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.NET   ­­­­­­↑ Top   ↓ Community

icon .NET Blog
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/

icon Visual Studio Blog
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/

icon Visual Studio Magazine
https://visualstudiomagazine.com

icon ASP.NET Core documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/

icon .NET API browser
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/

icon .NET API Catalog
https://apisof.net/catalog

icon .NET Source Browser
https://source.dot.net
https://sourceroslyn.io
https://referencesource.microsoft.com

icon Book of the Runtime
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/coreclr/botr/README.md
https://jurakovic.github.io/runtime/ (GitHub)

icon Awesome .NET / .NET Core
https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet
https://github.com/thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core

icon C# documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/types/

icon C# language reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/built-in-types

icon Threading in C# | Joseph Albahari
https://www.albahari.com/threading/

icon C# in Depth | Jon Skeet
https://csharpindepth.com/articles/
https://jonskeet.uk/csharp/


SQL Server   ­­­­­­↑ Top   ↓ Community

icon Technical Documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/databases/databases

icon Transact-SQL reference (Database Engine)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-reference

icon SQL projects
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sql-database-projects/sql-database-projects
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/sql-server-data-tools-sdk-style
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sqlpackage/sqlpackage (GitHub)

icon Microsoft SQL Server Blog
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/
https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples

icon Azure SQL Devs’ Corner Blog
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/
https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples

icon Markus Winand | SQL Indexing and Tuning
https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog


Development   ↑ Top

icon Engineering Fundamentals Playbook
https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/ (GitHub)

icon Trunk Based Development | Paul Hammant
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com (GitHub)

icon Conventional Commits
https://www.conventionalcommits.org (GitHub)

icon Agile, Software Delivery | Martin Fowler
https://martinfowler.com/agile.html
https://martinfowler.com/delivery.html

icon Continuous Delivery | Jez Humble
https://continuousdelivery.com

icon The Twelve-Factor Manifesto
https://github.com/twelve-factor/twelve-factor
https://www.12factor.net (GitHub)

icon Producing Open Source Software | Karl Fogel
https://producingoss.com/en/index.html (book)

icon Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers
http://minifesto.org


Design Guidelines   ­­­­­­↑ Top

icon C# conventions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/identifier-names
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/coding-guidelines/coding-style.md (coding guidelines)

icon Framework Design Guidelines
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/

icon Library Guidance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/library-guidance/

icon REST API Guidelines
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/azure/ConsiderationsForServiceDesign.md
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/azure/Guidelines.md
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/graph/GuidelinesGraph.md

Additional Resources https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines
https://github.com/microsoft/typespec
https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/

icon Clean Code for .NET / .NET Core
https://github.com/thangchung/clean-code-dotnet

icon Refactoring | Martin Fowler
https://refactoring.com

icon Refactoring Guru
https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/catalog
https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/catalog

icon Design Patterns | DevIQ
https://deviq.com/design-patterns/design-patterns-overview (GitHub)


Architecture   ↑ Top

icon Azure Application Architecture Fundamentals
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/

icon .NET Architecture Guides (books, archives)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/modern-web-apps-azure/ (book)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices/ (book)

icon Azure Well-Architected Framework
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/

icon Enterprise Web App pattern for .NET
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/…/reliable-web-app/dotnet/guidance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/…/modern-web-app/dotnet/guidance

icon Microservices Architecture Style
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/architecture-styles/microservices

icon Cloud Design Patterns
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/

icon Software Architecture, Microservices | Martin Fowler
https://martinfowler.com/architecture/
https://martinfowler.com/microservices/

icon Catalog of Patterns of Distributed Systems | Unmesh Joshi
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/

icon Chris Richardson | Microservices.io
https://microservices.io

icon Mark Richards | Software Developer To Software Architect
https://developertoarchitect.com/lessons/

icon Software Architect Roadmap
https://roadmap.sh/software-architect (GitHub)

icon Clean Architecture Reference Applications / Solution Templates
https://github.com/ardalis/CleanArchitecture
https://github.com/jasontaylordev/CleanArchitecture
https://github.com/alex289/CleanArchitecture
https://github.com/dotnet/eShop, eShopLite, eShopSupport (archives: eShopOnWeb, eShopOnContainers)
https://github.com/NimblePros/eShopOnWeb

