Top Links
- Blazor WebAssembly (client-side) with AOT and SkiaSharp (Uno Platform Team)
- TeamCity integration with .NET, Part 1: New approach and demo (Maria Kudryavtseva)
- Remote Debugging for Azure Functions Can Be a Breeze (Simon Timms)
- C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids – Part 3: JSON serialization (Thomas Levesque)
- Michael Hawker on the Windows Community – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 118 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Web & Cloud Development
- Using A Top Of -1px To Observe Position Sticky Intersection Changes In Angular 11.0.3 (Ben Nadel)
- ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Async File Uploads (Ricardo Peres)
- Azure Communication Services – Building an experimental messaging solution (Abhijit Jana)
- How To Install An ASP.NET Core In .NET 5 App On Ubuntu 20.04 (David Grace)
- Use ASP.NET Core route-to-code for simple JSON APIs (Dave Brock)
- The Reason and ReasonReact world is quite confusing now that Reason is being rebranded as ReScript. (Dave Bush)
- CSS Variables are cool (Leon Bambrick)
- Next-Level React Performance (Leonardo Maldonado)
- User Registration with Angular and ASP.NET Core Identity (Marinko Spasojevic)
- Get Up and Running with Azure Synapse and Pulumi (Mikhail Shilkov)
- Announcing the new Azure Service Bus Client Libraries (Richard Park)
- Upcoming Changes to the Messenger API (Facebook Dev Team)
- Getting Started with Go Programming (Manoj Debnath)
- ESLint v7.15.0 released (ESLint Team)
- Expanding the Vocabulary for Run in Postman Buttons (Kin Lane)
- Passing OData Query Options in the Request Body (John Gathogo)
- Working with the Microsoft Health Bot (Mike Gannotti)
- npm Release v7.1.0 (Ruy Adorno)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Load idiom-specific Storyboard in Xamarin.iOS with MvvmCross (Denys Fiediaiev)
- Xamarin.Forms – Open App Store or Play Store in XamarinApp (Delpin Susai Raj)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to MongoDB in C# – Part 1 (Rami Honig)
- Use HashiCorp Vault C# Client with .NET Core (Yoko Hyakuna)
- Design patterns in C# – The Proxy Pattern (Carmel Eve)
- ADO.NET provider 7.10.0.0 for Firebird is ready (Jiří Činčura)
- Distributed logging with Serilog, Elastic Search, and PostSharp (Gael Fraiteur)
- Rethrowing your exceptions wrong in .NET could erase your stacktrace (Niels Swimberghe)
- Add Configuration to a .Net Core Console Application (Paul Michaels)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile? and AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility and AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change (James Shore)
- How I Think About My Career – Part One and How I Think About My Career – Part Two – Assessing My Position (Den Delimarsky)
- New in TeamCity 2020.2: Agentless Build Steps (Marco Behler)
- Branching tests (Mark Seemann)
- Self-service runbooks for operations teams (Adrian Howchin)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Short Unity tip: conditional compilation with custom preprocessor directives and Short Unity tip: keeping values changed in play mode (Joost van Schaik)
- Build Stacks in Appflow (Matt Kremer)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Emily Cooper on the ISTI STEM Challenge (David Giard)
- Microsoft Stories podcast: episode 7 – Abbey Road (Andy Trotman)
- Merge Conflict 231: No M1 Talk We Promise… (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Developer Tea – Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with GitOps | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
- How did I become a Cloud Advocate? | One Dev Question and What is Machine Learning? | One Dev Question and What is Azure Machine Learning? | One Dev Question (Damian Brady)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast – The DDD Conferences! (Dan Clarke)
- The Amp Hour #520 – Inductance and Stuff (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Serverless Chats Episode #78: Statefulness and Serverless with Rodric Rabbah (Jeremy Daly)
- AGL 185: Average Joe with Shawn Livermore (John Rouda)
- Loosely Coupled Show – Caching ProTip: DON’T. Caching is difficult (Derek Comartin & James Hickey)
- Revision Path – Malika Reid (Maurice Cherry)
- OzcodeVSExtention FINAL (Ozcode Team)
Community & Events
- On Inclusion (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Your DevOps guide to GitHub Universe (Grace Madlinger)
- Advent Of Code For Programmers (Sue Gee)
- December Webinars & Remote Work Resources (Adam Schau)
- A Note to the PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
- ‘Advent of Code’ Builds a Programming Community Around Puzzles (David Cassel)
- Geek of the Week: Brightloom’s Jacqueline Nolis wrote the book on how to become a data scientist (Kurt Schlosser)
- How an all-girls high school prepped this exec for the male-dominated field of software engineering (Lisa Stiffler)
- Advent of Code 2020 (Mark Heath)
Database
- How to Get SQL Server Info Using SERVERPROPERTY? (Mohamed El-Qassas)
- SQL SERVER – Long Running Queries with Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
- RavenDB and multi region setup (Oren Eini)
- How to Execute a PowerShell Script from an SSIS Package (Koen Verbeeck)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Host your next virtual party in Microsoft Teams with apps and screen sharing games (MS Teams Team)
- Tasks in Teams mobile is rolling out to everyone (MS Planner Team)
PowerShell
- How to Use PowerShell Calculated Properties (Russell Smith)
- Monitor the Windows Event Logs and Performance Metrics with PowerShell (Trevor Sullivan)
Miscellaneous
- Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 11, EPR Quantum Key Distribution (Filip W.)
- PowerToys 0.28 (pre-release) adds Video conference mute utility (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Book excerpt: How activists must harness new technologies to change the world (Steve Davis)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3128 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-07 (Dan Rigby)
- Latest Cloud News: IoT, Security, Azure Sphere, and more! (December 4, 2020 – Build5Nines Weekly) (Chris Pietschmann)
- The .NET Stacks, #28: The future of MVC and themes of .NET 6 (Dave Brock)
- Friday Five: Azure Sentinel, Power Automate, More! (MVP Award Team)
- Code Maze Weekly #54 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- The Overflow #50: A CS degree from Big Tech (Ryan Donovan & Cassidy Williams)
- Reading Notes #453 (Frank Boucher)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 288 – 5th Dec 2020 (Kym Phillpotts)
- C# Digest Issue #340 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.12.04 (Steven Murawski)
- F# Weekly #49, #FsAdvent and Fable 3 (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Advocate Weekly Round Up – Holidays are almost here! (Sean Boyer)
- Weekly Notes – #40 (Miguel Bernard)
The Geek Shelf
ASP.NET Core 3 and React: Hands-On full stack web development using ASP.NET Core, React, and TypeScript 3 (Carl Rippon) – Referral Link
The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series): 9780134190440: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com