Top Links
- Introduction to gRPC | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate (Shawn Hargreaves)
- An Update on the MSDN and TechNet Migration to docs.microsoft.com (Jeff Sandquist)
- TechNet Gallery Retirement (Robert Outlaw)
- Hosted App Model (Adam Braden)
Web & Cloud Development
- HTML Buttons Are Under-Appreciated In ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Resolving the current route/endpoint name in ASP.NET Core 3.1 (Ben Foster)
- Storing GitHub Traffic with Azure Functions (Isaac Levin)
- A Practical Overview Of CSS Houdini (Adrian Bece)
- New JavaScript API Calls for Typical MailMerge Tasks and TXTextControl.Web: New Reconnect Feature (Bjoern Meyer)
- Debugging RxJS (Charlie Greenman)
- It’s Time to Rethink the AWS Free Tier (Corey Quinn)
- How to know how much your application is consuming on Azure (Frank Boucher)
- Loading Data in React: redux-thunk, redux-saga, suspense, hooks (Valerii Tereshchenko)
- Upcoming Electron Releases (Shelley Vohr)
- 3 Reasons to Use Random Forest Over a Neural Network: Comparing Machine Learning versus Deep Learning (Exxact Team)
- TensorFlow: Sarcasm Detection in 20 mins (Aaditya Bhat)
- Getting Started with Vue 3: Composition API (Holly Lloyd)
- npm Release: 6.14.3 (Darcy Clarke)
- Secret Management Preview 2 Release (Sydney Smith)
- Microsoft Stream is now Generally Available (Vishal Sood)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Dark/Light Mode: Dynamic themes in Xamarin.Forms (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
- Faster Application Startup using Custom Profiles with Startup Tracing on Android (Jon Douglas)
Visual Studio & .NET
- EF Core 5.0: Using ToQueryString() method to translate LINQ query to SQL (Gunnar Peipman)
- C#: Why You Should Prefer the is Keyword Over the == Operator (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- DirectX 12 Ultimate Getting Started Guide (Jacques van Rhyn)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- “We don’t need TDD, our project isn’t worth it” (George Stocker)
- Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos (Apeksha Awasthi)
- Remote Work Tiny Tips – Keeping Your Routine (Charles Flatt)
- When To Use What Tools For Remote Work Success (Lauren Moon)
- The superheros and the magic wand (Georgiana Dolocan)
- Working Remotely? Adobe Can Help (Jeff Pedersen)
- DevOps for low code Business Applications (Ketuan Baldwin)
- Staying positive and productive in a COVID-19 world (Tim Sneath)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Full-Screen Intent Notifications — Android (Giorgos Neokleous)
- Deploying an Ionic PWA to Zeit (Mike Hartington)
- Using a Raspberry Pi for Prototyping Web Applications (Don Restarone)
- State of Unity 2020: In This Together (Ralph Hauwert)
- IoT Edge 1.0.9 (Venkat Yalla)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- STEM Everyday: #157 | Failure, Curiosity, and Fun | feat. Tim Needles (Chris Woods)
- Android Tooling Updates – IntelliSense, Apply Changes, & More | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- SQL Server Licensing: High Availability / Disaster Recovery hybrid | Data Exposed | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
- Rocket 271: A Normal Week (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
- Microsoft France: Meet Microsoft Cloud Advocates | CodeStories (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon, Seth Juarez & Anna Soracco)
- React Podcast 86: Maggie Appleton on the Power of Mental Models (Michael Chan)
- Preparing for COVID-19 and WFH: Tips, Tricks, & Strategies for the Tech World | Adam Cogan (SSW TV)
Community & Events
- 31 questions and answers about COVID-19 (Bill Gates)
- There’s no place like home (Annabel Bradford)
- Coming together as a community to connect (Lori Colston)
- Conference organising in times of chaos (Peter-Paul Koch)
Database
- Import MS Access Database to SQL Server with Always Encrypted (Mircea Dragan)
- Native Mongo shell on Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB now in preview (Luis Bosquez)
- How to provision a Linux SQL Server Virtual Machine in Azure (SQL Server Team)
- Investigating query performance issue in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- COVID-19, Working From Home and Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- The first collaboration bar for Microsoft Teams is now available! (Kendra Baker)
- Microsoft Teams at 3: Everything you need to connect with your teammates and be more productive (Jared Spataro)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams: 3rd Anniversary Edition (Marissa Salazar)
Miscellaneous
- The trouble with technical interviews? They aren’t like the job you’re interviewing for (Sara Kassabian)
- Microsoft teases new Windows 10 UI in video celebrating a billion users (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2957 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-03-20 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #2557 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 19 Mar 2020 (Malcolm Jack)
- Collective #598 (Pedro Botelho)
The Geek Shelf
Vue.js in Action (Erik Hanchett & Benjamin Listwon) – Referral Link