Top Links
- How Does the StringBuilder Work in .NET? (Part 2) (Steve Gordon)
 - Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65 (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - C# Language Highlights: Null Coalescing Assignment | On .NET (James Montemagno & Maira Wenzel)
 - Visual Studio Code June 2021 (VS Code Team)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Controlling Serialisation of CosmosDB Bindings for Azure Functions and Creating Static Web Apps With F# and Fable (Aaron Powell)
 - Privileged Identity Management with Azure Lighthouse enables Zero Trust (Brendan Burns)
 - End-To-End UI Testing using SpecFlow | FREE Blazor Crash Course (.NET 5) (Claudio Bernasconi)
 - Angular Basics: Creating Dynamic Forms Using FormArray in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process (Uma Victor)
 - What’s New in React 18 (Michelle Sebek)
 - Use single-tenant Azure AD apps with Microsoft Graph Toolkit (Waldek Mastykarz)
 - Build a shopping app with Azure Static Web Apps (Yohan Lasorsa)
 - AI Builder July 2021 update (Cedrick Bellarosa)
 - TypeScript 4.4 Improves Control Flow Analysis (Ian Elliot)
 - Using A Function App with a Dedicated Static IP (Faisal Mustafa)
 - Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna (Fortune Ikechi)
 - Jamstack Hosting Solutions: Challengers to the Throne (Raymond Camden)
 - 8 Reasons to Adopt Microservices, in fewer than 100 words (George Stocker)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- GitHub – Open in Visual Studio Code Insiders (Jon Gallant)
 - Protobuf – Google’s data interchange format which is smaller, faster, and simpler: 1. Getting started with Protobuf using C# runtime library for Protocol Buffers, 2. Handling Dates & Times, 3. Supporting C# Nullable Types, 4. Protobuf Serialization & Deserialization using C#, 5. Converting Protobuf to JSON & JSON to Protobuf (Kapil Khandelwal)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Is Agile Transformation Still a Thing? (Mike Cottmeyer)
 - Selenium VB.NET xUnit Test Automating Angular, React, VueJS and 20 More and Selenium C# xUnit Test Automating Angular, React, VueJS and 20 More (Anton Angelov)
 - Why I Need a Tester (James Bach)
 - 5 free online games you can play with your team (Michał Białecki)
 - Update App Secrets with Jenkins CI and .NET Core (Nickolas Fisher)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Collection of Raspberry Pi retro tech projects (Ashley Whittaker)
 - Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18) (Vikas Kansal)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – Tipi.build with Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt (Rob Irving)
 - .NET Core Podcast – VR Applications in Unity with Justin Barnett (Jamie Taylor)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast 355: Is everyone starting to work like a developer? (Ben Popper)
 - Hanselminutes – Engineering Servant Leadership with Carbon Health’s Claire Hough (Scott Hanselman)
 - Xamarin.Forms MVVM Made Easy with FreshMvvm Framework (Gerald Versluis)
 - Five Practical Tips to Limitless Data Integration Using Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Wee Hyong Tok)
 - Faster & Safer XAML with Compiled Bindings in Xamarin.Forms & .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)
 - Live Coding – Uno Platform Gamepad, Light Sensor API and Live Coding – Uno Platform Gamepad API, Ambient Light Sensor API (Martin Zikmund)
 - The Xamarin Podcast Episode 96: The Final Xamarin Podcast (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)
 - React Native Radio 203 – React Native Express with Devin Abbott (Jamon Holmgren, Devon Abbott, Jon Major Condon & Robin Heinze)
 - Speeding up Your Angular Apps with Daniel Kreider – AiA 316 (Charles Max Wood, Richard Sithole & Subrat Mishra)
 - Gaining Stability with Rule Based Policies with Shimon Tolts – Adventures in DevOps 076 (Charles Max Wood, Jeffrey Groman & Will Button)
 - Rocket 341: Social Media Astir (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
 - The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 66 – The Road to Atlas #4 – The Road Ahead with Cailin Nelson, and Sahir Azam (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 384 – Safe Deployment Practices (Sujit D’Mello)
 
Community & Events
- DockerCon 2021: Women in Tech Panel (Hema Ganapathy)
 - So you want to start a User Group (James Petty)
 - Excel Influencer Teaching The TikTok Masses (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
 - Interview with the Amazing Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman (Kenneth Fisher)
 - Congratulations to the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards winners and finalists (Rodney Clark)
 - Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus (Tom Warren)
 
Database
- Create a Checklist App with Power Apps and SQL Server (Hristo Hristov)
 - What’s new with SQL Server Big Data Clusters—CU11 Release (Daniel Coelho)
 - Azure Container Instance and SQL server part 2 (Arun Sirpal)
 - Read Only Tables – Is it Possible? – SQL in Sixty Seconds #179 (Pinal Dave)
 - DenoDB Enables Wider Database Support (Kay Ewbank)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Keeping up to date on Azure with MS Teams (John Kilmister)
 - Microsoft Teams: Now you can bring in your data from Salesforce too (Liam Tung)
 - Get nostalgic with new Microsoft Teams backgrounds (Microsoft 365 Team)
 
Miscellaneous
- Surface Duo will be upgraded to Android 11 in Sep/Oct and Duo 2 also launched at the time (RMC Team)
 - Cryo-EM Research Using Relion (SabrePC Team)
 - Guide: How to Install Windows 11 in a Virtual Machine (Michael Reinders)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3270 (Chris Alcock)
 - Collective #669 (Mary Lou)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale (Boris Cherny) – Referral Link