Top Links
- The Third Beta of Android 16 (Matthew McCullough)
- Speeding up .NET application development with Uno Studio (Simon Bisson)
- Snipping Tool and Notepad app updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- New, Simpler Solution File Format (Nayana Srikanth)
- Tools & Weapons Podcast – Bill Gates: Starting the Digital Revolution (Brad Smith)
- Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI (Chet Husk)
Web & Cloud Development
- Data Protection for ASP.NET Core Developers and Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- React UI for Everyone (Plus: New DEV.to Challenge with $5,000 in Prizes) (Sam Basu)
- Astro 5.5 (Matt Kane)
- First catalog of web features completed by the WebDX Community Group (Patrick Brosset)
- A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) – Q1 2025 Updates (Maho Pacheco)
- Node v20.19.0 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
- Node v23.10.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- How to Choose the Right Cloud CPU for Your Workload (Charles Humble)
- Standardizing the Language of Observability in OpenTelemetry (Marylia Gutierrez)
- Continuing with Microsoft Entra: Advanced Identity Management (Tiffiany Law)
- Introducing TXTextControl.Web.Server.Core: A Cross-Platform Backend for TX Text Control Document Editor (Bjoern Meyer)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Ardalis Specification v9 Released (Steve Smith)
- Making sure that a DLL loads only from your application directory (Raymond Chen)
- Accessing Windows Settings Dialogs from Code via Shell Commands (Rick Strahl)
AI
- Using Azure AI Agents with Semantic Kernel in .NET and Python (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Evan Mattson & Chris Rickman)
- Introducing Azure AI Foundry — Everything you need for AI development (Zachary Cavanell)
- Build AI Agents with Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure AI Agent Service (abeomor)
- Unlocking bonus worlds with Gemini for the Google I/O puzzle (Jay Chang)
- Tweak your LLM models with Ollama–Using OpenWebUI (Bart Wullems)
- The Future of AI: Customizing AI Agents with the Semantic Kernel Agent Framework (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Tao Chen)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The Heisenberg uncertainty principle for management’s opinion (Oren Eini)
- Markdown for large text fields (private preview) (Dan Hellem)
- Embrace Change (Not Perfection) (Ted Neward)
- How GitHub engineers learn new codebases (Brittany Ellich)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Multimodal image attachment is now available for Gemini in Android Studio (Paris Hsu)
- #TheAndroidShow: Multimodal for Gemini in Android Studio, news for gaming devs, the latest devices at MWC, XR and more! (Anirudh Dewani)
- Making a Browser Based Game With Vanilla JS and CSS (Eoin McGrath)
- DirectX at GDC 2025 (Adele Parsons)
- Game on: Elevate your gameplay across mobile and PC and Building excellent games with better graphics and performance (Matthew McCullough)
- Making Google Play the best place to grow PC games (Aurash Mahbod)
- Microsoft’s new Xbox Copilot will act as an AI gaming coach (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- Blazor, Maps, C#, and Charlie (Jeff Fritz)
- Hidden Visual Studio features you don’t want to miss and Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Saving lives with light with Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen – ACM ByteCast (Scott Hanselman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Implementing Agile Practices for Data and Analytics Teams | Henrik Reich (Vasco Duarte)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can climate tech startups address the current crisis? (Eira May)
- UX Podcast Episode #334 – Defending against evil with Aarathi Krishnan (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- AGL 408: Alzheimer’s with Lisa Skinner (John Rouda)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #295 – Skype follows Chime to the Grave (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #510 – Vibe Code This Baby (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Steve Ballmer on Microsoft’s first 50 years, its OpenAI deal, and why he’s still its biggest investor (Todd Bishop)
- Citigroup Plans To Slash IT Contractors, Hire Staff To Improve Controls (msmash)
Database
- What’s Coming in SQL Server 2025, DMV Edition (Brent Ozar)
- Announcing Public Preview: Static Data for PostgreSQL Database Using Flyway (Prajakta Tamhankar)
- Cumulative Update #18 for SQL Server 2022 RTM (SrinivasSQL)
- How To Prevent WordPress SQL Injection Attacks (Anders Johansson)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Setup Expert: The future of deployment planning is here (Julie Hersum)
- Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Data in transit (Tony Balkan)
Miscellaneous
- Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5674 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5116 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Paint.NET 5.1.6 is now available (Rick Brewster)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 13, 2025 (#511) (Richard Seroter)