Top Links
- Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Preview 2 Releases Today (Justin Johnson)
- Show dotnet: Build your own unit test platform? The true story of .NET nanoFramework. (Laurent Ellerbach)
- .NET Rocks! – TDD in 2021 with Ian Cooper (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Sponsor Prospectus Available for TechBash 2021 (Jason Gaylord)
- Build and deploy dual-screen progressive web apps (Justin Willis)
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.8 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 312 – How to use Azure Container Registry for building and deploying .NET Core apps and Public preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK and Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection and Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0. (Azure Team)
- Introducing CSS Grid Inspector (Razvan Caliman)
- How To Add Models To ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Three Tenancy Models For Kubernetes (Ryan Bezdicek, Jim Bugwadia, Tasha Drew, Fei Guo & Adrian Ludwin)
- Transcribe a Voice Message in Node.js with Twilio Functions (Ashley Boucher)
- Azure SDK Release (April 2021) (Azure SDK)
- Say Hello To CSS Container Queries (Brad Frost)
- Released: Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon] (Dieu Cao)
- Angular Component – part 3: Validation (Domenic Helfenstein)
- Overflow Issues In CSS (Ahmad Shadeed)
- HTTPS with LetsEncrypt for Azure Functions (Phil Haack)
- Quick VS Code tip: Automatically add image width and height to images (Chris Heilmann)
- PulumiUP: the Event for Cloud Engineers (Wendy Smith)
- Debugging Your Application on Client-Side (Attila Antal)
- Organizing (Commands, Events & Handlers) in Microservices (Derek Comartin)
- Web Development with Dart is Super Easy (Michael Charles Aubrey)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Adding Some Behaviors to Your WinUI Uno Application (Nick Randolph)
- Xamarin : Step-by-Step Guide To Building .NET Multi-platform App (MAUI) using Visual Studio 2019 Preview 16.10 (Suthahar Jegatheesan)
- WebView2: Forwarding Alt Keys to a Host WPF Window (Rick Strahl)
- Replicating a Facebook-Like UI in Xamarin (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
- The Journey to Accessible Apps (Rachel Kang (SHE/HER))
Visual Studio & .NET
- Deep C# – Casting the escape from strong typing (Mike James)
- Top Level Statement in C# 9.0 (Abhijit Jana)
- MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview 2 (Helena Gregg)
- .NET 6: Async Improvements (Jonathan Allen)
- Visual Studio Code C++ Extension April 2021 Update: CUDA C/C++ IntelliSense and Apple Silicon Support (Julia Reid)
- Enhanced Productivity with Git in Visual Studio (Pratik Nadagouda)
- Meet the .NET Upgrade Assistant, Your .NET 5 Moving Company (Dave Brock)
- How to Build Headless Akka.NET Services with IHostedService (Aaron Stannard)
- DocumentViewer Preview: Completing Form Fields (Bjoern Meyer)
- Containerize .NET for Red Hat OpenShift: Linux containers and .NET Core (Don Schenck)
- Case Study – How Innoveo builds a no-code solution with Rider (Maarten Balliauw)
- Bluetooth Virtual Sniffer for Windows (Peter Freeman Foot)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- MSIX Troubleshooter Free Tool (Advanced Installer Team)
- Automating Azure DevOps with Logic Apps (Elie Bou Issa)
- Unit Testing in React with Jest and Enzyme Frameworks (Sangeetha Periyaiah)
- Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility (Johanna Rothman)
- Testing Exceptions with xUnit and Actions (Steve Smith)
- Tips for building custom execution containers (Bob Walker)
- Rethinking Spotify Search (Hugo Galvão & Daniel Doro)
- How to Automate PDF Testing? A Truly Straightforward Approach (Kaloyan Kalchev)
- TeamCity 2020.2.4 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
- How Planning Your Week Using Trello Can Save You Hours of Work (Mariya Harris)
- Work with GitHub Actions in your terminal with GitHub CLI (Nate Smith)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Introducing the New Flutter Treemap Widget (Mohamed Samsudeen)
- Flutter: Accelerate your testing with Keyboard listeners (Shawn Blais)
- Getting Started with Appium for Android Java on Windows in 10 Minutes (Teodor Nikolov)
- Using MySQL with Unity (Lance Talbert)
- Controlling a Unity animation using HoloLens 2 hand tracking (Joost van Schaik)
- 5 Rules for Designing Your App to Get More Referrals (Suzanne Scacca)
- A New Standard for Mobile App Security (Eugene Liderman & Brooke Davis)
- Bursting into 2021 with Burst 1.5 (Alexandre Mutel)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.21, with Nabarun Pal (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- CppCast – C++Builder with David Millington (Rob Irving)
