Top Links
- Announcing TypeScript 5.8 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Build AI-Powered Text-to-Flowchart Converter Using OpenAI and React Diagram Library (Sarathkumar V.)
- TechBash 2025 Call for Speakers Open (Jason Gaylord)
- Visual Studio: New restrictions on package loading (Ryan Molden)
- Bridging the AI Learning Gap (Andrew Stellman)
- New Features for Enhanced Razor Productivity! (Leslie Richardson)
Web & Cloud Development
- Launching Interop 2025 (James Graham)
- Microsoft Edge and Interop 2025 (Patrick Brosset & Dan Clark)
- React UI Kit: Speed Up Development With Customizable UI Blocks (Jollen Moyani)
- Coding Azure 3: Creating an App Service for a Web Service (Peter Vogel)
- OpenTelemetry with ASP.NET Core (Ricardo Peres)
- Splitting Tables at Bookmark Positions and Cloning Table Headers (Bjoern Meyer)
- Astro 5.3 (Matt Kane)
- Node v23.8.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
- Extensible Wasm Applications with Go (Cherry Mui)
- How to harness APIs and AI for intelligent automation (Susi O’Neill)
- Color Accessibility 101: How Color Affects Readability on Your Website (Katie Koteen)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Uno Platform 5.6 Released: Performance Enhancements, Hot Reload Improvements and More (Almir Vuk)
- .NET MAUI 9.0.40 (Service Release 4) (David Ortinau)
Visual Studio & .NET
- A Guide to On-Demand Loading with Data Virtualization in C# .NET Applications (Greg Lutz)
- A sample implementation of the weak reference pattern for COM callbacks (Raymond Chen)
- Keyless Entity Types in EF Core: Query Data Without Primary Keys (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- DZone Refcard #401- Getting Started With Agentic AI: Harnessing Automation With Intelligent Agents (Lahiru Fernando)
- I tested 4 AI tools to generate UI from the same prompt (Xinran Ma)
- Prompt Engineering with GitHub Copilot and JavaScript (Cynthia Zanoni)
- Using DeepSeek-R1 on Azure with JavaScript (Yohan Lasorsa)
- Beyond the Chatbot: Agentic AI with Gemma (Ju-yeong Ji)
- Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security (Herain Oberoi)
- Get AI ready: What we’ve learned building AI competency at Microsoft (Sandra Marin)
- Gemini 2.0 Family Expands with Cost-Efficient Flash-Lite and Pro-Experimental Models (Sergio De Simone)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- DevOps and AI Series: Managing AI Models (AJ Bajada)
- Observability vs Monitoring: Key Differences Explained (Ioannis Moustakis)
- How to Foster a Continuous Improvement and Learning Mindset in Software Development (Ben Linders)
- Setting Up a Powerful Windows Development Environment 💪 (José D. Gutiérrez)
- How to Apply Radical Candor to Hybrid Workplaces (Nahla Davies)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Farewell HoloLens – Microsoft officially quits wearable headset technology, hands over billion-dollar DoD contract to Anduril (Mike Moore)
- Build a Memory Game in React (Beau Carnes)
Screencasts & Videos
- Containers, C#, Testing and SharpSite (Jeff Fritz)
- It’s easy to change keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- What is my favorite VS Code feature for C# development? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
- WinUI Layered FontIcons (Andrew KeepCoding)
- Introducing SSMS 21 Preview | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Erin Stellato)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Responsible AI Culture: Governance, Diversity, and the Future of Development (Inna Tokarev Sela)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes History Inspector, with Kakeru Ishii (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Exploring ReactScan: Aiden Bai’s Tool for Identifying React Performance Issues – JavaScript Jabber #668 (Dan Shappir)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Understanding Team Expectations: The Key to Scrum Master Success | Mateusz Komander (Vasco Duarte)
- The Cloud Pod #291 – AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- The Changelog Podcast #628 – Fostering open source culture (Arun Gupta, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- PPP 447 | How to Speak So People Actually Listen, with Michael Chad Hoeppner (Andy Kaufman)
- JS Party Podcast #350 – One last party (Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi & Amy Dutton)
- UX Podcast #332 – More systems thinking with Sheryl Cababa (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How to be a ghostwriter, with Dan Gerstein (Mignon Fogarty)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Solving the data doom loop (Eira May)
- Yet Another Podcast – Maddy Montaquila (Leger) on .NET Aspire (Jesse Liberty)
- Boagworld Podcast #013 – Digital Fatigue: The Case for Face-to-Face Meetings (Paul Boag)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #506 – Put It On Ice (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #655 – Charles Humble on Professional Skills for Software Engineers (Brijesh Ammanath)
Community & Events
- Upcoming MySQL meetups & MySQL 30 Years Celebration Events (Lenka Kasparova)
- Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’ as some claim they were blindsided after parental leave (Chloe Berger)
- Empowering women in tech: The role of male allies at McDonald’s (Kate Skokin & Anushka Sah)
- Windows at Microsoft Technical Takeoff 2025 (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- Open source code repository says ‘far-right forces’ are behind massive spam attacks (Dominic Preston)
- OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site (Dominic-Madori Davis)
- Blue Origin to lay off 10% of workforce — read memo from CEO to employees (Kurt Schlosser)
- Progress on the Road to 2030 (Melanie Nakagawa)
- Innovation starts here! Join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC (Sarah Yousuf)
- 2024 State of Rust Survey Results (Rust Team)
Database
- When Subquery Query Plans Are Suboptimal In SQL Server (And How To Fix Them) (Erik Darling)
- Microsoft adds Support for Managed Identities to Backup to URL in SQL Server 2022 (jdanton1)
- MySQL Index Overviews: Descending B-Tree Indexes (Lukas Vileikis)
- How to skip external data source references while doing export/Restore of an Azure SQL DB (Tancy)
- Access Issues with Windows 11 24H2 (Les Lockett)
- DBA Horror Stories (Terri Hurley)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Try the new flow for Together mode in Teams meetings (Katarina Tranker)
- Introducing flexible sections in SharePoint Pages and News (Katelyn Helms)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How To Fix Network Drive Issues in Elevated PowerShell Sessions (Brien Posey)
- Best Terminal Applications for Development (Jack Wallen)
Miscellaneous
- Sysinternals: Ctrl2Cap v3.0 and BgInfo v4.33 (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.4969 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5552 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Apple has started advertising on X again and Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it (Jess Weatherbed)
- What’s with the EPA seizing ‘gold bars’? (Justine Calma)
- Microsoft Outlook’s new minimize button makes mobile emails much easier (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 13, 2025 (#493) (Richard Seroter)
