Month: April 2021

Top Links

• Running Your Windows UI / Project Reunion App in the Windows App Container (sandbox) (Nick Randolph)
• Learning Path: Microsoft Graph Fundamentals (Microsoft Learn)
• GitHub Desktop supports hiding whitespace, expanding diffs, and creating repository aliases (Billy Griffin)
• Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft’s next default font (Microsoft Design Team)
• Rearchitecting for Microservices: Featuring Windows & Linux Containers (Jessica Deen)

Web & Cloud Development

• Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview and Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 314 – How to get started with Metrics Advisor (Azure Team)
• hTWOo: A Microsoft Fluent Design pure HTML & CSS Implementation (Andrew Connell)
• TX Text Control Packages for Angular 11.0 Published (Bjoern Meyer)
• Introduction to Blazor Form Handling & Input Validation (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Using Blazor WebAssembly, SignalR and C# 9 to create Full-stack Real time Applications (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
• Track active file in Goland (James Sturtevant)
• Rotated 3D Letters and Image Hover Effect (Mary Lou)
• Blazorise v0.9.3 – patch 6 release notes (Mladen Macanovic)
• API Testing—Strategy and Tools (Peter Vogel)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Multi-Selection per row with Dynamic Data in Xamarin Forms (Part 4) (Rendy Del Rosario)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Nullable Reference types in C# – Best practices (Damir Arh)
• Not Much for Dev Tools in Microsoft’s Big Accessibility Push Announcement (David Ramel)
• ReSharper and Visual Studio 2022 64-bit (Maarten Balliauw)
• Containerize .NET for Red Hat OpenShift: Use a Windows VM like a container (Don Schenck)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Frictionless On-Premises Incident Resolution. Don’t Rub Your Customers the Wrong Way (Omer Raviv)
• Replace a file in MSI (Horatiu Vladasel)
• Introducing TeamCity Cloud – A Managed CI/CD Service by JetBrains (Alexander Rassokhin)
• Aggregate Design: Using Invariants as a Guide (Derek Comartin)
• Installing Git on Windows (Justin Horner)
• Using Yammer and OneDrive to connect your workforce (Michael Holste)
• Stack Overflow: A technical deep dive on unified search (Ham Vocke)
• Configuring Octopus High Availability in Azure (Derek Campbell)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Be a square – create custom shapes with SwiftUI (Thomas Moore)
• Why Learn Kotlin? (Ksenia Shneyveys)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – TypeScript Fundamentals — Getting a Bit Deeper (Wes Bos)
• Evaluating financial considerations during your cloud adoption journey  | Azure Enablement (Sarah Lean, Brian Blanchard & Daniel Feeney)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 020: Carol Needs A Consult (Ben Nadel)
• On Prem To The Cloud: Cloud Native – Episode 8 | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & Jessica Deen)
• C# Language Highlights: Default Interface Methods | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Matthew Soucoup)
• Image Tinting (Xamarin Community Toolkit) | The Xamarin Show (Gerald Versluis & John Bijsterbosch)
• Complete Developer Podcast – Pair Programming (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 224: The Standup Meeting (Carlos L. Chacon)
• 8 Bits with Sweeky Satpathy! (Chloe Condon & Brandon Minnick)
• Design Details 395: Config 2021 (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
• Radical Candor S3, Ep. 5: Let’s Talk About Bullying In Remote Workplaces (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
• SyncUp, A OneDrive Podcast – Staying connected with Yammer (Ankita Kirti & Jason Moore)
• Applied Nested Edge in an industrial environment | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch, Stefanie Grois & Philip Derbyshire)

Community & Events

• Node.js Mentorship New Mentee Opening (Node.js Mentorship Initiative)
• Microsoft Lists: Five free virtual workshops, May 10-14, 2021 (Mark Kashman)
• Bytecode Alliance Lays Foundation for Next Gen of Containerized Software (Mike Vizard)
• Growing the Bytecode Alliance (Bobby Holley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Count and Count_Big (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL—public preview updates for April 2021 (Azure Team)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• SharePoint Framework v1.12.1 – What’s in the latest Update of SPFx? (Andrew Connell)
• Microsoft Teams now lets meetings organizers mute audio from individual attendees (Rabia Noureen)
• Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams meeting has new look and tools (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 19, Quantum Phase Estimation (Filip W.)
• Doubling down on accessibility: Microsoft’s next steps to expand accessibility in technology, the workforce and workplace (Brad Smith)
• Preparing the Windows 10 May 2021 Update for Release (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Don’t Miss Your Target Audience (DeveloperMedia)
• Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.964 (21H1) to Beta & Release Preview Channels (Vivek Elangovan)
• Releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3740.0 to the Beta & Release Preview Channels (Windows Insider Program Team)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3221 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-29 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

 Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (The MIT Press) (Vaclav Smil) – Referral Link