Top Links
- From idea to deployment: The complete lifecycle of AI on display at Ignite 2025 (Frank X. Shaw)
- Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.96.0 with support for more AI model providers (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Spend Less Time Upgrading, More Time Coding in Visual Studio 2026 (Jason Chlus)
- Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET (Jeremy Barton)
- A step-by-step guide to modernizing .NET applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode (Mika Dumont)
- Ignite 2025: Windows at the frontier of work (Pavan Davuluri)
- SQL Server 2025 is Now Generally Available (Venkata Raj Pochiraju)
- Ignite 2025: Windows 365 for Agents, AI-Enabled Cloud PCs Launch in Preview (Rabia Noureen)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Use to Docker with Node.js: A Handbook for Developers (Oghenekparobo Stephen)
- Edge for Business presents: the world’s first secure enterprise AI browser (Sean Lyndersay)
- Migrating from Microsoft Learn to aspire.dev (David Pine)
- A Great Time To Upgrade From IdentityServer4 To Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Dan VanHoozer)
- Typescript without Typescript (Chris Ferdinandi)
- How to implement FHIR-based prior authorization in your existing systems (Mat Osmanski)
- Cloudflare outage takes down X one month after Musk mocked AWS customers (Amanda Silberling)
- WordPress 6.9 Performance Landings (Weston Ruter)
- Why PDF Signing in JavaScript is Hard and How to Make it Easy (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- How to Build an AI-Powered Writing Assistant in Angular Using Google Gemini API (Part 2) (Ankit Sharma)
- Angular Signal Forms vs. Reactive Forms (Jonathan Gamble)
Windows Development
- Ignite 2025: Furthering Windows as the premier platform for developers, governed by security (Logan Iyer)
- Post-Quantum Cryptography APIs Now Generally Available on Microsoft Platforms (Aabha Thipsay)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Hands-on with MCP Resources in Visual Studio (Bart Wullems)
- Introducing the Visual Studio Code Private Marketplace: Your Team’s Secure, Curated Extension Hub 🎉 (Sean Iyer)
AI
- AI Toolkit Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code: Ignite 2025 Update (Leo Yao)
- Design Mode (Replit Team)
- Preparing for what’s next: Windows security and resiliency innovations help organizations mitigate risks, recover faster and prepare for the era of AI (Dana Huang)
- 🚀 AG-UI + Agent Framework + .NET + Aspire: Web-Enabling Your Intelligent Agents (Blog + Demo + Code!) (Bruno Capuano)
- Agents built into your workflow: Get Security Copilot with Microsoft 365 E5 (Dorothy Li)
- Microsoft Foundry on Windows Server (Priya Satheesh)
- Announcing Elastic MCP Server in Microsoft Foundry Tool Catalog (piyush05)
- Host remote MCP servers on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
- Copilot Studio and Azure AI Services, A Case Study on the Mix of the Two Worlds (AzadehNia)
- AI-enabled Cloud PC (Frontier Preview) (Microsoft Learn)
- Grok 4.1 Now Available to All Users (TechRepublic Staff)
- Introducing Support for Gemini 3 Pro (Olivia Johnston)
- Build and connect Microsoft Foundry agents to MongoDB Atlas with new native integrations (priyanshiverma)
- AI-Powered Performance Testing (Nikita Nallamothu)
- Agentic Applications on Azure Container Apps with Microsoft Foundry (Cary Chai)
- Building AI apps and agents for the new frontier (Mike Hulme)
- Bring any idea to life with Gemini 3 and Firebase AI Logic (Rosário Fernandes & Andrew Heard)
- We built a chatbot for a conference in three weeks — here’s how (Eylem Bars, Yahya Fidouh, Annie Mani, Rajib Chakravorty & Kaiwanyawit Chawankul)
- Introducing Stack Internal: Powering the human intelligence layer of enterprise AI (Eira May)
- Launch a Chat UI Agent with Docker and the Vercel AI SDK (Gerardo López Falcón)
- The Trillion Dollar Problem (Jeremy Arendt)
- Spread Holiday Cheer with AI Agents and Vonage MCP Messaging Tools (Benjamin Aronov)
- Get started with language model post-training using Training Hub (Mustafa Eyceoz)
- Intuit and OpenAI join forces on new AI-powered experiences (OpenAI Team)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Build to Last (Jeremy Howard & Chris Lattner)
- Level up design-to-code collaboration with GitHub’s open source Annotation Toolkit (Andrea Griffiths)
- Introducing Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding (Fergus Hurley, Pedro Rodriguez, Rafael Marques & Omar Shams)
- Azure DevOps and GitHub Repositories — Next Steps in the Path to Agentic AI (Rajesh Ramamurthy)
- Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era (Vasu Jakkal)
- Application Hardening: Detect and Stop Cyber Attacks (Asfand Khan)
- Davide’s Code and Architecture Notes – Metrics, Logs, and Traces: the three pillars of Observability (Davide Bellone)
Mobile and Game Development
