Top Links
- Inside the Azure SDK Architecture (Jeffrey Richter)
- Our Head First C# Contest Got Some Truly Creative Entries (Andrew Stellman)
- .NET Rocks! – Building a Flight Simulator in C# with Laura Laban (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- 5 ways to save costs by running .NET apps on Azure (David Ellis)
- What’s next for System.Text.Json? (Layomi Akinrinade)
Web & Cloud Development
- A Quick Guide to React Login Options (Holger Schmitz)
- Reasons to Learn React (Peter Kellner)
- Blast Off with Blazor: Build a responsive image gallery (Dave Brock)
- Creating a React Analytics Logging Library (Fabio Canache)
- Download and Try the Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1 (Jean-Laurent de Morlhon)
- Angular Role-Based Authorization with ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
- How To Optimize Background Tasks Using Hangfire and ASP.NET Core (Sam Walpole)
- Blazor and CSS Frameworks (Shaun C. Curtis)
- RavenDB Node.JS / TypeScript client 5.0 released (Oren Eini)
- Bot Framework Composer 1.3 is now available! (Gary Pretty)
- Increasing Trace Cardinality with Activity Tags and Baggage (Jimmy Bogard)
- Pulumi: Announcing Cross-Language Enum Support (Komal Ali)
- Securing a GraphQL endpoint (Nigel Sampson)
- Google Cloud Functions Now Support .NET Core 3.1 (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Introducing the Ultimate UI for Uno Platform Preview and Introducing the Ultimate UI for WinUI Preview and Introducing the Ultimate UI for UWP Preview (Brian Lagunas)
- Infragistics announces Uno Platform specific UI Controls (Uno Platform Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- NHibernate Profiler & Entity Framework Profiler 6.0 RTMed! (Oren Eini)
- Developing Python with Visual Studio (Julio Sampaio)
- C# vs. F# (Urs Enzler)
- .NET Has a Third-Party Software Problem (Matthew MacDonald)
- Tutorial: Draw and Edit Annotations with LEADTOOLS .NET Image SDK (Zac Cole)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- MSIX Windows Services (Horatiu Vladasel)
- Data Deficient Messages (Steve Smith)
- Adam Boswell’s three pillars of engineering leadership (Pluralsight)
- Scaling a Monolith Horizontally (Derek Comartin)
- Announcing Indigo.Design App Builder: Build Real Web Apps Blazing Fast in the Cloud (Jason Beres)
- Reducing flaky builds by 18x (Jordan Raine)
- New in TeamCity 2020.2: Python Build Runner (Marco Behler)
- Actual Consent is more important than more standards for Consent (John Moehrke)
- Adding approval workflow to your GitHub Action (Tim Heuer)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Announcing gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud (Louis Wasserman & James Ward)
- The regular joy of the Adafruit AdaBox Subscription and exploring IoT with the family (Scott Hanselman)
- Building Interactive Ionic Apps with Gestures and Animations (Simon Grimm)
- 2020 Google Assistant developer Year in Review (Payam Shodjai)
- Opening the Google Play Store for more car apps (Eric Bahna)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Akri, with Kate Goldenring (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- Syntax Podcast – Serverless, Deno and TypeScript with Brian Leroux (Wes Bos)
- Microsoft Stories podcast: episode 8 – Dimension Studio (Andy Trotman)
- Web Rush Episode 114: Challenges and Solutions when using Svelte – Andrew Smith (John Papa)
- RunAs Radio – DBA DevOps using Query Store with Erin Stellato (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- Understanding Teams apps…”Hello, world!” for Teams | Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams (Ayca Bas & Tomomi Imura)
- 8 Bits with Carmen Crincoli! (Brandon Minnick)
- Key benefits of integrating web applications into Microsoft Teams | Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams (Dan Wahlin & Burke Holland)
- Design Details 377: Future-Proof Designer (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
- Superconductive | Always know what to expect from your data | Tech Exceptions (Adi Polak, Abe Gong & James Campbell)
- Learn Together – Developing apps for Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Developer)
- Embedding your web app in Teams | Learn Together: Developing Apps for Teams (Waldek Mastykarz & Barnam Bora)
Community & Events
- Webinar – Xamarin, the best way to make NFC Apps (Maarten Balliauw)
- Accessibility and Inclusion in the Swift Community and Diversity in Swift (The Diversity in Swift Work Group)
- Meet the Developer: Introducing Marissa du Bois (DeveloperMedia)
- Reconnect Series: Davide Benvegnu (MVP Award Team)
- What’s New in TeamCity 2020.2 Webinar on January 19 (Yegor Naumov)
Database
- NoSQL Is Dead, Long Live NoSQL (Keshav Murthy)
- SQL SERVER – Inserting sp_who2 Into a Table (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- COVID-19: Our approach to misleading vaccine information (Twitter Safety)
- Microsoft Translator’s highlights of 2020 (Microsoft Translator Team)
- Live Photos come to OneDrive (Paul Diamond)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3136 (Chris Alcock)
The Geek Shelf
Head First C#: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with C# and .NET Core (Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene) – Referral Link
