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Changes in Export to PDF with sensitivity labeling and encryption in Office Add-ins (Chris Dietsch)
 - Power Automate for desktop – July 2022 update (Tiannis Mavridis)
 
Miscellaneous
- Use the Okta CLI to Build Secure Python Apps (Erikka Innes)
 - Introducing Carbon – Google’s New Programming Language (Ajay Kumar)
 - Five Considerations for Optimal Advertising Frequency (DeveloperMedia)
 - How To Hire Awesome Developers Without The Stressful Interviews (Jeff Hoover)
 - Microsoft: These two new kits will help you get ready for Windows 11 (Liam Tung)
 - A unified Gmail, for all the ways you connect (Neena Kamath)
 - Always learning (Prashanth Chandrasekar)
 - The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 2: Extended register operations (Raymond Chen)
 - Profits decline in Microsoft’s Windows division for first time since height of pandemic (Todd Bishop)
 - Rust: Announcing the Keyword Generics Initiative (Yoshua Wuyts)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3520 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Wolf Report – July 28th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Modernizing Your Windows Applications with the Windows App SDK and WinUI (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link