Top Links
- Announcing Uno Platform support for Visual Studio Code (Uno Platform)
- Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful (Stephen Wolfram)
- Announcing CodePen support for Flutter (Zoey Fan)
- The 2020 Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts, Presentations, and Remote Meetings (Scott Hanselman)
- Creating a ReadOnlySequence from Array Data (Steve Gordon)
- npm has joined GitHub (Jeremy Epling)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to deal with ‘HTTP Error 500.30 – ANCM In-Process Start Failure’ error in ASP.NET Core (Ruslan Albu)
- Best Practices With React Hooks (Adeneye David Abiodun)
- Building a Food Store with Kendo UI and jQuery (Christian Nwamba)
- Azure Service Bus .NET SDK Deep Dive – Topologies (Daniel Marbach)
- Making an Interactive Cognitive Portrait Exhibit using some Creativity, .NET, Azure Functions and Cognitive Services Magic (Dmitry Soshnikov)
- Microsoft PWABuilder – Sign-in with Microsoft, Google, or Facebook (PWABuilder Team)
- Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS (Eric Meyer)
- Creating CommonJS-based npm packages via TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Monitoring Kubernetes Workloads: The Sidecar Pattern (Kubernetes Team)
- How to Convert SVGs to PNGs (Daniel Feldroy)
- Speed Up Your Angular App – 14 Angular Optimization Tips (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
- Auto Effect Pattern with Redux and React Hooks (Pei Wang)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Using LiteDB as a local NoSQL database in UWP (Diederik Krols)
- Pluralsight Courses for .NET Windows Developers (Thomas Claudius Huber)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio Online Tweak Aids Remote Development Surge (David Ramel)
- How to run Visual Studio Code on Mac OSX (Kevin Griffin)
- Microsoft: Try VS Code’s new Python, C++ programming language tutorials, Docker updates (Liam Tung)
- Using FluentAssertions with xUnit Theory to Test for an Exception AND a Successful Return (Charles Flatt)
- Pretty Method Display in xUnit.net (Jason Roberts)
- Introducing Heartbeats (Thomas Ardal)
- A Framework to DotNet Core Conversion Report (Mike Hadlow)
- Are Boolean Flags on Methods a Code Smell? (Steve Smith)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Software Packaging Best Practices (Alex Marin)
- When to Mock (Vladimir Khorikov)
- Inclusive Design vs Accessible Design (with Infographic) (Cameron Chapman)
- Product Teams at Toptal: Strategies for Remote Success (Egle Merkyte)
- Securing AI and ML projects: Data and cyber risk management (Ninad Doshi)
- MSIX Packaging Tool April 2020 release is now available! (Sharla Akers)
- Reach for the Top: How Spotify built Shortcuts in Just Six Months (Spotify Engineering)
- How To Find Popular Trello Templates—Including Remote Work (Jessica Webb)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi puts the heart back in mid-noughties nostalgia tech (Ashley Whittaker)
- Playing with Paths in Flutter (Divyanshu Bhargava)
- eXtending reality with AR and VR – Part I and Part II (Kuldeep Singh)
- Introducing the Range Selector Widget in Flutter (Mohamed Samsudeen)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Hello World Podcast: Episode 92 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- The Uptake Podcast: Episode 5, The Sketchnote Challenge (Anna Chu)
- .NET Rocks! – CSLA .NET Version 5.1.0 with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Daily – Shopify React Native with Farhan Thawar and Software Engineering Daily – NGINX Service Mesh with Alan Murphy (Jeff Meyerson)
- Weekly Dev Tips – Adapter Design Pattern (Steve Smith)
- Similarity and Scoring in Azure Cognitive Search | AI Show (Seth Juarez)
- ID10T Podcast – Michael Shannon Returns (Chris Hardwick)
- Allscripts On Call Podcast – New Standards for New Information – Healthcare Data Compliance with Michael Kirwan, CEO/CTO dSheet LLC (Allscripts Healthcare)
- SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 197: Power Query in Power BI (Amanda Halverson)
- PPP 286 | The Power of Character Strengths for Leading Teams and Projects, with Ruth Pearce (Andy Kaufman)
- Complete Developer Podcast – You Are The Problem (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
- The CSS Podcast 006: Color Part 1 – Usage (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- 2 Frugal Dudes Podcast – Building a Kid’s Survival Kit for Isolation (Kevin Griffin & Sean Merron)
Community & Events
- [The Uptake Podcast] Guest Speaker Spotlight: Luise Freese (Luise Freese)
- [The Uptake Podcast] Guest Speaker Spotlight: Rebecca Jackson (Rebecca Jackson)
- AWS Online Tech Talks for April 2020 (Jimmy Cooper)
- Live Webinar: 42 WebStorm Tips and Tricks (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
- A healthy society requires a healthy planet (Brad Smith)
- Inclusion matters: [Part 1] Diversity matters (Lina Zubyte)
- Announcing the Community Response award – a new Partner of the Year Awards category (Tracey Pretorius)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Multiple Miscellaneous Option – Bugs Fixed by SSMS Team (Pinal Dave)
- Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 1.1.2 (David-Engel)
Miscellaneous
- Pentagon’s inspector general says Microsoft’s JEDI cloud win should stand (Mary Jo Foley)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19608 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Artificial Intelligence Topics (ContentLab IO)
- Download the Student Developer coloring book! (MS Student Developer Team)
- Security guidance for remote desktop adoption (Todd VanderArk)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2974 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-04-16 (Dan Rigby)
The Geek Shelf
Angular Development with TypeScript (Yakov Fain & Anton Moiseev) – Referral Link