Top Links
- .NET Conf – Focus on F# – Save the Date (July 29, 2021) (.NET Team)
- Improving Platform Channel Performance in Flutter (Aaron Clarke)
- 5 ideas for summer reading (Bill Gates)
- Solitaire in Blazor Part 2 – The C# Classes (Matthew Jones)
- Uno Platform 3.8 – New WinUI Calendar, Grid controls, 2x performance, new Linux scenario and more (Uno Platform Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Service Bus: Queues vs Topics (Davide Bellone)
- Setting Content for HttpClient Testing with JSON.NET and System.Text.Json (Adam Storr)
- Angular Basics: How to Use XHR or Fetch Request in JavaScript (Jeetendra Gund)
- Event Handling In Blazor (Jignesh Trivedi)
- Azure for Researchers Microsoft Learn – Learning Pathways (Lee Stott)
- Azure Cloud Adoption Framework for Hybrid and Multicloud Scenarios (Thomas Maurer)
- MS Learn: Introduction to Azure Data Explorer (Tzvia Gitlin Troyna)
- Ballerina Improves Cloud Native Support (Kay Ewbank)
- Auth0 WebAuthn Passwordless with Device Biometrics is Now Available (Andrés Aguiar)
- More Cloud Migration Security Lessons (Anton Chuvakin)
- Versioning REST APIs (Diogo Souza)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Exploring Drag and Drop in Xamarin Forms (Charlin Agramonte)
- How to update Xamarin project to C# 9 without CI build failures (Denys Fiediaiev)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# 10 – `record struct` Deep Dive & Performance Implications (Niels Rasmussen)
- Making Your Life Easier with C# Scripting (Peter Vogel)
- Remote Repositories: A Better Experience for GitHub in VS Code (Matthew MacDonald)
- Hot Reload For .NET Developers (Daniel Gomez Jaramillo)
- Show a name and profile photo with .NET and Gravatar (Thomas Ardal)
- New Programming Model For Handling JSON In .NET 6 (Varun Setia)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Did you know – You can now Copy Dashboard in Azure DevOps? (Abhijit Jana)
- Transform Into An Agile Organization By Transforming the Right Things First (Leading Agile)
- Request for Comments – ECS integration with Octopus (Matthew Casperson)
- Azure DevOps and AWS ToolKit task to GitHub source reference (Ralph Willgoss)
- The Root Cause of Microservices Disasters (George Stocker)
- Dream Big, Start Small (JD Meier)
- 7pace’s Desktop App for Windows & Mac Boasts New Features & Functionality (Leah Copeland)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Build sophisticated search features with AppSearch (Dan Saadati & Hanaa ElAzizi)
- Making robots more accessible with Forge/OS and Unity (Anthony Navarro & Sarah Gibson)
- 10 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Flutter Development (Dharanidharan Dharmasivam)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – What is SvelteKit? (Wes Bos)
- The New Surface Podcast Series! (Alfred Ojukwu)
- CodeNewbie S16:E6 – What failing technical interviews can teach you (Farhana Mustafa) (CodeNewbie Team)
- Smashing Podcast Episode 39 With Addy Osmani: Image Optimization (Drew McLellan)
- InfoQ Podcast: John DesJardins on Continuous Intelligence and In-Memory Computing (John DesJardins)
- Flutter vs React Native vs SwiftUI vs Compose | Clubhouse (MTechViral)
- AzureFunBytes – Intro to Azure Data Factory with @KromerBigData (Jay Gordon)
- Data DevOps with the SQL Team – Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 145 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- DevTalk Podcast 65: .NET 6, T4, and MSBuild. With Mikayla Hutchinson (Kerry Lothrop)
- Getting Coordinates and Addresses with Xamarin.Forms.Maps (Gerald Versluis)
- MidDay Café Episode 12 – PowerPoint Live in Teams, PowerPoint Recording, and More and MidDay Cafe Episode 13 – Accessibility (Mike Gannotti)
- Debugging Basics [1 of 5] | Beginner’s Series to: VS Tooling for Unity Developers | Beginner’s Series to: VS Tooling for Unity Developers (Charles Amat)
- OSS Power-Ups: Silk.NET – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
- What’s new in Text Analytics for Health | AI Show (Seth Juarez & Ashly Yeo)
- Fragmented, The Software Podcast #215: From Side Project to Full Time via Watch Faces with David Whittaker and Ross Manges (Donn Felker & Kaushik Gopal)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Information foraging: the tricks great developers use to find solutions (Ben Popper)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 200 – Devil’s Advocate (John Callaway)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 131 (Vesa Juvonen, Waldek Mastykarz & Zhenya Savchenko)
- Debugging Basics [1 of 5] | Beginner’s Series to: VS Tooling for Unity Developers (Visual Studio Team)
- Women in Technology Podcast – Sunny Skies Ahead! (WIT Team)
Community & Events
- Meet a recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador graduate: Riya Mistry (MS Student Developer Team)
- Where to Watch the July 4th Fireworks in Philadelphia 2021 (Visit Philly)
Database
- SQL SERVER – COUNT(*) and Index Used (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Automation made easy with Dataverse for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Power Automate (Debraj Ghosh)
- New Outlook and Office themed backgrounds for Teams meetings (Gabriel Valdez Malpartida)
- PowerPoint Live in Teams: now with laser pointer and inking! (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Bookings Gets a New UI, More Features, and Roles (Michael Reinders)
- The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 11: Atomic access and barriers (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3252 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-06-15 (Dan Rigby)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #12 (Sam Basu)
- .NET News Roundup: Project Reunion 0.8 RC , Uno Platform 3.8, JetBrains Rider 2021.2 Early Access (Arthur Casals)
- Weekly Notes – #67 (Miguel Bernard)
- Digest – Microsoft Build 2021 (Niels Rasmussen)
The Geek Shelf
Mastering Xamarin.Forms – 2nd Ed (Ed Snider) – Referral Link
