Top Links
- Aspire Conf is Coming! Join us Live on March 23 (Maddy Montaquila)
- Visual Studio 2026 Release Notes – March Update 18.4.0 (Microsoft Learn)
- RunAs Radio Show #1027 – SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward (Richard Campbell)
- Microsoft Foundry Local Workshop: Build AI apps locally with Foundry Local – RAG, agents, and multi-agent workflows in Python, JS, and C#. No cloud required. (Microsoft Foundry Team)
- Announcing Genkit Dart: Build full-stack AI apps with Dart and Flutter (Chris Gill)
- .NET 11 Preview 2 is now available! (.NET Team)
Web and Cloud Development
- Node.js 25.8.1 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Preview 2 (Dan Roth)
- Introducing HVTools: Your new tool for Hyper-V/Clusters and Azure Local overview (Michael Morten Sonne)
- Guide to Creating an Angular-based Micro-frontend Application Using Native Federation (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Prevent Connector Overlap in React Diagrams with Smart Line Routing (Karkuvel Rajan Shanmugavel)
- XSS Ranked #1 Top Threat of 2025 by MITRE and CISA (Scott Helme)
- Azure SRE Agent is Generally Available — What’s New and Azure SRE Agent Now Builds Expertise Like Your Best Engineer Introducing Deep Context (dchelupati)
- Agent Hooks: Production-Grade Governance for Azure SRE Agent (Vineela-Suri)
- Implementing the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) / Curated API Pattern Using Azure API Management (Sajal Mukherjee)
- Announcing general availability for the Azure SRE Agent (Mayunk Jain)
- Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js (Sunil Sandhu)
- Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule (Node.js Team)
- Building My Own Social Network Poster in Astro (Raymond Camden)
- Upgrade AWS CLI from v1 to v2 using upgrade debug mode (Ahmed Moustafa)
- The 6 Best WordPress SMTP Plugins (Top Picks for 2026) (Jen Swisher)
- Astro 6.0 (Matthew Phillips, Emanuele Stoppa, Florian Lefebvre & Matt Kane)
- Eleventy is now Build Awesome (Zach Leatherman)
- Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) in ASP.NET Core 10 with Duende Identity Server (AL Rodriguez)
- AI-Powered DOCX Editor in React: Writing Assistance, Document Summaries & Contextual Q&A (Janakiraman Sakthivel)
Windows Development
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.260209005 Release (NuGet Gallery)
.NET and Visual Studio
- .NET 11 Preview 2 Release (Jon Galloway)
- .NET v11.0.0-preview.2.26159.112 Release (dotnet-maestro[bot])
- .NET v10.0.4 Release (Jeff Handley)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.28 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes – March 10, 2026 (Microsoft Learn)
- Console Ex – A .NET console window system with controls like TreeControl, ListControl, Toolbar, and more. Built on Spectre.Console. (Nick Protopapas) – On NuGet here
- .NET and .NET Framework March 2026 servicing releases updates (Rahul Bhandari & Tara Overfield)
- New Improvements to Marten’s LINQ Support (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Splitting the NetEscapades.EnumGenerators packages: the road to a stable release (Andrew Lock)
- DuckDB.NET 1.5.0: Simplified Scalar Functions, Table Functions, and NULL Handling (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
AI
- Announcing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry (Dave Voutila)
- Use Foundry Agent Service with LangGraph (Microsoft Learn)
- GPT-5.4 Now Available in Microsoft Foundry (Vesa Nopanen)
- A Breakdown of Graph RAG vs. Vector RAG (Hannah Laurel)
- How to Build an MCP Server with Python, Docker, and Claude Code (Balajee Asish Brahmandam)
- From raw interaction to reusable knowledge: Rethinking memory for AI agents (Ke Yang, Michel Galley, Chenglong Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Jiawei Han & ChengXiang Zhai)
- AI should help us produce better code (Simon Willison)
- Unleash Your Development Superpowers: Refining the Core Coding Experience (Divyansh Chaturvedi & Nikhil Kapoor)
- Gemini Embedding 2: Our first natively multimodal embedding model (Tom Duerig)
- Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-like network for AI agents (Emma Roth)
- Adobe is debuting an AI assistant for Photoshop (Ivan Mehta)
- Are MCP Servers Going Obsolete? No — But Skills Are Claiming Territory That Was Never Really Theirs (Peter Kellner)
- How NVIDIA Builds Open Data for AI (Will Jennings, Yev Meyer, Leanna Chraghchian, Rebecca Kao, Jane Polak Scowcroft & Annie Surla)
- Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs (OpenAI Team)
- Introducing Finish Changes and Outlines, now available in Gemini Code Assist extensions on IntelliJ and VS Code (Divyansh Chaturvedi, Nikhil Kapoor & Kensen Shi)
- Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub (Lucain Pouget, Eliott Coyac, Adrien Carreira, Victor Mustar, Julien Chaumond, Quentin Lhoest, Pierric Cistac, Sylvestre Bcht, Hugo Larcher, Rajat Arya, Di Xiao & Assaf Vayner)
- An Agentic Tale (Rocky Lhotka)
- Testing MCP (Alvaro Navarro)
