Top Links
- Introducing the AWS Toolkit for Rider (Matt Ellis)
- Converting integration tests to .NET Core 3.0: Upgrading to ASP.NET Core 3.0 – Part 5 (Andrew Lock)
- Investing Time in the Xamarin Linker for Smaller App Sizes (James Montemagno)
- Exploring borrowed annotations in C# (Jared Parsons)
Web & Cloud Development
- Mock AWS Services Using Postman Collections With Examples and gRPCs Potentially Fatal Weakness and We Will Not Discuss APIs Without A Postman Collection (Kin Lane)
- ASP.NET Core with GitOps: Deploying Infrastructure as Code (Mircea Oprea)
- ApiBoilerPlate: New Features and Improvements for Building ASP.NET Core 3 APIs (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- Filtering in ASP.NET Core Web API (Vladimir Pecanac)
- EventBridge Schema Registry — what it is and why it matters for Serverless applications (Alex DeBrie)
- Kubernetes: Gardener Project Update (Rafael Franzke & Vasu Chandrasekhara)
- Building Custom Input Components for Blazor using InputBase (Chris Sainty)
- Announcing CrossGuard Preview (Erin Krengel)
- Salvation Delivered by WebAssembly (Wasm) (Everett Griffiths)
- Reducing the Cost of my Developer Workstation with Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub (Matt Cowger)
- How to Make Secure HTTP Requests with Vue and Express (Holly Lloyd)
- Pulumi 2.0 Roadmap (Joe Duffy)
- How We’re Protecting Your Postman API Keys in GitHub (Michael Bettendorf)
- Data Compression for Large-Scale Streaming Experimentation (Julie (Novak) Beckley, Andy Rhines, Jeffrey Wong, Matthew Wardrop, Toby Mao & Martin Tingley)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Create, Modify & Export Documents with WordsProcessing for Xamarin.Forms (Dobrinka Yordanova)
Visual Studio & .NET
- C# 9 (Bassam Alugili)
- Announcing PostSharp 6.4: Support for .NET Core 3.0 and more (Lejla Rasic)
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Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why Should You Give Unit Testing a Second Chance? (Coral Ifergan)
- What to teach as the first programming language and why (Tomas Petricek)
- Quality Begins With Code: 10 Ways to Reduce Software Bugs (Fahim Sachedina)
- Modular Monolith: A Primer (Kamil Grzybek)
- MSIX Core Coming to Windows 7 and 8.1 in December, Plus New Features on the Horizon (Russell Smith)
- How to Give Constructive Criticism (Stephen Haunts)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Pre-order Code the Classics today! (Alex Bate)
- New version of the Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile (François Daoust)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – Hasty Treat – New CSS Logical Properties (Wes Bos)
- Stack Overflow Podcast: A Brief History of Black Software (Ben Popper)
- Software Engineering Daily – Java 13 with Georges Saab (Jeff Meyerson)
- The Monsters Weekly – Episode 141 – Getting started with Application Insights and ASP.NET Core (James Chambers, Simon Timms & David Paquette)
- AiA 267: JavaScript Performance with Tammy Everts (Charles Max Wood)
- MAS 100: My Angular Story Episode 100! (Aaron Frost & Charles Max Wood)
- Understanding the Azure.Core library | On .NET (Cecil Phillip)
- DevTalk 25: Developing with Xamarin.Forms with Almir Vuk (Kerry Lothrop)
- The 6 Figure Developer Episode 120 – From .NET Core 3.0 to .NET 5 w/ Scott Hunter (John Callaway)
- SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 62 (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
- Installing SQL Toolbelt with Chocolatey (Kendra Little)
- All Hands on Tech Podcast 005 – Why human-centered design matters (Mariah Hay)
- Learn About Serverless Workflows on SSW.tv (Aaron Powell)
- JSJ 410: Iterating on Open Source (Aimee Knight, Steve Edwards, AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 115 (Jason Bock)
- Real Talk JS Episode 61: Leading Technical Teams – Jules Kremer (John Papa)
- Meta Cast Episode 154 – Keeping It Simple (Josh Anderson)
- How Microsoft is Simplifying IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & MAAllen)
- Overview: Big Data Cluster Security | Data Exposed (Jeroen ter Heerdt)
Community & Events
- December Xamarin and .NET Events (Jayme Singleton)
- Announcing Syncfusion’s Xamarin Holiday Challenge (Prabakaran Ramasamy)
- 16 Festive Ways To Celebrate Hanukkah In Philadelphia (Candace Shelton)
- “We are redefining the meaning of beauty to help kids grow up being comfortable in their own skin.” (Candace Whitney-Morris)
- Eight Must-See Holiday Light Shows In Philadelphia For 2019 (Kelly Bucci)
Database
- How to Restore Model Database in SQL Server (Daniel Farina)
- Fastest way to Delete Large Number of Records in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- SQL SERVER Tools I Use and Recommend (Updated: December 2019) (Pinal Dave)
- Restore your Azure Database for MySQL server into a different Azure subscription, the right way (Parikshit Savjani)
SharePoint & MS Teams
PowerShell
- Step-by-Step: Managing Groups via Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module (Dishan Francis)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft: We’re creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding (Liam Tung)
- Windows 10 Tip: Create new events from the taskbar (Athima Chansanchai)
- Brave 1.0 Released to Improve Web Privacy (Dylan Schiemann)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2887 (Chris Alcock)
- .NET App Developer Links – 2019-12-03 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #2485 (Mike Gunderloy)
- XamarinBites 29 (Nigel Ferrissey)
- Up & Running Weekly – Kubernetes locally on Linux, running Elastic on K8s, KFServing & more (Denis from Jexia)
The Geek Shelf
Xamarin in Action: Creating native cross-platform mobile apps (Jim Bennett) – Referral Link
