Top Links
- Super excited for our next #dotNETConf focus event on Feb 25. This time we’ll focus on Windows. Save the date! (Beth Massi)
- Building dual-screen web experiences with React (Aaron Powell)
- Unpackaged Windows Apps with Identity using a Sparse Package (Nick Randolph)
- Asynchronous Messaging, Part 3: Backend Service (Stephen Cleary)
- Better MVVM with MVVM Helpers (or Xamarin Community Toolkit) (James Montemagno)
Web & Cloud Development
- Get-AzStorageAccount: Your Azure Credentials Have Not Been Set Up or Have Expired (Iris Classon)
- Radzen Open Sources 60+ Blazor Components (David Ramel)
- Using CSS :target Pseudo-Class To Toggle Element Display (Ben Nadel)
- Microsoft Renames 10 Azure Active Directory Roles (Brad Sams)
- Video: How to deploy Blazor WebAssembly to Firebase Hosting (Niels Swimberghe)
- Connecting an Azure Logic App to a local Web API (Bryan Soltis)
- PhpStorm 2020.3.2 RC (Roman Pronskiy)
- DS Server Released: On-Premise Document Services (Bjoern Meyer)
- The “Wasmer” WebAssembly Runtime Is Generally Available (Eran Stiller)
- Durable Functions to Schedule Publish to Dev.To (Justin Yoo)
- Normalizing FHIR Queries using FluentQuery (Keith W. Boone)
- Introduction to Infrastructure as Code on Azure using Python with Pulumi (Dean Bryen)
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- WPF, Text Rendering and the Blues (Roland Weigelt)
- LongPress, Animations and More with TouchEffects in Xamarin.CommunityToolkit (Gerald Versluis)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET nanoFramework taps C# for embedded systems (Paul Krill)
- Announcement: Introducing FlavorsOf.NET! (Sean Killeen)
- Find Prime Numbers With C# 9 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3 (Helena Gregg)
- Bulk copy with Entity Framework Core 5 (Michał Białecki)
- Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code (Scott Hanselman)
- WPF Vs WinForms (Sandeep Mishra)
- Introducing Textrude – using Scriban to generate code from data (Neil MacMullen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Architecture of Web Applications (with Design Patterns) (Damir Arh)
- Looking at Parler specs and their architecture (Oren Eini)
- Re-evaluating the “Double D’s” of Software Development: Test Driven Development (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Extending the GitHub CLI (Aaron Powell)
- Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions (Johanna Rothman)
- The Cookbook: Jekyll (Montana Mendy)
- How High Performance Teams Develop, Work, and Solve Problems (Tyler Hakes)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Microbenchmarking Dart (Part 1) (Vyacheslav Egorov)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 100: Creating a Screencast (David Giard)
- Developer Tea – Friday Refill – Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Hanselminutes – Cryptography 101 with Oso’s Dr. Sam Scott (Scott Hanselman)
- Create an Onboarding Image Carousel in Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
- Run Linux based IoT Edge modules on Windows IoT | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch & Terry Warwick)
- Loving Azure Boards with GitHub repos | The DevOps Lab (Abel Wang & Dan Hellem)
- Azure SQL Connectivity Performance Tips & Tricks | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Silvano Coriani & Marisa Brasile)
- Rocket 317: Electrical Systems! (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
- Learning Product Manager Without Being A Product Manager (Den Delimarsky)
- PPP 314 | How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace, with authors David Smith and Brad Johnson (Andy Kaufman)
- CppCast – Cheerp with Alessandro Pignotti (Rob Irving)
- UI Breakfast Episode 203: Designing for Financial Services with Rob Gifford (Jane Portman)
- DBAle 28: Beat the January Brews (Chris Kerswell & Chris Unwin)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Gaming PCs to heat your home, oceans to cool your data centers (Sara Chipps, Paul Ford & Ben Popper)
- Azure Podcast Episode 361 – Project Natick (Sujit D’Mello)
- The Xamarin Podcast Episode 86: Medusa (James Montemagno & Matt Soucoup)
Community & Events
- Have 20 minutes? Take the Node.js 2021 user survey! (Node.js)
- Mozilla’s Climate Commitments (Cathleen Berger)
- Meet the Developer: Introducing Fiodar Sazanavets (DeveloperMedia)
- Sharing the Code – Engagement from 25 Years of Java (Alexandra Huff)
- Technology and Developer Events and Conferences for 2021 (Jason Gaylord)
- Webinar – OOPs, I did it again (Maarten Balliauw)
- HL7® FHIR® and Touchstone Virtual Training Feb. 3-4, 2021 (Mary Callihan)
Database
- Introducing the LIKE keyword in Azure Cosmos DB (Tim Sander)
- Datalore Improvements in 2020: Datalore Professional, a Better Coding and UI Experience, and More (Alena Guzharina)
- Transactions and Variables – SQL in Sixty Seconds #150 (Pinal Dave)
- Query Hints You Can Use to Avoid Blocking (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- Personalized feeds now available on Teams (Lori Colston)
- Outlook users can now drag and drop files to Microsoft Teams (Rabia Noureen)
- Use Google Calendar to Schedule Microsoft Teams Meetings (Tony Redmond)
PowerShell
- How to Add Sleep/Wait/Pause in a PowerShell Script (Thomas Maurer)
Miscellaneous
- Launching Windows Store Apps On Stream Deck (Den Delimarsky)
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21296 and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.782 (20H2) to Beta and Release Preview Channels (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 14, Deutsch’s problem (Filip W.)
- Microsoft Edge 88 Privacy and Security Updates (MS Edge Team)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3154 (Chris Alcock)
- Collective #645 (Pedro Botelho)
- The best of Changelog • 2020 Edition (Michelle Mannering)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
