Month: June 2021

Top Links

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 5 (Daniel Roth)
• Conversation about networking and Announcing .NET 6 Preview 5 (Richard Lander)
• Window Manager preview for Xamarin (Craig Dunn)
• Getting Started with Project Reunion (Windows UI) and Visual Studio 2022 (Nick Randolph)
• Developer Perspectives Episode 6 | Jessica Engstrom and Alvin Ashcraft (Jessica Engstrom & Alvin Ashcraft)
• Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 5 (David Ortinau)
• Visual Studio 2019 16.11 Preview 2 and Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available! (Justin Johnson)
• Type less, code more with IntelliCode completions (Mark Wilson-Thomas)

Web & Cloud Development

• A Developer’s Guide to Session Management in React (Nickolas Fisher)
• Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 320 – How to get started with Neural Text to Speech in Azure (Azure Team)
• Blazor Azure Communication Services (Michael Washington)
• Azure portal May 2021 update (Ariya Khamvongsa)
• Deploying SvelteKit using Cloudflare Workers (Ashley Connor)
• Next.js 11 Released with New Script and Image Loading Strategies (Bruno Couriol)
• Create a Roulette wheel. Game development using Blazor WebAssembly (David Grace)
• Your Guide to REST API Versioning in ASP.NET Core (Dave Brock)
• Why build Single Page Apps in Blazor (David Pine)
• Client-Side Routing In Next.js (Adebiyi Adedotun)
• Empowering you to achieve more with open source on Azure (Katie Fritsch)
• Using Azure Active Directory to Secure a Blazor WebAssembly Standalone App (Marinko Spasojevic)
• Dark Mode for HTML Form Controls (Melanie Richards, Sam Sebree, Ionel Popescu, Bo Cupp & Brian Heston)
• Editing and Creating Appointments in Telerik Scheduler for Blazor (Peter Vogel)
• Blazor TextBox Customization—A Complete Guide (Saravanan G)
• Announcing the new Azure Data Tables Libraries (Sean Kane)
• Simple Steps to Convert an ASP.NET Core with Angular App to a Desktop App (Vivek Sankar)
• 16 Tips to Master Your Azure Static Web Apps (Yohan Lasorsa)
• Steeltoe Release v3.1.0-rc2 (Jason Konicki)
• Prioritizing and Microservices (Steve Smith)
• ECMAScript proposal: Ergonomic brand checks for private fields and ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules (Axel Rauschmayer)
• ESLint v7.29.0 released (ESLint Team)
• Writing a Controller for Pod Labels (Arthur Busser)
• Redis Streams in Action – Part 3 (Java app to process tweets with Redis Streams) (Abhishek Gupta)
• DocumentViewer Annotations: Highlight Text (Bjoern Meyer)
• Getting Started with Graph API and Graph Explorer (Reed Robison)
• Cancelling a request issues a cancellation on backend? (Karthik Chintala)
• Creating your FHIR Artifact JIRA Specification (Keith W. Boone)
• Blazorise v0.9.3 – patch 9 release notes (Mladen Macanović)
• Save Time with Scaffolding Using Yeoman (Michael Szul)
• Assignments API for Microsoft Graph is now generally available (Microsoft Graph Team)
• Locked Files When Publishing .NET Core Apps to IIS with WebDeploy (Rick Strahl)
• Unlocking the enterprise opportunity with 5G, edge compute, and cloud (Tad Brockway)
• How to filter entries by linked references in GraphQL (Salma Alam-Naylor)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Xamarin Application Logging: Why, How, and What? (Denys Fiediaiev)
• How to create a simple Floating Button with Xamarin.Forms/MAUI (Federico Navarrete)
• Using the IndicatorView in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
• The New Wave of MAUI Controls by Telerik (Polya Pelova)
• First Look at Fluent WPF Calendar and Accordion (Greg Lutz)
• Implementing Chromecast with Xamarin.Forms (Sweeky Satpathy)
• Uno Platform, Visual Studio 2022 and Hot Reload (Uno Platform Team)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Updating Progress in the Windows Taskbar with C# (Eric Potter)
• New VS Code Tool Eases GitHub Browsing/Editing, No Cloning Required (David Ramel)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2022 – IntelliCode Code Completions and How to check the Health Status of Visual Studio Services? (Abhijit Jana)
• Easily Add .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0 Custom Controls to Visual Studio Toolbox (Balaji Renganathan)
• Build C#9 with AppCenter (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 5: Compiled Models (Jeremy Likness)
• Microsoft Engineers Scott Hanselman and Cherita Ousley – Learn C# together! (Lee Stott)
• Visual Studio 2022 will write code for you!!! – Visual Studio 2022 Series – Part 1 (Satish Yadav)
