Top Links
- Unleash new AI capabilities for Flutter in Firebase Studio (Amanda Fitch)
- Supercharge Your Dart & Flutter Development Experience with the Dart MCP Server (Ander Dobo)
- Introducing Surface Laptop 5G: Seamless connectivity, built for business (Nancie Gaskill)
- Fresh Learning Paths Now Available on Pluralsight for VS Subscribers (Jim Harrer)
- MCP C# SDK Gets Major Update: Support for Protocol Version 2025-06-18 (Mike Kistler)
- Windows 11 is the home for AI on the PC, with even more experiences available today (Windows Experience Blog Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Location Search Made Easy with Google Places and Blazor AutoComplete (UdhayaKumar Duraisamy)
- Create a React PWA with Social Login Authentication (Emmanuel Folaranmi)
- Make Your Data Speak: Crafting Clear Legends in Angular Charts (Elangovan Raja)
- Best Angular Icon Libraries (Masum Parvej)
- Call Function App from Azure Data Factory with Managed Identity Authentication (Raven Zhang)
- Make React Components With XMLUI, a Visual Basic for the AI Era (Richard MacManus)
- Angular is a Backend Framework — Accidentally Written in TypeScript (Ivan Vulovic)
- Integration Testing .NET Auth with Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Forrester study reveals Windows 365 Link enhances productivity and security, projects ROI up to 195% (Stefan Kinnestrand)
- Enterprise-Ready Identity 2.0: How SaaS Builders Stand Out with Auth0 (Alex Silk)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI for Architects: Designing for True Cross-Platform UI and Logic (Sudhir Mangla)
- Create Viral Videos with SORA in .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)
- Is MVVM Dead? Why One Engineer Says ‘Yes’ and What He’s Using Instead (Uno Platform Team)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Creating and Publishing Your First NuGet Package (Assis Zang)
- Being more adamant about reporting that C++/WinRT was unable to resume execution on a dispatcher thread (Raymond Chen)
- SmallSharp 2.0: The End of ConsoleApplication128 (Daniel Cazzulino)
AI
- Some employees feel so pressured to use AI, they’re pretending they are (Wayne Williams)
- Agentic DevOps: Getting the Most Out of GitHub Copilot’s Coding Agent (AJ Bajada)
- What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study (Noor Al-Sibai)
- Azure MCP Server now has 14 services – you get them all with `azmcp server start` or your own custom subset with `azmcp server start –service storage keyvault` (Jon Gallant)
- From vibe to reality: Integrating Firebase in Firebase Studio (Yvonne Monterroso & James O’Reilly)
- The 5 Stages of AI Grief (Chris Sells)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available (Logan Kilpatrick & Zach Gleicher)
- Introducing Queue: A smarter way to work with Agent (Replit Team)
- The Future of AI: Computer Use Agents Have Arrived (Marco Casalaina)
- Unleashing new AI capabilities for popular frameworks in Firebase Studio (Jeanine Banks & Vikas Anand)
- Debugging UI with AI: GitHub Copilot agent mode meets MCP servers (Chris Reddington)
- Elon’s AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- What is context prompt engineering (Mahesh Chand)
- Understanding what AI means to consumers (Nicci Trovinger)
- Agentic AI research-methodology – part 1 (Tamara Gaidar & Fady Copty)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Science Confirms What We All Suspected: Four-Day Weeks Rule (BeauHD)
- Modularity: Our Answer to Untangling a Complex Payment System (Amit Patel)
- Legacy Systems: Beyond the Modernization Hype (Oliver Cronk)
- From YAML to Intelligence: The Evolution of Platform Engineering (Prithvi Raj)
- Compose Editing Evolved: Schema-Driven and Context-Aware (Remy Suen)
- The productivity delusion (Steve Fenton)
Screencasts & Videos
- EPISODE 21 – Live Vibe Coding – Who Talks More, Scott or Mark? (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Azure AI Mind Map: Visual Guide to Scalable AI Applications | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia)
- Thinking Functionally with C# – NDC Oslo 2025 (Simon Painter)
- .NET Aspire – Project Names and Constants | On .NET (Jeff Fritz)
- 15 years of insights from a TDD practitioner – NDC Oslo 2025 (Dennis Doomen)
- New data lake in Microsoft Sentinel | Microsoft Mechanics (Vandana Mahtani)
- New Surface Laptop 5G for Business, Copilot+ PC (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Responsibility Driven Design Revisited – NDC Oslo 2025 (Ian Cooper)
- Creating GitHub issues from Anywhere, a new .NET preview version & more – Developer News 28&29/2025 (Noraa on Tech)
- Pattern-based C#: if it quacks like a duck… – NDC Oslo 2025 (Eva Ditzelmüller & Stefan Pölz)
Podcasts
- Developer Tea – Your Capacity for Growth Is Dependent on This Factor – Cognitive Load Theory (Jonathan Cutrell)
- RunAs Radio Episode #994 – Copilot Studio with April Dunnam (Richard Campbell)
- I Think You’re Overthinking It Podcast – Tony Hale (Chris Hardwick)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – What Remote Work Is Really Doing to Our Kids—and to Us (with Jeff Smith) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – USPS 250 Years of Collecting Mail (United States Postal Service)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Individual Stars to Team Players – Transforming Competitive Developers (Vasco Duarte & Anh Vu)
- Boagworld Episode #22 – Scaling UX in a Decentralized World: Inside Oxford (Paul Boag)
Community & Events
- Tech Moves: Former AWS CEO joins Circle board; Microsoft poaches more Google AI talent (Lisa Stiffler)
- Tech Workers Coalition – Worker power in the tech industry (TWC Org)
- We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund (Felix Reda)
- Stay on top of your guest list with smarter RSVP management in Zoho Backstage (Arokia Vimal)
- 🌟 Community Spotlight – Nicola Delfino (Luke Murray)
Database
- Common Table Expression Fork Bombs (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks (Jess Weatherbed)
- Working with Microsoft 365’s new Copilot APIs (Simon Bisson)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How to Install Nerd Fonts and Icons in PowerShell 7 on Windows 11 (Steve Smith)
- PowerShell Universal v5.6 (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes, research involving BSC shows (BSC News)
- 3 reasons a TPM chip is a good thing, even if it prevents some people from upgrading to Windows 11 (Jacob Roach)
- Christian flag causes chaos in Connecticut town—because Satan wants in, too (Hemant Mehta)
- The Verge Launches New Site Features Aimed at Deepening Audience Engagement and Announces New Editorial Newsletters (Dane McMillan)
- The Verge is getting way more personal with following feeds (Jacob Kastrenakes)
- Funding For Program To Stop Next Stuxnet From Hitting US Expired Sunday and Conspiracy Theorists Don’t Realize They’re On the Fringe (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 22, 2025 (#592) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #245 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link