Top Links
- MCP on Windows: The New COM? (Andrew Clinick)
- Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
- App Actions on Windows Overview (Microsoft Learn)
- Introducing the Agent Store: Build, publish, and discover agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Siffat Hingorani & Oliver Hu)
- Announcing TypeScript Native Previews (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Evolving the Windows AI platform (Simon Bisson)
- AI Repo of the Week: MCP for Beginners (Dan Wahlin)
Top Build 2025 Session Recommendations
- Boost your development productivity with Windows latest tools and tips | BRK226 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Kayla Cinnamon, Craig Loewen & Larry Osterman)
- Yet “Another Highly Technical Talk” with Hanselman and Toub | BRK121 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hanselman & Stephen Toub)
- Crafting great Windows native app experiences | BRK227 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Niels Laute & Sergio Pedri)
- AI infused mobile & desktop app development with .NET MAUI | BRK123 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Beth Massi, David Ortinau & Gerald Versluis)
- A Visual Studio Story: How We Build Software Loved by Millions of Developers | BRK133 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Mads Kristensen)
- Elevating Development with .NET Aspire: AI Cloud and Beyond | BRK106 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Damian Edwards, David Fowler & Maddy Montaquila)
- Scott and Mark Learn to…LIVE | KEY040 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Extending your application with the new PowerToys Command Palette | DEM571 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Niels Laute & Mike Griese)
Web & Cloud Development
- My Azure AI-102 Certification Experience (Kevin Logan)
- A brief history of JavaScript (Andy Jiang)
- What’s Next: The WebStorm 2025.2 Roadmap (David Watson)
- Refactoring JavaScript to TypeScript with GitLab Duo Workflow (Frédéric Caplette)
- Astro 5.8 (Matt Kane)
- .NET 9–OpenAPI and Scalar–Adding custom headers (Bart Wullems)
- You can style alt text like any other text (Geoff Graham)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Create 80+ WPF Chart Types (Greg Lutz)
- Turn Default into Delight: MAUI DataGrid Customization, Part 1—Row Styling Simplified (Farjana Parveen)
- Improve .NET MAUI’s AppThemeBinding? (Matt Lacey)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Final Reflections: What Rust Taught Me as a C# Dev (Chris Woodruff)
- Critter Stack Release Plans (Jeremy D. Miller)
- How can I create a window the size of the screen without it being treated as a full-screen window? (Raymond Chen)
- Avoid Build Breaks: Fixing SDK Conflicts Between Visual Studio and Preview Versions (David McCarter)
- ReSharper 2025.2 EAP 2: First Public Build with Out-of-Process Mode Support (Sasha Ivanova)
AI
- Shipping code faster with o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 (OpenAI Team)
- Responsible AI Frameworks: An Introduction (David Ramel)
- Bringing Gemini intelligence to Google Home APIs (Ravi Akella)
- Copilot Agent is giving me attitude (Luis Quintanilla)
- Agent mode 101: All about GitHub Copilot’s powerful mode (Alexandra Lietzke)
- Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 (Frederic Lardinois)
- How To Build RAG Applications Using Model Context Protocol (Janakiram MSV)
- How to Ensure Data Privacy and Intellectual Property Protection When Using LLMs (Mahesh Chand)
- Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (Maxwell Zeff)
- Duck.ai Adds GPT-4o Mini with Web Search Capabilities (Paul Thurrott)
- Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic (Sébastien Stormacq)
- Pulumi Updates, Explained: AI-Powered Features in Pulumi CLI (Simon Howe)
- Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory’ (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- TeamCity Pipelines Pulse: Webhooks, Job-Level Parameters, And More (Olga Bedrina)
- Taming the Dragon: A Toolbar’s Tale (Teon Beijl)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- How to run a custom container images in .NET Aspire projects | On .NET (Jeff Fritz)
- Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | BRK195 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Mark Russinovich)
- Best practices for building agentic apps with Azure AI Foundry | BRK152 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Amanda Foster & Seth Juarez)
- Developer essentials for agents and apps in Azure AI Foundry | BRK154 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Yina Arenas & Paul Shealy)
- Enable seamless deployment across Intel Copilot+ AI PCs and Azure | BRKFP250 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Nuri Cankaya & Freddy Chiu)
