Top Links
- Introducing KlipTok – Social Media fun for Twitch Clips (Jeff Fritz)
- Node.js 16 available now (Bethany Griggs)
- Yet Another Podcast – .NET Documentation & C# 9 with Bill Wagner (Jesse Liberty)
- Announcing the DirectX 12 Agility SDK! and Getting Started with the Agility SDK (Jacques van Rhyn)
Web & Cloud Development
- A System for Grouping & Sorting CSS Properties and CSS General Rules of Thumb (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
- Cancelling Requests with React Query (Carl Rippon)
- Why is the ASP.NET Core FromBody not working or returning null? (David Grace)
- Starting You New React App with Redux? Consider a Simpler Approach Using the Context API (Mario Fernandez)
- The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Angular Basics: Introduction to ngFor Directive in Angular (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
- Say Hello to CSS Container Queries (Robin Rendle)
- Check CSS Support in CSS Using @supports Rules (Steve Fenton)
- Introducing the Syncfusion Blazor Code Generator for Visual Studio (Kalirajan Ganesan)
- Object.entries (David Walsh)
- W3C Launches the Web Machine Learning Working Group (Dominique Hazaël-Massieux)
- Web of Things (WoT) Explainer Video and New Web Site (Michael McCool)
- Breaking changes to the Microsoft Graph assignments API (beta) (Microsoft Graph Team)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Universal AppLinks on iOS (Tomasz Cielecki)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 Will Be 64-bit (Kay Ewbank)
- How to fix: Visual Studio for Mac: No SDK found at specified location? (Almir Vuk)
- CMake Presets integration in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Erika)
- Convert XLS and XLSX to PDF with .NET Core (C#, VB, and Java) (Gabriel Smith)
- Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2021 Release (Luciana Abud)
- Hungarian Notation for Fields in C# (Patrick Smacchia)
- Look ma, no passwords – using Entity Framework Core with Azure Managed Identity, App Service/Functions and Azure SQL DB (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- IronPython 3.4.0-alpha1 (IronPython Team)
- .NET quiz – check your level of knowledge about .NET memory management (Konrad Kokosa)
- .NET Core Integration Tests using a Sql Server Database in Docker (Paul DeVito)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The Agile Manifesto: Why Agile Makes Sense (Ben Linders)
- Azure DevOps Delivery Plan 2.0 (Subodh Sohoni)
- Fix .NET ICU Build Issues In GitHub Actions (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- The Four Personality Types in the Field of Network Debugging: Which One are You? (Eve Turzillo)
- In Slack, no one can hear your scream! (Ian Carroll)
- A Business Perspective on CI/CD Pipelines (Ismail Egilmez)
- Enable Lasting Technical Change by Building Empathy & Trust (Joel Norman)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Adventures in ARKit – image detection (David Britch)
- Announcing HLSL Shader Model 6.6 (Greg Roth)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- What’s new in VelocityX version 3? Must for flutter devs (MTechViral)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 405 | Microsoft’s $20B Acquisition, Upcoming Microsoft 365 Retirements & AWS S3 Data Breaches (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- What I’ve learned from 20 years of programming in C# with Joe Albahari (SSW TV)
- The CSS Podcast 039: Paths, shapes, clipping and masking (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- Adventures in .NET 065: So You Want to Go to a Bootcamp (Caleb Wells & Shawn Clabough)
- JSJ 480: Are Micro Frontends worth the effort? (And if so when?) (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
- The Changelog Episode #437 – Into the Nix ecosystem (Domen Kožar, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- React Native Radio 196 – The Art Of Code Review (Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 257 (Jason Bock)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – CLI in Containers with Garry Trinder (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- Fragmented – The Software Podcast 207: How to Optimize Your Home Office (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
Community & Events
- Microsoft statement on Derek Chauvin verdict (Brad Smith)
- Stay current with the latest Microsoft Partner Network updates and resources (Dan Truax)
- Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Sabiha Shaik (MS Student Developer Team)
- Pure Virtual C++ 2021 Schedule Available (Sy Brand)
Database
- PowerShell Commands for SQL Server Instance and Database Settings (Alejandro Cobar)
SharePoint & MS Teams
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Plans Significant Overhaul to the Microsoft Store (Brad Sams)
- Microsoft talks with Discord end with no buy for now: Report (Mary Jo Foley)
- MLB The Show 21 is Available Now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox Game Pass (Ramone Russell)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3215 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-20 and .NET App Developer Links – 2021-04-21 (Dan Rigby)
The Geek Shelf
Flutter for Beginners: An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter and Dart 2 (Alessandro Biessek) – Referral Link