• Improved Allocation Details and Powerful Type Filters in dotMemory 2021.2 EAP (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• What to Expect in .NET 6 (Vitalis Ogbonna)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• AoAD2 Part IV: Optimizing Outcomes (Introduction) and AoAD2 Chapter: Autonomy and AoAD2 Chapter: Discovery and AoAD2 Chapter: Into the Future and AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility (James Shore)
• Double Down: Scrum v Devs (Ron Jeffries)
• Unit Testing Extension Methods Such as LogWarning (Mitchel Sellers)
• Using classes in custom step templates (Shawn Sesna)
• What Ruins A Developer’s Day (Janet Swift)
• Before the next pandemic: Lessons learned, and those still to be absorbed (Ben Ryon)
• How to Best Manage Design Debt (Desiree Johnson)
• GitHub Desktop 2.9 includes squashing, reordering, amending, and more! (Billy Griffin)
• Real-Time Web by leveraging Event Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
• Slack Details Its New Role Management Architecture (Eran Stiller)
• Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal (Johanna Rothman)
• Treat your integration tests as external consumers (Josef Ottosson)
• TeamCity 2021.1.1 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
• When it’s Ok to break the build and I don’t think you should only test manually (Matt Lacey)
• What Every CTO Needs to Know About Live Debugging (Omer Raviv)
• Creating the Future of Work (Steven Sinofsky)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How To Run Multiple Flutter Versions on macOS (Altynbek Usenbekov)
• In-App Search using the Video Skills Kit (VSK) on Fire TV (Amazon Appstore Developer Team)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Syntax Podcast – CSS Container Queries, Layers, Scoping and More with Miriam Suzanne (Wes Bos)
• CppCast – Modernizing DOSBox with Patryk Obara (Rob Irving)
• .NET Rocks! – Open Source in the Enterprise with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GCast 111: Writing unit tests with xUnit.net and Technology & Friends – Hattan Shobokshi on Getting the Most Out of Bash Scripts (David Giard)
• Hanselminutes Podcast #793 – Get Busy Living with Abel Wang and Learn C# Basics 1 of 3 with Scott and Cherita (Scott Hanselman)
• Things a DevOps Engineer Needs to Know – Adventures in DevOps 073 (Jeffrey Groman & Will Button)
• Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – Splitting extensions for Visual Studio 2022 (Mads Kristensen)
• Async Debugging Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Isadora Rodopoulos)
• PPP 324 | Gallup Chief Scientist on How to Build Resilient and Thriving Teams (Andy Kaufman)
• Better Azure content, programs & services through applied data science | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Lisa Cohen)
• Azure Defender for IoT – THE Demo | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Paul Roberts)
• Advisor Clinic: Rightsize your Azure Virtual Machines | Azure Enablement (David Blank-Edelman & Ritesh Kini)
• Working Code Podcast – Episode 027: Giving Technical Presentations (Ben Nadel)
• Migrating to SQL: Get Started with Azure SQL Readiness Assessments and Migrations from Azure Data Studio (Ep. 6) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Rajesh Stelem)
• Talk Python to Me #321: HTMX – Clean, Dynamic HTML Pages (Michael Kennedy)
• What is Azure Static Web Apps and what can it be used for? [1 of 16] | Azure Tips and Tricks: Static Web Apps | Azure Tips and Tricks: Static Web Apps (Daria Grigoriu & Brian Clark)
• Introduction to .NET MAUI Blazor | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno & Eilon Lipton)
• Live Coding – Uno Platform Gamepad API, Light Sensor API (Martin Zikmund)
• On .NET Episode: Clustering in Orleans (Cecil L. Phillip)
• 8 Bits with Dr. G! (Chloe Condon & Brandon Minnick)
• CodeStories Shanghai | Teaching the world to code | CodeStories (Christina Warren & Anna Soracco)
• Rocket 338: Hype House!! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Unhandled Exception Podcast – Mutation Testing in .NET with Stefan Pölz (Dan Clarke)
• UI Breakfast Podcast – Better Done Than Perfect. Driving Behavior Change with Ashutosh Priyadarshy (Jane Portman)
• Serverless Chats Episode #106: Building Apps on the Decentralized Web with Nader Dabit (Jeremy Daly)
• Web Rush Episode 138: Google Maps with Katerina Skroumpelou (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• AGL 207: Catching up with Kent C. Dodds (John Rouda)
• The MongoDB Podcast Episode 60 – Securing MongoDB using Authorization and Authentication with Matt Javaly (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
• Azure Podcast Episode 382 – Reducing Carbon Emissions with Spot VMs (Sujit D’Mello)
• Developer Weekly Podcast #51 – Open Source with Tom Kerkhove (Tom Kerkhove & Barry Luijbregts)

