azure cli – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 23, 2025 (#4426)

Top Links

MCP on Windows: The New COM? (Andrew Clinick)
Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
App Actions on Windows Overview (Microsoft Learn)
Introducing the Agent Store: Build, publish, and discover agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Siffat Hingorani & Oliver Hu)
Announcing TypeScript Native Previews (Daniel Rosenwasser)
Evolving the Windows AI platform (Simon Bisson)
AI Repo of the Week: MCP for Beginners (Dan Wahlin)

Top Build 2025 Session Recommendations

Boost your development productivity with Windows latest tools and tips | BRK226 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Kayla Cinnamon, Craig Loewen & Larry Osterman)
Yet “Another Highly Technical Talk” with Hanselman and Toub | BRK121 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hanselman & Stephen Toub)
Crafting great Windows native app experiences | BRK227 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Niels Laute & Sergio Pedri)
AI infused mobile & desktop app development with .NET MAUI | BRK123 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Beth Massi, David Ortinau & Gerald Versluis)
A Visual Studio Story: How We Build Software Loved by Millions of Developers | BRK133 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Mads Kristensen)
Elevating Development with .NET Aspire: AI Cloud and Beyond | BRK106 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Damian Edwards, David Fowler & Maddy Montaquila)
Scott and Mark Learn to…LIVE | KEY040 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
Extending your application with the new PowerToys Command Palette | DEM571 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Niels Laute & Mike Griese)

Web & Cloud Development

My Azure AI-102 Certification Experience (Kevin Logan)
A brief history of JavaScript (Andy Jiang)
What’s Next: The WebStorm 2025.2 Roadmap (David Watson)
Refactoring JavaScript to TypeScript with GitLab Duo Workflow (Frédéric Caplette)
Astro 5.8 (Matt Kane)
.NET 9–OpenAPI and Scalar–Adding custom headers (Bart Wullems)
You can style alt text like any other text (Geoff Graham)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

How to Create 80+ WPF Chart Types (Greg Lutz)
Turn Default into Delight: MAUI DataGrid Customization, Part 1—Row Styling Simplified (Farjana Parveen)
Improve .NET MAUI’s AppThemeBinding? (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio & .NET

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Final Reflections: What Rust Taught Me as a C# Dev (Chris Woodruff)
Critter Stack Release Plans (Jeremy D. Miller)
How can I create a window the size of the screen without it being treated as a full-screen window? (Raymond Chen)
Avoid Build Breaks: Fixing SDK Conflicts Between Visual Studio and Preview Versions (David McCarter)
ReSharper 2025.2 EAP 2: First Public Build with Out-of-Process Mode Support (Sasha Ivanova)

AI

Shipping code faster with o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 (OpenAI Team)
Responsible AI Frameworks: An Introduction (David Ramel)
Bringing Gemini intelligence to Google Home APIs (Ravi Akella)
Copilot Agent is giving me attitude (Luis Quintanilla)
Agent mode 101: All about GitHub Copilot’s powerful mode (Alexandra Lietzke)
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 (Frederic Lardinois)
How To Build RAG Applications Using Model Context Protocol (Janakiram MSV)
How to Ensure Data Privacy and Intellectual Property Protection When Using LLMs (Mahesh Chand)
Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (Maxwell Zeff)
Duck.ai Adds GPT-4o Mini with Web Search Capabilities (Paul Thurrott)
Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic (Sébastien Stormacq)
Pulumi Updates, Explained: AI-Powered Features in Pulumi CLI (Simon Howe)
Microsoft is racing to build an AI ‘agent factory’ (Tom Warren)

Design, Methodology & Testing

TeamCity Pipelines Pulse: Webhooks, Job-Level Parameters, And More (Olga Bedrina)
Taming the Dragon: A Toolbar’s Tale (Teon Beijl)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Navigating global market access: how Raspberry Pi supports OEMs (Alex Branton)

