Top Links
- Differences between Hashtable vs Dictonary vs ConcurrentDictionary vs ImmutableDictionary (Scott Hanselman)
- Building Your Next .NET MAUI App – XamExpertDay 2021 (David Ortinau)
- Introducing the Flutter Meetup Network! (Shams Zakhour)
- Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 1 is now available! (Jordan Matthiesen)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Functions 4.0 Preview Out with Support for .NET 6 (David Ramel)
- Implement a secure API and a Blazor app in the same ASP.NET Core project with Azure AD authentication (Damien Bowden)
- Improve security with Azure Front Door and Azure Web Apps access restrictions (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
- CSS accent-color (David Walsh)
- Easily Visualize Online Maps in a Blazor Application (Hari Venkatesh E)
- How to Choose the Best Angular Chart for Your Project (Jason Beres)
- Developing A Web App Using Angular 12, ASP.NET Core Web API And SQL Server (Litan Sarker)
- Creating a Game in Blazor – Part 3 – Graphics (Paul Michaels)
- JavaScript and .NET Spreadsheet SORTBY Function Tips & Tricks (Sean Lawyer)
- Announcing the Preview Release for Azure Tables for Go (Sean Kane)
- Aurelia updates for November 2021 (bigopon)
- Creating sample data with GraphBuilder (David Hay)
- Millions Experience Browser Problems After Long-Anticipated Expiration of ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Certificate (EditorDavid)
- Working With Built-in GraphQL Directives (Jamie Barton)
- Creating Your First SMART on FHIR Application (Sameer Doshi)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Begin to Code with C# Snaps works with Visual Studio 2022 (Rob Miles)
- Code Coverage in .NET (Code Maze)
- Everything That Every .NET Developer Needs To Know About Disposable Types – Properly Disposing Objects (David McCarter)
- Get Common SubString From Two Strings (George)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Second Edition of The Art of Agile Development Now Available (James Shore)
- A PKI-less secure communication channel: design (Oren Eini)
- Practical Time Machines (Eric Lawrence)
- It’s easier to create together with Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 (Liat Ben-Zur)
- A Guide to Implementing Support Documentation For Your Design System (Mihir Patel)
- How To Build A Tight-Knit Team Across Time Zones (Sarah Ribeiro)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- InfoQ Podcast: Moving from Individual Contributor to People Leader (Sam McAfee)
- Merge Conflict 274: Building IoT Things (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Demystifying Azure Arc-enabled data services | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Lior Kamrat)
- Building a Mobile Game with Xamarin.Forms – XamExpertDay 2021 (Shaun Lawrence)
- There’s More to Xamarin Than UI, Let’s do Some Background Magic with Shiny.NET – XamExpertDay 2021 (Allan Ritchie)
- Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI MVVM vs MVU – XamExpertDay 2021 (Sam Basu)
- Porting your Xamarin.Forms Custom Renderer to .NET MAUI Handler – XamExpertDay 2021 (Pedro Jesus)
- Hello, .NET MAUI Expert Day! – XamExpertDay 2021 (Maddie Leger)
- Learn C# with CSharpFritz – C# for Beginners – The AMA show (Jeff Fritz)
- The Changelog – Learning-focused engineering (Brittany Dionigi, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The Amp Hour #560 – High End Audio with Remco Stoutjesdijk (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 303 (Jason Bock)
- Serverless Chats Episode #113: Serverless for Startups with Chris Munns (Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn)
- 2021 OpenCV AI Competition | Grand Prize Winners | Cortic Tigers | Episode 32 | AI Show (Seth Juarez, Michael Ng, Ye Lu & Satya Mallick)
- MidDay Cafe Episode 22 – The Latest in SharePoint Online (Microsoft Healthcare & Life Blog Videos)
- Tabs and Spaces Podcast 110 – We. Are. Com-mun-ity. (Zac Braddy, Jamie Taylor & James Studdart)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – NDepend with Patrick Smacchia (Dan Clarke)
Community & Events
- Is There an Echo? (Rodney Littles II)
- PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2022 Update (James Petty)
- October Virtual PhillyXP Meeting with Industrial Logic Canada CEO Jeff Morgan (Anthony Sciamanna)
- Let the Hunt Begin: Introducing Auth0’s First Capture the Flag Event. (Annybell Villarroel)
- Join us for Hacktoberfest 2021! (Christos Bacharakis)
- Donald Knuth on Machine Learning and the Meaning of Life (David Cassel)
- With workers with disabilities being able to be paid as little as $2 an hour in 42 states, National Disability Employment Awareness Month is a time to honor, reflect and bring awareness (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
- Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researchers @chen-robert and @ginkoid (Jill Moné-Corallo)
- Continuous Commitment To Education: How Sue King Became a Tech Management Leader (Nathaniel Quarrie)
Database
- Always use the right case for data type names in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- SQL SERVER – Table Partitioning for Slow Performance (Pinal Dave)
- How GitHub Partitioned its Relational Database to Improve Reliability at Scale (Sergio De Simone)
PowerShell
- Understanding Get-ACL and AD Drive Output (Faris Malaeb)
Miscellaneous
- AutoML: An Introduction Using Auto-Sklearn and Auto-PyTorch (Exxact Team)
- Windows 11 upgrade: Five questions to ask first (Ed Bott)
- Newly-Published Evidence Undermines China Lab-Leak Theory (EditorDavid)
- Save Time Creating Content by Cross-posting Tweets to LinkedIn (Jamie Maguire)
- 6 Best TikTok Accounts To Follow To Learn New Skills (Lydia Stowe)
- Trove – the responsible data-sharing platform for developers that pays people for their photos (Microsoft Reporter)
- How to make Shared Google Calendars show up on your iPhone and iPad Calendar (Scott Hanselman)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3324 (Chris Alcock)
- The .NET Stacks #64: ⚡ Looking at Functions support in .NET 6 (Dave Brock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-10-04 (Dan Rigby)
- C# Digest Issue #383 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #40, 2021 – Fable.Lit 1.0 & VS4Mac 2022 Preview (Sergey Tihon)
- Code Maze Weekly #95 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- The Overflow #93: No joke—you can buy our copy/paste keyboard right now (Ryan Donovan and Cassidy Williams)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.10.01 (Jay Gordon)
- Friday Five: OneDrive Tips, API Management, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
The Geek Shelf
Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F# (Scott Wlaschin) – Referral Link