Top Links
- Solving the Cross-Platform Flyout Problem in .NET (Uno Platform Team)
- Build Smarter, Faster Apps with DeepSeek AI And Blazor Smart Components (Arun Kumar Ragu)
- Introducing Copilot Memory: A More Productive and Personalized AI for the Way You Work (Alli Parrett)
- Extending Visual Studio – User Input Made Easy | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Charles Willis)
- Mark Miller: CodeRush AI – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #358 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Learn Together: Building an MCP Server with AI Toolkit (April Gittens)
Web & Cloud Development
- What’s New in React Gantt Chart: 2025 Volume 2 (Jayakumar Duraisamy)
- Learning NestJS Part 1: Getting Started (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Setting Up OpenTelemetry on the Frontend Because I Hate Myself (Hazel Weakly)
- Resource hooks (Julien Poissonnier)
- Wasp now has a public development roadmap! (Martin Sosic)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Kernel Ridge Regression with Stochastic Gradient Descent Training Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Lesser-known C# features that can simplify your code (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- C# 14 extension members; AKA extension everything: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)
- What’s In the Duende Software Toolkit? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Introducing ODP.NET 23.9: Enhanced Features for Distributed Transactions, AI, and More (Alex Keh)
- Song recommendations with pipes and filters (Mark Seemann)
- There is a std::chrono::high_resolution_clock, but no low_resolution_clock (Raymond Chen)
AI
- VS Code v1.102 Doubles Down on GitHub Copilot and AI-Enhanced Development (David Ramel)
- Introducing Kiro – The AI IDE for prototype to production (Kiro Preview)
- Master GitHub Copilot Customization in Visual Studio Code with Instructions and Prompt Files (Copilot That Jawn)
- Leak: AWS and Anthropic Team Up for AI Agent Marketplace (Megan Crouse)
- Building Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Applications on Azure App Service (Jordan Selig)
- AI-Powered Testing: Using Docker Model Runner with Microcks for Dynamic Mock APIs (Oleg Selajev)
- Gemini Embedding now generally available in the Gemini API (Min Choi & Janie Zhang)
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part III–Tool calling (Bart Wullems)
- Unpacking Claude’s System Prompt (Drew Breunig)
- Code review in the age of AI: Why developers will always own the merge button (Elle Shwer)
- Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs (Jess Weatherbed)
- Fine-Tuning Together: How Our Developer Community Is Shaping the Future of Custom AI (malenaLS)
- Exploring Llama Stack with Python: Tool calling and agents (Michael Dawson)
- How to Use Claude Code Subagents for Complex Development Projects (Pierre Belin)
- Try featured notebooks on selected topics in NotebookLM (Steven Johnson)
- Supercharge your EWS migration with AI and GitHub Copilot (Thomas Mechelke)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Building stronger engineering teams with aligned autonomy | Leaders of Code (Eira May)
- The Build vs. Buy Calculus: A .NET Architect’s Guide to Workflow Engines (Sudhir Mangla)
- Improving IT efficiency with Microsoft Security Copilot in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra (Dorothy Li)
- Code Coverage And Other Metrics (Gil Zilberfeld)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers? (Jess Weatherbed)
Screencasts & Videos
- Using Liquid Glass in a .NET MAUI App (Javier Suárez)
- How a ChatGPT AI Robot Can Move, Talk, and Think on Its Own (Frank LaVigne)
- DrawerFlyoutPresenter – Part 1 | Uno Tech Bites (Uno Platform)
- NEW Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra + Security Copilot in Entra updates | Microsoft Mechanics (Diana Vicezar)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to Break Through the ‘Not My Problem’ Mentality and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Why Your Scrum Master Job Needs a Reset with Every Leadership Change (Vasco Duarte & Joelle Tegwen)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #919 – Better Auth with Better Auth (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The PowerShell Podcast – PSConfEU 2025 Bar Sessions: Community, Code & Connection (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #152 – An app can be a home-cooked meal (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #234 – The SIEM Paradox: Logs, Lies, and Failing to Detect (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Why “I Don’t Know” Is a Power Move for Leaders (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #513 – Stories from Python History (Michael Kennedy)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from cybersecurity (Kathleen Sullivan, Ciaran Martin & Tori Westerhoff)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Pop, soda, or coke? When Q stands alone. Pizza bones. (Valerie Fridland & Karen Lunde)
Community & Events
- Only four days left to submit for a Microsoft Partner of the Year Award! (Jill Armour)
- JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025 — Call for Speakers (Mehul Harry)
- Meta snags Seattle startup co-founder for Zuckerberg’s elite superintelligence team (Todd Bishop)
- Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as AI Frenzy Escalates (msmash)
Database
- Using Regular Expressions (Regex) in SQL Server 2025: A Complete Guide (Edward Pollack)
- Azure SQL Managed Instance: Boost Performance with Read-Scale Out (Arun Sirpal)
- Announcing Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric (Preview) with New Capabilities! (Jilene Maldonado)
- Copying an Azure SQL database between two Azure SQL Instances in two different subscriptions. (Kenneth Fisher)
Miscellaneous
- COVID-19 Vaccine’s mRNA Technology Adapted for First Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Vaccine (EditorDavid)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4733 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5702 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- I found a Lenovo laptop that I wouldn’t mind ditching my MacBook Pro for – and it’s on sale (Cesar Cadenas)
- The Enshittification of American Power (Henry Farrell & Abraham L. Newman)
- Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026 and Microsoft has a new trick to improve laptop battery life on Windows (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-29 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #193 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – July 14, 2025 (#586) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center, Amazon Q, Oracle Database@AWS, and more (July 14, 2025) (Matheus Guimaraes)
- Reading Notes #657 (Frank Boucher)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #239 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link