- Configure and troubleshoot R8 Keep Rules (Ajesh R. Pai & Ben Weiss)
- Rich and dynamic user interfaces with Flutter and generative UI (Abdallah W. Shaban)
- Real-Time Data Updates with the Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Grid (Héctor Pérez)
- Gemini 3 is now available for AI assistance in Android Studio (Tor Norbye)
Screencasts and Videos
- Gemini 3 Just Dropped – The LLM Race Just Got Real! | Eve Cogan & Michael Smedley (SSW TV)
- Building Omnichannel Voice AI Agents with Azure | Multilingual, Multi-Agent Architecture Explained | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Pablo Salvador Lopez)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Adriana Villela (Isaac Levin)
- Windows 365 updates | AI‑Ready Work, Apps on Demand, Resilient Access | Microsoft Mechanics (Scott Manchester & Jeremy Chapman)
- Expense Management using Dynamics 365 agent in M365 Copilot and Manus + MCP on Windows: Build a Website from Local Files in Minutes and Claude + MCP on Windows: From Local Files to Executive Summary in Minutes (Windows Developer)
- Updating our Blazor site to .NET 10 Part 3! – Adding State Management, speeding up queries | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- How to make AI search only into the Docs YOU trust (Frank Boucher)
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Podcasts
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #14 – Music and Copyright in the Era of Taylor Swift (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- RunAs Radio Show #1011 – Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati (Richard Campbell)
- SQL Down Under Show 93 with guest Simon Sabin (Greg Low)
- The CSS Podcast Episode #99 – More CSS functions (Una Kravets & Bramus Van Damme)
Community and Events
- MoreSpeakers.com – Connect with experienced mentors and advance your speaking career in technology (Chris Woodruff & Joseph Guadagno)
- Ignite 2025: Microsoft Showcases AI Lifecycle Vision (TechRepublic Staff)
- Open Source in Focus: Projects We’re Proud to Support (Lena Morozova)
- Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT (Richard Lawler)
Database
- How to Monitor and Optimize Batched Deletion Processes in SQL Server (Matt Gantz)
- General Availability Announcement: Regex Support in SQL Server 2025 & Azure SQL (Abhiman Tiwari)
- One consistent SQL: The launchpad from legacy to innovation (Priya Sathy)
- SQL Server 2025 Embraces Vectors: setting the foundation for empowering your data with AI (Davide Mauri & Pooja Kamath)
- Public preview of vector indexing in Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric (Davide Mauri & Pooja Kamath)
- Public Preview: Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension Now Supports Online Migration to Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) (Sandeep S. Nair)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: GitHub Copilot Chat GA and New Public Previews for Edit Data, Data-tier Application, and more (Yo-Lei Chen, Carlos Robles & Tauseef Siddique)
- Ignite 2025: Advancing Azure Database for MySQL with Powerful New Capabilities (Deepthi Prasad)
- Azure DocumentDB is Now Generally Available (Gahl Levy)
- SQL Server 2025: Deeply Integrated and Feature-rich on Linux (amvin87)
- New T-SQL AI Features are now in Public Preview for Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric (Brian Spendolini)
- What’s New in Semantic Search for Azure Cosmos DB at Ignite 2025 (James Codella)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Available today: OpenAI’s Sora 2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Tanner Briggs)
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Kerry Perez Heffernan)
- Copilot Notebooks Now Available for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Premium Accounts (Gokul Subramaniam)
- Copilot readiness and resiliency with Microsoft 365: Ignite 2025 Edition (Sesha Mani)
- From Innovation to Enterprise Trust with Microsoft Agent 365 (Nirav Shah)
- Bring the power of SharePoint page creation into Microsoft 365 Copilot (Jacky Hsu)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Introducing the Jules extension for Gemini CLI (Alexis Cox & AK Kulkarni)
- 5 things to try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI (Taylor Mullen)
- Say hello to a new level of interactivity in Gemini CLI (Gal Zahavi & Jack Wotherspoon)
Writing
- My Foreword to “Frictionless” (Martin Fowler)
Tools
- Microsoft unveils two new Windows 11 recovery tools: Cloud Rebuild and Point-in-Time Restore and Microsoft to make Sysmon a native Windows 11 tool (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
General
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000.1199 (Canary Channel) (Windows Insider Program Team)
- Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships (Microsoft)
- Microspeak: Little-r (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 18, 2025 (#668) (Richard Seroter)
