Top Links
- Building Cross Platform Applications using Hot Design and Codespaces with Uno Platform and No IDE (Nick Randolph)
- .NET MAUI Updates in .NET 10 Preview 1 (David Ortinau)
- Ready to sponsor TechBash 2025? Our sponsor prospectus is ready for you! (TechBash Team)
- .NET 10 Preview 1 is now available! (.NET Team)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 1 (Dan Roth)
- .NET Aspire 9.1 is here with six great new dashboard features, and more! (Maddy Montaquila)
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s new in .NET Aspire 9.1 (David Pine)
- Integrating an ASP.NET Core API with a Nuxt Front End: A Step-by-Step Guide (Alexandre Nédélec)
- Strongly-Typed Markdown for ASP.NET Core Content Apps (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Keeping .NET Base Docker Images Updated with Azure Container Registry (John Kilmister)
- Create Azure Architecture Diagrams with Microsoft Visio (Chris Pietschmann)
- Simple TypeScript playground via node –watch (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Beyond Single-Cloud: A Peek into Multi-Cloud (Padmaja U.K.)
- Best Practices for Fonts in Blazor Charts for Better Data Visualization (Gowrimathi S.)
- Best practices for building bootable containers (Valentin Rothberg)
- Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers (Victor Gomes)
- Project Stormbreaker: Open-Source Cloud-Native HPC for Climatology on AKS (Microsoft Developer)
- Easily Create UML Activity Diagrams in Angular (Moulidharan Gopalakrishnan)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Increase WPF App Performance with Lightweight DevExpress Themes (Alexander Russkov)
- AI-Powered Smart Redaction: Protect PDFs Efficiently in .NET MAUI (Deepak G.)
- Launch Snipping Tool in Windows apps (Microsoft Learn)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET 10 Preview 1 and .NET 10 Release Index and .NET 9 Preview 4 (James Montemagno)
- .NET Packages for Ubuntu 24.04 (Richard Lander)
- Disabling localized satellite assemblies during dotnet publish (Andrew Lock)
- C++/WinRT implementation inheritance: Notes on winrt::implements, part 5 (Raymond Chen)
- Testing Database Integrations in .NET with xUnit (Roko Kovač)
- Using PostHog in your .NET applications (Phil Haack)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Optimizing JSON Serialization with Cached Options (David McCarter)
- Measure Application Performance in .NET Using IMeterFactory (Muhammed Saleem)
AI
- Firebase + Gemini Code Assist (Nathan Yim)
- Microsoft makes Copilot Voice and Think Deeper free with unlimited use (Tom Warren)
- Get coding help from Gemini Code Assist — now for free (Ryan J. Salva)
- GenAI Patterns: Fine Tuning (Martin Fowler)
- AI in Dev Tools: Accelerating, but Learning the Limits (Tito Sarrionandia)
- Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents across digital and physical worlds (Swadheen Shukla, Jianwei Yang, Reuben Tan, Qianhui Wu & Jianfeng Gao)
- Deep research System Card (OpenAI Team)
- Alibaba to release open-source version of video generating AI model (Reuters)
- How AI Will Change Frontend Development in 2025 (Adhithi Ravichandran)
- Start building with Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite (Logan Kilpatrick & Shrestha Basu Mallick)
- Is this the end of CRUD business apps? (Matthew MacDonald)
- Is your LLM-powered app providing safe answers? Evaluate it! (Pamela Fox)
- GitHub Copilot Extensions Integrate IDEs with External Services (Sergio De Simone)
- Using Generative AI to Build Generative AI (Philip Guo)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Appreciate, don’t evaluate (Bart Wullems)
- Lock It Down: Security Ideas for Terraform Deployments (Chris Woodruff)
- Distributed Systems Consistency: Mistake Nobody Warns You About! (Derek Comartin)
- TeamCity Pipelines: SSH Authentication Option, Custom Git URL Support, and more (Olga Bedrina)
- Designing Apps for Growth: How a Layered Identity Solution Helps You Win (Samantha Murphy)
- Enhancing deployment processes and standardization (Ludwig Wullner)
Screencasts & Videos
- SQL Databases in Fabric – is it different from Azure SQL? | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Benjamin Weissman)
- Top 7 Things Linux Is Better At Than Windows (Frank LaVigne)
- Supercharge your Python with Gen AI Skills from our free six-part YouTube series! (Pamela Fox)
- GitHub Copilot Chat in Your Terminal for Free! (Windows Developer Team)
- .NET Aspire Community Standup – .NET Aspire 9.1 Release Party (David Fowler, Damian Edwards, Jeff Fritz & Jon Galloway)
Podcasts
- Head of Xbox Game Studios shares updates in podcast interview (Athima Chansanchai)
- The AI Fix Podcast Episode #39 – AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Transforming Workgroups into High-Performing Teams | Season Hughes (Vasco Duarte)
- RunAs Radio Episode #973 – Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij (Richard Campbell)
- The Amp Hour #689 – A Jumperless Breadboard with Kevin Cappucio (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Leading the Shift S01 E05 – Innovating with generative AI in financial services | Moody’s and Leading the Shift S01 E06 – The future of generative AI for scientific discovery | Microsoft Research (Susan Etlinger)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode 71 – How Meta is translating its Java codebase to Kotlin (Pascal Hartig, Eve M. & Jocelyn L.)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #50 – Building a Resilient Future: A Female Founder’s Vision for Sustainable Communities (WiT Team)
Community & Events
- TechBash 2025 Sponsor Prospectus Is Now Available (TechBash Team)
- CfP List Updated 2025-02-25 (Dave Aronson)
- The Four Coolest Parts About BODY WORLDS: Vital at The Franklin Institute (Jovan Ellis)
- EVENT: Microsoft Build 2025 – Seattle, WA – May 19-22, 2025 (Kurt Shintaku)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: ANSI Settings (Erik Darling)
- Basic Regex Emulator for SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Migrating data from DynamoDB to Azure Cosmos DB (Abhishek Gupta)
- When Should You Use a Cache With MongoDB? (Andrew Morgan)
- Vertical Partitioning Is Almost Never the Answer. Here’s Why. (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Excel (February 2025) (Ms Excel)
- M365 Developers Update | February 2025 (Justin Royal)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Introduction to Python | Visual Studio Code for Education (Dr. Cory Bart)
- ‘We’re nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16’ says Framework CEO (Sean Hollister)
- Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You (Sophie Charara)
- Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 25, 2025 (#499) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)