Top Links
- The Future of Xamarin Community Toolkit (Brandon Minnick)
- Debug code with force run to cursor (Harshada Hole)
- New TwoPaneLayout Compose library preview (Joy Liu)
- XAML Live Preview and the Future of Designers for App Development (Nick Randolph)
- An Emoji For Your Thoughts. Microsoft’s new emojis (Claire Anderson)
Web & Cloud Development
- Exploring Next.js 11: What Is New (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid? (Zara Cooper)
- What’s New in 2021 Volume 2: Blazor Scheduler (Mahesh Palanisamy)
- CSS Grid Cheat Sheet (Mariana Simon)
- Fully Sharded Data Parallel: faster AI training with fewer GPUs (Myle Ott, Sam Shleifer, Min Xu, Priya Goyal, Quentin Duval & Vittorio Caggiano)
- Server-Side Engine in JavaScript Pivot Table: An Overview (Ramesh)
- What use cases exist for async_hooks? (Node.js Team)
- Adding User Profiles to Static Web Apps (Aaron Powell)
- API vs. Microservices: A Beginners Guide to Understand Them (Jaden Baptista)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Getting started with a UI and not die trying in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
- Everything You Need to Know About WinUI 3 Slider (Sheik Syed)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022 (Erika)
- Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 – Book Review (Joseph Guadagno)
- Get a Reward for Sharing Your dotTrace or dotMemory Experience (Anastasia Kazakova)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.1 RC now available (Gloridel Morales)
- Creating reusable build scripts with NUKE components – How can we take advantage of the latest C# features to create highly reusable build scripts with NUKE? (Erik Heemskerk)
- Assessing Remote Employee Experiences for Hybrid-Remote Work-Settings (Ben Linders)
- Indigo.Design App Builder July Release – GitHub integration, Drag & Drop and more (Danail Marinov)
- 11 Git Commands I Use Every Day (Domagoj Vidovic)
- Domain-Driven Refactoring: Procedural Beginnings (Jimmy Bogard)
- 5 learnings as a Product Manager (Kitty Bhasin)
- Mindful Work: Capturing, Prioritizing and Working on Tasks Effectively (Roxana Murariu)
- 7 Key Insights of Product Management (Sandra Davey)
- How To Instill An Ownership Mindset In Your Team (Sarah Ribeiro)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Use These Dart/Flutter Packages for More Beautiful UIs (Mirsaid İsmailov)
- New AppCode 2021.2 EAP: Completion for Documentation Tags in Swift and Bug Fixes (Stanislav Dombrovsky)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Gatekeeper and Policy Controller, with Max Smythe (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- CppCast – Improving Performance with Ivica Bogosavljevic (Rob Irving)
- Hanselminutes – New Ways to Teach Computer Science with Maria Naggaga (Scott Hanselman)
- Angular and Routing Testing – Part 2 featuring Lars Brink – AiA 317 (Charles Max Wood & Richard Sithole)
- Using SQL Data Sync for Bidirectional Data Replication in SQL Server and Azure SQL DBs | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Mara-Florina Steiu)
- AzureFunBytes Episode 51 – Deploy With ARM Templates with @shankuehn (Jay Gordon)
- Evaluating Jobs and Job Offers – Adventures in DevOps 077 (Charles Max Wood, Jeffrey Groman & Will Button)
- Rocket 342: Goodbye, Fleets (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode 005 – Future of Cloud Development Kit with Elad Ben-Israel (David Isbitski)
- UX Podcast #267 – UX Theatre with Tanya Snook (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- React Native Radio #204 – Own Your Dependencies with Mark Rickert (Jamon Holmgren, Jon Major Condon & Mark Rickert)
- Creating data-driven web applications with Django [1 of 24] | Beginner’s Series to: Django | Beginner’s Series to: Django (Matthew Leib)
- Talk Python to Me #325: MicroPython + CircuitPython (Michael Kennedy)
- Collaborative Debugging (Ozcode)
- It’s Not for People – Windows Weekly 733 (Paul Thurrott)
- OSS Power-Ups: Verify – Webinar Recording (Matthias Koch)
- What’s next for GraphQL tooling? (Michael Staib)
Community & Events
- Save the Date for .NET Conf: Focus on F#, July 29th, 2021 (Halah Villalobos)
- Twitter Inclusion & Diversity Report July 2021: Cultivating Inclusion (Dalana Brand)
- Healthcare Software Industry Trusts Text Control (Bjoern Meyer)
- Student leaders are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level (Elise Hollowed)
- Get inspired: partner with us on what’s next in Windows (Aidan Marcuss)
- 5 Years of Merge Conflict (James Montemagno)
- Data Engineers of Netflix — Interview with Kevin Wylie (Netflix Technology Blog)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Find Instance Name for Availability Group Listener (Pinal Dave)
- Using SQL Data Sync for Bidirectional Data Replication in SQL Server and Azure SQL Databases (Marisa Brasile)
- Why Are Linked Server Queries So Bad? (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- First Look at Microsoft Teams 2.0 and First Look at Microsoft’s New Teams Peripherals (Brad Sams)
- Microsoft Viva Enhanced Teams as A Platform (Joel Oleson)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.71 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19044.1147 (21H2) and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.1147 (21H1) to Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Introducing the next feature update to Windows 10: 21H2 (John Cable)
- Valve have announced the very Switch-like Steam Deck (Katharine Castle)
- How to opt-in to the Extended Stable release cycle option beginning with Microsoft Edge 94 (MS Edge Team)
- Hands-On with the Office Visual Refresh (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft reveals first Windows 365 pricing for PCs in the cloud (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3275 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #670 (Mary Lou)
- Code Maze Weekly #85 (Vladimir Pecanac)
The Geek Shelf
ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular: Full-stack web development with .NET 5 and Angular 11, 4th Ed (Valerio De Sanctis) – Referral Link