Top Links
- .NET 10 Preview 4 is now available! (.NET Team)
- Agent mode has arrived in preview for Visual Studio (Katie Savage & Aaron Yim)
- .NET Unified Build Progress and Preview 4 Milestone (Matt Mitchell)
- Now Generally Available: Apple identity provider support for Microsoft Entra External ID (Bora Ozbayburtlu)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 4 (Dan Roth)
- đ Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 is now generally available! (Mads Kristensen)
Web & Cloud Development
- Duende IdentityServer and OTel Metrics, Traces, and Logs in the .NET Aspire Dashboard (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- ESLint can now lint HTML using the html-eslint language plugin (Yeon Juan)
- Kubernetes v1.33: Job’s Backoff Limit Per Index Goes GA (MichaĆ WoĆșniak)
- Adding Context to Your UI with KendoReact Tooltips (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Adding a Blazor Pager to Your Data Display (HĂ©ctor PĂ©rez)
- ASP.NET Core Pitfalls – Action Constraint Order (Ricardo Peres)
- How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS (Jen Simmons)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Updates in .NET 10 Preview 4 and .NET MAUI 9.0.70 (Service Release 7) (David Ortinau)
- Crafting a Seamless User Onboarding Experience with .NET MAUI Popup Control (Piruthiviraj Malaimelraj)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- .NET 10 Preview 4 (James Montemagno)
- How to Create Calculated Fields in a C# .NET RDL Report (Alec Gall)
- Whatâs New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.14 (Sy Brand)
- .NET and .NET Framework May 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Supercharge Your Code with FastStringBuilder in Spargine (David McCarter)
- Introducing the /forceInterlockedFunctions switch for Arm64 (Emily Bao)
AI
- Introducing the Azure FHIR MCP Server đ„âš (Erik Howard)
- Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain (Martin Fowler)
- Announcing new fine-tuning models and techniques in Azure AI Foundry (Alicia Frame)
- Predicting the Future Using Azure Machine Learning (David Ramel)
- Using the new AI template to create a chatbot about a website (Andrew Lock)
- Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI (Emma Roth)
- Notion takes on AI-notetakers like Granola with its own transcription feature (Ivan Mehta)
- Pythonâs Open Source DNA Powers Anacondaâs New AI Platform (Jeffrey Burt)
- How AI and GenAI Are Transforming Professional Learning and Skill Development and How Can GenAI Drive Real Business Value in Engineering? (Mahesh Chand)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and Boolean operators: Hereâs how we (re)built it (Deborah Digges)
- Deploying a GitHub Actions Self-hosted Runner on Azure: A Step-by-Step Guide (Naman Nihal)
- The high-performance playbook: How great product teams deliver results (Jagbir Singh Lehl)
- Advanced Installer 22.7 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Managing technical debt like financial debt (Bart Wullems)
- 10 Years of Software Architecture: Best And Worst Decisions (Derek Comartin)
- Best Practices Are Really Not (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Quieting the Mental Clutter (Justin Etheredge)
- CodeCanvas 2025.1 With Free Tier and Toolbox Support (Alexey Totin)
- âShifting leftâ for better accessibility in Firefox (Kim Bryant)
- What is the developer set-up for developing Windows for multiple processor architectures? (Raymond Chen)
- New in Pulumi IaC: Support for skipping a resource (Tom Harding)
- Decoupled by design: Building reusable enterprise libraries and services (Shaun Jayaraj & Omar Bashir)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The Android Show: I/O Edition – what Android devs need to know! (Matthew McCullough)
- How to watch Googleâs Android Show: I/O Edition today (Dominic Preston)
- Android 16 Is Getting a Facelift, and Gemini Is Rolling Onto More Google Platforms (Julian Chokkattu)
Screencasts & Videos
- EPISODE 16 – Scott and Mark Learn To⊠Feedback (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Convert Markdown to Blazor Components with MD2RazorGenerator! | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- Keynote: The past, present, and future of AI for application developers | NDC Melbourne 2025 (Steve Sanderson)
- Say Hello to Agent Mode, MCP, & NES in Visual Studio (Katie Savage)
- Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 9 | NDC Melbourne 2025 (Brandon Minnick)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Paul Stack (Isaac Levin)
- VSCode AKS integration with KAITO | Open at Microsoft (Tatsat Mishra & Tejhan Diallo)
- Self-replicating AI Agents, with Evan Boyle, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Made by Google Podcast – Android Show: I/O Edition (Rachid Finge)
- Leading the Shift Podcast – Can AI make the world of art more accessible? | Art Basel (Susan Etlinger & Alain Brusch)
- The Amp Hour #693 â Small Scale Electronics Manufacturing with Colin OâFlynn (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The AI Fix Podcast – AI brings dead man back for killerâs trial, and the judge loves it (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- RunAs Radio Episode #984 – Active Directory in 2025 with Liz Tesch (Richard Campbell)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #505 – t-strings in Python (PEP 750) (Michael Kennedy)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Leadership Communication Can Destroy Team Morale | Simina Fodor (Vasco Duarte)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #668 – Steve Summers on Securing Test and Measurement Equipment (Sam Taggart)
Community & Events
- Mark Your Calendar: Uno Platform Studio & Uno Platform 6.0 Launch Live đ (May 15th) (Uno Platform)
- Firefox moves to GitHub (Rob Beschizza)
- Stronger Together: MVPs Reviving Local Tech User Groups with Global Support (Soyoung Lee)
- Microsoft cuts nearly 3% of global workforce, about 6,000 jobs, in latest push for efficiency (Todd Bishop)
Database
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New UI Goes GA and GitHub Copilot Enters Preview (Carlos Robles)
- A SQL Server Query Plan Answer (Erik Darling)
- Microsoft Build 2025 Preview: Transform Your AI Apps and Agents with Azure Cosmos DB (Jay Gordon)
- Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional (Louis Davidson)
- Fabric Data Factory Pipeline Execution From Azure Data Factory (Andy Leonard)
- SQL Data Type Conversions: Your Key to Clean Data & Sharp Queries (Tracy McKibben)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Best practices for securing your Teams meetings from unauthorized access (Meera Ajam)
- Microsoft extends Office app support on Windows 10 to 2028 (Tom Warren)
- TRAINING: Copilot Chat & Microsoft 365 Copilot Training for End Users & IT Pros (Kurt Shintaku)
PowerShell
- PowerShell Copy-Item: Copy Files and Folders (Michael Reinders)
- Using PowerShell and Excel Files for Bulk Operations (Exchange Team)
Miscellaneous
- Closures in Rust: Functional Vibes with a Twist (Chris Woodruff)
- Is Rust the Future of Programming? (Tatiana Parshutkina)
- Microsoft reveals its rejected Start menu redesigns (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List â May 13, 2025 (#551) (Richard Seroter)
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