Top Links
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 3 (Sourabh Shirhatti)
- Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 3 (Jeremy Likness)
- Xamarin.Essentials: Now with Permissions, App Theme, & Authentication (James Montemagno)
- GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets (Alyson La)
- Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 5 release now available (Daniel Roth)
- Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 3 (Rich Lander)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using VSCode to Build and Run an Angular Application (Jason Gaylord)
- What’s Async Local Storage in Node.js v14? (Mehul Mohan)
- Local Azure Storage Development with Azurite, Azure SDKs, and Azure Storage Explorer (Jon Gallant)
- Intro to Grid Layout in CSS (Kenneth Reilly)
- Add It Up: Azure’s Golang Problem (Lawrence E Hecht)
- Angular Elements: Create a Component Library for Angular and the Web (Gary Großgarten)
- CSS Only Tooltip for All Screen Sizes (Ted Krueger)
- Announcing HTTP API Troubleshooting (Fernando Medina Corey)
- Messaging with Azure Service Bus – Part 4 – Sending and Receiving Messages (Mark Heath)
- A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox (Dzmitry Malyshau)
- Creating and enforcing GraphQL schema conventions (Nigel Sampson)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Using Refit to consume Restful Web Service in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
- Playing with animation in Xamarin.Forms (Steven Thewissen)
- Many platforms, one world – Part 2 (Ian Bebbington) – Ian continues his series on Uno Platform.
Visual Studio & .NET
- Jasper’s Efficient and Flexible Roslyn-Powered Execution Pipeline (Jeremy D. Miller)
- .NET Core Tab Completion With Zsh (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Branching Pattern: Mainline Integration (Martin Fowler)
- MSIX Temp folder access (Alex Marin)
- Using GitHub Actions for Pull Request Staging Environments, Part 3: Implementing Deploy and Teardown (Stephen Cleary)
- Why Collaborative Coding Is The Ultimate Career Hack (Bobby Sebolao)
- Compress Images in GitHub Using Imgbot (Dave Brock)
- Building team camaraderie when remote working (Gayathri Sekar)
- Optimize for Respectful Remote Meetings (Johanna Rothman)
- Are You A Learner Or Performer? How To Excel Based On Your Mindset Type (Kat Boogaard)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android 11: Developer Preview 3 (Dave Burke)
- AsyncAndroid: Introduction To Renderscript (Mark Allison)
- AsyncAndroid: Getting Started with MotionLayout (Rebecca Franks)
- Introducing Google Fonts for Flutter v 1.0.0! (Anthony Robledo)
- MARS Companion Apps (Matt Schoen)
- Migrating to MRTK2 – configuring, understanding and using Windows Mixed Reality controllers (Joost van Schaik)
- Code a homage to Lunar Lander | Wireframe #37 (Ryan Lambie)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- PowerScripting Podcast Episode 335 – Mike Kanakos and Guest Host Adil Leghari (Jonathan Walz)
- Hanselminutes – DevOps and GitHub Actions with Edward Thomson (Scott Hanselman)
- Software Engineering Daily – Rasa: Conversational AI with Tom Bocklisch (Jeff Meyerson)
- Load data from Azure Blob storage into Azure SQL | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Jeroen ter Heerdt)
- Source Link – Debug Third-Party Libraries | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- Talk: Advanced indexing with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Entity Framework Core Part 4 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Introduction to Reactive Programming in .NET with Shimmy Weitzhandler (Martin Zikmund)
- CppCast – Postmodern C++ Revisited with Tony van Eerd (Rob Irving)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Jokes on Us (Adam Lear, Paul Ford, Ben Popper, Sara Chipps & Jon Chan)
- Rework Podcast – Going Remote: Kids at Home (Basecamp)
- Rocket 276: Time Goes By (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
- Leading Agile Podcast – Product Funding vs. Project Funding w/ Dennis Stevens (Dave Prior)
- Apps, Games & Insights Podcast – Sign-up, sign-up, sign-up! How to win as a subscription business – Episode 8 (Google)
- React Podcast 91: Dominic Nguyen on Chromatic and Visual Regression Testing (Michael Chan)
- Friendly Flying Monkeys – Windows Weekly 669 (Paul Thurrott)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 407: Juval Löwy on Righting Software (Jeff Doolittle)
- NUKE – Designing a build system with IDE support in mind – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
- .NET Core Superpowers Tour – Join us Online! (SSW TV)
Community & Events
- Announcing the DockerCon LIVE 2020 Speakers (Jenny Burcio)
- End of Chapter One: Leaving Microsoft (Den Delimarsky)
- Minecraft, machine learning and bots: enter an AI wonderland with these #stayathome workshops (Ben Ryon)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Query Store Status for All the Databases (Pinal Dave)
- Optimize cost and performance with Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage (James Baker)
- Azure-Enabled Integration Services Projects in Visual Studio (Koen Verbeeck)
PowerShell
- PowerShell equivalent of find (Jessica Kerr)
Miscellaneous
- The first modern pandemic (Bill Gates)
- The final Python 2 release marks the end of an era (Ryan Donovan)
- Announcing Rust 1.43.0 (The Rust Release Team)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2980 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-04-24 (Dan Rigby)
- Roundup #70: Coyote, DetectDuplicates, YARP, .NET 5, Lambda? (Derek Comartin)
- Collective #603 (Pedro Botelho)
- Code Maze Weekly #22 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- What I’m Reading (Week of 4/20/20) (Dave Brock)
The Geek Shelf
Entity Framework Core in Action (Jon P. Smith) – Referral Link
