Top Links
- Staying safe with .NET containers (Richard Lander)
- Uno Platform 3.5 – WinUI 3 Preview 4 support, 4 New Controls and 100+ issues closed (Jerome Laban)
- Implementing the MVVM pattern in a WPF app with the MVVM Community toolkit (Bruno Sonnino)
- Use project Tye to host Blazor WASM and ASP.NET Web API on a single origin to avoid CORS (Niels Swimberghe)
- Announcing TypeScript 4.2 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Web & Cloud Development
- YouTube Courses On C++, Python and Blazor (Nikos Vaggalis)
- How the Dapr PHP SDK came to be (Robert Landers)
- JavaScript Helper Classes: Converting Selected Text to Form Fields (Bjoern Meyer)
- Creating Azure Functions using .NET 5 (Brandon Minnick)
- Vue 3 Experiments with Native CSS Variables Template Integration (Bruno Couriol)
- Azure Functions in C# quick FAQs and tips (Dominique St-Amand)
- Install Docker on Windows (WSL) without Docker Desktop (Jonathan Bowman)
- 5 Misconceptions About Asynchronous Code in JavaScript (Matthew MacDonald)
- A Visual Introduction To Azure Fundamentals (Nitya Narasimhan)
- How Developers Can Get Started with Python and Docker (Peter McKee)
- Angular: Can’t Bind to ‘ngModel’ Since it Isn’t a Known Property of ‘input’ (Peter Vogel)
- Regional Settings in Azure App Services (Phil Pursglove)
- How to Send Emails in ASP.NET Core – Quick & Easy Guide (Sanjay Modi)
- I Was Wrong – Hosting SPAs in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
- 9 Ways to Up Your Code Game With JavaScript (Taimoor Sattar)
- Azure Functions Updates Include Moving .NET Outside the Runtime (Thiago Custódio)
- ESLint v7.20.0 released (ESLint Team)
- The Aurelia 2 alpha is coming (Dwayne Charrington)
- Golang Approves Generics, While Python Accepts Pattern-Matching Proposals (EditorDavid)
- Web Proxy Authentication (Eric Lawrence)
- Cloud Covered: what was new in January on Google Cloud (Google Cloud Team)
- Avoiding npm substitution attacks (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
- Argument parsing with Abbot (Phil Haack)
- Saga Pattern: how to manage distributed transactions with microservices (Francesco Francomano & Giuseppe Manzi)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Microsoft Preps WinUI 3 for Production Debut Next Month (David Ramel)
- Creating a scalable Style Library in Xamarin Forms (Luis Matos)
Visual Studio & .NET
- ICYMI C# 8 New Features: Nested Switch Expressions (Jason Roberts)
- .NET 5 Deterministic Builds & Source Linking (Mitchel Sellers)
- Returning more than one result from a method – tuple (Michał Białecki)
- Debug -> Start New Instance Shortcut (Paul Michaels)
- The COM static store, part 5: Using COM weak references (Raymond Chen)
- Machine Learning with ML.NET – Support Vector Machines (Nikola M. Zivkovic)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Practice: Customer Examples (James Shore)
- Better Release Management with Octopus Deploy (Bob Walker)
- Securing your agency’s remote workforce for today and beyond (Karina Homme)
- Research reveals how we really feel about working from home (Microsoft News Centre UK)
- Spotify to let employees keep working remotely and now choose what country they work from (Nick Statt)
- A Visual Guide To: Sustainable Software Engineering (Nitya Narasimhan)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CodeNewbie S15:E2 – How to code without typing (Matt Wiethoff, Tommy MacWilliam) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Technology & Friends – Julie Lerman on Entity Framework Core 5 (David Giard)
- Developer Tea – Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Merge Conflict 241: Goodbye DTK, Hello Mac App Development (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Agile for Humans Episode 118: YDS – Where does a Project Manager Fit on a Scrum Team? (Ryan Ripley)
- File Picker (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- How to get better outbound connectivity using Azure NAT Gateway | Azure Friday and Building modern hybrid applications with Azure Arc and Azure Stack | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
- TWC9: MSIgnite registration is open, Visual Studio Code 1.53, Azure Space Mystery Game, and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Christina Warren)
- Ask the Expert: Smart Data Pipelines to Azure: Ingesting and migrating data the DataOps way | Ask the Expert (Melanie McKenna)
- MCC Lectures@Home – Hello WinUI 3 (Marc Plogas)
- Ladybug Podcast – Writing eBooks (Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel, Emma Bostian & Sidney Buckner)
- Coding Blocks Podcast – Why is Python Popular? (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
- Asp.Net Monsters – TwoWeeksReady Codeathon (Simon Timms, David Paquette & James Chambers)
- The Changelog – Are web apps fundamentally different than web sites? (Jerod Santo, Divya, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Amal Hussein & Nick Nisi)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 238 (Jason Bock)
- Simon Timms on Microservices Architecture — Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 128 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Talk Python to Me #303 – Python for Astronomy with Dr. Becky (Michael Kennedy)
- UI Breakfast Episode 206: Writing Useful Books with Rob Fitzpatrick (Rob Fitzpatrick & Jane Portman)
- [Video] Adding Sign Language to your online event (Henk Boelman)
Community & Events
- Splunker Stories: Bobbie Travis (Shreya Iyer)
- From Europe To Asia, How MVPs Drive Community Upskilling and MVP Launches Tech Hub For Disadvantaged Women (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- How the Tech Community Can Do Better for Black Women (Jennifer Riggins)
- Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: Fluent Assertions (Matthias Koch)
- What’s On & Online in Greater Philadelphia, Feb. 16-21 (Shannon Wink)
Database
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Modern SharePoint list formatting (Luise Freese)
- How to create an improved Microsoft Teams Files approval process using Azure Logic Apps (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell
- Leverage PowerShell History across multiple machines (Pierre Roman)
Miscellaneous
- What you can do to fight climate change (Bill Gates)
- VLC Will Get a New UI This Year With 4.0 Launch (BeauHD)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21313 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Volkswagen will use Microsoft’s cloud technologies to create new Automated Driving Platform (Kareem Anderson)
- Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3170 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-02-15 (Dan Rigby)
- Friday Five: Azure Stack Edge, Apache JMeter, More! (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- Code Maze Weekly #64 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- The .NET Stacks #36: ⚡ Azure Functions and some Microsoft history (Dave Brock)
- Reading Notes #461 (Frank Boucher)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 296 – 13th Feb 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
- C# Digest Issue #350 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- F# Weekly #7, 2021 – FunStripe, DacPac TP and F# Discord (Sergey Tihon)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.02.12 (Steven Murawski)
- Reading List 271 (Bruce Lawson)
- The Overflow #60: Sequencing DNA with a USB dongle and open source (Medi Madelen Gwosdz & Cassidy Williams)
The Geek Shelf
Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS (Ethan Garofolo) – Referral Link