Screencasts & Videos

How to run a custom container images in .NET Aspire projects | On .NET (Jeff Fritz)
Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich | BRK195 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Mark Russinovich)
Best practices for building agentic apps with Azure AI Foundry | BRK152 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Amanda Foster & Seth Juarez)
Developer essentials for agents and apps in Azure AI Foundry | BRK154 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Yina Arenas & Paul Shealy)
Enable seamless deployment across Intel Copilot+ AI PCs and Azure | BRKFP250 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Nuri Cankaya & Freddy Chiu)
The future of web development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor | BRK122 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Mike Kistler & Daniel Roth)
Mastering Git in Visual Studio | DEM506 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Sebastian Hernandez)
Top GitHub Copilot features you missed in Visual Studio 2022 | BRK120 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Simona Liao, Amy Nguyen, Filisha Shah & Aaron Yim)
SQL Server 2025: The Database Developer Reimagined | BRK207 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Bob Ward & Muazma Zahid)
Python Meets .NET: Building AI Solutions with Combined Strengths | BRK115 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hanselman & Anthony Shaw)
Unleash on-device AI with Snapdragon X Series | BRKFP255 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Devang Aggarwal, Eli Aleyner & Manish Sirdeshmukh)
An overview of Windows AI Foundry | BRK223 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Tucker Burns & Dian Hartono)
Boost your app’s reach and engagement with AI via App Actions on Windows | BRK220 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Premalini David & Sasha Sproch)
Fastest & easiest way to integrate AI using Windows AI APIs | BRK224 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Rahul Amlekar & Lei Xu)
The Future of .NET App Modernization Streamlined with AI | BRK101 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Scott Hunter & Chester Husk)
Tips & tricks to enhance Windows Arm64 App performance | BRK221 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Jamshed Damkewala, Chris Goodyear & Marcus Perryman)
Build and ship cross-platform apps on-device with Foundry Local | DEM526 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Maanav Dalal & Natalie Kershaw)
Empowering AI adoption through skills development | DEM580 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Julie-Anne Arsenault & Sandra Marin Penaloza)
The Fastest Way to Build Cloud-Native Apps with .NET Aspire and Dapr | DEM542 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Alex Mang)
Local AI development with Foundry Local and .NET Aspire | DEM520 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Aaron Powell)
Simplify dev setup with WinGet & Microsoft Desired State Configuration | BRK228 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Steve Lee & Demitrius Nelon)
Build the next gen of AI apps with .NET: Models Data Agents & More | BRK104 | Microsoft Build 2025 (Jeremy Likness, Jordan Matthiesen & Luis Quintanilla)
Document Search in .NET with Kernel Memory (Matt Eland)

Podcasts

InfoQ Podcast: Technical Leadership: Building Powerful Solutions with Simplicity and Inclusion (Bhavani Vangala)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Can a dev environment spark joy? The Android team thinks so. (Phoebe Sajor)
Breaking Web3: Node Ops at Scale, Hard Fork Havoc, and Bare-Metal Mastery – Adventures in DevOps Episode #241 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
UX Podcast Episode #339 – Accessible design systems with Karen Hawkins (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
Software Defined Talk Episode #520 – Excited is overused (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)

Community & Events

MVPs and RDs Inspiring the Next Generation in AI (Christina Liang)
Sam & Jony introduce io (Sam Altman & Jony Ive)
Crafting stories through motion: A conversation with Ronan McMeel (Microsoft Design Team)
Shine a spotlight on your open source project (Lee Reilly)

Database

Visual Commander automates SQL Server Management Studio 21 RTM (Sergey Vlasov)
Generally Available: Seamless Migration from Serverless to Provisioned Throughput in Azure Cosmos DB (Richa Gaur)
Learn T-SQL With Erik: WHERE vs Having (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Office Add-ins announces Copilot agents with add-in actions and more at Build 2025 (Office Add-ins Team)

PowerShell

Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell Build 2025 Announcement (Alex-wdy)

