Top Links
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 1 (Sourabh Shirhatti)
- Announcing Dapr v1.0 (Dapr Team)
- The community effort that delivered Dapr v1.0 (Ori Zohar & Yaron Schneider)
- Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 1 (Jeremy Likness)
- Blazor on Desktop (Sam Basu)
- Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1 (Richard Lander)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – AJAX Requests and XSRF (Ricardo Peres)
- Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 305 – How to automatically manage Azure Blobs lifecycles and Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 306 – How to use Deployment Slots in Azure App Service for Containers (Michael Crump)
- Blazor Helpers App -More on Includes with Selections (David Jones)
- Old ASP.NET Core Projects and IHttpContextAccessor (Jason Gaylord)
- How to work around Docker’s new download rate limit on Red Hat OpenShift (Joel Lord)
- POST, PUT, and DELETE Requests Using HttpClient in ASP.NET Core (Marinko Spasojevic)
- New Docker Desktop Preview for Apple M1 Released (Stephen Turner)
- Blazor WebAssembly: An Overview (Vicente Gerardo Guzmán Lucio)
- Blazored hits 1,000,000 downloads on NuGet (Chris Sainty)
- Building and Securing a Go and Gin Web Application (Phillip Edwards)
- Arrays and Slices in Go (Manoj Debnath)
- You probably don’t need a micro-frontend (Colin Eberhardt)
- Node v15.9.0 (Current) (Danielle Adams)
- Introducing Document Translation (MS Translator Team)
- What is Headless Browser Testing, When (and Why) to Use It (Peter Vogel)
- Get GitHub User Contributions With GitHub Skyline API (Den Delimarsky)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- 10 Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes in Xamarin.Forms App Development (Jaganprakash Vasudevan)
- XAML Preview Tool Improvements in Rider 2021.1 EAP (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Xamarin.Forms: Bypass SSL Certificate validation on Android (Tóth András)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET Framework February 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework. (Tara Overfield)
- C# 9.0: Improved Pattern Matching (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET5 App Services (Azure Team)
- What is .NET? An Overview of the Platform (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Using Apache Kafka with .NET (Diogo Souza)
- My take on the “Result class” (Josef Ottosson)
- How can I return custom content for specific URLs requested by a Windows Runtime WebView? (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- AoAD2 Chapter: Ownership (introduction) and AoAD2 Practice: “Done Done” (James Shore)
- How to structure your Git repository for DevOps automation (Josh Duffney)
- Digital Signature Timestamping (Radu Popescu)
- Designer-centered reinforcement learning (Alexis Hagen)
- Through the Lens of: an Established ThoughtWorks Leader (Chris Murphy)
- The pros and cons of being a software engineer at a BIG tech company (Daniel Chae)
- Event Sourcing Example & Explained in plain English (Derek Comartin)
- Bad Testing is Worse than No Testing (Emma Lilliestam)
- Leadership Tip #3: Use No As a Complete Sentence (Johanna Rothman)
- What can teams and leaders do to make WFH more effective (Shruti Sharma)
- Shadow Jobs (Zac Sweers)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Texture optimization in Unity 2021.1 (Aras Pranckevičius)
- What is Microsoft Mesh? A New Developer Platform for Mixed Reality Apps (Brad Sams)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Building Teams Apps with Hilton Giesenow (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- GCast 104: Sharing a Video Online with Azure Media Services (David Giard)
- Web Rush Episode 121: Building React Apps on the Jamstack with Colby Fayock (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- Agile for Humans Episode 122: YDS – Who Attends Product Backlog Refinement in Scrum? (Ryan Ripley)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 010: Scaling (Ben Nadel)
- Design Details 385: Raising Your Team’s UI Bar (Marshall Bock & Brian Lovin)
- 8 Bits with Ben Rudolph! (Chloe Condon & Brandon Minnick)
- Webinar Recording: Debugging Impossible Bugs (Ozcode Team)
Community & Events
- Azure Data Tech Groups: Community owned, Microsoft empowered (Rie Merritt)
- Introducing GitHub Campus TV! (Elise Hollowed)
- TechBash 2021 Update (Jason N. Gaylord)
Database
- Capture SQL Server Connectivity Errors in the ERRORLOG (Sergey Gigoyan)
- SQL SERVER – Creating Multiple Backup Copies (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Index Creation Using DROP EXISTING ON (Monica Rathbun)
Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Teams – Ask Questions with Polly (Steve Fenton)
- How to send Adaptive Cards with CLI Microsoft 365 (Luise Freese)
PowerShell
- What’s New in PowerShell 7.1 (Russell Smith)
- PowerShell Predictive IntelliSense (Thomas Maurer)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19043.844 (21H1) and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.844 (20H2) to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
- 7 Ways to Improve Your Developer Ads (DeveloperMedia)
- A new ink-first experience with Journal, a Microsoft Garage project (Garage Team)
- A Developer’s Journey to WSL2 Awesomeness (Hugo Guerrero)
- Introducing the next feature update to Windows 10, version 21H1 (John Cable)
- Microsoft’s next major Windows 10 update focuses on improving remote work (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3173 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-02-18 (Dan Rigby)
The Geek Shelf
C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build intelligent apps, websites, and services with Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio Code, 5th Ed (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
