Top Links
- OpenTelemetry .NET reaches v1.0 (Sourabh Shirhatti)
 - Surface Duo: New Android pen and ink control preview (Craig Dunn)
 - Scaffolding for ASP.NET Core projects comes to Rider 2021.1 (Rachel Appel)
 - An Observability Platform for Developers (Omer Raviv)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Resolve Services In ASP.NET Core Startup (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - Svelte Quick Tip: Connect a store to local storage (Dana Woodman)
 - Implement Unit Testing in ASP.NET Core 5 Application – Getting Started (Sanjay Modi)
 - PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP #8 (Roman Pronskiy)
 - Service to service invocation with Refit and Dapr .NET SDK (Laurent Kempe)
 - How we found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling (Dirkjan Bussink)
 - GoLand 2021.1 Beta 3 Is Out! (Ekaterina Zharova)
 
XAML, WinUI & Xamarin
- Dark Mode Support in Telerik UI for Xamarin Controls (Yana Kerpecheva)
 - Stop Talking about UWP (Nick Randolph)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Basic 16.9 in .NET 5 (Jonathan Allen)
 - Type-safety across .Net and TypeScript – Finding the types (Urs Enzler)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Practice: Ubiquitous Language (James Shore)
 - Windows Installer registration for your MSI (Alex Marin)
 - How do I Navigate GitHub Code? (Brian Lagunas)
 - Building Design System–Friendly Components (Jon Hilton)
 - SPACE, a New Framework to Understand and Measure Developer Productivity (Sergio De Simone)
 - Creating a good feedback loop between ops and devs using documentation (Thomas A. Limoncelli)
 - Figma and Zeplin: Superformula’s winning design-to-development process (Zeplin Team)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Raspberry Pi Imager update to v1.6 (Gordon Hollingworth)
 - Swift on Windows in CLion (Stanislav Dombrovsky)
 - React Native for Windows + macOS: Gallery App, TurboModules, and more community modules (Kiki Saintonge, Harini Kannan & Steven Moyes)
 - Microsoft Surface Duo is now optimized with dual-screen controls in Xbox Game Pass beta (Arif Bacchus)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – Event Streaming with Alex Gallego (Rob Irving)
 - Developer Tea – Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off (Jonathan Cutrell)
 - Hanselminutes – Nicholas Hunt-Walker (Scott Hanselman)
 - Share Files (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) and HTTP Web Requests with Data Caching | Xamarin 101 (James Montemagno)
 - What’s New in Azure SQL Auditing | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Trigano)
 - React Native Radio 193 – Flutter 2 Release (Jamon Holmgren & Robin Heinze)
 - Rocket 325: Meat in Dongletown (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
 - UI Breakfast Episode 209: JTBD Interviews with Alli Blum (Jane Portman)
 - Launch Space – Microservices made easy with Dapr (Brian Benz, Mark Fussell, Nitya Narasimhan & Donovan Brown)
 - Draining the Slides – Windows Weekly 716 (Paul Thurrott)
 - The Stack Overflow Podcast – Dev, meet Ops. Ops, meet Dev. (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
 
Community & Events
- The .NET Docs Show (Apr 5th) – C# Ask Me Anything with Mads Torgersen, Bill Wagner and Jon Skeet (David Pine & Maira Wenzel)
 - ID@Xbox and Twitch Team Up for First Indie Showcase on March 26 (Glenn Gregory)
 - MVPs Mentor Women About Equality In Tech (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
 - Microsoft 365 PnP Community Spotlight: David Warner (Luise Freese)
 - Season of Docs announces the successful 2020 long-running projects (Kassandra Dhillon & Erin McKean)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Flush Data from Memory to Disk (Pinal Dave)
 - MongoDB 3.6 lives on in Azure Cosmos DB (Gahl Levy)
 - Where I See Databases Going in the Next 10 Years (Brent Ozar)
 - Using the SQL ISNULL() Function (Ben Snaidero)
 - Seamlessly transfer Kafka data with the new Azure Cosmos DB connector for Confluent (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
 - Create an Always On Availability Groups using TSQL (Alejandro Cobar)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- SharePoint Framework v1.12 – What’s in the latest Update of SPFx? (Andrew Connell)
 - Microsoft Teams Meetings in Virtual Reality (Vesa Nopanen)
 
PowerShell
- A Reusable File System Event Watcher for PowerShell (Wolfgang Groß)
 
Miscellaneous
- Building a shared vision for Async Rust (Niko Matsakis)
 - Reinstating net neutrality in the US (Amy Keating)
 - GitHub: What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? (Justin Colannino)
 - Microsoft’s 15,000 employee late winter reorg is another step towards consolidating its cloud solutions (Kareem Anderson)
 - Vivaldi 3.7 Makes Massive Performance Gains (Paul Thurrott)
 - Sony announces new PS5 VR controllers with adaptive triggers (Tom Warren)
 - C++, Getting Started with The Basics: Hello World and The Build Pipeline (Tugberk Ugurlu)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3194 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2021-03-19 (Dan Rigby)
 - Collective #653 (Mary Lou)
 
The Geek Shelf
 ASP.NET Core in Action, 2nd Edition (Andrew Lock) – Referral Link

