Top Links
- Help Decide What Questions We’ll Answer at the .NET Foundation Face-to-Face Meeting (Shawn Wildermuth)
- UWP to Windows App SDK: Overall migration strategy (Steven White)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 216 – Visual Studio 2022 with Mads Kristensen (John Callaway)
- Developing for Windows with the Windows App SDK (Thomas Fennel)
- F# Advent Calendar in English 2021 (Sergey Tihon)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Cloud Shell issue when using CLI for Microsoft 365 – Workaround (Arjun Menon)
- How to Fill an Array with Initial Values in JavaScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
- WebStorm 2021.2.3 Is Available (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
- Azure Exam DP-420: Study Guide Designing and Implementing CloudNative Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB (Beta) (Gregor Suttie)
- OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview (Azure Team)
- Introducing Pulumi Registry: your window to the cloud (Alex Mullans)
- OpenAPI and GraphQL: The Chunnel Problem (Anant Jhingran)
- Controlling a WSL installation of redis-server from the Windows command line (Chris Miller)
- An Introduction to File Handling in Go (Manoj Debnath)
- Getting the working hours/time zones for other users using Microsoft Graph API (Michel Carlo)
- Web Apps vs. Native Apps: The Growth of Progressive Web Apps (Richard MacManus)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Lagging .NET MAUI Preview 9 Updates Controls and Supports Borders, Corners and Shadows (David Ramel)
- Windows App SDK Preview 1 & 2: PATH Environment Variable Corruption Issue (andreww-msft)
- .NET MAUI Preview 9: Borders, Corners, Shadows and Performance Improvements and Present and Future of Xamarin Community Toolkit: Q&A with Gerald Versluis (Almir Vuk)
- Create, Edit, and Delete Arrows Shapes in PDF Files with Ease in WPF (Deepak G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# Tip: use the Ping class instead of an HttpClient to ping an endpoint (Davide Bellone)
- Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event and Preview 5 (Jason Gaylord)
- Bite-Size .NET 6 – LINQ OrDefault() Overloads (Matthew Jones)
- Unit Testing Azure Microservices in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
- Collection Performance: Creating new collection From a collection Using AddRange() (David McCarter)
- How can I get the screen reader to read out an error message that I displayed inline on a page? (Raymond Chen)
- ETW Host Service Installation Changes in 2021.3 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Finding a bug with code that isn’t there (Oren Eini)
- How to Find the Right Collaborative Coding Tool for Remote Pair Programming (Brian Fernandes)
- Get career advice from 7 inspiring leaders in cybersecurity (Emma Jones)
- Grow your skills and advance your career with security training from Microsoft Learn (Gita Sharma)
- Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers (Isaac Lyman)
- How to Manage Access to Projects and Git Repositories – Demystifying Space Permissions (Maarten Balliauw)
- Is Agility Related to Commitment? – Money Flows Part II (Ian Miell)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What’s New in Flutter Slider and Range Slider: 2021 Volume 3 (Meikanda Nayanar I)
- This Raspberry Pi add-on lets you control Lego robots (Mitchell Clark)
- Release: React Native Windows 0.66.0 (React Native for Windows Team)
- Space Cadet Pinball for Windows 95 recompiled for Linux running on Windows 11 as a Linux app under WSLg (Scott Hanselman)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – Handy Utility Functions with Just (Wes Bos)
- Revision Path – Brian A. Thompson (Maurice Cherry)
- Software Engineering Daily – Developer Relations at Google with Luke Mahe (Jeff Meyerson)
- InfoQ Podcast: Domain Storytelling with Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner (Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner)
- .NET MAUI Preview 9: Borders, Corners and Shadows on Everything! (Gerald Versluis)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast 385: Getting your first job off the CSS mailing list (Ben Popper)
- Dan Patrick on Securing Azure Deployment – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 163 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Basics for Accessible Writing (Rebecca Jackson)
- Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast – Oracle ACE Director Francisco Alvarez Munoz Previews the 2021 Oracle Groundbreakers APAC Virtual Tour (Bob Rhubart)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – yo Teams Generator Update with Wictor Wilén (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- ID10T Podcast – Danny Elfman (Chris Hardwick)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode 39 – From False Positives to Karl Popper: Rationalizing Cloud Threat Detection (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode 016 – Learn and Be Curious with Marcia Villalba (David Isbitski)
- The Amp Hour #562 – Electroboom! (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Radical Candor S3, Ep. 11: How to Encourage Feedback Between Others (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode 41: Value. Always Value at Trader Joe’s (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 139 – André Lage (Datalynx AG) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Ignite 2021 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Lists, Planner, Stream, Visio and more (Mark Kashman)
- Peeking Behind the Scenes of Facebook Open Source (Kairsten Fay)
- Meet the GitHub Universe hosts, and start building your schedule (Kelsey Bernius)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Source Database in Restoring State (Pinal Dave)
- Where Should I Put My Data in Azure (Frank Boucher ☁)
- Safe schema updates – Provisioning dev/test databases (Alex Yates)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- New ways for Cloud Storage Partners to integrate their services with Microsoft Teams and Office (Ben Summers)
- SharePoint Adaptive Scope Retention Label Policy | A Walk-thru (Joanne Klein)
- Connecting to SharePoint Online to On-Premises Databases with SharePoint Framework (Simon Doy)
PowerShell
- Microsoft tells sysadmins to update PowerShell 7 to fix flaw that could expose credentials in Linux (Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson)
- A closer look at the Crescendo configuration (Sean Wheeler)
Miscellaneous
- The new MacBook Pro highlights what’s gone wrong with Windows laptops (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
- 10 tips for using Windows 11 to get closer to what you love (Athima Chansanchai)
- How to Join the Windows Insider Program and Upgrade Your Device (Michael Reinders)
- Apple Introduces M1 Pro and M1 Max (msmash)
- Apple’s Long Journey to the M1 Pro Chip (Steven Sinofsky)
- 10 Books Every New Software Developer Should Read (Tanaka Mutakwa)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3335 (Chris Alcock)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #29 (Sam Basu)
- The Wolf Report – October 18th, 2021 and The Wolf Report – October 19th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 324 – 19th Oct 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)