Miscellaneous

Securing the brand: Microsoft surges up annual reputation poll as top-ranked tech company (Christopher Budd)
So long, EV tax credits (Andrew J. Hawkins)
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket (Brian Fagioli)
Senate Republicans vote to revoke California’s right to set its own tailpipe pollution rules (Justine Calma)
Microsoft is finally bringing GIF support to Snipping Tool in Windows 11 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)

More Link Collections

The .NET News Daily Issue #202 (jasen)
Daily Reading List – May 22, 2025 (#558) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Data & Visualization eBook Bundle | O’Reilly (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link – Pay $25 or more for 18 O’Reilly eBooks

Dew Drop – April 15, 2025 (#4404)

I’ll be away for a week, and the Dew Drop will return on April 23rd or 24th.

Top Links

Why MAUI Blazor Hybrid (Rocky Lhotka)
Introducing the New Angular SpeechToText Component (Kirupa karan Raj Kumar)
.NET Aspire and Databases with Jerry Nixon – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #345 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API (OpenAI Team)
Announcing the GPT-4.1 model series for Azure AI Foundry developers (Steve Sweetman)
GitHub Actions now supports Windows on Arm runners for all public repos (Marcus Perryman)

Web & Cloud Development

Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors (Declan Chidlow)
Building a Chat Interface with KendoReact and AI—Part 2 (Hassan Djirdeh)
Azure CLI Breaking Change Pre-Announcement (ychenu)
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: The Professional Guide (Andrea Chiarelli)
Data mapping to FHIR: What you need to know before starting (Mat Osmanski)
Migrating from EKS to AKS: What Actually Matters (Robby Millsap)

Visual Studio & .NET

Who can cancel Carmen Sandiego? (Oren Eini)
LLBLGen Pro New features in v5.12 (LLBLGen Team)
Merging Multiple Records with First-Page Headers and Footers (Bjoern Meyer)

AI

Trending Model Context Protocol for AI Agents Gets C# SDK (David Ramel)
Mistral OCR – Get markdown from PDF with C# (Marco Minerva)
Calling MCP Servers in C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI (Mark Heath)
Expanding the Llama 4 Herd: New Models Now Available on Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
Build an AI Assistant with LangGraph, Vercel, and Next.js: Use Gmail as a Tool Securely (Deepu K. Sasidharan)
Enable Local MCP Servers To Access Entra ID Accounts (Den Delimarsky)
How AI will change software engineering (Holly Cummins)
MCP vs. A2A: Friends or Foes? (Aurimas Griciūnas)
Microsoft AI CEO: ‘It’s Smarter to Be 6 Months Behind’ — Here’s Why (Aminu Abdullahi)
MCP, Easy as 1-2-3? (Austin Parker)
GitHub Copilot Agent Tool calling -Safe by default (Bart Wullems)
A Structured Approach to Selecting AI Models for Business-Critical Applications (Eleanor Berger)
How ML.NET is used in real life (Fiodar Sazanavets)
PayPal Releases Agentic Toolkit to Accelerate Commerce (PayPal Tech Blog Team)
An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots (Will Knight)
Like self-driving cars, fully AI-automated sysadmins don’t exist (Scott McCarty)
AI Agents: Planning and Orchestration with the Planning Design Pattern – Part 7 (Shivam Goyal)
Week 2 . Microsoft Agents Hack Online Events and Readiness Resources (Lee Stott)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Signing NuGet Packages Using Azure DevOps and Workload Identity Federation (Aaron Stannard)
3 Reasons .NET Developers Still Struggle with Unit Testing (And How to Fix It) (Eli Lopian)
Step-by-Step Guide to Digitally Signing WiX Installer Packages (Renato Ivanescu)
Handle cancellation in tests with xUnit.net v3 (Anthony Simmon)
Test Features, Not APIs (Gil Zilberfeld)
Effective Application Design for Reliable Software Solutions (Akash Kilaru)
GitHub for Beginners: Security best practices with GitHub Copilot (Kedasha Kerr)
How to Handle a Talented, Yet Quirky, IT Team Member (John Edwards)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Raspberry Pi CM5 IoT In C – Setting Up the CM5 (Harry Fairhead)
The Subjective Charms of Objective-C (Gabriel Nicholas)
How to Recreate A Minecraft Movie in Your Minecraft Game (Joe Skrebels)

