Top Links
- OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry (Asha Sharma & Logan Iyer)
- Welcome GPT OSS, the new open-source model family from OpenAI! (Hugging Face)
- Introducing gpt-oss (OpenAI Team)
- Exploring new Agent Quality and NLP evaluators for .NET AI applications (Shyam Namboodiripad)
- Meet your new AI coding teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions (Ryan J. Salva)
- Prompt, Preview, Publish: Styling Telerik UI with AI in ThemeBuilder (Hassan Djirdeh)
- .NET Conf 2025 – Announcing the Call for Content (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Build a Speedometer Using Angular Circular Gauge (Sabari Anand S.)
- Replacing SendGrid Free Tier with Azure Communication Services for Emails via SMTP (John Kilmister)
- Use EdDSA signatures to validate tokens in ASP.NET Core using OpenID Connect (Damien Bowden)
- PDF Conversion in .NET: Convert DOCX, HTML and more with C# (Deepika Kathiravan)
- Getting Started with the Blazor Spreadsheet Control (Héctor Pérez)
- Building faster AI agents with Azure Managed Redis and .NET Aspire (Matthew Burrows)
- Endor: Fire up a Dev Environment in Seconds With WebAssembly (B. Cameron Gain)
- Website Security: 22 Tips to Keep Your Site Safe (Nick Schäferhoff)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Microsoft says that it will make WinUI ‘truly’ open source (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Installing Older Versions of Visual Studio 2022 (Nick Randolph)
- Changes to the Octopus C# client library open source repository (Orion Edwards)
- Visual Studio 2015 Retirement: Support reminder for older versions of Visual Studio (Paul Chapman)
- .NET and .NET Framework August 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield & Victor Israel-Bolarinwa)
- How to Create an Installer for a Windows Service Targeting .NET (.NET Worker Service) (Renato Ivanescu)
- Unlocking SIMD in .NET: A Practical Guide to Vectorized Instructions for High-Performance Code (Sudhir Mangla)
- Building Secure and Scalable APIs in .NET 9 (David Ramel)
- What’s New in vcpkg (July 2025) (Augustin Popa)
- Day 20: Constraint Handling in Fitness Functions: Penalizing Bad Solutions (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- Available today: gpt-oss-20B Model on Windows with GPU Acceleration – further pushing the boundaries on the edge (Windows Developer Blog Team)
- 🚀 New in Azure API Management: MCP in v2 SKUs + external MCP-compliant server support (anishta)
- OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS (Danilo Poccia)
- How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation? (Martin Fowler)
- Google is still there when the model lets you down (Oren Eini)
- Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs and gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card and Open Weights and AI for All (OpenAI Team)
- Build a RAG application with LangChain and Local LLMs powered by Ollama (Abhishek Gupta)
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part VI–Structured Output (Bart Wullems)
- Google’s Gemini CLI Agent Comes to GitHub (Frederic Lardinois)
- How I’m Using AI (as an AI Skeptic) (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- How Auth0 Mitigates OWASP’s Agentic AI Threats (Mallory Sword Glenn)
- What Ants Teach Us About AI Alignment (Rajeshwari Ganesan)
- Microsoft Releases A2A .NET SDK for Building Collaborative AI Agents (Robert Krzaczyński)
- AI and the Future of Code: Developers Are Key (Tom Howlett)
- Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Security leadership in the age of constant disruption (David Weston)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Using PaperKit from SwiftUI (James E. Clarke)
Screencasts & Videos
- Compound Software Development with Async SWE Agents: Context Engineering & Verification Over Coding | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Govind Kamtamneni)
- Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB – Video Series (Manish Sharma)
- Microsoft Teams – Communicate effortlessly across languages (Microsoft Teams)
- Back to the Future of Time Series Data – NDC Oslo 2025 (Heather Downing)
- Building a modern, native application for Windows: Which UI framework should you choose? | Update Conference Krakow 2025 (Alvin Ashcraft)
- Modern Observability and Event Driven Architectures – NDC Oslo 2025 (Martin Thwaites & Ian Cooper)
- Workflows of Highly Functional App & Data Engineering Teams – NDC Oslo 2025 (Jerry Nixon)
- Building Durable Multi-Agent AI Workflows with Dapr Agents | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Yaron Schneider)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Spriha Tucker (Isaac Levin)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Sovereign Clouds, Hyperscalers and European Alternatives: InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 Preview (Elena van Engelen, Erik Steiger, Markus Ostertag & Katharine Jarmul)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Resistance to Effective Change Leadership in Agile Adoption (Vasco Duarte & Florian Georgescu)
- The Productive C# Podcast – Stop Wasting Time: Use the 70/20/10 Rule to Grow Fast as a Developer (Andrea Angella)
- RunAs Radio Show #996 – Copilot Adoption in Financial Services with Christina Wheeler (Richard Campbell)
- The AI Fix Episode #62 – AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Yet Another Podcast – Jeff Fritz on .NET Aspire and Copilot Agents (Jesse Liberty)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Transforming the Retail Experience (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Is Considering a Stricter RTO Policy (Ashley Stewart)
- CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2025-08-05) (Dave Aronson)
Database
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Pivot and Unpivot (Erik Darling)
PowerShell
- Introducing MCP Support in AI Shell Preview 6 (Steven Bucher)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft CVP thinks we’ll be ditching mice and keyboards in a future version of Windows in favor of AI chats — “The world of mousing around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen-Z to use MS-DOS.” (Jez Corden)
- Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2? (Raymond Chen)
- Chevy Silverado EV smashes world record for longest drive on a single charge (Andrew J. Hawkins)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – August 5, 2025 (#602) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #255 and The .NET News Daily Issue #256 (Jasen)
- Radar Trends to Watch: August 2025 (Mike Loukides)
The Geek Shelf
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (Sarah Drasner) – Referral Link