Top Links
- NPU paves the way toward a more intelligent Windows (Athima Chansanchai)
- VS Live! Orlando – Your Ultimate Learning Adventure (Jim Harrer)
- Angular support for generating apps in Google AI Studio is now available (Mark (Techson) Thompson)
- Wasm 3.0 for .NET Developers (Sam Basu)
- GitMCP – Instantly create a Remote MCP server for any GitHub repository (Ido Salomon)
- Windows App SDK 2.0 Announcement (Roy MacLachlan)
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Web & Cloud Development
- Using the new bindings API to test Angular components with Angular Testing Library (Tim Deschryver)
- I want to intercept Boolean Coercion for Objects in JavaScript (Zach Leatherman)
- Azure SDK Release (September 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Compliance-as-Code for .NET on Azure: Mapping GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS & HIPAA with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Bicep and Privacy-by-Design in ASP.NET Core: PII Discovery, Consent, and DSAR Automation with Microsoft Purview & Azure Functions (Sudhir Mangla)
- Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note (W3C Team)
- How Dapr and WebAssembly Team Up for Microservices (B. Cameron Gain)
- Setting Up Web Development Environment for Windows (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- The best way to structure Rust web services (Jude Miracle)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Create Stunning Nutrition Dashboards in WPF with Multi-Layer Pie Chart (Priyadharshini Periyasamy)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- What’s next for Visual Studio 2026 (v18)! (Michael Morten Sonne)
- Unit Testing CSLA Rules With Rocks (Rocky Lhotka)
- Microsoft to Detail Visual Studio 2026 at Visual Studio Live! in Orlando (David Ramel)
- ReSharper and Visual Studio 2026: Day-One Compatibility, Migration Steps, and Performance Gains (Sasha Ivanova)
- How to Create a Print Preview Dialog in a WinForms Datagrid (Matt Cowles)
- Sneak Peek: TX Text Control 34.0 Coming November 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
- The problem with inferring from a function call operator is that there may be more than one (Raymond Chen)
AI
- A Simple CSLA MCP Server (Rocky Lhotka)
- Meet Jules Tools: A Command Line Companion for Google’s Async Coding Agent (Jiahao Cai & AK Kulkarni)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Image now ready for production with new aspect ratios (Alisa Fortin, Naina Raisinghani, Seth Odoom & Guillaume Vernade)
- Perplexity’s Comet AI browser now free; Max users get new ‘background assistant’ (Rebecca Bellan)
- Bring your Vercel project to Replit (in minutes) (Replit Team)
- Microsoft Says AI Can Create ‘Zero Day’ Threats In Biology (BeauHD)
- Obfuscation for AI: How it Works, Best Practices, and Metrics (Ben Nettleton)
- Build an LLM Chat App Using LangGraph, OpenAI and Python—Part 2: Understanding SystemMessage (Dhananjay Kumar)
- From Shell Scripts to Science Agents: How AI Agents Are Transforming Research Workflows (Esteban Maya Cadavid)
- How we automated accessibility compliance in five hours with GitHub Copilot (Janice Rimmer)
- DeepSeek AI Models Are Easier to Hack Than US Rivals, Warn Researchers (Liz Ticong)
- Manage context window size with advanced AI agents (Matthew Casperson)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Optimize your app battery using Android vitals wake lock metric (Alice Yuan)
- Apple shelves Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses (Aisha Malik)
- The smart glasses race is really on now (Jay Peters)
- Welcome to the Xbox $360 era (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Nick Greenfield)
- What is an AI agent? | One Dev Question (Seth Juarez)
- HPE Solutions for Azure edge architecture running SQL Server | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Dhananjay Mahajan, Mike Harding & Wendy Harms)
- Linux and C# – Ubuntober! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Why You’ve Already Been Hacked | Troy Hunt | SSW User Group (SSW TV)
- The ultimate guide to the GitHub Copilot CLI | Full demo | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Ryan Hecht)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Push your ideas to the web with Netlify CEO Mathias Biilmann (Scott Hanselman)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Oct. 2nd 2025 (Alec Harrison)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #184 – Deploying MCP servers on Lambda (Alexis Philippart de Foy)
- The Amp Hour #704 – Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #540 – How to build a factory (Brandon Whichard & Coté)
- The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases | Adventures in DevOps (Will Button & Warren Parad)
Community & Events
- MVP Stories: From Learner to Leader – Anja Schröder’s Journey in the Community (Alice Piras)
- Microsoft’s Copilot branding sparks internal doubts — but Satya Nadella believes “a billion users of each” will clear up confusion (Kevin Okemwa)
- After nine years of grinding, Replit finally found its market. Can it keep it? (Connie Loizos)
Database
- Managing Underused Indexes in SQL Server Availability Groups – Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Just Use QUOTENAME! (Erik Darling)
- Firebase Data Connect: get started faster and have more data control (Andrea Wu)
Miscellaneous
- How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown (Dominic-Madori Davis)
- Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown (Leah Feiger & Vittoria Elliott)
- Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America (Sarah Jeong)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 2, 2025 (#640) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #295 (Jasen)
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