Screencasts & Videos

Microsoft 365 Copilot Power User Tips (Microsoft Mechanics)
🔴 Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 – Preview 3 Release Party 🎉 (Visual Studio Team)
Extending Visual Studio – Adding a Command | Visual Studio Toolbox (Leslie Richardson & Etienne Baudoux)
.NET 10 Preview 3 – CLI Upgrades: Local SDK Installs, Shell Completion, Interactive Mode, & More (.NET Team)

Podcasts

Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Skipping the Vision, How Not to Introduce Kanban To An Agile Organization | Richard (Vasco Duarte)
Talk Python to Me #501 – Marimo – Reactive Notebooks for Python (Michael Kennedy)
SQL Server Radio Episode #174 – Is SQL Server quality in decline? Or is it just friction? (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell Podcast Summit 2025 – Missy, Leslie, & Hailey (James Petty)
The Changelog News Podcast #140 – Google’s new protocol has AI agents talkin’ (Jerod Santo)
Azure Cloud Talk 25/04/14 – Certifications Keep Changing (Alec Harrison & Brian Gorman)
Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #219 – Beyond the Buzzwords: Decoding Cyber Risk and Threat Actors in Asia Pacific (Anton A. Chuvakin)
Building 50 Apps in 50 Days: The Power of Boring Stacks with Kelvin – JavaScript Jabber Episode #673 (Charles Max Wood)
Grammar Girl Podcast – Better paragraph breaks. The story behind ‘mad money’ and ‘pin money.’ Bruce bad. (Edwin L. Battistella, Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – How AI can prevent clinician burnout (Eira May)
Python Bytes Podcast #428 – How old is your Python? (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
The Breakpoint Show Episode #038 – Jibber Jabber! (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
Betatalks, the Podcast #106 – Where AI and Software Engineering Meet: Breaking the Black Box – Megan Bloemsma (Rick & Oscar)
Defense Unicorns Podcast – Why DIU Ruined Wayne Starr in the Best Way (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
Syntax Podcast #893 – Everyone Is Talking About MCP (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Practical AI Podcast Episode #309 – Orchestrating agents, APIs, and MCP servers (Pavel Veller & Daniel Whitenack)

Community & Events

Journey through Git’s 20-year history (Patrick Steinhardt)

Database

SSIS Download, Install and Configure (Daniel Calbimonte)
Introducing Region Selection in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer for NoSQL Accounts (Meredith Moore & Craig)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

Copilot Agents with SharePoint Agents (Jaspreet Dhamija)
Leading the Way with Copilot: April 2025 (Julie Morris)
Introducing Preview mode in SharePoint Pages and News (Katelyn Helms)
Only 6 months until Office 2016/2019 end of support – are you ready? (Tania Shepard)
Feature deep dive: Using PDFs in OneDrive and our journey thus far (Belle Podeanu)
Get the most out of OneNote with these little-known features (Gokul Subramaniam)

PowerShell

PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2025 (Steve Lee)

Miscellaneous

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5794 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5235 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
Variables in Rust: Let Me Be Immutable (Chris Woodruff)
The 800-pound gorilla (Johnny Rodgers)
Dubious security vulnerability: Once I have tricked the user into running a malicious shortcut, I can install malware (Raymond Chen)
Correct perspective then measure! (Joe Finney)

More Link Collections

Interesting links of the week 2025-16 (Michael Eaton)
Sands of MAUI: Issue #183 (Sam Basu)
Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – April 14 (Peter Ritchie)
AWS Weekly Review: Amazon S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025) (Elizabeth Fuentes)
Daily Reading List – April 14, 2025 (#532) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft)

