Top Links
- Hot off the press! Fire We’ve just released #WindowsAppSDK 1.0 Preview 2 with updates and improvements to WinUI 3, Windowing, MRT Core, Input, Deployment, App Lifecycle, and much more! (Windows Developer Team)
 - .NET Foundation: My Take (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Visual Studio Code September 2021 (VS Code Team)
 - Windows Package Manager 1.1 (Demitrius Nelon)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure Functions 4 Adds .NET 6 Support (Kay Ewbank)
 - CSS in TypeScript with vanilla-extract (Hugh Haworth)
 - 6 Ways Azure Functions Endpoints Auth via OpenAPI (Justin Yoo)
 - jQuery UI 1.13.0 released and jQuery maintainers continue modernization initiative with deprecation of jQuery Mobile (Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek)
 - AZ-305 Study Guide Azure Solutions Architect (Thomas Maurer)
 - Retiring the Node.js Community Committeee (Tierney Cyren)
 - eSign Demo: Requesting Signatures from Multiple Signers (Bjoern Meyer)
 - The Relationship Between OpenAPI and Postman Collections (Kin Lane)
 - What is Go? Golang Programming Language Meaning Explained (Kolade Chris)
 - Introducing ClusterClass and Managed Topologies in Cluster API (Fabrizio Pandini)
 - GitHub Advisory Database now powers npm audit (Edward Thomson)
 - Cloud engineering fuels the next chapter of startup innovation (George Huang)
 - What is Google’s Dev Library––a new open-source platform for developers (Google Developers Team)
 - An Introduction to Hybrid Microservices (Joydip Kanjilal)
 - Safe Updates of Client Applications at Netflix (Minal Mishra)
 - Things Developers Do that Affect Their Web App Load Time (Nwose Lotanna Victor)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- What’s New in 2021 Volume 3: WinUI and WPF (Mohamed Samsudeen)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Introduction to xUnit.net Tutorial for Beginners Part 1 and How To Set Up xUnit With Visual Studio? Part 2 (Anton Angelov)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The Agile Manifesto: What agile has brought us and Improving Gender Inclusion by Using Agile Principles (Ben Linders)
 - My TOP Patterns for Event Driven Architecture (Derek Comartin)
 - A PKI-less secure communication channel: Implementing the record stream (Oren Eini)
 - How to use math operations in the Sketch Inspector (Sketch Team)
 - How To Balance Team Workloads Before Resourcing Becomes A Problem (Kat Boogaard)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New Raspberry Pi Website (Harry Fairhead)
 - Cordova Lib 10.1.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
 - Ionic 6.0 Release Candidate (Kim Maida)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – Autonomous UAS with Brandon Duick and Billy Sisson (Rob Irving)
 - .NET Core Podcast – ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns With Carl-Hugo Marcotte (Jamie Taylor)
 - InfoQ Podcast 382: Wait, we’re all content moderators now? (Ben Popper)
 - Hanselminutes – Back to the Technology Future Again with Eric Newcomer (Scott Hanselman)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Infrastructure as Code with Christian Tragesser (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Save Passwords in Secure Storage in your Xamarin app with Essentials (Gerald Versluis)
 - .NET MAUI Community Standup – Dmitry Lyalin warms us up to .NET Hot Reload. Plus: Sweeky! (David Ortinau & Sweeky Satpathy)
 - Working Code Podcast – Episode 043: Relay Race Programming (Ben Nadel)
 - Manning’s LiveProjects and Cloud Optimization ft. Troy Dreier and Andres Sacco – Adventures in DevOps 088 (Charles Max Wood & Shimon Tolts)
 - Coding After Work Podcast – Oren Eini – Raven DB (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
 - Just Another Podcast – Mads Torgersen On C# 10 (Jesse Liberty)
 - Rocket 354: Not the Bad Art Friend (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
 - Migrating to SQL: Introduction to Database Schema Conversion Toolkit (DSCT) (Ep. 9) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Alexandra Ciortea & Alexander Ivanov)
 - UX Podcast #273 – Purpose and thinking styles with Indi Young (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
 - Windows Weekly 745 – Bloomberry Compote Swirls (Paul Thurrott)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 397 – Capacity Reservation (Sujit D’Mello)
 - Profiling and Fixing Common Performance Bottlenecks – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
 
Community & Events
- 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer (Justin Etheredge)
 - GitHub’s guide to Hacktoberfest 2021 (Kara Sowles)
 
Database
- 7 Top Open Source Datasets to Train Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Text Models (Exxact Team)
 - Restore to SQL Managed Instance (Arun Sirpal)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams on iPad: boosting my personal productivity (Vesa Nopanen)
 
PowerShell
- Building a Web Report in PowerShell, use the -Force Luke (Chris Noring)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft acquires Ally.io to improve employee experience by aligning people’s work with team goals and company mission (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
 - Smooth Scrolling comes to Excel for Windows (Steve Kraynak)
 - Microsoft Kinect is back, thanks to Sky’s new all-in-one TVs (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3328 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2021-10-08 (Dan Rigby)
 - Get Daily Links in Your Inbox – Daily Dew Drop Newsletter (Me)
 - Collective #682 (Mary Lou)
 - Code Maze Weekly #96 (Vladimir Pecanac)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS (Ethan Garofolo) – Referral Link