Additional Examples https://github.com/fullstackhero/dotnet-starter-kit
https://github.com/ivanpaulovich/clean-architecture-manga
https://github.com/evolutionary-architecture/evolutionary-architecture-by-example
https://github.com/Youbiquitous/project-renoir (book)
https://github.com/jbogard/ContosoUniversityDotNetCore-Pages
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/next-level-clean-architecture-boilerplate/

Blogs & Sites   ↑ Top

Below are only selected blogs. The full list is available here.

News   ­­­­­­↑ Top

icon Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/news

AI   ­­­­­­↑ Top

icon Simon Willison
https://simonwillison.net
https://github.com/simonw

icon Steve Yegge
https://steve-yegge.medium.com
https://github.com/steveyegge

icon Addy Osmani
https://addyosmani.com/blog
https://github.com/addyosmani

.NET   ­­­­­­↑ Top   ­­­­­­↑ Official

icon Steve Smith | Ardalis
https://ardalis.com/blog
https://blog.nimblepros.com
https://github.com/ardalis

icon Scott Hanselman
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/
https://github.com/shanselman

icon Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades
https://andrewlock.net
https://github.com/andrewlock

icon Stephen Cleary
https://blog.stephencleary.com
https://github.com/StephenCleary

icon Mattias Karlsson | devlead
https://www.devlead.se
https://github.com/devlead

icon Steven Giesel
https://steven-giesel.com/archive
https://github.com/linkdotnet

icon Adam Sitnik | .NET Performance and Reliability
https://adamsitnik.com
https://github.com/adamsitnik

icon Bart Wullems | The Art of Simplicity
https://bartwullems.blogspot.com
https://github.com/wullemsb

icon Damien Bowden | Software Engineering
https://damienbod.com
https://github.com/damienbod

icon Barret Blake
https://barretblake.dev/posts/development/
https://github.com/barretb

icon Barry Dorrans | Ramblings from a .NET Security PM
https://idunno.org
https://github.com/blowdart

SQL Server   ­­­­­­↑ Top   ­­­­­­↑ Official

icon Erik Ejlskov Jensen | .NET Data Access and more
https://erikej.github.io
https://erikej.blogspot.com
https://github.com/ErikEJ

icon Shay Rojansky
https://www.roji.org
https://github.com/roji

icon Uwe Ricken | SQL Server Blog
https://www.db-berater.de/sql-server-blog/

icon SQLPerformance.com
https://sqlperformance.com

General   ­­­­­­↑ Top

icon Martin Fowler
https://www.martinfowler.com/recent-changes.html

icon Salvatore Sanfilippo | antirez
https://antirez.com
https://github.com/antirez

icon Brendan Gregg | Systems Performance
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/
https://github.com/brendangregg

icon Gergely Orosz | The Pragmatic Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com

icon Andrew Wulf | The Codist
https://thecodist.com

icon Greg Wilson | The Third Bit Blog
https://third-bit.com/blog/
https://github.com/gvwilson

icon samwho
https://samwho.dev/blog

icon Sean Goedecke
https://www.seangoedecke.com
https://github.com/sgoedecke

icon Swizec Teller
https://swizec.com/blog
https://github.com/swizec

Management   ­­­­­­↑ Top

icon Matheus Lima | Terrible Software
https://terriblesoftware.org
https://github.com/matheusml

icon Will Larson | Irrational Exuberance
https://lethain.com
https://staffeng.com

icon Edmond Lau | The Effective Engineer
https://www.effectiveengineer.com/blog

icon Denis Stetskov | From the Trenches
https://techtrenches.dev/archive

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