Top Links
- 7 Improvements You Might Have Missed in .NET 6 (Matthew MacDonald)
- Announcing .NET 7 Preview 1 and Announcing Entity Framework 7 Preview 1 (Jeremy Likness)
- Line-staging (Interactive Staging) (Taysser Gherfal)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 1 (Daniel Roth)
- Foldable Navigation component update (Andrei Cirja)
Web & Cloud Development
- A Full-Stack Web App Using Blazor WebAssembly and GraphQL: Part 2 (Ankit Sharma)
- Apply JWT Access Tokens and Refresh Tokens in ASP.NET Core Web API 6 (Aram Tchekrekjian)
- Announcing the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.5 (Cindy O’Brien)
- Build an Interactive Serverless Voice and Messaging Application using Twilio and AWS (Dan Bartlett)
- Microsoft Mechanics video: Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL Database for High Performance & Scalability (Nikisha Reyes-Grange)
- Scaffold Your App: Angular CLI vs Ignite UI App Builder (Zdravko Kolev)
- Cross-Browser support with Cross-Origin isolation (Sam Verschueren)
- Postman Now Supports OpenAPI 3.1 (Ankit Saini)
- Cloudentity Adds GraphQL Support to Its Authorization Platform (Kevin Sundstrom)
- Breaking changes in the Microsoft Graph Tasks API (beta) (Microsoft Graph Team)
- Announcing new features in Service Fabric managed clusters (Mike Craft)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Develop an EMI Calculator WinUI Application [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- Xamarin.Forms UI/UX Challenges – Micuna Food – Part 1 and Part 3 (Daniel Angel Monettelli L.)
- .NET MAUI – How to use with Mac (Daniel Hindrikes)
- Splash Screen in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
- More MAUI bits! (Steven Thewissen)
- All-in-One .NET MAUI App Project Template (Vijay Anand E G)
- Windows App SDK deployment guide for unpackaged apps – Windows app development (Windows Dev Docs Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Emaroo 4.9.0 – Support for Visual Studio Code 1.64 (Roland Weigelt)
- #OpenCV – Access a local camera in F# (Bruno Capuano)
- Pattern Matching in C# (Jessica Hill)
- How to Create and Publish a NuGet Package Using Visual Studio (Muhammed Saleem)
- COM asynchronous interfaces, part 4: Doing work while waiting for the asynchronous operation (Raymond Chen)
- Raw string literals in C# (Steve Fenton)
- C#11 Parameter Null Checking (Wade Gausden)
- MailMerge: Rendering Conditional Table Rows (Bjoern Meyer)
- Use a .NET Worker Service to run background services (David Grace)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- JetBrains YouTrack Adds Gantt Charts (Kay Ewbank)
- How to automate the MSI building using GitHub Actions (Alex Marin)
- 10 Wireframe examples for mobile apps and websites (Sketch Team)
- Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack (Carlos Valdez)
- 6 Ways Leaders Can Remain Flexible During Chaotic Times (Genevieve Michaels)
- The Problem With Passion: Not Everyone Who Works for You Loves their Job, and that’s OK (Kim Scott)
- Leveraging machine learning to find security vulnerabilities (Tiferet Gazit)
- Top 3 Reasons to Use PreEmptive (Michelle Pruitt)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Getting Started with Ionic 6 (Mike Hartington)
- .NET Developer? You’re an IoT Developer Too! (Rob Lauer)
- Feature highlight: IL2CPP runtime performance improvements in Unity 2021.2 (Josh Peterson)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- CppCast – GDAL and PDAL with Howard Butler (Rob Irving)
- .NET Core Podcast – A Few Things I Wish I Knew Before Writing .NET On Linux (Jamie Taylor)
- Technology & Friends – Brent Ozar on What Every Developer Needs to Know About Databases (David Giard)
- The Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler (Scott Hanselman)
- Rocket 373: Belated Razzlekhan Reactions (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
- Azure Podcast Episode 412 – Azure Database for Postgres (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode 028 – Serverless on AWS with Julian Wood – Part 2 (David Isbitski)
- Azure Architecture Center by Microsoft Regional Director Adam Cogan (SSW TV)
- .NET MAUI Podcast Episode 107: .NET MAUI Preview … Number 13! (Matt Soucoup, James Montemagno & David Ortinau)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Extensions by Mads Kristensen (Leslie Richardson & Mads Kristensen)
- Agile Book Club: Psychological Safety (with Gitte Klitgaard) (James Shore)
- SQL Server 2022 Storage Engine Capabilities (Ep. 4) | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Pless)
- How to use Polling in Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Teams)
- Creating a Source Generator for InstantAPIs (Jason Bock)
- Perspectives in Leadership: Leveraging data to enhance the developer experience (Pluralsight)
- Asp.Net Monsters Episode 240 – Mermaid Diagrams on GitHub (James Chambers, David Paquette & Simon Timms)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 416 – An algorithm that optimizes for avoiding ennui (Ben Popper)
- .NET Tooling Community Standup – .NET Performance sneak peek! (Stephen Toub, Kendra Havens & Jordan Matthiesen)
- Adaptive Cards community call – February 2022 (JP Roca)
- Windows Weekly 764: The Rat From Punxsutawney (Paul Thurrott)
- Software Defined Talk Episode 344: Positive sum but not for everyone (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- A Look at 20 Years of Microsoft .NET: My First Enterprise Application and More! (David McCarter)
- Garage project Journal celebrates its anniversary with folders to keep you organized (Renee Malone)
Database
- SQL Server Replication as a tool to migrate very large databases (Sonali Solanki)
- How To Install SQLite On Windows 11 (Mahesh Chand)
- SQL Monitor’s new Current Activity page (Matthew Chappelow)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint (Microsoft 365 Platform Team)
Miscellaneous
- Choosing Your First DAW | Music-Making for Developers (Alan Mendelevich)
- Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account (Tom Warren)
- Want to run Android apps on Windows 11? You need 8GB RAM but should have 16GB, says Microsoft (Liam Tung)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3413 (Chris Alcock)
- AzUpdate S04E05: Azure Kubernetes Service, CIS Certification, Windows Server, and burstable disks. (Jay Destro)
- Code Maze Weekly #111 (Vladimir Pecanac)
- Collective #699 (Mary Lou)
- The Wolf Report – February 18th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
- Today’s Readings (Aaron T. Grogg)
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.02.18 (Jay Gordon)
The Geek Shelf
Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3: Build solid enterprise software using task parallelism and multithreading (Shakti Tanwar) – Referral Link