Dew Drop – April 4, 2025 (#4397)

Top Links

Part 3 – Babylon.js 8.0: glTF, USDz, and WebXR advancements (Jason Carter & Thomas Lucchini)
Your Pluralsight Benefit Just Got Better (Jim Harrer)
What might Microsoft announce at its 50th anniversary Copilot event? (Zac Bowden)
15 milestones that shaped Microsoft’s vision for AI (Microsoft Source)
March 2025 (version 1.99) (Visual Studio Code Team)
Windows wallpapers worth celebrating (Bruna Darini) – Microsoft 50th anniversary desktop wallpapers

Web & Cloud Development

How to Build Scalable Document Signing by Integrating BoldSign with .NET Aspire (Pavle Davitkovic)
Reuse Persistent Document Editor Components in Angular SPA Applications (Bjoern Meyer)
Astro 5.6 (Matt Kane & Emanuele Stoppa)
How to Build and Deploy an MCP Server with TypeScript and Azure Developer CLI (azd) using Azure Container Apps and Docker (Chris Pietschmann)
htmx for ASP.NET Core Developers: The Simpler, Faster Way to Build Web Apps and htmx vs. JavaScript Frameworks: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job (Chris Woodruff)
Tailwind CSS v4.1: Text shadows, masks, and tons more (Dan Hollick)
ATTENTION: Microsoft Learn Applied Skills Update (Mindy Rosenthal)
Streamline Azure Tasks in VS Code Using GitHub Copilot (Dan Wahlin)
Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2025 (Kristen Womack)
A Developer’s Guide to Server-Side JavaScript (Martin Bach)
Azure Native V3: A Leaner, Faster SDK for Microsoft Azure (Meagan Cojocar)
Coding Azure 9a: Authorizing Your Frontend Client-Side App to Access a Web Service and Coding Azure 9b: Securing a Server-Side Frontend to a Web Service (Peter Vogel)
Master Docker and VS Code: Supercharge Your Dev Workflow (Vladimir Mikhalev)
How to Use Wireshark Filters to Analyze Your Network Traffic (Hang Hu)
Localhost dangers: CORS and DNS rebinding (Kevin Stubbings)
Deprecating window.external.getHostEnvironmentValue() (Microsoft Edge Team)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

Windows Community Toolkit v8.2 Adds Native AOT Support (David Ramel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Creating a .NET Console Application with Visual Studio Code and TX Text Control (on Linux) (Bjoern Meyer)
Automatically generate any doc comment for C++ functions in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci)
What’s New in C# 14? Key Features and Updates You Need to Know (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
10 New Features in EF 9 (Assis Zang)
Is the .NET Ecosystem in Crisis? (Matt Goldman)
Adding delays to our task sequencer, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Improve .NET Performance by Reusing Constant Arrays (David McCarter)

AI

AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Security (Omar Santos)
How I created UI with ChatGPT’s new image generator (4o) (Xinran Ma)
Bringing intelligence to every workflow (OpenAI Team)
3 ways to level up your studying with NotebookLM (Cheng-Wei Hu)
Combatting Bias in AI Systems (Jeff Mielke)
Google’s NotebookLM can now find its own sources (Jess Weatherbed)
Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan (Kyle Wiggers)
From training to inference: The new role of web data in LLMs (Or Lenchner)
Moving Copilot from a Pair Programmer to a Peer Programmer (Peter Smulovics)
Using OpenAI’s Audio-Preview Model with Semantic Kernel (Roger Barreto)
AI Coding Challenge – Part 3 Using DeepSeek to get innermost string between strings (Mark Pahulje)

Design, Methodology & Testing

I’d rather read 50 lines than Extract Method Refactoring (Derek Comartin)
Code Obfuscation Best Practices and Tools (Ben Nettleton)
The sound of innovation: How audio designers are redefining digital experiences (Celeste Moure)
CDN Domain URL change for Agents in Pipelines (Shubham Agarwal & Eric van Wijk)
Introducing TeamCity’s New Design, Phase 1 (Marharyta Milovanova)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

