Top Links
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 8 (Daniel Roth)
- Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 2 Releases New Features Today! (Jacqueline Widdis)
- Overhauling the Visual Studio feedback system (Mads Kristensen)
- New C# Source Generator Samples (Luca Bolognese)
- Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 8 (Richard Lander)
Web & Cloud Development
- Minimal React: getting started with the frontend library (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Accessing Browser Query Parameters in JavaScript (Carl Rippon)
- Empowering remote learning with Azure Cognitive Services (Anand Raman)
- Azure CLI – az config and the new dynamic extension installer are now live! (Lomis Chen)
- Secretless Azure Functions dev with the new Azure Identity Libraries (Christos Matskas)
- Write OnClick Events in C# using Blazor and Eliminate JavaScript (David Grace)
- WebStorm 2020.2.1 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
- Electron 10.0.0 (Keeley Hammond & Sofia Nguy)
- Build a REST API in .NET Core (Camilo Reyes)
- Deep Dive Into Different Validators with FluentValidation (Code Maze)
- Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7 (Eileen M. Uchitelle)
- Building Sophisticated Updates with the Telerik UI for Blazor DataGrid Update Events (Peter Vogel)
- First look: Triggering Google Cloud Run with events generated by GCP services (Richard Seroter)
- npm Release: v7.0.0-beta.7 (Ruy Adorno)
- A Dive into Blazor Components (Shaun C. Curtis)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin Forms Month and Year Picker (Bohdan Benetskyi)
- Updating the Prism Template Pack (Brian Lagunas)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Dispose Resources Asynchronously With IAsyncDisposable (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- C# 9.0: Init-only Properties – Create Immutable Properties Without Constructor Boilerplate (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- Producer/consumer pipelines with System.Threading.Channels (Maarten Balliauw)
- Constrained Open Generics Support Merged in .NET Core DI Container (Jimmy Bogard)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- 3 Things I Learned About Sharing Big Ideas Better (JD Meier)
- Leadership in the age of remote work (Mangalam Nandakumar)
- Let’s Hack a Pipeline: Stealing Another Repo (Matt Cooper)
- Git – The 5 Percent that I Always Use (Mike Shepard)
- 10 DevOps terms that might surprise you (Valerie Silverthorne)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – Ultimate Home Office (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- Microsoft Mechanics – How Azure’s sustainability approach can reduce the carbon footprint of your organization. (Matt McSpirit)
- Learn C# with CSharpFritz – Ep 3: C# Methods, Events, and Delegates for Beginners (Jeff Fritz)
- Learn How to Deploy SQL Server 2019 in Containers in Just Minutes | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Marisa Brasile)
- The .NET Docs Show – Securing .NET apps with Heather Downing (Cam Soper, Scott Addie & David Pine)
- ID10T Podcast – Bill Burr #4 (Chris Hardwick)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.19, with Taylor Dolezal (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- ARM Series #7: Controlling Deployment | The DevOps Lab (AbelSquidHead)
- RunAs Radio – How Black Hats Profit with Paula Januszkiewicz (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 189 (Jason Bock)
- SyncUp, a OneDrive Podcast – Back to school with OneDrive (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
- DBAle 23: A Clone of the last one (Redgate Software)
- Software Engineering Radio 423: Ryan Singer on Remote Work (Akshay)
- REST – the ignored parts – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
Community & Events
- Ask Me Anything Session with the WebStorm Team: Answering Your Questions (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
- Starting my Tech Blog (Charlin Agramonte)
- MIT students build Mosaic to explore art across cultures at Microsoft Garage (Meixia Huang)
Database
- Monitor all Indexes in SQL Server with PowerShell (Alejandro Cobar)
- Dirty Read with NOLOCK – SQL in Sixty Seconds #110 (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft is adding audio transcription to Word (Mary Jo Foley)
- paint.net 4.2.14 alpha build 7542 (Rick Brewster)
- Make a more personal connection with Eye Contact, now generally available (Sam Morton)
More Link Collections
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-08-26 (Dan Rigby)
The Geek Shelf
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link