Top Links
- Easily build real-time apps with WebSockets and Azure Web PubSub—now in preview (Balan Subramanian)
- Multi-tenancy with EF Core in Blazor Server Apps (Jeremy Likness)
- Announcing XD to Flutter v2.0! (Grant Skinner)
- Getting Started Calling the Microsoft Graph API (Dan Wahlin)
- Make microservices fun again with Dapr (Dave Brock)
Web & Cloud Development
- Access Background Services From ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Azure REST APIs in VS Code with Thunder Client (Jon Gallant)
- What’s Next: WebStorm 2021.2 Roadmap (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- How to Send a Picture on WhatsApp Using Twilio and JavaScript (Ashley Boucher)
- How I Use GitHub Actions to Auto-deploy my Vue.js Site to GitHub Pages (Jason Fritsche)
- How to create beautiful particles effect in Vue.js (2.x and 3.x) (Matteo Bruni)
- Angular Basics: Style Binding in Angular with ngStyle (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
- fit-content and fit-content() (Peter-Paul Koch)
- What You Need to Know About GraphQL Directives (Brian Rinaldi)
- What Are Run Targets & How To Run Code Anywhere (Florin Pățan)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Creating a Downloadable .csv File in C# (Ilyana)
- C# Yield Return: What is it and how does it work? (Brian Lagunas)
- Speed up your development work without ever leaving Visual Studio Code (Demian Borba)
- Convert Multi-page TIFF to Searchable PDF in C#, Java, and C (Gabriel Smith)
- .NET 6 LINQ Improvements (Jonathan Allen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Practice: Reflective Design (James Shore)
- Introducing the Octopus Control Center (Jed Lehmann)
- Coding Guidelines (Kevin Logan)
- JetBrains Launches TeamCity Cloud (Alex Armstrong)
- The Right Way to Adopt New Technology (Karl Hughes)
- Scaling monorepo maintenance (Taylor Blau)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – Defer is better then Destructors with JeanHeyd Meneide (Rob Irving)
- .NET Core Podcast – Dependency Injection with Steve Collins (Jamie Taylor)
- .NET Rocks! – Smarter Testing using Verify with Simon Cropp (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Developer Tea – Welcome Back Ali Spittel – Part Two (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Hanselminutes – Customer Empathy with Alex Allwood (Scott Hanselman)
- C# Language Highlights: Init only setters | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Jayme Singleton)
- Getting Amazing Personal Productivity with Mason McLead – Adventures in DevOps 066 (Caleb Fornari, Charles Max Wood & Jeffrey Groman)
- Understanding the Benefits of Intelligent Query Processing | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Kate Smith)
- Asp.Net Monsters #208 – Intro to Storybook (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – One founder’s journey from personal trainer to “frontend mentor” (Ben Popper, Matt Studdert & Sara Chipps)
- Rocket 331: Triple Scamtown (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- Web Rush Episode 131: Sketchnotes with Doug Neill (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- Azure Podcast Episode 375 – The Case of the Dangling Domain (Sujit D’Mello)
Community & Events
- Surface Duo: Join us live on Twitch (and YouTube) (Craig Dunn)
- Centrality of W3C as the Web accelerates to meet society’s growing needs (Jeff Jaffe)
- Getting to know Jessica Temporal, Sr. Developer Advocate @ Auth0 (Jessica Temporal)
- Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: Silk.NET (Matthias Koch)
- Vote for Stack Overflow in this year’s Webby Awards! (Ryan Donovan)
Database
- SQL Server IN vs EXISTS (Koen Verbeeck)
- Practical considerations for implementing Raft (Oren Eini)
- SQL Server SERVERPROPERTY() Use Cases (Manvendra Singh)
- New SSIS Extension v3.13.1 for Visual Studio 2019 (Andy Leonard)
- SQL SERVER – Function to Calculate Simple Interest (Pinal Dave)
- Amazon Releases Data IDE, Meet EMR Studio (Kay Ewbank)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- View live transcripts in Microsoft Teams meetings, track Excel changes, and increase hybrid work security—here’s what’s new to Microsoft 365 (Jared Spataro)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2021 (Microsoft Teams Team)
- CLI for Microsoft 365 v3.9 (Garry Trinder)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21370 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Microsoft reveals how Halo Infinite will look on 32:9 super ultrawide monitors and other PC perks (Sean Hollister)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3222 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
- Collective #659 (Mary Lou)
The Geek Shelf
Flutter Projects: A practical, project-based guide to building real-world cross-platform mobile applications and games (Simone Alessandria) – Referral Link