- CodeNewbie S15:E10 – DevNews: Platforms as Utilities, Archiving Yahoo Answers, and Companies Rescinding Accepted Offers (Josh Puetz, Nikolas Guggenberger, Jason Scott) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Coding After Work Podcast Episode 58 – Blazor, Podcasting and Music with Carl Franklin (Jessica Engstrom & Jimmy Engstrom)
- Hanselminutes – Brian Douglas (Scott Hanselman)
- Preparing your cloud strategy with technical considerations | Azure Enablement (Sarah Lean, Brian Blanchard & Jeff Amels)
- Use Helm Charts from Windows Client Machine to Deploy SQL Server 2019 Containers on Kubernetes | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Amit Khandelwal)
- Rocket 329: Unlocking iPhones (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – How to make accessible extensions (Mads Kristensen)
- DAWbench Radio Show Episode 11 : DAW Evolution IV : Studio One – Past, Present, Future! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Matthias Juwan)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 018: Feature Flags (Ben Nadel)
- Adventures in DevOps 065: Code Reviews with James Donohue (Charles Max Wood, Caleb Fornani & Jeffrey Groman)
- Developer’s guide to Microsoft Graph | Learn Together: Building Apps with Microsoft Graph (Dan Wahlin & Ayca Bas)
- Design Details 393: The Not-So-Humble Button (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
- Web Rush Episode 129: Shipping What You Use – Open Source Chronicles – with Brandon Roberts (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- Microsoft Edge: Web dev tools, A11y, and PWAs | Tabs vs Spaces (Matt Wojo, Chris Heilmann, Rachel Weil & Erica Draud)
- Staying on top of your team’s work with Microsoft Graph (Part 1) and Staying on top of your team’s work with Microsoft Graph (Part 2) (Microsoft Developer)
- The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 51 – Scaling Startups – Funnelytics with Alexey Glazunov (MongoDB Team)
- FLoC Blockers – Windows Weekly 720 (Paul Thurrott)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 294: I already have a job (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How to build and maintain online communities, from gaming to open source (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Community & Events
- DevOps Fireside Chats – March 2021 Review (Jay Gordon)
- Making Games with Autistic Students: A Partnership between the National Museum of Computing, Track.org, and Azure Advocates (Jen Looper)
- Join us for JetBrains .NET Days Online 2021 on May 11-12 (Alexandra Kolesova)
- What’s Redgate’s plan for PASS? (Annabel Bradford)
- Serving the Developer Community with Advertising (DeveloperMedia)
- Coding the Coal Region (Jason Gaylord)
- How I Got Started as an App Developer – Daniel Paulin (Windows Developer Team)
Database
- SQL Server Memory Usage Query (Eli Leiba)
- Neutralize Troublesome SQL Server Indexes – Fun Stories & Demos – Video and SQL SERVER – AdHoc Queries and Optimize for Adhoc Workloads (Pinal Dave)
- Disk space management inside Voron (Oren Eini)
- SQL Drop Column Examples (Joe Gavin)
- Couchbase Details Its Distributed ACID Transaction Architecture (Eran Stiller)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Build quality Microsoft Teams apps with these best practices: Part 2 (Erin Bailie)
- Dynamic View, Translating slideshow content and other Teams roadmap updates (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Writing, Editing and Formatting a Technical Ebook in 2021 (Rob Conery)
- Google Releases Logic Programming Language (Kay Ewbank)
- Power Automate Desktop April 2021 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
- Surface Laptop 4 – First Impressions (Brad Sams)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21359 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Introducing Microsoft Edge Kids Mode, a safer space for your child to discover the web (Liat Ben-Zur)
- Keeping your family safer online with Microsoft Edge and celebrating 1 year of Give with Bing (MS Edge Web Experience Team)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3211 and The Morning Brew #3212 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-15 and .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-16 (Dan Rigby)
- Code Maze Weekly #73 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- Collective #657 (Mary Lou)
The Geek Shelf
React for Real: Front-End Code, Untangled (Ludovico Fischer) – Referral Link
Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers: Nicholas C. Zakas: 9781593277574: Books
F# Deep Dives: Tomas Petricek, Phil Trelford: 9781617291326: Books