Top Links
- WinUI 3 Preview 3 (Alexandre Zollinger Chohfi)
- Figma Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo (Mehul Shah)
- Asynchronous Messaging, Part 1: Basic Distributed Architecture (Stephen Cleary)
- Hanselminutes – Living through 2020 as a Remote Developer with Amanda Silver (Scott Hanselman)
- Install Apps from the Microsoft Store using WinGet (Thomas Maurer)
- Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here! (David Ortinau)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to monitor your Azure infrastructure with Filebeat and Elastic Observability (Aaron M. Schifman)
- Merging Templates using DS Server in ASP.NET Core (Bjoern Meyer)
- EventGrid Subscription to Custom Topic Using Azure CLI (Justin Yoo)
- Build Node.js App Docker Image and Push to Docker Private Repo With GitHub Actions (Krishna Prasad Kalakodimi)
- Stack and Queue in JavaScript (Leonardo Maldonado)
- Bulk upload files to Azure Blob Storage with the Azure CLI (Mark Heath)
- Why should I care about Azure App Service Environment version 3? (Sandra Ahlgrimm)
- Theming and Theme Switching with React and styled-components (Tapas Adhikary)
- Splitting up a Monolith into Microservices (Derek Comartin)
- Sandboxing vs. Elevated Browsing (As Administrator) (Eric Lawrence)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- New Xamarin.Forms 5 Drops Visual Studio 2017 Support (David Ramel)
- Introducing Syncfusion Ribbon for WinUI (Jegan Raj M)
- Xamarin Essentials: Features, Advantages and Benefits (Leomaris Reyes)
- Fallback Fonts in XAML (Matt Lacey)
- Create a macOS App From Your Xamarin.iOS App by Just Doing This (Gerald Versluis)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Entity Framework Core 5 Interceptors (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- #Net5 – C#9 logical operators “is” and “is not” are super cool (Bruno Capuano)
- Useful SQL statements when writing EF Core 5 migrations (Michał Białecki)
- Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 300 – Unit testing the Azure Cosmos DB change feed in xUnit and C# (Michael Crump)
- Real World Akka.NET Clustering: Process Managers and Long-Running Operations (Aaron Stannard)
- Looking to the Future of .NET 6 (Matthew MacDonald)
- WSFederationHttpBinding in .NET Standard (Mike Rousos)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Your 2021 cybersecurity playbook (Richard Harpur)
- Productive (And Realistic) Ways To Optimize Your Space For Remote Work (Genevieve Michaels)
- Custom element wrappers for Selenium tests with Legerity (James Croft)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Managing user presence in Cloud Firestore using Flutter (Souvik Biswas)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – The State of Security in the Octoverse with Maya Kaczorowski (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Add Contextual Actions with SwipeView in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
- Xamarin Podcast Episode 85: Xamarin.Forms 5 with David Ortinau (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
- Xamarin in .NET 6 | MonkeyFest USA 2020 (Jonathan Peppers)
- AzureFunBytes Episode 25 – @Azure Durable Functions with @maximrouiller (Jay Gordon)
- MVVM 101 – Model-View-ViewModel Architecture for Xamarin.Forms, WPF, UWP, & More (James Montemagno)
- Azure Application Insights Profiler | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Chuck Weininger)
- CppCast – Open Frameworks and Creative Coding (Rob Irving)
- Rocket 314: Yet Another Normal Episode (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- Microsoft Customer Clear.Bank shares their journey and learnings | Customer Tech Talks (Ben Walters & Tom Harris)
- Carpe Per Diem – Windows Weekly 706 (Paul Thurrott)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Programming in PowerPoint can teach you a few things (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
Community & Events
- Top 10 C# Corner Speakers Of Year 2020 (Praveen Moosad)
- Speaking at C# Corner’s Virtual Conference (Steve Jones)
- Splunker Stories: Neil Gow (Goh Hattori)
- Season Of Docs 2020 – A Success Story (Sue Gee)
- Open source has a funding problem (James Turner)
- An Update on SolarWinds (Maxim Shafirov)
- Nursing Hackathon Delivered Innovative Solutions Designed to Reimagine Care Delivery – Webcast (Mike Gannotti)
- Webinar: “Onboarding Contributors with Code With Me, GitHub, and Tasks in JetBrains IDEs” with Steve Piercy (Paul Everitt)
Database
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams is getting this new ‘dynamic’ view option to make your meetings more interesting (Liam Tung)
PowerShell
- SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidates (Sydney Smith)
Miscellaneous
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3144 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-01-08 (Dan Rigby)
- Collective #643 (Pedro Botelho)
The Geek Shelf
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Gene Kim & Patrick Debois) – Referral Link