Top Links
- Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2 (Marc Goodner)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Release Candidate 1 (Daniel Roth)
- 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot (Rizel Scarlett)
- Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 1 (Jeremy Likness)
- Uno Platform 4.5: Uno Islands, 4 New Controls, Linux Framebuffer and MUCH more (Uno Platform Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Public preview: gRPC support in Azure App Service and Public preview: Soft delete in Azure Container Registry (Azure Team)
- Azure SDK Release (September 2022) (Azure SDK Team)
- A Guide to Rounding Numbers in JavaScript (Darren Jones)
- Back Up and Share Docker Volumes with This Extension (Felipe Cruz)
- JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- New Azure Space products enable digital resiliency and empower the industry (Jason Zander)
- Creating a Wordle with TDD in Javascript (Maximiliano Contieri)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – September 2022 Release (Savannah Ostrowski)
- Celebrating 1M installs of Edge DevTools for VS Code and Quick tip: embedding YouTube Videos in GitHub pages (Chris Heilmann)
- Go Developers Positive About Generics (Janet Swift)
- Debunking Common Misconceptions About Passwordless Authentication (Salman Ladha)
- When is it OK to Disable Text Selection? (Daniel Schwarz)
- Where should you use gRPC? And where NOT! (Derek Comartin)
- Helping Developers Build with Google, Matters (Jeannie Zhang & Kevin Po)
- SaaS Migration: Transforming your Business One Step at a Time (Jignesh Solanki)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Replicating an Immersive UI in .NET MAUI and Adding Fonts in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Announcing Entity Framework 7 Release Candidate 1 (Jeremy Likness)
- vcpkg Environment Activation in Visual Studio and Dev Containers for C++ in Visual Studio (Marc Goodner)
- It’s finally here. Bicep is in Visual Studio! (Uche Nkadi)
- Visual Studio Code Shortcuts Cheatsheet — For Mac, Linux, & Windows (Chris Staudinger)
- Creating a lazy-start C++/WinRT coroutine from an eager-start one, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Unit testing best practices – Naming and Clean code – Using the Early Return technique and Method naming best practices (Henrique Dalcin Dalmas)
- The subtleties of proper B+Tree implementation (Oren Eini)
- Advanced Installer 19.9 (Advanced Installer Team)
- It doesn’t have to be toxic at work (Oskar Dudycz)
- How to Juggle Praise and Criticism and Why You Should Avoid the Feedback Sandwich (Kim Scott)
- 5 Git resources for visual learners (PJ Metz)
- Implementing a Zero Trust strategy after compromise recovery (Matt Thomas)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Designing a harness for readable, thorough Android tests (Chris Mathew)
- Arduino IDE 2.0 Goes Gold (David Groom)
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 131: Managing Secrets in an Azure Key Vault (David Giard)
- More Readable C# Code with File-Scoped Namespaces in .NET 6 (Gerald Versluis)
- New Video: Coding Shorts – Generic Attributes in C# 11 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Wifi enabled C64 with WiModem talking to a BBS (Scott Hanselman)
- How far along in product/idea development do I have to be for TitletownTech to invest? (Microsoft Developer)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Just Enough Design with Kathryn Grayson Nanz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 92: The Power Of No (Ben Nadel)
- Azure Podcast Episode 438 – Azure NAT Gateway (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Syntax Podcast – How To Build an API in 2022 (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinsky)
- PPP 365 | The Top Skill for Women (and Men) To Develop to Take Your Career to the Next Level (Andy Kaufman)
- Complete Developer Podcast – Tradeoffs of Single Page Applications (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
- Design Details 447: Stranded on Dynamic Island (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast 065: Emotional Literacy and Mental Health for High-Achieving Engineers with Dr. Shahana Alibhai (Kae Lynne Sapino)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 484 – What science says about flow state (Ryan Donovan)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 529: Jeff Perry on Career Management for Software Engineers (Kanchan Shringi)
Community & Events
- A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (Jeff Lawson)
- The Dev Talk Show – Getting rid of passwords with Nick Hodges (Andy Schwam, Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- Microsoft Research Summit 2022: What’s Next for Technology and Humanity? (Alyssa Hughes)
- Microsoft Life: “I believe that hiring people from all cultural backgrounds and all gender backgrounds makes for such a rich story overall.” and “When you engage with other cultures, you expand your mind and have more empathy for others.” and “I work at the intersection of technology and art, and I love every minute of it.” (Diana Ortiz)
- The Unicorn of Microsoft (JD Meier)
Database
- Create, Read, Update and Delete Data in SQL Server Tables (Jan Potgieter)
- Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server major version upgrade (Azure Team)
- Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.1.1 and Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.5 (David Engel)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s new and what’s next for SharePoint Server (Bill Baer)
- Microsoft Teams Assignments Service’s Journey to .NET 6 (Kevin Halverson)
- Using the Microsoft Graph connectors SDK to integrate your line of business data with Microsoft 365 (Bill Baer)
Miscellaneous
- Control IE retirement on your own schedule with the Disable IE Policy (Bailey Reid)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25201 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Microsoft was right all along (Monica Chin)
- Xbox app on PC now launches faster and has HowLongToBeat integration (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3544 (Chris Alcock)
- C++ Annotated June-August 2022: C++23 and C23 News, Language Tips and Tricks, and New Tools Releases (Anastasia Kazakova)
The Geek Shelf
When They Win, You Win: Being a Great Manager Is Simpler Than You Think (Russ Laraway) – Referral Link
