Top Links
- Linux + .NET 5 + VS Code XAML Preview + Hot Reload Running on Embedded Linux? (a sneak peek) (Matheus Castello)
- v7.1.0 Release of PowerShell (Travis Plunk)
- CodeSandbox: Showcase Your Sandboxes with All New Profile Pages (Ives van Hoorne)
- C# 9 Cheat Sheet with code example and pros and cons (Bassam Alugili)
- Optimum Developer Productivity – GitHub + Visual Studio Code + Azure (Isaac Levin & Abel Wang)
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s new in Svelte: December 2020 (Daniel Sandoval)
- ASP.NET Core docs: What’s new for November 1, 2020 – November 30, 2020 (Scott Addie)
- Getting started with Playwright with Jest and TypeScript (Carl Rippon)
- ASP.NET Core Improvements in .NET 5 (Antonio Liccardi)
- VMware Tanzu and Amazon EKS Distro Help Customers Make Best Use of Kubernetes (Craig McLuckie)
- New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs (Danilo Poccia)
- New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support (Danilo Poccia)
- The Docker Developer Guide to AWS re:Invent (Matt Carter)
- Massive updates with version 11 of Angular (Mike Hartington)
- Running Container Images in AWS Lambda (Mikhail Shilkov)
- Docker and AWS Resources for Developers (Peter McKee)
- Data Entry Made Easy with Blazor Multicolumn AutoComplete (Saravanan G)
- npm uses GitHub Flavored Markdown (GitHub)
- Github Releases Catalyst to Ease the Development of Web Components in Complex Applications (Bruno Couriol)
- Getting Started with Amazon EKS Distro & Pulumi (Lee Briggs)
- Pulumi container images now available on Amazon ECR Public (Paul Stack)
- Achieving a Seamless User Experience with Refresh Token Inactivity Lifetimes (Randy Nasson)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET Framework November 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004 (Tara Overfield)
- Avoid Wrapping DbContext in Using (and other gotchas) (Steve Smith)
- .NET 5 Runtime Improvements: From Functional to Performant Implementations (Eran Stiller)
- Code Smell – Primitive Obsession and Refactoring Recipes (Patrick Smacchia)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- State of DevOps Report (Janet Swift)
- New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes (Harunobu Kameda)
- AzureFunBytes – DevOps on Azure with Donovan Brown (Jay Gordon)
- How Team Routines Can Make You More Resilient in the Face of Uncertainty (Amy Rigby)
- The Only Testing that Matters: Testing through the Eyes of the User (Peter Vogel)
- Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess (Rafael Chacon Vivas)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Dart Extensions in Flutter (Arathi Shankri)
- AGP 7.0: Next major release for the Android Gradle plugin (Murat Yener)
- Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) & Android Gradle plugin 7.0 (Jamal Eason)
- Flutter Vs React Native (Mahesh Chand)
- Spread the joy of learning through making (Eben Upton)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Gaines Kergosien on ADHD (David Giard)
- Developer Tea – Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
- C# with CSharpFritz – Ep 12: Get Started with Entity Framework Core (Jeff Fritz)
- What’s New in Text Analytics: Opinion Mining and Async API | AI Show (Seth Juarez & Parashar Shah)
- JSJ 460: The Things Every JavaScript Developer Must Know, Part 2 (AJ O’Neal, Aimee Knight, Steve Edwards, Dan Shappir & Charles Max Wood)
- Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads – Holiday Special (Mads Kristensen)
- Building and deploying web apps with Static Web Apps | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & Aaron Powell)
- RunAs Radio – From Documents to Lists with Lise Rasmussen (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 217 (Jason Bock)
- Talk Python to Me #293 – Learning how to learn as a developer (Michael Kennedy)
- Windows Insider Podcast – Insider Currency Done Right (Windows Insider Team)
Community & Events
- The DevTalk Show (Dec 2nd) – Managing the Other Stuff: Tips for dealing with email, chat, notes and todos (Andy Schwam, Chris Gomez & Rich Ross)
Database
- SQL Server Management Studio Database Diagram Support Objects Cannot be Installed (Sergey Gigoyan)
- Foreword – Building Custom Tasks for SSIS 2nd Edition (Andy Leonard)
- Infinite Loop – SQL in Sixty Seconds #144 (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams calling devices for every user (MS Teams Team)
- Microsoft Updates Teams Calling With CarPlay Support, New UI, and More (Brad Sams)
Miscellaneous
- Khan Academy is an essential homeschooling resource, especially for math (Alex Hazlett)
- PowerToys 0.27 comes with a bunch of improvements (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion (Paul Thurrott)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3125 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2020-12-02 (Dan Rigby)
- .NET Annotated Monthly | December 2020 (Rachel Appel)
The Geek Shelf
Building Chatbots in TypeScript with the Microsoft Bot Framework: Programming Useful Bots in the Node.JS SDK (Michael Szul) – Referral Link
