Top Links
- Put a DPAD on that GC! (Maoni Stephens)
- String Manipulation in C#: Best Practices (Steve Gordon)
- Rust for Windows Achieves Full Consumption (Call any Windows API) (David Ramel)
- Visual Studio 2022 64 bits: Elements of history (Patrick Smacchia)
- Register for Microsoft BUILD 2021 this year! Here’s a SNEAK PEAK of the First MINUTE! (Scott Hanselman)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Correctly Debounce and Throttle Callbacks in React (Dmitri Pavlutin)
- Get Started With React By Building A Whac-A-Mole Game (Jhey Tompkins)
- Updates on WAGI, the WebAssembly Gateway Interface (Radu Matei)
- Hit the Ground Running: Wasm Snapshots for Fast Start Up (Nick Fitzgerald)
- Catching all the Requests while Testing with HttpClient (Adam Storr)
- Application Security in the Cloud (Anton Chuvakin)
- How to Trigger a Usage Alert with the Twilio CLI (Ashley Boucher)
- clinFHIR Package Viewer (David Hay)
- Part 3: Get started with the Go Programming Language with Microsoft Learn! (no experience needed) (Michael Crump)
- Go Crash Course Part VII: Functions, Closures and Defer (Mofizur Rahman)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Xamarin Forms: MVVM Navigation, Converters, Multi-language all in one place (András Tóth)
- How to Load Appointments on Demand via Web Services in WPF Scheduler (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #8 (Sam Basu)
- Kahua uses Uno Platform, WinUI and Azure to deliver a multi-platform app four times faster than anticipated (Uno Platform Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Basic 16.9 Support In .NET 5 (Kay Ewbank)
- ‘Modern Visual Basic’ Mercury Language Debuts (David Ramel)
- Did you know – Visual Studio can add Using directive automatically on paste? (Abhijit Jana)
- Learn About Pattern Matching In C# (Kirtesh Shah)
- Using C# Named Arguments to Declutter Complex Tests (Matthew Jones)
- Using the new PriorityQueue from .NET 6 (Kristoffer Strube)
- Case Study: How GritWorld uses Rider and Avalonia to Build a Powerful 3D Engine (Maarten Balliauw)
- What are the page sizes used by Windows on various processors? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Code Coverage & Frontend Testing (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
- How we think about creating new architecture (Andrew Best)
- Open Closed Principle – Deep Dive (Anwar Al Jahwari)
- Evolving modular monoliths: 2. Breaking up your app into multiple solutions (Jon P. Smith)
- Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations (Kevin Jones)
- Why you should invest in good Developer Experience today (Tanja Bach)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Low-code development series: Modernize your IoT future with Azure and Microsoft Power Platform (Ricardo Duncan)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Technical Debt (Wes Bos)
- CodeNewbie S16:E1 – What it’s like to break into tech as a mother (Arit Amana) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Revision Path – Joseph Cuillier (Maurice Cherry)
- Schwammy Streams – B6 – Coding with Blazor and ASP.NET Core (Andy Schwam)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 128 – Azure and SQL with Anna and Bob (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Local Push Notifications in Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
- Asp.Net Monsters – Sending Email with SMTP4Dev and MailKit (#210) (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Saying goodbye to our co-host, Sara Chipps (Ben Popper, Sara Chipps & Paul Ford)
- The Amp Hour #541 – Chip Shortage Denier (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The .NET Docs Show – Versioning REST APIs (Irina Scurtu)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Viva Connections with John Nguyen and Luca Bandinelli (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 195 – Orleans with Reuben Bond (John Callaway)
- Videos now online – TeamCity Cloud Launch Event (Yegor Naumov)
Community & Events
- DockerCon LIVE 2021 Keynotes (David Oro)
- Announcing the Swift Mentorship Program (The Diversity in Swift work group)
- Celebrating our differences and uniting for a more inclusive society (Jane Hesmondhalgh)
Database
- Release: SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v8.19 (Alexandra Ciortea)
- Cumulative Update #24 for SQL Server 2017 RTM (Hristina Sarankin)
- SQL SERVER on Linux – Commands (Pinal Dave)
- Accelerate SQL Server to Azure migration with Pure Cloud Block Store (SQL Server Team)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams Community Update: April, 2021 (Laurie Pottmeyer)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rocketships (Charles R. Martin & Ben Popper)
- Announcing Rust 1.52.1 (Felix Klock & Mark Rousskov)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3228 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-05-11 (Dan Rigby)
- .NET News Roundup – Week of May 3rd, 2021 (Arthur Casals)
- Reading Notes #472 (Frank Boucher)
- Weekly Notes – #62 (Miguel Bernard)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link