Top Links
- How Does the StringBuilder Work in .NET? (Part 2) (Steve Gordon)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- C# Language Highlights: Null Coalescing Assignment | On .NET (James Montemagno & Maira Wenzel)
- Visual Studio Code June 2021 (VS Code Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Controlling Serialisation of CosmosDB Bindings for Azure Functions and Creating Static Web Apps With F# and Fable (Aaron Powell)
- Privileged Identity Management with Azure Lighthouse enables Zero Trust (Brendan Burns)
- End-To-End UI Testing using SpecFlow | FREE Blazor Crash Course (.NET 5) (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Angular Basics: Creating Dynamic Forms Using FormArray in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Development Process (Uma Victor)
- What’s New in React 18 (Michelle Sebek)
- Use single-tenant Azure AD apps with Microsoft Graph Toolkit (Waldek Mastykarz)
- Build a shopping app with Azure Static Web Apps (Yohan Lasorsa)
- AI Builder July 2021 update (Cedrick Bellarosa)
- TypeScript 4.4 Improves Control Flow Analysis (Ian Elliot)
- Using A Function App with a Dedicated Static IP (Faisal Mustafa)
- Building a Command Line Tool with Nodejs and Fauna (Fortune Ikechi)
- Jamstack Hosting Solutions: Challengers to the Throne (Raymond Camden)
- 8 Reasons to Adopt Microservices, in fewer than 100 words (George Stocker)
Visual Studio & .NET
- GitHub – Open in Visual Studio Code Insiders (Jon Gallant)
- Protobuf – Google’s data interchange format which is smaller, faster, and simpler: 1. Getting started with Protobuf using C# runtime library for Protocol Buffers, 2. Handling Dates & Times, 3. Supporting C# Nullable Types, 4. Protobuf Serialization & Deserialization using C#, 5. Converting Protobuf to JSON & JSON to Protobuf (Kapil Khandelwal)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Is Agile Transformation Still a Thing? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Selenium VB.NET xUnit Test Automating Angular, React, VueJS and 20 More and Selenium C# xUnit Test Automating Angular, React, VueJS and 20 More (Anton Angelov)
- Why I Need a Tester (James Bach)
- 5 free online games you can play with your team (Michał Białecki)
- Update App Secrets with Jenkins CI and .NET Core (Nickolas Fisher)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Collection of Raspberry Pi retro tech projects (Ashley Whittaker)
- Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18) (Vikas Kansal)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – Tipi.build with Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt (Rob Irving)
- .NET Core Podcast – VR Applications in Unity with Justin Barnett (Jamie Taylor)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast 355: Is everyone starting to work like a developer? (Ben Popper)
- Hanselminutes – Engineering Servant Leadership with Carbon Health’s Claire Hough (Scott Hanselman)
- Xamarin.Forms MVVM Made Easy with FreshMvvm Framework (Gerald Versluis)
- Five Practical Tips to Limitless Data Integration Using Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Wee Hyong Tok)
- Faster & Safer XAML with Compiled Bindings in Xamarin.Forms & .NET MAUI (James Montemagno)
- Live Coding – Uno Platform Gamepad, Light Sensor API and Live Coding – Uno Platform Gamepad API, Ambient Light Sensor API (Martin Zikmund)
- The Xamarin Podcast Episode 96: The Final Xamarin Podcast (James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup & David Ortinau)
- React Native Radio 203 – React Native Express with Devin Abbott (Jamon Holmgren, Devon Abbott, Jon Major Condon & Robin Heinze)
- Speeding up Your Angular Apps with Daniel Kreider – AiA 316 (Charles Max Wood, Richard Sithole & Subrat Mishra)
- Gaining Stability with Rule Based Policies with Shimon Tolts – Adventures in DevOps 076 (Charles Max Wood, Jeffrey Groman & Will Button)
- Rocket 341: Social Media Astir (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- The MongoDB Podcast Ep. 66 – The Road to Atlas #4 – The Road Ahead with Cailin Nelson, and Sahir Azam (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
- Azure Podcast Episode 384 – Safe Deployment Practices (Sujit D’Mello)
Community & Events
- DockerCon 2021: Women in Tech Panel (Hema Ganapathy)
- So you want to start a User Group (James Petty)
- Excel Influencer Teaching The TikTok Masses (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- Interview with the Amazing Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman (Kenneth Fisher)
- Congratulations to the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards winners and finalists (Rodney Clark)
- Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus (Tom Warren)
Database
- Create a Checklist App with Power Apps and SQL Server (Hristo Hristov)
- What’s new with SQL Server Big Data Clusters—CU11 Release (Daniel Coelho)
- Azure Container Instance and SQL server part 2 (Arun Sirpal)
- Read Only Tables – Is it Possible? – SQL in Sixty Seconds #179 (Pinal Dave)
- DenoDB Enables Wider Database Support (Kay Ewbank)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Keeping up to date on Azure with MS Teams (John Kilmister)
- Microsoft Teams: Now you can bring in your data from Salesforce too (Liam Tung)
- Get nostalgic with new Microsoft Teams backgrounds (Microsoft 365 Team)
Miscellaneous
- Surface Duo will be upgraded to Android 11 in Sep/Oct and Duo 2 also launched at the time (RMC Team)
- Cryo-EM Research Using Relion (SabrePC Team)
- Guide: How to Install Windows 11 in a Virtual Machine (Michael Reinders)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3270 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #669 (Mary Lou)
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