- The 2026 MCP Roadmap (David Soria Parra)
- New Kinds of Applications (Mike Loukides)
- The era of “AI as text” is over. Execution is the new interface. (Gwen Davis)
- New ways to create faster with Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive (Yulie Kwon Kim)
- AI for Communicators: What Copilot Adoption Actually Looks Like (LaurelD)
- With its latest Phi-4 reasoning model, Microsoft reckons bigger isn’t always better (Paul Sawers)
- Nvidia plans NemoClaw launch, an open-source platform for AI agents (Meredith Shubel)
- What’s Holding Back AI Agents? It’s Still Security (Yiwen Xu)
- The AI Infrastructure crisis: When ambition meets ancient systems (Zziwa Raymond Ian)
- Automating detection gap analysis with GitLab Duo Agent Platform (Matt Coons)
- Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries (Amine Dirhoussi, Quentin Gallouédec, Kashif Rasul, Lewis Tunstall, Edward Beeching, Albert Villanova del Moral, Nouamane Tazi & Leandro von Werra)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- How To Containerize A Twilio App With Docker (Dylan Frankcom)
- dotNetDave Says… Clear Naming Standards Create Clearer Code and Clearer Code Leads to Better Software (David McCarter)
- Get External Contributions to your Workspace with Forks and PRs (Gbadebo Bello)
Mobile and Game Development
- Boosting Android Performance: Introducing AutoFDO for the Kernel (Yabin Cui)
- .NET MAUI v11.0.0-preview.2.26152.10 Release and .NET MAUI v10.0.50 Release (Shane Neuville)
- Uno Platform 6.5 Released With AI Agent Support, Unicode Text, and Studio Improvements (Almir Vuk)
- 5 UX Tips for .NET MAUI Developers (Leomaris Reyes)
- PicoCPC custom board (David Crookes)
- Building a Real-time Audio Processing App with SKSL Shaders in .NET MAUI (Nick Kovalsky)
Screencasts and Videos
- Make your first game now with .NET and MonoGame | On .NET Live (Chris Gomez)
- Introduction to Agentic Migration & Modernization Tools | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Make your programs run faster with one click in Visual Studio 2026 (Mads Kristensen)
- Create MCP Server for Pizza Bot | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
- Getting Started with Uno Platform + Codex CLI and AI for Haters of AI and Cross-Platform Device APIs with Uno Platform (Sam Basu)
- How to use the fleet command in Copilot CLI | GitHub demo (GitHub Team)
- EPISODE 33 – Scott & Mark Learn To…A Public 1-1 for Software Engineering Preceptorship (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Figma MCP for VS Code: Bringing Designs to Life with AI, with Joanna Oikawa | Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- Improving Performance with Squad | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – General Refactorings in Rocks, Part 4 (Jason Bock)
- VS Code Live: Code to Canvas with Figma MCP and GitHub Copilot (Harald Kirschner & Akbar Mirza)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #23 – Privacy’s Defender (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1015 – Who Shot Apple Intelligence? – The MacBook Neo (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #183 – Big change brings big change (Jerod Santo)
- PPP 501 | Hope Is Not a Strategy… Or Is It?, with author Jen Fisher (Andy Kaufman)
- Coffee and Open-Source Conversations – Helen Hou-Sandí (Isaac Levin)
- The AI Fix Episode #91 – AIs want to nuke us all (and the anthropologist who saw it coming) (Mark Stockley)
- Why Teams Go Through The Motions of Agile Without Being Agile, And What To Do About It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Beyond the Hype: Vibe coding – Is this really how we’ll build software? (Colin Eberhardt)
Community and Events
- My MVP Story: Finding My Way Into Data and Community – Deborah Jones’ Journey (Betsy Weber)
- Many International Game Developers Plan To Skip GDC In US and Silicon Valley Is Buzzing About This New Idea: AI Compute As Compensation (BeauHD)
- Microsoft’s return-to-office policy creates a return to slower commutes, traffic analysis shows (Kurt Schlosser)
- Your GitHub Profile Is Lying About You (Yuvraj Angad Singh)
Database
- How NTILE Handles Uneven Row Distribution in SQL (Jared Westover)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.3.3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- AI Built SQL Server Wait Statistics Dashboard in Minutes (Pinal Dave)
- Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU2 (Harvey Mora)
- Logical Reads Aren’t Repeatable on Columnstore Indexes. (sigh) (Brent Ozar)
- Using Different Azure Key Vault Keys for Azure SQL Servers in a Failover Group (Harshitha Reddy Chappidi)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Sign with a personal touch with eSignature for Microsoft 365 (Michael Holste)
PowerShell and Terminal
General
- The Essence of a Machine (Om Malik)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – March 8 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – March 10, 2026 (#738) (Richard Seroter)
- Fragments: March 10 (Martin Fowler)
