Top Links
- SQL Server Management Studio 18.5 is now generally available (Dinakar Nethi)
- Introducing Aboard Beta (Phil Haack)
- 5 Is Microsoft promoting UWP, Win32, or Web? | One Dev Question (Kevin Gallo)
- Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano (Jeff King)
- Uno Platform 2.1 available now – x:Bind, TwoPaneView and more (Uno Platform Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS Findings From The New Facebook Design (Chris Coyier)
- WebStorm 2020.1: Improved Look and Feel, Vuex Support, Prettier on Save, and More (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
- Deploy a Dockerized Application to Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure YAML Pipelines 1 – Getting Started and Part 2 – Terraform Development Experience and Part 3 – Terraform Deployment Pipeline (Graham Smith)
- Import Your WordPress Site to WordPress.com — Including Themes and Plugins (John Percival Hackworth)
- Setup Code Signing Certificates in Azure Key Vault and Setup Azure Artifacts to Host Your NuGet Packages and Setup and Azure Application with Permissions to Enable Certificate Signing (Joseph Guadagno)
- DHTMLX Gantt 7.0: Node.js Server Module, Setting Working Time in Minutes, New Customization Options, and Much More (Kotryna Kairyte)
- How to Use Localization in an ASP.NET Core Web API (Ragunaathan Pandurangan)
- How to Take the Right Approach to Responsive Web Design (Kevin Powell)
- Announcing the Compose Specification (Ben De St Paer-Gotch)
- WebAssembly meets Kubernetes with Krustlet (Ralph Squillace)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Invert a Machine Learning Matrix Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Using xUnit to Test your C# Code (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Strangling .NET Framework App to .NET Core (Kamil Grzybek)
- Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2: The synchronous coroutine (Raymond Chen)
- Depending on the right PowerShell NuGet package in your .NET project (Robert Holt)
- JetBrains Rider Command Line Tricks (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- The JetBrains Toolbox browser extension now works on self-hosted GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket instances (Marina Kovaleva)
- Mobius – .NET runtime running on .NET Core (Konrad Kokosa)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- “Unit Tests are a Design Smell. Do Not Write Unit Tests.” (George Stocker)
- Revert Azure DevOps Pipeline Changes (Abhijit Jana)
- How To Use Brainwriting To Generate More Ideas (JD Meier)
- Building End-to-End Diagnostics and Tracing: Trace Context (Jimmy Bogard)
- Monorepository vs. Multirepository (Michael Szul)
- Update on the GitHub Actions evaluation (Pietro Albini)
- 15 years of Git: How to get started or learn something new (Seth Kenlon)
- Architecture as Code: Microservices (Sophia Parafina)
- 15 Git tips to improve your workflow (Suri Patel)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- From Web Dev to Android (Dave Torre)
- Dual Screens with Surface Neo (Windows 10X) and Surface Duo (Android) (Nick Randolph)
- Adding Sign In with Apple to an Ionic App (Simon Grimm)
- Chat app with React Native (part 1): Build reusable UI form elements using react-native-paper (Aman Mittal)
- Flutter: Create Custom App Themes (Shawn Blais)
- Mobile security—the 60 percent problem (Todd VanderArk)
- SwiftUI: Making Views More Dynamic and Reusable (Danny Bolella)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – Coronatech with Lee Warrick (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
- InfoQ Podcast: Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson on Mental Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Helen Bartimote & Jamie Dobson)
- Permissions (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
- AiA 279: Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Apps with Doguhan Uluca (Chris Ford, Shai Reznik, Alyssa Nicoll & Charles Max Wood)
- Webinar recording: Managing Data in Distributed Environment (Oren Eini)
- Video Series Part 1 – Microsoft Healthcare Bot Service for COVID-19: Getting Started and Video Series Part 2 – Microsoft Healthcare Bot Service for COVID-19: Configure & Embed in web page and Video Series Part 3 – Microsoft Healthcare Bot Service for COVID-19: Using CDC approved FAQ list (Nikita Pitliya)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Cassandra, with Sam Ramji (Craig Box & Adam Glick)
- The Work Item – S01E02 – Career Starts (Den Delimarsky & Courtny Cotten)
- The Changelog – Securing the web with Let’s Encrypt (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 354 | Pandemic Continued Impact on the Cloud, News and Security Updates (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- Introduction to GraphQL | On .NET (Cecil Phillip, Jeremy Likness & Brandon Minnick)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – M365 Change Tracking with Vincent Biret (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- Testing and Monitoring Systems for Confidence | The DevOps Lab (Damian Brady & AbelSquidHead)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 405: Yevgeniy Brikman on Infrastructure as Code Best Practices (Robert Blumen)
- The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson 2004 – Working from home | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
Community & Events
- Conferences Going Virtual (Nikos Vaggalis)
- 5 crucial diversity & inclusion lessons we need to learn from COVID-19 (Amy Lynch)
- Hacking Adobe Experience Platform to Create More Valuable Applications Than We Had Dared to Hope (Jaemi Bremner)
- Microsoft Hires Former Apple Exec to Head HoloLens (Paul Thurrott)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Fixing Freezing Activity Monitor (Pinal Dave)
- Azure SQL Database – Error Logs? (Arun Sirpal)
Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Teams: How to master remote work beyond the basics (Ed Bott)
- Teams: A natural extension to any practice (Melissa Mulholland)
- WFH With Microsoft Teams: 5 Tips for Public Sector Agencies (Michael Segner)
- Microsoft Teams meetings for the classroom – what to use now, and what is coming soon (Mike Tholfsen)
- Announcing the Microsoft 365 Community Docs (Vesa Juvonen)
Miscellaneous
- Access ACM Digital Library for Free (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Making Use of Unstructured Data with Form Recognizer (Seth Juarez)
- Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever (Selena Deckelmann)
- Recession-Proof Your Brand (Yolanda Fintschenko)
The Geek Shelf
Mastering React Native (Eric Masiello & Jacob Friedmann) – Referral Link