Top Links
- Visual Studio 2022 (Amanda Silver)
- Open source goes to Mars (Nat Friedman)
- Converting a 13 year old .NET WPF app called BabySmash to a self-contained .NET 5 app with the .NET Upgrade Assistant (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing Pulumi 3.0 (Luke Hoban)
- Loop alignment in .NET 6 (Kunal Pathak)
Web & Cloud Development
- Will .NET 6 fix Blazor Prerendering? (Jon Hilton)
- Annotating Kubernetes Services for Humans (Richard Li)
- Building and auto-deploying an ASP.NET Core application – Part 6 – Setting up a CD pipeline – Deploying to an Azure App Service (Imar Spaanjaaars)
- Lost in Azure cloud identity – part 1 (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
- A Mistery of parseInt() in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
- How to Optimize JavaScript Performance (Jasmine Miah)
- Rendering dynamic content in Blazor Wasm using DynamicComponent (Kristoffer Strube)
- Tetris in Blazor Part 5: Controls, Upcoming Tetrominos, and Clearing Rows (Matthew Jones)
- Orchard Core .NET5 and C# 9 (David Hayden)
- Introducing Twilio’s Open API Specification Beta (Gareth Paul Jones)
- Discover DevUtils.app – Toolbox for Developers (Rob Bazinet)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Introducing WinUI 3 Project Reunion Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Fixing build warning NETSSDK1138 when building projects with end-of-life .NET frameworks (Andrew Lock)
- C# 9 init accessors and records (Tom Deseyn)
- Llama Preview: Swift on .NET (Eric Sink)
- New .NET Guide Tutorials – From Visual Studio to Rider, ReSharper Essentials, Docker, and more! (Maarten Balliauw)
- CQRS With MediatR In .NET 5 (Jay Krishna Reddy)
- DWriteCore overview – Win32 apps (Microsoft Docs)
- Task vs ValueTask: When Should I use ValueTask? (Brian Lagunas)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Easily Create and Manipulate Mock Anonymous Data for Unit Tests (Adam Storr)
- Don’t POOP – The Partial/Optional Object Population Anti-Pattern (Scott Hannen)
- Resources – Material Design (Updated) (Material Design Team)
- Best Practices in Software Development: An Inside Look at What Guides Progress—Part 3 (Mandy Mowers)
- Stop normalizing unprofessional behaviour in the name of agility (Martin Hinshelwood)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android GPU Compute Going Forward (Dan Galpin)
- Flutter Q&A with Chris Sells, Senior Product Manager at Google on Flutter [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter H.)
- HDMI Capture on the Raspberry Pi (j2inet)
- Building Tip Calculator App in Flutter (Sardor Islomov)
- Flutter WebView JavaScript Communication — InAppWebView 5 (Lorenzo Pichilli)
- Supercharge your computer vision models with synthetic datasets built by Unity (Anthony Navarro)
- New Unity Educator plan provides free tools to teach Unity and empower your students (Estefany Delgado)
- Battle of Multiplatform Mobile Frameworks (Luis Matos)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Container Queries Are Here (Wes Bos)
- Revision Path – Steenz (Maurice Cherry)
- Efficiently manage your cloud operations using Cloud Adoption Framework | Azure Enablement (Sarah Lean & Brian Blanchard)
- Get a unified network monitoring experience with Network Insights | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Dalan Mendonca)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 192 – Blazor with Carl Franklin (John Callaway)
- Meta Cast Episode 194 – Is Scrum Really The Issue? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Asp.Net Monsters #207 – dotnet new gitignore (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
- Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – 64-bit extensions for Visual Studio 2022 (Mads Kristensen)
- Video in Your Xamarin.Forms App with MediaElement (Gerald Versluis)
- Web Wednesday – What is TypeScript with Aaron Powell? and Web Wednesday – TypeScript and React with Aaron Powell (Christopher Harrison)
- The Work Item #30 – Creativity in Code and Beyond, with Monica Dinculescu, Engineer Extraordinaire (Den Delimarsky)
- 8-Bits Interview with Ro Paydar! (Chloe Condon & Brandon Minnick)
- Online Discussion: Cross-platform frameworks (Charlin Agramonte)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – One in four visitors to Stack Overflow copies code (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
- Azure Podcast Episode 373 – GitHub Actions (Sujit D’Mello)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 123 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & April Dunnam)
- Identity, Unlocked… Explained: Season 2 Ep 7 (Vittorio Bertocci)
Community & Events
- The Stars Are Aligning: Announcing our first round of speakers at DockerCon LIVE 2021 (William Quiviger)
- Launch 2021– community contest for best WinUI, UWP and Uno Platform applications (Uno Platform Team)
- Welcome Teresa Carlson, Our New President and Chief Growth Officer (Doug Merritt)
- How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know. (Ben Popper & David Gibson)
- MVPs Ignite Education In China and Japan and MVPs Tell Their Education Stories With MS Learn (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- Not Just Another Virtual Event? For THE Community BY The Community… Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021 is on! (Joel Oleson)
Database
- SQL Server T-SQL CASE Statement Examples (Koen Verbeeck)
- How-to auto-scale Azure SQL Databases (Julio Calderon)
- Testing Backups and Offloading CheckDB (Taryn Pratt)
- SQL Puzzle – Unsolved CASE Expression (Pinal Dave)
- Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0 Preview 2 (David Engel)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft announces plans to establish its first datacenter region in Malaysia as part of “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth (Microsoft Malaysia)
- Xbox Cloud Gaming for Windows 10 PC and Apple Phones and Tablets Begin as Limited Beta for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Members (Catherine Gluckstein)
- Surface expands its Secured-core portfolio with the new Surface Laptop 4 powered by AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors (Eric Avena)
- Introducing the IntelliJ IDEA Guide (Helen Scott)
- Watch the first footage of a helicopter on Mars (Kait Sanchez)
- Windows Server Gets Redesigned Event Viewer in Windows Admin Center v2103 (Russell Smith)
- What the FLoC?! (Scott Helme)
- Create a Windows 10 development virtual machine (Thomas Maurer)
- Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.962 (20H2) to Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.962 (21H1) to Beta Channel & Release Preview Channels (Vivek Elangovan)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3214 (Chris Alcock)
- [Last Week in .NET #38] – The NSA requests you patch your sh*t (George Stocker)
The Geek Shelf
Essential TypeScript 4: From Beginner to Pro (2nd Ed) (Adam Freeman) – Referral Link