Top Links
- Introducing x64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to the Windows Insider Program (Steve Clarke)
- You should be customizing your PowerShell Prompt with PSReadLine (Scott Hanselman)
- Themes of .NET (.NET Team) – Explore the themes, epics, user stories and issues planned for .NET 6.
- .NET 5 support on Azure Functions (Anthony Chu)
- What’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0 (Igor Velikorossov)
Web & Cloud Development
- Kubernetes 1.20: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to GA (Xing Yang & Xiangqian Yu)
- JavaScript Inherits The Earth (Ian Elliot)
- The top Kubernetes APIs for cloud-native observability, part 3: the Kubernetes Events API and API Watchers (Caleb Hailey)
- Understanding the JavaScript Destructuring Syntax (Marina Mosti)
- JavaScript’s Object-Oriented Identity Crisis (Matthew MacDonald)
- Docker Desktop 3.0.0: Smaller, Faster Releases (Stephen Turner)
- Monitoring Azure Service Bus Topic subscriptions (Tom Kerkhove)
- First-class TypeScript support in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript (Trivikram Kamat)
- Introducing the Okta CLI (Micah Silverman)
- Boosting Website Performance with Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK and Edge Network (Jaemi Bremner)
- The semantic future of the web (James Turner)
- Supporting content decision makers with machine learning (Melody Dye, Chaitanya Ekanadham, Avneesh Saluja & Ashish Rastogi)
- Expanding Docker’s Developer Preview Program (William Quiviger)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio Code November 2020 (VS Code Team)
- No recompile, no redeploy, managing features flags in .NET Core, locally and with Azure (Chris Noring)
- Complex log processing with PostSharp and NXLog (Petr Hudecek & NXLog)
- Convert Word Documents to PDF in .NET Applications (Prabhat Sharma)
- Parsing ETL traces yourself, part 2: The EventLogReader (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- TDD (Test Driven Development) Using MSTest (Nagaraj M)
- Bridging the DevOps/Development Observability Chasm to Boost DevOps KPIs (Rami Honig)
- Create a DevOps culture with open source principles (Will Kelly)
- I need manual approvers for GitHub Actions!!!! And I got them now 🙂 (Abel Wang)
- Navigating the Awkward: A Framework for Design Conversations (Ksenia Cheinman)
- The Top Characteristics Of Solution-Oriented Leaders (Deanna deBara)
- The basics of CI: How to run jobs sequentially, in parallel, or out of order (Itzik Gan-Baruch)
- JetBrains Space Is Here (Valerie Andrianova)
- What Is a Full Stack Developer (Mahesh Chand)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- 5 Ways to Extract Text from PDF Documents in Flutter (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- Dual-screen library update with Jetpack Window Manager (Andrei Cirja)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Hanselminutes – Shipping the Sandman Doppler with Palo Alto Innovation’s Alex Tramiel (Scott Hanselman)
- React Podcast 122: TJ VanToll on Online Events that Work (Michael Chan)
- Create .NET Core Projects with the Command Line | Visual Studio Toolbox and Use an Existing .NET Core Project Template | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Sayed Hashimi)
- Demo – Working on Home Automation with Xamarin, Uno Platform, IoT and Azure IoT central (Allan Pead)
- Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild – Webinar recording (Maarten Balliauw)
- Rocket 310: AirBra Max (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – WSL2 with Stuart Leeks (Dan Clarke)
- RunAs Radio – Modern Work using Teams with Karoliina Kettukari (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Cleaning up build systems and gathering computer history with Adam Gordon Bell (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
- Xamarin Podcast Episode 83: Wrapping up 2020 by looking ahead to 2021! (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
Community & Events
- Everything Announced by Disney During Investor Day 2020 (Nicole Drum) – New content coming from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel & more
- Microsoft Imagine Cup competitor spotlight: Janae Chan and Tremor Vision (MS Student Developer Team)
- Introducing the New (and Improved!) Campus Experts Program (Elise Hollowed)
Database
- Azure SQL Database Connectivity (Arun Sirpal)
- Slow Running Query – SQL in Sixty Seconds #146 (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- Get into Ops/DevOps with this PowerShell LEARN module (Chris Noring)
Miscellaneous
- The Microsoft Learn Java learning path (Lee Stott)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (Steve Clarke)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3132 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-11 (Dan Rigby)
- Collective #640 (Pedro Botelho)
The Geek Shelf
Head First C#: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with C# and .NET Core (4th Ed) (Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene) – Referral Link
Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework: Kishore Gaddam: 9781786463104: Books
Doctor Who Travels in Time Coloring Book: Price Stern Sloan: 9780451534255: Books