Top Links
- Announcing Azure Functions 4.0 public preview with .NET 6 support (Anthony Chu)
- Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes! (Grace Taylor)
- .NET Foundation Board of Directors Election 2021: Results! (Nicole Miller)
- Microsoft Refreshes Surface Lineup with Duo 2, Pro 8, and Go 3 and More and Surface Laptop Studio: Microsoft’s New Portable Workstation (Brad Sams)
- Introducing new Surface products, built for Windows 11 (Pete Kyriacou)
Web & Cloud Development
- General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09 (Azure Sphere Team)
- Building the Excel to JSON Angular App: Part 1 – CSV to JSON (Brian Lagunas)
- Getting Your `head` Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet (Vitaly Friedman)
- Kubernetes, Give Me a Queue (Yaron Parasol)
- Node v16.10.0 (Current) (Bethany Nicolle Griggs)
- TextControl Version 30.0 Live Preview (Bjoern Meyer)
- Index Signatures in TypeScript (Dmitri Pavlutin)
- How to Explain Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures to Anyone (Joey deVilla)
- The Pros and Cons of Using a Chat API in Your App (Julia Serdiuk)
- Menu and Thumbnail Stack Animation (Mary Lou)
- Getting Up and Running with Dapr (Steve Jones)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Tips and Ticks when creating a Custom Control in Xamarin Forms. Part. 1 (Charlin Agramonte)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 – More Productivity (Kay Ewbank)
- Visual Studio 2022 Themes Revamped with Tool to Convert VS Code Themes (David Ramel)
- Converting between UTF-8 strings and UTF-16 strings in C++/WinRT (Raymond Chen)
- String Performance: Checking For an Empty String (David McCarter)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How Medical Companies are Innovating Through Agile Practices (Nancy Van Schooenderwoert & Brian Shoemaker)
- Open Source in the 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (Google Open Source Programs Office)
- Dependency Injection Book Reviewed (Steve Smith)
- Git Branching Strategies vs. Trunk-Based Development (LaunchDarkly)
- Separating Concerns with Pipes & Filters (Derek Comartin)
- List Recent Git Branches (Elijah Manor)
- What Makes Figma so Popular for UI/UX Design and Why You Should Use It (Fazmeena Faisal)
- Bug Reporting—Writing for an Audience (Louise Gibbs)
- TeamCity 2021.2 EAP3 is here (Maria Kudryavtseva)
- What is an A/B Test? (Martin Tingley, Wenjing Zheng, Simon Ejdemyr, Stephanie Lane & Colin McFarland)
- So GitHub has a CLI – let’s take a look (Sarah Lean)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2022 (Rob Zwetsloot)
- StereoKit v0.3.3 (C# and OpenXR) (Nick Klingensmith)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- Syntax Podcast – From React To SvelteKit (Wes Bos)
- .NET Rocks! – F# and JavaScript with Zaid Ajaj (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Working Code Podcast – Episode 041: The Third Age Of JavaScript With Shawn “swyx” Wang (Ben Nadel)
- Azure Podcast Episode 395 – SAP on Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
- Learn C# with CSharpFritz – Beginning C# – LINQ (Jeff Fritz)
- Enhance your Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva (Michael Gannotti)
- Microsoft Mechanics – Surface Laptop Studio Hands-on Review (Chris Greiser)
- Microsoft Mechanics – Surface Pro 8 Hands-on Review + Updates to the Surface 2-in-1 Lineup (Dave Mitchell)
- Design Details 413: Design Mentorship (Brian Lovin & Marshall Bock)
- Web Rush Episode 152: Creating a Successful Front-End Onboarding Plan with Dana Yudelevich (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
- The MongoDB Podcast Episode 78 – Building Kustomer with Jeremy Suriel (Michael Lynn & Nic Raboy)
- Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 135 – Adis Jugo (Nubelus) (Vesa Juvonen & Waldek Mastykarz)
Community & Events
- Calling on developers for Virtual Hackathon (Daniel Kim)
- GitLab launches Collective on Stack Overflow (Jascha Drel)
- Reconnect Series: Mike Walker (Jeffrey Raymond Kitt)
- Top Oktoberfest Celebrations and Fall Beer Festivals in Philadelphia for 2021 (Visit Philly)
- Maker Spotlight: Will Gorecki (Jennifer Blakeslee)
Database
- Azure Database for MySQL: Azure Pipelines support in public preview and Azure Tips & Tricks – Tip 334 – How to copy data from one Cosmos DB container to another container (Azure Team)
- Query Store: A Better Execution Plan Alert (Aakash Patel)
- Oracle on Azure- Unix to Linux and Options (Kellyn Gorman)
- Current Date Time in Python and SQL (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint & MS Teams
- How lazy can you get by combining Alexa and Microsoft Teams? (Loryan Strant)
PowerShell
- Building an ETL with PowerShell (Greg Moore)
Miscellaneous
- Introducing Power Automate machine runtime (Quentin Sele Barancy)
- Windows on ARM on Apple Silicon – An Open Conversation (Wesley Miller)
- Microsoft refreshes its Surface PC portfolio including Android-based Duo 2 (Mary Jo Foley)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22463 (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Microsoft’s new Slim Pen 2 uses haptics to mimic the feeling of using a real pen (Cameron Faulkner)
- Microsoft’s new Surface Duo 2 has all the features that were missing the first time around (Dan Seifert)
- Microsoft Surface Pro 8 hands-on: the one we’ve waited for (Dieter Bohn)
- Autoruns v14.02, WinObj v3.12, Tcpview v4.15 and Process Monitor v3.85 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Microsoft Surface Duo vs Duo 2: Significant updates address first generation shortfalls (Matthew Miller)
- Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is About To Expire, and It Might Break Your Devices (msmash)
- Microsoft’s new mouse has a shell that’s 20 percent recycled ocean plastic (Richard Lawler)
- paint.net 4.3 is now available (Rick Brewster)
- Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo (Zoe Schiffer)
- Surface Adaptive Kit makes Microsoft’s laptops more accessible and Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop (Tom Warren)
The Geek Shelf
Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C# (Jimmy Engström) – Referral Link
