Top Links
- .NET 6 Networking Improvements (Máňa Píchová)
- A new docuseries, Power On: The Story of Xbox, explores the origins and evolution of Xbox (Athima Chansanchai)
- Forking Windows Template Studio (Matt Lacey)
- .NET Foundation Outreach Committee is Looking For Volunteers (Shawn Wildermuth)
- A Holly Jolly Christmas with Hot Chocolate 12.4 (Michael Staib)
Web & Cloud Development
- Deploying an Azure Static Web App with Pulumi as a Beginner (Adam Storr)
- Become a Full Stack Developer with Svelte, Postgres, Vercel, and Gitpod (Beau Carnes)
- I Finally Implemented Dark Mode Using CSS Custom Properties On This Blog (Ben Nadel)
- Azure Policies and Management Groups (Mike Wood)
- Build a Vacation Rental Site with Amplify Studio (Ali Spittel)
- Shadow Palette Generator (Chris Coyier)
- What’s Next: GoLand 2022.1 Roadmap (Ekaterina Zharova)
- Twitter Further Bolsters V2 API via New API Tools (Kevin Sundstrom)
- Defending against XSS with CSP (Philippe De Ryck)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Control Templates in Xamarin.Forms (Rodrigo Juarez)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Production postmortem: The memory leak that only happened on Linux (Oren Eini)
- VS Code Gets a ‘Most Heavily Requested Feature’ for Python (David Ramel)
- C# Tip: use yield return to return one item at the time (Davide Bellone)
- Automated Tests Advice, C# Edition (Roman Stoffe)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 and Floating-point to Integer Conversions (John Morgan)
- Send Emails using the SendGrid API with .NET 6 and C# (Niels Swimberghe)
- TimeThis! – Simple timings for code blocks (Fun with IDisposable) (James Curran)
- Testing an incremental generator with snapshot testing: Creating a source generator – Part 2 (Andrew Lock)
- The /fp:contract flag and changes to FP modes in VS2022 (Gautham Beeraka)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- A tech landscape and current climate sensing tool – Your own Tech Radar (Martin Fowler)
- A conversation about how to enable high-velocity DevOps culture at your organization (Eira May)
- Building a Design System with Kendo UI (Thomas Findlay)
- GitHub Improves Code Search (Kay Ewbank)
- New in Sketch: Introducing Foresight, improving Prototyping and better document management (Sketch Team)
- Exciting New Tools For Designers, Holidays 2021 (Carrie Cousins)
- Reflecting on another year that redefined work (Cyril Belikoff)
- Become a master at Git and Open Source (Jason Chlus)
- Driving a customer-driven mindset in a tech organization (Nancy Perry)
- How business leaders are preparing for a new period of workplace uncertainty (Adam Coleman)
- CI/CD of Functions and Plugins in Flex Development using GitHub Actions (Prasanth Balan Pillai)
- Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing (Nafees Nehar)
- An introduction to the Cloud Adoption Framework Ready methodology (Thomas Maurer)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Announcing Ionic 6 (Liam DeBeasi)
- Microsoft MakeCode Arcade – Sing 2 – The Big Stage (Microsoft MakeCode)
- The Pico In MicroPython: Direct To The Hardware (Harry Fairhead)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – How To Do Things In Svelte (Wes Bos)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast 400: An oral history of Stack Overflow – told by its founding team (Eira May)
- Revision Path – Vida Cornelious (Maurice Cherry)
- InfoQ Podcast: Engaging with and Serving the Digital Seeker to Craft Great Experiences (Raj de Datta)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 135 – Announcing SQL Server 2022 (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- React Native Radio 221 – React Native Colo Loco (Jamon Holmgren, Mazen Chami & Jon Major Condon)
- Does Scrum belong in DevOps? – Adventures in DevOps 097 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
- When the teams push back on Scrum, an Agile transformation story | Rasmus Lund-Jensen and How even the best teams can forget what Agile is about, and how to fix it | Rasmus Lund-Jensen (Vasco Duarte)
- The Work Item #47 – 2021 Reflections, Creativity, and More, with Mayuko Inoue (Den Delimarsky)
- The Problems with the Angular Test-Bed ft. Georgi Parlakov – Adventures in Angular 334 (Armen Vardanyan & Charles Max Wood)
- How To Write Platform-Specific Code in .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
- Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast – Onboarding Developers with Ahmed El Herazy and Wes Hackett (Jeremy Thake & Paul Schaeflein)
- Radical Candor S3, Ep. 1:3 How to Choose A Radically Candid Boss (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 224 – Mark Brown: Modeling with Cosmos DB (John Callaway)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 147 – Markus Möller (Avanade) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
- Talks are available on demand: TeamCity – 15 Years of CI (Yegor Naumov)
Community & Events
- GitHub’s response to Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 (Jill Moné-Corallo)
Database
- Build Oracle Graph on Docker (Part 1/2) (Ryota Yamanaka)
- Compute the Relative Strength Index for Time Series within SQL Server (Rick Dobson)
- PostgreSQL versus MySQL performance (Thomas Hansen)
- How to create Linked server from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database (Madhumita Tripathy)
- Microsoft Learning Path – Get started with Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (Microsoft Docs Team)
- Durability Performance Testing With Couchbase SDK 3.0+ (James Powenski)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- How to raise your hand in Microsoft Teams meetings effectively in 3 simple ways (Dave W. Shanahan)
- Microsoft Teams Gets New Press To Unmute Feature In Public Preview (Rabia Noureen)
PowerShell
- How to Preview PowerShell Scripts In PowerShell (Thomas Lee)
Miscellaneous
- Power Automate for desktop – December 2021 update (Yiannis Mavridis)
- Log a User Out from Command Line (David Walsh)
- How to Install WSL on Windows Server (Michael Reinders)
- Master Chief returns in updated Minecraft mash-up pack (Steve Clarke)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3374 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2021-12-14 (Dan Rigby)
- The Wolf Report – December 14th, 2021 (Michael Wolfenden)
- Weekly Xamarin – Issue 332 – 13th Dec 2021 (Kym Phillpotts)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #37 (Sam Basu)
- [Last Week in .NET #72] – Holiday Road (George Stocker)
- What’s new from GitHub Changelog? November 2021 recap (Sidi Merzouk)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft)