Top Links * Amplify your database development experience with Azure Data Studio (Timi Oshin) * View .NET collections with the new IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer (Harshada Hole) * Hanselminutes – Patterns.dev with Lydia Hallie and Addy Osmani (Scott Hanselman) * Uno Platform 4.2 – .NET 6 Mobile RC1, Perf Boost, 190+ Improvements (Uno Platform Team) * Microsoft and partners are building a more sustainable future (Nick Parker)
Web & Cloud Development * ‘Alternative to Blazor’ Wisej 3 Ships and With Microsoft OpenJDK Build, Azure App Service Adds Java 17 and Tomcat 10.0 (David Ramel) * Create downloadable blob links with Azure Functions and App Service authentication (Mark Heath) * Announcing the General Availability of AWS Amplify Studio (Steve Roberts) * Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. Edge (Zach Leatherman) * Retrying e2e test suites with Jest (Andrew Easton) * OWASP ZAP Exploration by Postman Open Technologies (Kin Lane) * Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is Generally Available: Instant Scaling for Demanding Workloads (Marcia Villalba)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML * .NET MAUI RC1 is available with VS for Mac support (András Tóth) * Automated UI testing for Uno Platform with Legerity (James Croft) * Replicating a Game Store UI in Xamarin.Forms (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET * How do I access and customize the IInspectable methods of a Windows Runtime class written in C++/WinRT? (Raymond Chen) * vcpkg April 2022 Release is Now Available (Augustin Popa) * Understanding Cross-Assembly obfuscation (John Brawner)
Design, Methodology & Testing * What is Slowing Down Your Agile Transformation? It Could be Your Legacy Applications (Daryl Kulak) * Your guide to GitHub InFocus: Improving the way software development teams work in 2022 (Jeimy Ruiz) * Improving Git push times through faster server side hooks (Carlos Martín Nieto) * What Is Toxic Productivity? And 5 Tips To Overcome It (Dave Schafer) * The robots are coming for (the boring parts of) your job (Eira May) * Adopting users’ design feedback (Hermina) * DZone Refcardz Trend Reports – Enterprise Application Integration (Lindsay Smith)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development * Metaverse Minute: Leaving no trace with digital twins (Dave Rhodes & Marina Psaros) * Building a Mobile Application with Couchbase – Part 3 (Sandhya Krishnamurthy)
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos * CppCast – Rcpp with Dik Eddelbuettel (Rob Irving) * The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 435: How a college extra-credit project became PHP3, still the bedrock of the web (Eira May) * Azure CLI – get-access-token (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos) * Software Defined Talk Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile (Brandon Whichard & Coté) * Productivity in Visual Studio (Kyle Reed) * How to set up breakout rooms before a Microsoft Teams meeting (Microsoft Teams) * The Work Item #53 – Find Your Mentor And Complementary Skills, With Nicole Zhu, Senior Engineer At Vox Media (Den Delimarsky) * The Usual SaaS-pects 34 – Josh Pigford (Maybe Finance, Baremetrics) (Ch Daniel) * Rocket 382: lol (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort) * Azure Podcast Episode 421 – Project Flash (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello) * Radical Candor S4, Ep. 5: Get Sh*t Done Step 2 — Clarify Your Thinking For Yourself and Others (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler) * UX Podcast #287 – Endineering with Joe MacLeod (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom) * Web Rush Episode 180: Functional Web Apps with Simon MacDonald (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker) * The Happy Engineer Podcast 044: Meet Your Host – Reverse Interview with Zach White (Kae Lynne Sapino) * Windows Weekly 773: Smells Like Alcantara (Paul Thurrott)
Community & Events * Meet the Developers: Mobile Edition (Aleksandr Sergeev) (Dmitry Vinnik) * Women in tech are cracking the glass ceiling (Esther Shein) * Celebrate Earth Day with Team Xbox (Jordan Grainger) * Surface Duo Team: Join us at droidcon in 2022 (Joy Liu)
Database * The ins and outs of joining tables in SQL Server (Greg Larsen) * The nuances of MySQL indexes (Lukas Vileikis) * SQL Server vulnerabilities and assessment (Priyanka Chouhan) * RavenDB Cloud: Metrics & Disk I/O enhancements (Oren Eini) * What DBAs Need to Know About Snapshots (Brent Ozar) * Microsoft.Build.Sql: the next frontier of SQL projects (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
SharePoint & MS Teams * Microsoft Teams will be making a comeback to the Microsoft Store (Arif Bacchus)
PowerShell * How to Download a File using PowerShell (Michael Reinders)
Miscellaneous * Panos Panay shares a wicked cool mashup reel of recent Surface Products & Windows 11 (Arif Bacchus) * #GitHubCoPilot – Also writes jokes ! (Bruno Capuano) * Valve upgrades its Steam Deck dock ahead of release, but we still don’t know how much it costs (Jay Peters) * 7 Benefits You’ll Notice When You Start Learning to Code (Kunal Chowdhury) * How big are the built-in Windows 11 apps? (Michael Niehaus) * Microsoft releases biannual digital trust reports (Microsoft)
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