Top Links
- Build and Deploy an Uno Application for iOS, Android, UWP and WASM from Azure DevOps and Pipeline Templates (Nick Randolph)
- Announcing .NET Community Toolkit v8.0.0 Preview 1 (Sergio Pedri)
- 7 reasons to attend Azure Open Source Day (David Dennis)
- Dapr v1.6 is now available (Dapr Team)
- Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 5 (Jordan Matthiesen)
Web & Cloud Development
- Web API DTO Considerations (Steve Smith)
- .NET Watch Launch Setting Profile For ASP.NET Core (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- A Complete Guide to the Amplify React Authentication Components (Ali Spittel)
- How Docker Desktop Networking Works Under the Hood (David Scott)
- Rightsize to maximize your cloud investment with Microsoft Azure (Diana Gao)
- Add an admin CRUD web page to your ASP.NET Core web app in 5 minutes using EF Core Power Tools and CoreAdmin (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- Azure Lab Services Architecture Guide (Nicole Haugen)
- How to get ASP.NET Core server URLs (Niels Swimberghe)
- Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled? (Zach Leatherman)
- Say Hi to Backstage homepage templates! (Kat Zhou)
- Setting up symbol-valued constants via proxies (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Modern Identity Onboarding Essentials (Gary Archer)
- Top Database APIs for Your Developer Toolkit (Sean Keegan)
- Application Session Management (Sumana Malkapuram)
- The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Security, Compliance, and Identity on Microsoft Learn (Temante Leary)
- Microsoft Releases YARP – Yet Another Reverse Proxy (Thiago Destro)
- Microsoft Graph – Get change notifications delivered in different ways (Microsoft Docs)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Draw and Save Signatures Using Telerik SignaturePad for Xamarin (Dobrinka Yordanova)
- Replicating Boarding Pass UI in Xamarin Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
- A Windows App SDK migration of the UWP Photo Editor sample app (C++/WinRT) (Steven White)
- How Uno Platform Ports Features from WinUI on Day 0 (Uno Platform Team)
- Simple Onboarding or Walkthrough Pages in Xamarin iOS & Android (The First Prototype)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Did you know – You can now AutoSave Files in Visual Studio 2022? (Abhijit Jana)
- Difference Between int.Parse() and Convert.ToInt32() in C# (Code Maze)
- C# Sugar & Improvements [6.0 to 10.0] (Patricio Filice)
- .NET Framework January 2022 Cumulative Update Preview (Tara Overfield)
- Bending .NET – Improved Common Flat Build Output (Nietras)
- Using Guard Clauses in .NET (Charlin Agramonte)
- How to collect return values from Parallel.ForEach? (Patrick Smacchia)
- Fixing Windows Control Focus on Toolbar and Menu Controls (Rick Strahl)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Agile Book Club: Team Room (James Shore)
- Why DevOps needs a change from a ‘me’ to a ‘we’ mindset (Chris Yates)
- How to build out your DevOps team (Johanna Ambrosio)
- Technical debt poses a cybersecurity risk (Terumi Laskowsky)
- Build, refactor, repeat (Jon Hilton)
- No one cares that you’re right (George Stocker)
- Experiencing Job Dissatisfaction: How To Decide If It’s Time To Quit (Genevieve Michaels)
- Encourage Management Collaboration to Integrate Leading and Serving Others (Johanna Rothman)
- Git 2.35 released with a few interesting features (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Netflix: A Culture of Learning (Martin Tingley, Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane, Colin McFarland, Mihir Tendulkar & Travis Brooks)
- Hybrid & Remote Work in 2022 and Beyond (Shane Hastie)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) Stable (Adarsh Fernando)
- Simple Steps to Create an Investment (SIP) Calculator in Flutter (Meikanda Nayanar I)
- Adafruit’s QT Py ESP32 Pico is A Tiny Doom Playing Handheld (Caleb Kraft)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 443 | Microsoft’s Blockbuster Blizzard Acquisition & Updates to Azure Kubernetes Service (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- RunAs Radio – SQL Q&A from SQL Server & Azure SQL Conference Fall 2021 (Bradley Ball, Tim Chapman, Buck Woody, Pedro Lopes, Richard Campbell, Bob Ward & Anna Hoffman)
- .NET MAUI Preview 12 – Constructor & Dependency Injection Everywhere! (James Montemagno)
- Virtual DOM and the React Way, Part Deux – JavaScript Jabber 518 (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Helping a Scrum team get unstuck, and stop complaining | Priyanka Gorai (Vasco Duarte)
- What does it take to upgrade to .NET 6? (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 336 (Jason Bock)
Community & Events
- Announcing Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Hackathon winners: accelerating innovation and collective impact (Rodney Clark)
Database
- How SQL Server executes a Query (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
- Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB a NoSQL Database for Documents and JSON (Rajendra Gupta)
- When Should You Use DESC in Indexes? (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Welcome new employee in Teams using Adaptive card. (Shrushti Shah)
- How to use Graph Toolkit in Teams App inside Teams Tab (Siddharth Vaghasia)
Miscellaneous
- Notepad++ Fixes Memory Leak (Alex Denham)
- An Update to the Twitter Transparency Center (Twitter)
- Educational IDEs and EduTools: Looking Back at 2021 (Anastasia Khramushina)
- Microsoft cloud revenues power Microsoft’s $51.7 billion second FY’22 quarter (Mary Jo Foley)
- 5 Reasons I Don’t Love Python as a Beginner Language (Matthew MacDonald)
- I deleted a file from Explorer, but it came back when I refreshed, and I get Access Denied if I try to delete it again (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft Whiteboard is already part of the Metaverse (Vesa Nopanen)
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- The Morning Brew #3397 (Chris Alcock)
- The Wolf Report – January 26th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
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