Top Links
- Terminal Chat now included in GitHub Copilot Free (Christopher Nguyen)
- Empowering innovation: The next generation of the Phi family (Weizhu Chen)
- AI-Assisted Mind Mapping: Create Interactive Diagrams with OpenAI and Angular (Sarathkumar V.)
- Dev Proxy v0.25, now available, with automatic shut down and simplified configuration management (Garry Trinder & Waldek Mastykarz)
- Warp, the intelligent terminal, now available on Windows (Zach Lloyd)
- Using GitHub Copilot code review in VS Code (GitHub Docs)
Web & Cloud Development
- Azure NetApp Files: Revolutionizing silicon design for high-performance computing (Aung Oo)
- Building a “shoutout” component in plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript (Chris Heilmann)
- Azure SDK Release (February 2025) (Hector Norzagaray)
- Blazor WebAssembly Authentication (Héctor Pérez)
- Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables (Michael Pratt)
- Empowering Microsoft Edge Add-ons developers with faster reviews (Microsoft Edge Team)
- OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers (Rox Williams)
- Inline Confirmations in JavaScript UI (Rick Strahl)
- The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source (Verge Staff)
- C# Dev Kit Previews .NET Aspire Orchestration (David Ramel)
- From Meh to Wow: Customize Your Okta Sign-In Experience (Nesh Popović)
- Node v23.9.0 (Current) (Michaël Zasso)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Build a Stunning Music Track UI Using .NET MAUI ListView (Jayaleshwari N.)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.13.2 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Convert MS Word DOCX to PDF with Form Fields in C# .NET: Preserve or Flatten Form Fields (Bjoern Meyer)
- C++/WinRT implementation inheritance: Notes on winrt::implements, part 6 (Raymond Chen)
- WinUI vs WPF, WinForms, UWP, and MFC (Greg Lutz)
- Finalizers are tricker than you might think. Part 1 (Sergey Teplyakov)
AI
- Amazon says that Alexa+ is ‘model agnostic’ and Alexa+ costs $19.99, free for Amazon Prime members (Kyle Wiggers)
- Pose Estimation with the AI Dev Gallery (zteutsch)
- Measure and Mitigate Risks for a generative AI app in Azure AI Foundry (Carlotta Caste)
- The Alexa Plus AI upgrade is here (Wes Davis)
- Exploring Azure OpenAI Assistants and Azure AI Agent Services: Benefits and Opportunities (Sharda Kaur)
- Step-by-Step Tutorial: Building an AI Agent Using Azure AI Foundry (Shivam Goyal)
- RAG Time: Ultimate Guide to Mastering RAG! (Ayca Bas)
- GitHub Copilot–Code referencing (Bart Wullems)
- Build a Vision Transformer from Scratch and Build an AI Chat Application with the MERN Stack (Beau Carnes)
- Start a rap battle between agents with AutoGen – Adding tools (Matteo Pagani)
- Variants of LoRA (Cameron R. Wolfe)
- Welcome to the new Phi-4 models – Microsoft Phi-4-mini & Phi-4-multimodal (Kinfey Lo)
- What is Difference Between Github Copilot and Microsoft Copilot? (Mahesh Chand)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Terraform + Azure DevOps: Automate Your Cloud Deployments the Smart Way (Chris Woodruff)
- Platform Pillars: Build Platforms, Not Infrastructure (Adam Gordon Bell)
- How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech (Joan Westenberg)
- Balsamiq’s next chapter: A fresh new look for a well-loved tool (Arielle)
- Learning to wireframe: A quick guide (Billy)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Building a Better Developer Experience: A Collaboration Between Gradle, Google, and JetBrains (Dmitriy Smirnov)
- Create an Interactive Heat Map Using Flutter Charts (Aswini Suresh Reddy)
- Media Capture Plugin 6.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
- February Update: What’s New in Firebase Data Connect (Cynthia Wang)
- Updating to Pi-hole v6 and enabling HTTPS! (Scott Helme)
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 191: Creating an Azure AI Foundry Project and Hub (David Giard)
- GitHub Copilot is EVERYWHERE in Visual Studio (Harshada Hole)
- Configuring Network Isolation for Azure OpenAI | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- .NET Aspire and AWS: a match made in heaven – NDC London 2025 (David Pallmann)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Key Jefferys (Isaac Levin)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Bugs in Rocks (Again) (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- Azure Podcast Episode 513 – Azure Container Apps Deep Dive (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Understanding the “Why” Behind Agile Transformation | Season Hughes (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast #880 – Creator of Home Assistant: Web Components, Self Hosting and Home Hacking (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Made By Google Podcast – Loss of Pulse: AI’s Life-Saving Role on Pixel Watch (Rachid Finge)
- .NET Rocks! – Vertical Slice Architecture with Jeremy Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #293 – Terraform Apply – Output Pizza (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Pam and Meredith explore herbalism, blockchains, and intuition (Pam Selle)
Community & Events
- AI innovation starts here—join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC (Locky Ainley)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Comments (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Changes (Rajendra Gupta)
- Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL Hits the CNCF Sandbox (Joab Jackson)
- SQL Agent Job Output Options for Troubleshooting (Jim Evans)
- T-SQL Tuesday #183: Improving Permission Management (Steve Jones)
- Native Windows principals for Azure SQL Managed Instance are now generally available (sravani-saluru)
- Announcing the Public Preview of the Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Rust! (Theo van Kraay)
- Exciting new T-SQL features: Regex support, Fuzzy matching, and bigint support in DATEADD – preview (abhimantiwari)
- Finding Out What Changed in a Cumulative Update (Brent Ozar)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft completes landmark EU Data Boundary, offering enhanced data residency and transparency (Julie Brill & Paul Lorimer)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 26, 2025 (#500) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Real-World Web Development with .NET 9: Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
