Top Links
- Announcing Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK (Bruno Borges)
- Adventures in .NET 063: Use cases for GraphQL in .NET (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
- .NET April 2021 Updates – 5.0.5 (Rahul Bhandari)
- Cake for Rider 0.3.0 released (Nils Andresen)
- A Journey to .NET MAUI | On .NET (Cecil Phillip & Maddy Leger)
Web & Cloud Development
- Public preview: Azure Monitor container insights support for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes extension model (Azure Team)
- Setting App State with React Query (Carl Rippon)
- GraphQL on Azure: Part 5 – Can We Make GraphQL Type Safe in Code and GraphQL on Azure: Part 6 – Subscriptions With SignalR (Aaron Powell)
- WebStorm 2021.1: Smarter Code Completion for JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML Preview, and More (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is available now! (Andrew Lock)
- Static Images | The FREE Blazor Crash Course (.NET 5) (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Angular Component – Part 2: ngModel (Domenic Helfenstein)
- Unit Testing Using XUnit And MOQ In ASP.NET Core (Jay Krishna Reddy)
- Local Development with Azure Service Bus (Jimmy Bogard)
- Does SignalR Guarantee Message Deliverability? (Kevin W. Griffin)
- Angular Basics: Using the Router in Angular 12 to Navigate Views (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
- Accessing Dapr secrets building block using Dapr .NET SDK (Laurent Kempe)
- Node v10.24.1 (LTS) and Node v12.22.1 (LTS) and Node v14.16.1 (LTS) and Node v15.14.0 (Current) (Myles Borins)
- Serverless: Is it Really the Future (Part 2) (Piers Karsenbarg)
- Experiment with AR and VR made for the web (Zebedee Pedersen)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Modeling Most SQL Relationships In Entity Framework Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- .NET 5 NuGet Restore Failures on Linux distributions using NSS or ca-certificates (Jon Douglas)
- Secrets Management in .NET Applications (Andrea Chiarelli)
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Meet the WinForms PictureBox (Todor Vyagov)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Managers: Are You Responsible “To” or “For” People? (Johanna Rothman)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Basic hand gesture recognition with MRTK on HoloLens 2 (Joost van Schaik)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Shadows Everywhere in Your Xamarin.Forms App (Gerald Versluis)
- App Localization (Xamarin Community Toolkit) | The Xamarin Show (Gerald Versluis & Maksym Koshovyi)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 017: Premature Optimization (Ben Nadel)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 403 | Epic Azure Outage, HoloLens in US DoD (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Get Started with the New Database Migration Guides to Migrate Your Databases to Azure | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Mohamed Kabiruddin)
- The CSS Podcast 037: Cursors and Pointers (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- RunAs Radio – The Hafnium Exchange Exploits with Tony Redmond (Richard Campbell)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 253 (Jason Bock)
- 8 Bits with Jens Woeste (Brandon Minnick)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 121 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Nik Charlebois)
- Identity, Unlocked… Explained: Season 2, Ep 6 (Vittorio Bertocci)
Community & Events
- How I Got Into Computers AppDev Edition (Rocky Lhotka)
- Meet an epidemiologist fighting to make vaccines work for communities of color (Bill Gates)
- Google Developer Student Club 2021 Lead applications are open! (Erica Hanson)
- Announcing the Global Maintainer Summit (Kara Sowles)
- More than two-thirds of staff want flexible working to stay, Microsoft research reveals (Microsoft Reporter)
- Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate (MS Student Developer Team)
- Sign Up for the Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Conference (Sy Brand)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Parallelism and Threads with No Work (Pinal Dave)
- Never, Ever, Ever Start T-SQL Comments with Two Dashes (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Teams Governance: 6 Keys to What Really Matters (Joel Oleson)
- Change your own profile picture as a Guest in Microsoft Teams (Yannick Reekmans)
PowerShell
- How to measure elapsed time of command line tools using PowerShell (Steve Smith)
- BinShred–Parsing Arbitrary Binary Data in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
- Optimizing your $Profile (Steve Lee)
Miscellaneous
- BERT Transformers Are Revolutionary But How Do They Work? (Exxact Team)
- Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle (Mike Linksvayer)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3205 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET Annotated | April 2021 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
React and React Native: A complete hands-on guide to modern web and mobile development with React.js, 3rd Ed (Adam Boduch & Roy Derks) – Referral Link
