Top Links (Build 2019 Edition)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 (Brady Gaster)
- Developing people-centered experiences with Microsoft 365 (Kevin Gallo)
- Announcing WSL 2 (Craig Loewen)
- Introducing Windows Terminal (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3 (Angel Zhou)
- Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 Preview 1 (Christos Matskas)
- Announcing the general availability of IntelliCode plus a sneak peek (Allison Buchholtz-Au)
- Announcing ML.NET 1.0 (Ankit Asthana)
- Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere (Jonathan Carter)
- Introducing .NET 5 and Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 (Rich Lander)
- A new Console for Windows – It’s the open source Windows Terminal (Scott Hanselman)
- .NET Core is the Future of .NET (Scott Hunter)
Web & Cloud Development
- Safely migrating passwords in ASP.NET Core Identity with a custom PasswordHasher (Andrew Lock)
- Svelte 3 Front-End Framework Moves Reactivity Into the JavaScript Language, Q&A With Rich Harris (Bruno Couriol)
- Performance Profiling Your React App (Christian Nwamba)
- Comparing Native Blazor Components to Wrapped JavaScript Components (Ed Charbeneau)
- Hosting WordPress on Azure (Gunnar Peipman)
- Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier (Brendan Burns)
- Microsoft Edge – All the news from Build 2019 (Kyle Pflug)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin Android Visual Designer and Layout Inspector in Rider 2019.1 (Chris Woodruff)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Writing controllers for Kubernetes CRDs with C# (Radu Matei)
- Microsoft Releases .NET Framework 4.8 (Arthur Casals)
- Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement (Christos Matskas)
- Fixing Random, part 28 (Eric Lippert)
- C++ with Visual Studio 2019 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) (Erika Sweet)
- C# : Asynchronous Programming Using BeginInvoke and EndInvoke Methods and .NET Framework 4.8 : Invoking ToolTip on Tab Key Press Or Focus Using a Keyboard (Siddharth Patel)
- Syncfusion WinForms and WPF controls support in .NET Core 3.0 (Hari Venkatesh E)
- Generics, structs and nulls – the JIT is smart so you don’t have to (Jiří Činčura)
- Class Instantiation Guidelines in Object Oriented Languages: When to choose Singleton, Static, Extension methods or Dependency Injection (Michael Shpilt)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Announcing Kubernetes integration for Azure Pipelines (Gopinath C H)
- Team synchronization across GitHub and Azure Active Directory (Mario Rodriguez)
- 88 years of free open source builds in 8 months with Azure Pipelines (Martin Woodward)
- Accelerating DevOps with GitHub and Azure (Nicole Herskowitz)
- A simpler way to buy Azure DevOps (Todd Manion)
- Test Driven Development is the best thing that has happened to software design (Arek Torczuk)
- The Positive Power of Disruptions at Meetings (Kalahari Meetings)
- Top Tips And Tricks For Setting Up Your Trello Team Toolkit (Leah Ryder)
- Using issues to give feedback to students (Vanessa Gennarelli)
- Building the Snyk Plugin for TeamCity (Yegor Naumov)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- What’s New in the Alexa Skills Kit: April 2019 Release Roundup (Leo Ohannesian)
- Visual Studio App Center Preview: Welcoming Auth and Data to the Portfolio (James White)
- Why Flutter Might Be the Best of Both Worlds (Alex Zurek)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – Careers with Jeremy Likness (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- CodeNewbie S8:E5 – UX in healthcare (Danielle Smith) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Technology & Friends – Mike Benkovich on Visual Studio 2019 (David Giard)
- Weekly Dev Tips – Introducing SOLID Principles (Steve Smith)
- Real Talk JS Episode 31: RxJS Wizardry with Ben Lesh (John Papa, Ward Bell & Dan Wahlin)
- Azure DevOps updates (Pre-Build 2019) (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Developer on Fire Episode 422 | Ted M. Young – Diving Deep (Dave Rael)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Microsoft Graph SDK updates at Build 2019 with Darrel Miller (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- Meta Cast Episode 143 – The Cost of Quality (Josh Anderson)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 090 – Programming Language Bias (John Callaway)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Build 2019 preview: Azure is the star, and Windows is a bit player (Ed Bott)
- Microsoft Build 2019: Vision Keynote Highlights (Ben Ryon)
- Microsoft Build 2019: the biggest news from the developer conference (Chris Welch)
- Meet the 2019 Imagine Cup World Champion, team EasyGlucose from the United States! (Gabby Wilson)
- 10 cool things to check out at Microsoft Build 2019 (Microsoft Corporate Blogs)
Database
- Find SQL Server MSDB Database Size and Largest Table Across SQL Server Instances (Alejandro Cobar)
- The Silent Bug I Find in Most Triggers (Brent Ozar)
Miscellaneous
- Why you should thank a teacher this week, and always (Rodney Robinson)
- Satya Nadella Remade Microsoft as World’s Most Valuable Company (Austin Carr & Dina Bass)
- Welcome to Microsoft Search, intelligent search for the modern workplace (Bill Baer)
- Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows (Jack Hammons)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2739 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting links of the week (2019 #17) (Michael Eaton)
- Double Shot #2337 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Professional Development – 4/30/2019 – 5/05/2019 (Cameron Presley)
- Reading Notes #377 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
C# 7.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference (Joseph Albahari & Ben Albahari)
