Top Links
- Visual Basic WinForms Apps in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8 (Klaus Loeffelmann)
 - Exploring What’s New in Xamarin Essentials 1.6 (Leomaris Reyes)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – React, Vue, jQuery: what flavor do you like your Vanilla JS? (Paul Ford, Ben Popper & Sara Chipps)
 - Create the Chrome Dino Game with Flutter (Matthew Keller)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids – Part 2: ASP.NET Core route and query parameters (Thomas Levesque)
 - Quickly Consume a GraphQL API from React (Nickolas Fisher)
 - Improving your ASP.NET Core site’s e-mailing capabilities (Imar Spaanjaaars)
 - Detect Generator Functions with JavaScript (David Walsh)
 - Type checking in JavaScript: typeof and instanceof operators (Dmitri Pavlutin)
 - How to Create a Basic JavaScript Entity Relationship Diagram with DHTMLX (Eugene Panchenko)
 - Testing Vue Applications With The Vue Testing Library (Kelvin Omereshone)
 - AzureFunBytes Short – Cloud Shell (Jay Gordon)
 - CSS Isolation in Blazor Applications (Marinko Spasojevic)
 - Zero Trust architectures: An AWS perspective (Mark Ryland)
 - Welcome Canonical to Docker Hub and the Docker Verified Publisher Program (Matt Carter)
 - Best 5 Tools for Node.js Monitoring (Olivia Diaz)
 - A beginner’s guide to developing with React (Shedrack Akintayo)
 - A Comparison Of async/await Versus then/catch (Bret Cameron)
 - Creating and using a MinIO Gateway for Azure (David Giard)
 - Pulling the OpenAPI For Any API You Are Managing With Postman So That You Can Apply Across the API Lifecycle (Kin Lane)
 - MediaRecorder API (Youenn Fablet)
 - TypeScript 4.1 Adds Temporal Literal Types (Kay Ewbank)
 - In-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssembly (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Naming your REST endpoints (Irina Scurtu)
 - First Public Working Drafts: WoT Archtiecture 1.1, Thing Description 1.1, Discovery, Profile (Xueyuan Jia)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin.Forms 5.0: Debugging Improvements, New Features, and Controls (Antonio Liccardi)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# 9 Records as DDD Value Objects (Vladimir Khorikov)
 - In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.6 (Greg Roth)
 - Monitoring .NET scheduled tasks – Tools and alternatives (Thomas Ardal)
 - Using Scoped Dependencies (Jason Farrell)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Tests are hard, LightBDD can help (Jon Hilton)
 - No, SRE Is Not the New DevOps – Unless It Is (Chris Tozzi)
 - Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Where To Start With a Separate Team? (Grant Fritchey)
 - How Dropbox Created a Distributed Async Task Framework at Scale (Eran Stiller)
 - MSIX – Using the Bulk Conversion Scripts (Ingmar Oosterhoff)
 - Efficiently manage your YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps with reusable templates (Miguel Bernard)
 - TeamCity 2020.2: Integration with Bitbucket Cloud, Python and JetBrains Space, Agentless Build Steps, New Administration Features, and more (Alexander Rassokhin)
 - The Product Goal is a commitment for the Product Backlog (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - Open Source at Travis CI – An Update (Paul Gordon)
 - The macro problem with microservices (Ryland Goldstein)
 - What’s big deal with testers? Hit that punching bag !!!! (Shrini Kulkarni)
 - How to keep your Git history clean with interactive rebase (Tobias Günther)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The future of Kotlin Android Extensions (David Winer)
 - MAD Skills — Become an Android App Bundle expert (Ben Weiss)
 - Pi IoT In Python Using GPIO Zero – DC Motors (Harry Fairhead & Mike James)
 - Model driven Mixed Reality apps using UniRx and a MRKT extension service, part 2 – showing a ‘list’ (Joost van Schaik)
 - Build a motion detection system with a Raspberry Pi (Lukas Jan)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – .NET 5 with Scott Hunter (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Client vs Server Data Validation (Wes Bos)
 - CodeNewbie S14:E4 – How to use code to build cross-cultural understanding (Laura Gutierrez-Funderburk) (CodeNewbie Team)
 - Revision Path – Mark Smith (Maurice Cherry)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Lightning Talk on AutoFixture at dotNetOxford Nov 2020 (Adam Storr)
 - SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – OneDrive helps SMBs achieve secure productivity (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
 - Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 106 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Serge Luca)
 - Free Python Videos from Manning Publications (Mike Driscoll)
 - no dogma podcast #148 – Brandon Minnick, Getting an App into the App and Play Stores (Bryan Hogan)
 - The future of IoT solutions development… today! | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & jorgievision)
 - The 6 Figure Developer Episode 171 – Jeremy Sinclair: Win Insider, .NET on ARM (John Callaway)
 - Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 30: Trader Joe’s Holiday Shopping List (Trader Joe’s)
 
Community & Events
- Docker Captain Take 5 – Ajeet Singh Raina (William Quiviger)
 - Is inequality inevitable? (Bill Gates)
 - Find out how we’re wrapping up the 2020 events season (Cecilia Judmann)
 - Light Show Update on MyLightDisplay.com (Jason Gaylord)
 - ‘Tis the season to sharpen your skills with #devthehalls (Microsoft in Business)
 - Achieving 100 percent renewable energy with 24/7 monitoring in Microsoft Sweden (Noelle Walsh)
 
Database
- Execute SSIS Package with SQLCMD and Parameters (Koen Verbeeck)
 - Stored Procedure in SQL Server with R Code (Matteo Lorini)
 - Upgrade your MySQL v5.6 servers with ease and make your end of support planning a bit easier !!! (Parikshit Savjani)
 - SQL SERVER – Network Port Used (Pinal Dave)
 - How To Migrate to Scopes and Collections in Couchbase 7.0 (Shivani Gupta)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Bots Secured Behind a Firewall & Teams (Daniel Evans, CK Kashyap & Mark Franco)
 
PowerShell
- You’ve got Help! (Sean Wheeler)
 
Miscellaneous
- Auto mode is now available on Android for one-on-one conversations (MS Translator Team)
 - Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.662 (20H2) (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Nominee Tony Blinken Talking To Sesame Street’s Grover Goes Viral (Jenna Anderson)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3119 (Chris Alcock)
 - Reading List 267 (Bruce Lawson)