Visualizing Global Coal Consumption Trends with Our Flutter Stacked Area Chart (Aswini Suresh Reddy)
Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard (David Crookes)

Screencasts & Videos

Write HTML faster than ever with Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
Interview: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the tech giant’s 50th anniversary — and what’s next (Todd Bishop)
.NET MAUI Community Standup – Next in .NET 10 and Visual Studio (David Ortinau & Rachel Kang)
.NET Community Chatter, Open Source C# and SharpSite | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Copilot Studio (Microsoft Power Platform)
Clean up Windows 11 disk space with this built-in included utility | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
Agent pay-as-you-go billing explained in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Microsoft Mechanics)
Learn Python + AI from our video series! (Pamela Fox)
Building a Charging App with Hot Design (Uno Platform Team)

Podcasts

The Modern .NET Show – From Code to Cloud in 15 Minutes: Jason Taylor’s Expert Insights And The Clean Architecture Template (Jamie Taylor)
InfoQ Podcast: Building Your Personal Brand and Making an Impact: Insights from Principal Engineer Pablo Fredrikson (Pablo Fredrikson)
The Hanselminutes Podcast – Tiny Experiments with Anne-Laure Le Cunff (Scott Hanselman)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Solution-Focused Retrospective for Agile Teams, Turning Problems Into Goals | Zvonimir Durcevic and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Feedback Transforms Product Owners | Zvonimir Durcevic (Vasco Duarte)
PPP 452 | How to Build Bridges Across Divides at Work and Beyond, with Juliana Tafur (Andy Kaufman)
The Stack Overflow Podcast – Is AI a bubble or a revolution? The answer is yes. (Eira May)
Software Defined Talk Episode #513 – Put On A Musical (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Tools and Weapons Podcast – Steve Ballmer: Scaling the digital revolution (Brad Smith)

Community & Events

Pixelfed Vulnerability and Impacts to Federation (Hachyderm Team)
Code the Future with Java and AI – Join Me at JDConf 2025 (Amanda Silver)
How Software Developers Can Build Their Personal Brand to Elevate Their Influence (Ben Linders)
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (Kyle Wiggers)
Get Ready for .NET Conf: Focus on Modernization (Mayunk Jain)
How I migrated my Mastodon account to micro.blog (Marco Siccardi)
Introducing the 2025 Imagine Cup Finalists (MS Student Developer Team)
Philly Is One of the Top 10 U.S. Cities for Food & Drink, Says Food & Wine (Visit Philly)
OneDrive at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Rob Nunez)

Database

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Dynamic SQL For Performance (Erik Darling)
SQL SERVER Performance Tuning: Catching Key Lookup in Action (Pinal Dave)
The role of DevSecOps in database security and compliance (Steve Jones)
Unlocking the new features of Oracle Database 23ai with Swift on Server (Szabolcs Toth)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop March 2025 (Mark Kashman)
Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Data access management (Tony Balkan)

PowerShell

PowerShell Remoting in a Workgroup Environment: A Step-by-Step Guide (Brien Posey)
Announcing Warp Preview (Hong Yi Chen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3671 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5518 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Bradon LeBlanc)
The Blunt Force Trauma of the Trump Tariffs (Brian Barrett)
China retaliates with tariff that matches Trump’s (Dominic Preston)
ReMarkable Tablets Just Got a Bunch of New Templates to Boost Your Productivity (Justin Pot)
Announcing Rust 1.86.0 (Rust Release Team)
Microsoft’s miniature Windows 365 Link PC is available to buy now (Umar Shakir)
Trump’s tariffs mean you’ll pay more for all gadgets (Victoria Song)

More Link Collections

Daily Reading List – April 3, 2025 (#526) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

When They Win, You Win (Russ Laraway) – Referral link

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