Top Links
- EFCore.Visualizer – View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- How to use GitHub Copilot on github.com: A power user’s guide (Andrea Griffiths)
- VS Code Dev Days – Join an event near you to learn about AI-assisted development (Katie Savage & Cynthia Zanoni)
- AGENTS.md Emerges as Open Standard for AI Coding Agents (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Why Aren’t People Going to Local and Regional In-Person Events Anymore? (Brent Ozar)
- Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September) (Rhea Patel)
Web & Cloud Development
- Learning web development: Modules and testing in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- How to Create a Vue Dropdown Control in Your Web Application (Joel Parks)
- Kubernetes v1.34: Of Wind & Will (O’ WaW) (Agustina Barbetta, Alejandro Josue Leon Bellido, Graziano Casto, Melony Qin & Dipesh Rawat)
- Node.js v24.7.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
- Angular Signals: Building a Reactive Countdown Timer (Peter Mbanugo)
- Juris.JS: The Documentation Site That Breaks Every Rule (And Every Performance Record) (Resti Guay)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 9.0.100 (Service Release 10) (David Ortinau)
- WinUIEx Documentation Overview (Morten Nielsen)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Mastering Incremental Source Generators in C#: A Complete Guide with Example (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Creating Trusted Document Containers with PDF/A-3b in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 13: Restoring the strong exception guarantee (Raymond Chen)
- Building a Locked Down Web Report Designer With ActiveReports.NET (Alec Gall)
- 7 Essential Financial Charts for Personal Finance Visualization (Naveen Kesavaraj)
- Java vs C# – Part 3 (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI and Research, Review, Rebuild: Intelligent Modernisation with MCP and Strategic Prompting (Martin Fowler)
- The Responses API in Azure AI Foundry is now generally available (Bala PV)
- The AI Hype Index: AI-designed antibiotics show promise (MIT Technology Review Editors)
- The LangChain4J AI Services API — Creating RAG services with Oracle AI Vector Search… (Juarez Junior)
- Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed (Ryan J. Salva)
- Stop “vibe testing” your LLMs. It’s time for real evals. (Sara Wiltberger)
- Conversational Analytics: Building a Production-Ready Natural Language Query Engine for SQL with Semantic Kernel and .NET (Sudhir Mangla)
- Let GitHub Copilot create custom instructions based on your codebase (Bart Wullems)
- Working with Contexts (Drew Breunig)
- Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors (Emma Roth)
- Build Your AI Email Agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Farhan Hussain)
- How to Build an Python MCP Server to Consult a Knowledge Base (Jessica Temporal)
- How do we put the human at the center of AI? (Richard Gall)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Create Native Desktop Shortcuts in MSIX Packages (Alex Marin)
- Announcing: Setup CD in Azure Logic Apps Standard with Deployment Center (W. Silveira)
- Testing Time (and other asyncronicities) (Damien Neil)
- Advanced Installer 23.0 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Introducing Suite Installer in Advanced Installer – Deploy Multiple Apps with One Branded Setup (Renato Ivanescu & Danut Ghiorghita)
- Why a holistic approach is the key to a successful legacy modernization project (Catherine Pratt)
- Fastly: Senior Devs Ship 2.5x More AI Code Than Juniors (Darryl K. Taft)
- PreEmptive Evolves with Developers (Michelle Pruitt)
- Introducing Automatic API Docs in Private Registry (Pulumi IDP Team)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Handle Permissions in Flutter: A Comprehensive Guide (Atuoha Anthony)
- Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- Freeform Tool Calling with GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry (April Gittens)
- Grok Code Fast 1 in VS Code is Fast – Let’s take a look (James Montemagno)
- How I Use ChatGPT to Write Design Specs… For Claude Code to Use! (Nick Cosentino)
- Using Agentic Protocols (MCP, A2A, and NLWeb) | AI Agents for Beginners (Korey Stegared-Pace)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Design at GitHub with Diana Mounter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #656 – Python documentary companion pod (Travis Oliphant, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The Pixel 10 Deep Dive | Made by Google Podcast S8E2 (Rachid Finge)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode 8 – The Library: A Fragile History (Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen & Abby Smith Rumsey)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will, With Vyom Yadav (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #478 – From Yoga Teacher to Director of Engineering — Harjis Deksnis’ Nonlinear Tech Journey (Taylor Desseyn)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #683 – Artie Shevchenko on Programmers as Code Health Guardians (Jeff Doolittle)
- From Lunch Conversations to Company-Wide Change—The Power of Creating Communities of Practice | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Salum Abdul-Rahman)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #932 – Vibe Coding’s Huge Problem (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #327 – GenAI risks and global adoption (Rick Kobayashi, Kenny Song, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Community & Events
- Join us October 8th for the 3rd Annual OneDrive Digital Event! (Rob Nunez)
- Introducing the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council (Anthropic Team)
- Microsoft’s employee protests have reached a boiling point (Tom Warren)
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s final act: New $3.1B foundation bets big on science and tech (Todd Bishop)
Database
- Automating SQL Server Builds (K. Brian Kelley)
- SQL Server Log Shipping: The Tried and True of DR (Kevin Hill)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Row Versioning vs Locking Isolation Levels (Erik Darling)
- How to Reset the SA Password When You Get Locked Out (Tim Radney)
- Unlock Your Notion Data with SQL (Tracy McKibben)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft now saves all Word files to the cloud by default (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Miscellaneous
- By all means, tread on those people – We know you love freedom, we just wish you’d share (Cory Doctorow)
- Trump and RFK Jr blame “a drug or something” for autism (Ellsworth Toohey)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – August 27, 2025 (#616) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #271 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Real-World Web Development with .NET 9: Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link