Community & Events

• BlazorDay 2021 (Frank LaVigne)
• Musings on Life as Dev (Ron Jeffries)
• How the Tech World Honored Juneteenth (David Cassel)
• Reconnect Series: Christophe Cordonnier and The MVP Guiding Nigerian Women In Tech (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• OSS Power-Ups: Verify (Matthias Koch)
• Microsoft Elects Satya Nadella as Chairman (Paul Thurrott)
• Ask the Microsoft Viva team anything on June 23! (Shin-Yi)
• State of the Stack Q2 2021 (Teresa Dietrich)

Database

• SQL SERVER – COUNT(*) and Index Used – Part 2 and MS Access – Count Distinct Values and COUNT(*) and Index – SQL in Sixty Seconds #175 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 5.2 Features: Read only certificates (Oren Eini)
• Using the Mongo DB Shell to remove all elements in a collection (Paul Michaels)

SharePoint & MS Teams

• Microsoft’s Making it Easier to Use Teams to Stream to YouTube or Twitch (Brad Sams)
• Getting Started with Graph API and Teams (Reed Robison)
• New hybrid work innovations in Microsoft Teams Rooms, Fluid, and Microsoft Viva (Jared Spataro)
• Microsoft Teams to create SharePoint team sites automatically (Kunal Chowdhury)

PowerShell

• Preview updating PowerShell 7.2 with Microsoft Update (Travis Plunk)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ 8 Released (Kay Ewbank)
• Power Automate Desktop June 2021 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
• Overview of AutoNLP from Hugging Face with Example Project (Exxact Team)
• Universal Print ready printers are here! (Alan Meeus)
• Windows 11: A glorified theme pack we can all live with (Jason Perlow)
• Here’s how you can reposition Windows 11 Taskbar to the left of screen (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 13: Trampolines (Raymond Chen)
• Early Access Programs Now Come With Login (Roman Prokashev)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3254 and The Morning Brew #3255 and The Morning Brew #3256 (Chris Alcock)
• .NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-17 and .NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-18 and .NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.06.18 (Jay Gordon)
• Friday Five: Microsoft Viva Insights, Azure DevOps, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
• The Overflow #78: Blockchain; hype or game changer? (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 309 – 19th Jun 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
• F# Weekly #25, 2021 – .NET Conf: Focus on F# & Phillip Carter’s Announcement (Sergey Tihon)
• C# Digest Issue #368 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Reading List 278 (Bruce Lawson)
• Code Maze Weekly #81 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• The .NET Stacks #54: Putting a bow on .NET 6 date and time updates (Dave Brock)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link