Top Links
- Build AI-Powered Apps With Genkit and Angular (Angular Team)
- EPISODE 12 – Scott and Mark Learn To… Reputate (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering Wednesday
- Introducing automatic documentation comment generation in Visual Studio (Sinem Akinci & Allie Barry)
- How to use the command palette in Windows Terminal (Microsoft Learn)
- If you’re a fan of PowerToys Run, you’ll absolutely love the upcoming Windows Command Palette module (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Paint update begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
Web & Cloud Development
- A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 1.1, kinda sorta…A Flippy Tag Helper) (Scott Galloway)
- .NET Aspirations – Use ASP.NET Core HTTPS Development Certificate (Alexandre Nédélec)
- The 5 Steps to Route Guards in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Styling Counters in CSS (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- Create UML Activity Diagrams with React Diagram Library (Moulidharan Gopalakrishnan)
- Cloud Security Made Easy: Protect Your Apps with Microsoft Azure (rajatrajputdev)
- Adding Cloudflare Turnstile to an ASP.NET Core website (Thomas Ardal)
- Duende BFF Security Framework V3 released! (Erwin van der Valk & Maarten Balliauw)
- The REST Formula: Six Principles That Keep the Web Running Smoothly (Chris Woodruff)
- Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference? (Gabriel Shoyombo)
- Your OpenAPI is Your API Business Requirements (Kin Lane)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 10 Preview: What’s New and How to Get Started (Vijay Anand E G)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Neural Network Quantile Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- C# Round Datetime Extension To Nearest Minute, Round Up, Round Down (Mark Pahulje)
AI
- Azure AI Search (Peli de Halleux)
- VS Code 1.98 Increases AI Assistance (Kay Ewbank)
- Announcing the Responses API and Computer-Using Agent in Azure AI Foundry (Akshay Kakar)
- Microsoft’s Copilot: Choosing the Right AI Assistant for Your Needs (Mohamed El-Qassas)
- Build a Multi-Agent System Using Microsoft Azure AI Agent Service and Semantic Kernel in 3 Simple Steps! (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Akshay Kokane)
- To get ahead with AI, fine-tune your data strategy (Katja Skafar & Susi O’Neill)
- OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive and Slack (Kyle Wiggers)
- The Future of AI: Unleashing the Potential of AI Translation (Lee Stott)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- How to Modernize Legacy Systems with Microservices Architectures (Vijayasekhar Duvvur)
- Phased breaking changes (Mark Seemann)
- So, What’s the Difference Between Observability and Monitoring? (Martin Thwaites)
- Why UI code matters (Matt Lacey)
- Open Telemetry for All Your Services (Pascal Senn)
- How the IntelliJ Infrastructure Team Cuts Build Execution Time by 30% With TeamCity (Olga Bedrina)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- RP2350 now available to buy: a high-performance, secure microcontroller for your next project (Eben Upton)
Screencasts & Videos
- The surprising way Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella uses AI to consume podcasts on his commute (Todd Bishop)
- Introduction to Visual Studio Extensibility Samples (Tina Schrepfer)
- Extending Visual Studio – Output Window (Leslie Richardson & Murphy McQuet)
- GitHub Copilot 101 – Essential features | Tutorial (GitHub Team)
- Random.Code() – Fixing Rocks Bugs (Maybe This Time I’m Done) (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict #454 – Let’s ship some .NET iOS & Android apps! CI/CD Deep Dive (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – “You’re Not Listening”: A Scrum Master’s Wake-Up Call | Karen Suarez (Vasco Duarte)
- The PowerShell – Podcast Exploring PowerShell for Physical Security and Automation with Cody Paternostro (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast #885 – CSS Fonts Fallbacks, Variable and Trimming (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Betatalks, the Podcast #104 – Decoding Software: Learning Through Experience – with Shawn Wildermuth (Rick & Oscar)
- The Changelog News Podcast #136 – Our interfaces have lost their senses (Jerod Santo)
- PPP 451 | Why We’re Still Bad at Listening (And How to Get Better), with Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener (Andy Kaufman)
- Adam Savage – Part 1 – “Hands-on Thinking” – TWP068 (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #215 – Threat Modeling at Google: From Basics to AI-powered Magic (Anton Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Why Every Leader Should Learn to Speak Publicly (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Improving error monitoring with AI (Eira May)
- Python Bytes Podcast #424 – We Will Test in Production (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why we say ‘OK.’ How tea shaped English slang. Poetry winner (Mignon Fogarty)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/3/17 – From Small-Town Beginnings to Microsoft: A Deep Dive with Troy Hite (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
Community & Events
- Node.js Launches Official Community Space on Discord (Carl Vitullo & Claudio Wunder)
- Finding the Right Words: Why Gender-Balanced Language Matters in Tech and Beyond (Dotneteers)
- The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America (Jason Parham)
- Text Control at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
Database
- MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Character Sets and Collations (Aisha Bukar)
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Data Types (Erik Darling)
- Identify Anti-Patterns in SQL Server Queries (Rajendra Gupta)
- TLS 1.3 support in Azure Cosmos DB (Iria Osara)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- New live chat in Microsoft Teams: Connecting customers and businesses effortlessly (Brenna Robinson)
- How to edit your display name in Microsoft Teams meetings (Vesa Nopanen)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here! (Vivek Gite)
- Bluetooth accessory guidelines version 1.0 Overview (Microsoft Learn)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3576 (Dev and Beta Channels) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5090 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- GIMP 3.0 Released (BeauHD)
- DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread (Kate Knibbs)
- Harvard Says Tuition Will Be Free For Families Making $200K or Less (msmash)
- How to Shop for Vinyl Records Online (2025): Discogs, Ebay (Parker Hall)
- Dubious security vulnerability: A program does not run correctly if you run it the wrong way (Raymond Chen)
- Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out (Scharon Harding)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-12 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #179 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – March 17, 2025 (#513) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more (Prasad Rao)
- Reading Notes #640 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Modernizing your Windows Applications with Windows Apps SDK and WinUI (Matteo Pagani & Marc Plogas) – Referral Link
