Top Links
- Conversation about skills and learning (Richard Lander)
- Write your first code in F# and Introduction to software testing in .NET (Chris Noring)
- Azure SDK Release (July 2021) (Azure SDK Team)
- First Preview of Chat from Microsoft Teams begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
Web & Cloud Development
- JavaScript Promises: then(f,f) vs then(f).catch(f) (Dmitri Pavlutin)
- Creating a Typography Motion Trail Effect with Three.js (Georgi Nikolov)
- Azure Arc for Developers (Thomas Maurer)
- Blazor and Cancelling Asynchronous Calls With CancellationTokenSource (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Simple monorepos via npm workspaces and TypeScript project references (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Level Up Security with Scoped Access Tokens (Ben De St Paer-Gotch)
- Blazorise v0.9.4 – patch 1 release notes (Mladen Macanović)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Windows Graphics News – 2021 Q2 (Ana Marta Carvalho)
- DirectStorage Developer Preview now available! (Hassan Uraizee)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Patterns of Legacy Displacement (Martin Fowler)
- 4 Patterns for Microservices Architecture in Couchbase (Marian Puhl)
- Welcome to Workspaces: Making developer handoff work for everyone (Sketch Team)
- Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower (Johanna Rothman)
- How to Maximize Testing: The 4 Truths of Testing (Peter Vogel)
- Pursuit of Optimum Performance (Mark Miller)
- Moving into “Modern Test Leadership” (Simon Prior)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Using post-processing effects in Unity (Lance Talbert)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Cloudy with a Chance of Mobile: .NET Everywhere with MAUI with Matt Goldman (SSW TV)
- The CSS Podcast 051: Styling SVG in CSS (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- AzureFunBytes – @Azure Logic Apps with @ChloeCondon (Jay Gordon)
- Managers: Learn Azure Your Way Pt. 2 | Azure Enablement (April Edwards, Sandra Marin, James Seymour, Ornella Altunyan, David Berry & Dave Burnison)
- Asp.Net Monsters #217 – Searching Text in SQL Server (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
- Quantum Computing basics with Q# – Adventures in .NET 078 (Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
- PPP 329 | Preparing Your Career and Your Team for the Future, with Deborah Westphal (Andy Kaufman)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 418 | Geek Out – Prosumer Networking With Ubiquity & Unifi (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Independent Publisher Connector Program | POWERful Devs (Greg Hurlman & Natalie Pienkowska)
- RunAs Radio – Your Private Cloud Platform with Jennelle Crothers (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 282 (Jason Bock)
Community & Events
- Splunker Stories: Tanya Pfeffer (Karen Miller)
- Discover recent Microsoft Partner Network updates (Dan Truax)
- MVP Global Cloud Skills Challenge Winner Jiadong Chen and Special Winners At MVP Global Cloud Skills Challenge and An MVP’s Serverless And AI Challenge (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- Report: Apple Delays Return to Office (Paul Thurrott)
Database
- SQL Server Rounding Functions – Round, Ceiling and Floor (Jeremy Kadlec)
- SQL SERVER – Using CASE Expression in Default Value (Pinal Dave)
- MongoDB 5 Adds Live Resharding (Kay Ewbank)
- Database Performance Tuning is Getting Much Harder. (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- A new day for SharePoint Server (Bill Baer)
- Microsoft Begins Rollout of “Teams 2.0” to Windows 11 Insiders (Brad Sams)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1149 (21H2) and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.1149 (21H1) to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- How Trello Can Help You Make A Career Change (Britt Joiner)
- DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers (Dave Gershgorn)
- Microsoft Edge available to download from Windows 11’s Microsoft Store (Kunal Chowdhury)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3278 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Links 20 Jul 2021 (Malcolm Jack)
The Geek Shelf
Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C# (Jimmy Engström) – Referral Link
