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