Top Links
- Why Everyone Will be Using .NET Aspire /w David Fowler (Nick Chapsas)
- More Edge features get a performance boost (Microsoft Edge Team)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Psychology of Software Teams with Dr. Cat Hicks (Scott Hanselman)
- Discover magical AI experiences through the Microsoft Store on Windows, with the new AI Hub (Giorgio Sardo)
- No Dogma Podcast #176 – Jeff Fritz, .NET on Linux (Bryan Hogan)
- VisualStudio.Extensibility: Tagger support and updates to settings (Tina Schrepfer)
Web & Cloud Development
- ESLint now officially supports linting of CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Add Auth0 Organizations to Your B2B Blazor Web App (Andrea Chiarelli)
- 10 Essential ASP.NET Core Features to Remember (Assis Zang)
- ASP.NET Core -Automatically add middleware through IStartupFilter (Bart Wullems)
- Enhance Your Text Input with AI-Driven Suggestions in the Angular Smart TextArea [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- How to Use Classes in JavaScript – A Handbook for Beginners (Spruce Emmanuel)
- Setting application environment variables in IIS without restarts (Andrew Lock)
- The State of Terraform: Keeping Your Cloud Empire in Check (Chris Woodruff)
- Building cloud application with .NET Aspire (Denis Makarenko)
- Protecting Workload Identities Using Conditional Access Policy in Entra (Farooque)
- Leveraging subpackages for scalable microservices (Ludwig Wullner)
- How OWASP Helps You Secure Your Full-Stack Web Applications (Eric Burel)
- Building a Web App with BoxLang (Raymond Camden)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 4 (Kevin Gosse)
- C# Dev Kit Update: Enhancements to Solution-less Workspace and More (Almir Vuk)
- Killing a Worker Application from a BackgroundService (Bryan Hogan)
- The Curious Case of .NET ConcurrentDictionary and Closures (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Optimizing Byte-to-Hex Conversions (David McCarter)
AI
- Data Storage in Azure OpenAI Service (Agustin Mantaras)
- Build Scalable AI Agents: Langbase and the Gemini API (Vishal Dharmadhikari, Paige Bailey & Ahmad Awais)
- Automate Quota Discovery in Azure AI Foundry: A Tale of 3 APIs (Cedric Vidal)
- Enterprise Best Practices for Fine-Tuning Azure OpenAI Models (Jake)
- Unlock the Power of AI with Azure AI Assistant Tool (Lee Stott)
- How AI Automation Increases Research Productivity (Exxact Team)
- GenAI Patterns: Guardrails and RAG overview (Martin Fowler)
- OpenAI cancels o3 released and announces roadmap for GPT 4.5, 5 (Andrew Hoblitzell)
- How Do LLMs Benefit Developer Productivity? (Cheuk Ting Ho)
- Now you can use Deep Research in Gemini on the go. (Dave Citron)
- AI Essentials for Tech Executives (Hamel Husain & Greg Ceccarelli)
- Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference and OpenAI may give board special voting rights to ward off takeover attempts (Kyle Wiggers)
- Using OpenAI’s o3-mini Reasoning Model in Semantic Kernel (Roger Barreto)
- DeepSeek Models Now Available in Capella AI Services (Vishwa Yeruru)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Unit Testing & The Goal (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Protecting user data through source code analysis at scale (Steven Hsieh & Mudita Khurana)
- Pie Chart Best Practices: How to Visualize Data Effectively (Ilamathi Govindaraj)
- Managing Resistance: How to Reset Expectations With Challenging Direct Reports (Brandi Neal)
- Your statement is now available, just two hidden flyouts and five clicks away (Raymond Chen)
- Simplifying processes: The importance of automating repetitive tasks (Sanjit Singh)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Coming soon! New updates & features for Ionic’s Open Source projects (Matt Kremer)
- Consuming private Swift Packages in GitHub Actions (Tomasz Cielecki)
- AI-Assisted Coding for iOS Development: CursorAI and Upcoming Swift Assist (Prithiv Dev Devendran)
- Can Meta still make the metaverse? (David Pierce)
- Programmable IO on the Pi Pico (j2inet)
Screencasts & Videos
- Customize Your PowerShell Terminal With Amazing File Icons (Windows Developer Team)
- Grok 3: This NEW AI Just Broke The Internet… 🤯 and It Was The Programming Language Of The Future – So Why Is Nobody Using It? (Frank LaVigne)
- New GitHub Copilot code completion model: GPT-4o Copilot (GitHub Team)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen – Agents Era, with Fabian Williams (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Episode #972 – Managed DevOps Pools with Eliza Tarasila (Richard Campbell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Bridging the Gap Between Agile Teams and Leadership | Josh Anderson (Vasco Duarte)
- Behind the Tech Podcast – Ask Me Anything with Microsoft CTO, Kevin Scott (Kevin Scott)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why we misuse ‘literally.’ How ham radio got its name. District (Mignon Fogarty, Valerie Fridland & Karen Lunde)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – WBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to (Ryan Donovan)
Community & Events
- EVENT: Azure CosmosDB Conf 2025 – April 15, 2025 (Kurt Shintaku)
- I’m Doing Free SQL Server Spring Training Live Webcasts. Register Now. (Brent Ozar)
- Marvel Rivals’ US team is undergoing layoffs (Ash Parrish)
- Join us for the end-to-end Microsoft RSAC 2025 Conference experience (Dasha Zenkovich)
- In a Last-Minute Decision, White House Decides Not To Terminate NASA Employees (BeauHD)
- My Life in Weeks (Gina Trapani)
- Upcoming February 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call – new format! (Jessie Hwang)
- Bluesky Lists Integration For Silicon Valley Code Camp Speakers and Attendees (Peter Kellner)
- Lloyds Is Auditing Thousands of IT Staffers’ Technical Skills (msmash)
- Welcome Progress Champions for 2025 (Sam Basu)
- Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option (Sarah Perez)
Database
- AI in SQL Server 2025: Embeddings (Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes)
- A Little About Choosing Index Key Column Order (Erik Darling)
- Database Management Systems (Shekhar Jha)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Search and import data with Copilot in Excel (jokahati)
- Streamline meeting management with Copilot (Alyse Maguire)
Miscellaneous
- Second crisis Ukraine summit planned for Wednesday (Nathalie Weatherald, Jacopo Barigazzi & Eddy Wax)
- Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst” (Peter Elkind)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.3321 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- 2025 Microsoft Legislative Agenda: A new era (Colleen Kerr)
- How I Write Posts (Ricardo Peres)
- Microsoft isn’t automatically keeping you signed in to your account just yet (Tom Warren)
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