Top Links
- Azure Developer CLI (azd): Run and test AI agents locally with azd (PuiChee (PC) Chan & Travis Angevine)
- Visual Studio Code 1.113 (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Help Shape Uno Platform’s 2026 Roadmap (Sasha Krsmanovic)
- .NET Rocks! – Building Software using Squad with Brady Gaster (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More (Yo-Lei Chen, Tauseef Siddique & Carlos Robles)
- Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release (Jason Helmick)
- Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps (David Ortinau)
Web and Cloud Development
- Why Your Azure File Sync Migration Doesn’t Look Like On-Premises (Shannon Kuehn)
- Mastering React Server Components (RSC) in 2026 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Build 19 Web Dev Projects using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript (Beau Carnes)
- Angular and Kendo UI MCP: Making Agents Work for You (Dany Paredes)
- How to migrate from on-prem to the cloud: uncovering legacy system ‘skeletons’ (Pat Wright)
Windows Development
- Windows stack limit checking retrospective: Alpha AXP (Raymond Chen)
- What does Code Signing do for Windows and Chrome. What about expired certificates? (Mark Pahulje)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.29 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 v18.4.1 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11612.153 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Random Forest Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- Build an AI-Powered Excel Chatbot in C#: Turn Spreadsheets into Smart Assistants (Mohan Chandran)
- When to Use Decorator Pattern in C#: Decision Guide with Examples (Nick Cosentino)
- Critter Stack Roadmap for March 2026 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Choosing the Right PDF Library in 2026: A Developer’s Checklist (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
AI
- Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses | Microsoft Agent Framework (Sergey Menshykh & Eduard van Valkenburg)
- Building Knowledge-Grounded AI Agents with Foundry IQ (Nelson Kumari)
- Building Computer use for Cloud Agents | Warp (Daniel Peng)
- Tool Annotations as Risk Vocabulary: What Hints Can and Can’t Do (Ola Hungerford, Sam Morrow & Luca Chang)
- Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC: New solutions for Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI infrastructure and Physical AI (Yina Arenas)
- 6 GitHub Copilot lessons learned upgrading my Nuxt blog (Alexandre Nédélec)
- Use Goose with Your AI Subscription (Michael Neale)
- Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6’s BrowseComp performance (Anthropic Team)
- Observability for AI Systems: Strengthening visibility for proactive risk detection (Angela Argentati, Matthew Dressman & Habiba Mohamed)
- CTOs Face Pressure to Deliver AI Gains, but Productivity Isn’t There Yet (Nikolina Oršulić)
- The AI revolution will be open-sourced (Nathan Taber)
- Developer’s Guide to AI Agent Protocols (Shubham Saboo & Kristopher Overholt)
- Advice for Startups: Building with Copilot (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
- Introducing “vibe design” with Stitch (Rustin Banks)
- ClawRoute Technical Architecture: How Smart Model Routing Works (MrJHSN)
- What Is the PARK Stack? (Dean Wampler)
- Agentic Browsing for Lazy Beatniks (Eleanor Berger)
Python
- Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio (Michael Kennedy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes (Shridivya Sharma)
- Coding Isn’t the Hard Part (Derek Comartin)
- Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract (Angel Wong)
- Has Agile lost its way? How AI-powered DevSecOps can help [Q&A] (Ian Barker)
- CloudBees vs TeamCity: Enterprise CI/CD Beyond Jenkins (Olga Bedrina)
- Octopus Deploy: Introducing Starter Policies in Platform Hub (Ryan Hall)
- How many branches can your CPU predict? (Daniel Lemire)
- To test, or not to Test? Part 4 – Make it easy to test locally (Urs Enzler)
Mobile and Game Development
- Avalonia v12.0.0-preview2 Release (Julien Lebosquain) – First preview release with a page-based navigation system
- How to Build a Production-Ready Flutter CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions: Quality Gates, Environments, and Store Deployment (Oluwaseyi Fatunmole)
Screencasts and Videos
- A Primer on Using Agent Skills (AIDailyBrief)
- Technology & Friends – Brian McKeiver on Improving Developer Workflow with AI (David Giard)
- How to query your Copilot CLI session history | Advanced tips & tricks | GitHub (Evan Boyle)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The ‘Tale of Two Dictionaries,’ with Peter Sokolowski (Mignon Fogarty)
- Windows Weekly Episode #975 – A Bubble of Knowledge – Microsoft Reorgs, OpenAI Drama, & Xbox’s Next Move (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #712 – Dan Lorenc on Sigstore (Priyanka Raghavan)
- Big Technology Podcast – Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin (Alex Kantrowitz)
- BONUS How to Build Teams That Think, Own, and Execute Without Burnout With Sid Jashnani | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #988 – Cloudflare’s Next.js Slop Fork (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Leaders of Code Podcast Episode #17 – Building a global engineering team (plus AI agents) with Netlify (Eira May)
Community and Events
- Code with Claude comes to San Francisco, London, and Tokyo (Claude Team)
- Top 5 Reasons to Attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Jon Jones)
- Google Summer of Code 2026 Is Here: Contribute to Kotlin (Ksenia Shneyveys)
- Finding Your Most Popular Bluesky Followers (Raymond Camden)
Database
- Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0 Is Here: A Leaner, More Modular Driver for SQL Server (David Levy)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.4.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- DiskANN Vector Index Improvements (Davide Mauri & Pooja Kamath)
- Download Free SQL Server Monitoring Scripts and SQL in 30 – DELETE Basics (MSSQL Tips)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: Bad Vector Observability (Erik Darling)
- The Difference Between Data Integration vs. Application Integration (Hannah Laurel)
- From legacy to leadership: How PostgreSQL on Azure powers enterprise agility and innovation (Affan Dar)
- Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate (Shireesh Thota)
- MariaDB innovation: binlog_storage_engine, 48-core server, Insert Benchmark (Mark Callaghan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Generate richer alt text in Word and PowerPoint for Mac (Shireen Salma)
- Changes to attachment IDs for inline images in Outlook add-ins (Office Extensibility Team)
- Introducing Teams optimizations for Windows App on iOS & Android — Now Generally Available (Pavithra T.)
PowerShell and Terminal
- v7.6.0 Release of PowerShell (Justin Chung)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.9 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
General
- Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US (Molly Taft)
- You could unlock your share of $2,000,000 USD in prizes with your daily searches (Bing Team)
- The FBI is buying Americans’ location data (Gaby Del Valle)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 18, 2026 (#744) (Richard Seroter)
