Top Links
- Announcing Pylance: Fast, feature-rich language support for Python in Visual Studio Code (Savannah Ostrowski)
 - Using Remote Containers in WSL 2 (Brigit Murtaugh)
 - Flutter CodePen challenge (Anjan Narain)
 - Skilling for the future: New investments in Microsoft Learn (Charlotte Yarkoni)
 - Launching docs.github.com (Jenn Leaver)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Applying CSS Flexbox To Pseudo-Elements (Ben Nadel)
 - Adding Extensions for Azure App Service (Abhijit Jana)
 - Azure Web App: Application Settings and Loop through JavaScript Arrays using for, forEach, and map functions (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Using SignalR in ASP.NET Core & React to Send Messages (David Grace)
 - How to use conditions in Angular Template using (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Advanced form validation with Angular and Joi (Henning Klasén)
 - Announcing Azure Functions extension for Dapr (Jeff Hollan & Mark Fussell)
 - Dependency Injection on Azure Functions: 5 Ways Selecting Instance from Instances of Same Interface (Justin Yoo)
 - How To Setup Your Local Node.js Development Environment Using Docker (Peter McKee)
 - AWS – Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET (Steve Roberts)
 - Google Cloud’s support for Java is more comprehensive than I thought (Richard Seroter)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Simplifying Grids In Xamarin.Forms (Matthew Robbins)
 - WPF – Panel Slide-In Animation From Left Or Right Side (OmegaMan)
 - Highlighting dates in UWP CalendarView (Martin Zikmund)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- The Easiest Way to Version NuGet Packages (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
 - NuGet Package Alternatives when Migrating to .NET Core (Derek Comartin)
 - C# Futures: Null Check Operator (Jonathan Allen)
 - Cancelling a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation, part 1: C# (Raymond Chen)
 - An easier path to success for .NET microservices development and Building a path to success for microservices and .NET Core – Project Tye + GitHub Actions (Shayne Boyer)
 - C++20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019 16.1 through 16.6 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Add a Feature (Cleanly) (James Shore)
 - Staycation, all I ever wanted (Eric Brechner)
 - Many organisations are lured to SAFe by the song of the Sirens (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - XD 30 Updates for Plugin Developers (Rob Kleiman)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Ionic Appflow: Now Integrated with GitLab (Nick Hyatt)
 - Announcing Syncfusion Flutter Challenge (Arun A)
 - I built my own camera with a Raspberry Pi 4 (Becca Farsace)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Our React Wish List (Wes Bos)
 - .NET Rocks! – Testing using nDepend with Patrick Smacchia (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - How Flutter is different from JetPack compose & Swift UI? | Matt Carroll | Ex-Googler | FSD (MTechViral)
 - Software Engineering Daily – DynamoDB with Alex DeBrie (Jeff Meyerson)
 - InfoQ Podcast: Steve Adolph on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Agility (Steve Adolph)
 - How Fidelity Investments enabled Azure at scale for their developers | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
 - An Overview of Jupyter Notebook (Video) (Mike Driscoll)
 - Advocates on Rider – Uncovering the IDE That Gets You Places – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
 
Community & Events
- Interview with Robotic Process Automation Succinctly Author Ed Freitas (Jacqueline Bieringer)
 - .NET Virtual Events in July (Jayme Singleton)
 - Reconnect Series: Taiji Hagino (MVP Award Team)
 - Virtual Session: API Security with OAuth2 and OIDC in Depth for the .NET SouthWest user group (August 20th, 2020) (Kevin Dockx)
 - Alice Jolla to take over as Microsoft’s chief accounting officer following Frank Brod’s retirement (Monica Nickelsburg)
 - JetBrains Academy Celebrates the Close of Its Early Access Program with 50% Discount Plan (Tatiana Vasilyeva)
 
Database
- Cumulative Update #21 for SQL Server 2017 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
 - How to Add SQL Server Integration Services Projects to Azure Devops for Version Control (Koen Verbeeck)
 - Released: Preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server (Sasha Nosov)
 
Miscellaneous
- Now available: Jungle Awakens, Minecraft Dungeons’ first DLC pack (Athima Chansanchai)
 - Deep Learning in Finance: Is This The Future of the Financial Industry? (Exxact Team)
 - Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20161 (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - Adding an Octopus to the Zsh Prompt (Joyce Lin)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3027 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2020-07-02 (Dan Rigby)
 - Double Shot #2631 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - 30 Days – 30 Azure Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips- June 2020 Links (Abhijit Jana)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Hands-On Software Architecture with C# 8 and .NET Core 3: Architecting software solutions using microservices, DevOps, and design patterns for Azure Cloud (Gabriel Baptista & Francesco Abbruzzese) – Referral Link