- The future of web development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor | BRK122 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Mike Kistler & Daniel Roth)
- Mastering Git in Visual Studio | DEM506 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Sebastian Hernandez)
- Top GitHub Copilot features you missed in Visual Studio 2022 | BRK120 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Simona Liao, Amy Nguyen, Filisha Shah & Aaron Yim)
- SQL Server 2025: The Database Developer Reimagined | BRK207 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Bob Ward & Muazma Zahid)
- Python Meets .NET: Building AI Solutions with Combined Strengths | BRK115 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hanselman & Anthony Shaw)
- Unleash on-device AI with Snapdragon X Series | BRKFP255 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Devang Aggarwal, Eli Aleyner & Manish Sirdeshmukh)
- An overview of Windows AI Foundry | BRK223 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Tucker Burns & Dian Hartono)
- Boost your app’s reach and engagement with AI via App Actions on Windows | BRK220 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Premalini David & Sasha Sproch)
- Fastest & easiest way to integrate AI using Windows AI APIs | BRK224 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Rahul Amlekar & Lei Xu)
- The Future of .NET App Modernization Streamlined with AI | BRK101 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hunter & Chester Husk)
- Tips & tricks to enhance Windows Arm64 App performance | BRK221 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Jamshed Damkewala, Chris Goodyear & Marcus Perryman)
- Build and ship cross-platform apps on-device with Foundry Local | DEM526 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Maanav Dalal & Natalie Kershaw)
- Empowering AI adoption through skills development | DEM580 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Julie-Anne Arsenault & Sandra Marin Penaloza)
- The Fastest Way to Build Cloud-Native Apps with .NET Aspire and Dapr | DEM542 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Alex Mang)
- Local AI development with Foundry Local and .NET Aspire | DEM520 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Aaron Powell)
- Simplify dev setup with WinGet & Microsoft Desired State Configuration | BRK228 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Steve Lee & Demitrius Nelon)
- Build the next gen of AI apps with .NET: Models Data Agents & More | BRK104 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Jeremy Likness, Jordan Matthiesen & Luis Quintanilla)
- Document Search in .NET with Kernel Memory (Matt Eland)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Technical Leadership: Building Powerful Solutions with Simplicity and Inclusion (Bhavani Vangala)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can a dev environment spark joy? The Android team thinks so. (Phoebe Sajor)
- Breaking Web3: Node Ops at Scale, Hard Fork Havoc, and Bare-Metal Mastery – Adventures in DevOps Episode #241 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- UX Podcast Episode #339 – Accessible design systems with Karen Hawkins (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #520 – Excited is overused (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- MVPs and RDs Inspiring the Next Generation in AI (Christina Liang)
- Sam & Jony introduce io (Sam Altman & Jony Ive)
- Crafting stories through motion: A conversation with Ronan McMeel (Microsoft Design Team)
- Shine a spotlight on your open source project (Lee Reilly)
Database
- Visual Commander automates SQL Server Management Studio 21 RTM (Sergey Vlasov)
- Generally Available: Seamless Migration from Serverless to Provisioned Throughput in Azure Cosmos DB (Richa Gaur)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: WHERE vs Having (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Office Add-ins announces Copilot agents with add-in actions and more at Build 2025 (Office Add-ins Team)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Securing the brand: Microsoft surges up annual reputation poll as top-ranked tech company (Christopher Budd)
- So long, EV tax credits (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- Mozilla is shutting down Pocket (Brian Fagioli)
- Senate Republicans vote to revoke California’s right to set its own tailpipe pollution rules (Justine Calma)
- Microsoft is finally bringing GIF support to Snipping Tool in Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- The .NET News Daily Issue #202 (jasen)
- Daily Reading List – May 22, 2025 (#558) (Richard Seroter)
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