Top Links
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research (Scott Hanselman)
- Basic photo, video, and audio capture with MediaCapture in a WinUI 3 app (Microsoft Learn)
- Enhance Pull Request Reviews with In-Depth Feedback in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)
- Deep .NET – Using AI Python Libraries in .NET Apps with CSnakes | On .NET (Scott Hanselman & Anthony Shaw)
- Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Azure DevOps Test Plans (Igor Najdenovski)
- .NET Aspire for Mobile Apps?! (Gerald Versluis)
Web & Cloud Development
- Dapr Agents: Scalable AI Workflows with LLMs, Kubernetes & Multi-Agent Coordination (Eran Stiller)
- Coding Azure 7a: Creating a Frontend for a Web Service Running in an App Service—The React TypeScript/JavaScript Version and Coding Azure 7b: Creating a Frontend for a Web Service running in an App Service—The ASP.NET Core version (Peter Vogel)
- REST Constraint #2: Why Client-Server Separation is a Game Changer (Chris Woodruff)
- 7 new features in the Network Observability CLI 1.8 (Julien Pinsonneau)
- March Is Blazor Spreadsheet Madness (Rick Hellwege)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Optimizing by 170,000%(!) by not being silly (Oren Eini)
- What could cause a memory corruption bug to disappear in safe mode? (Raymond Chen)
- Unlock Performance Gains in .NET: Evaluating the ‘in’ Modifier for Method Parameters (David McCarter)
AI
- Integrating Azure AI Agent Service and Semantic Kernel SDK (Tressha)
- AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams (Bilgin Ibryam)
- Book review of Jonathan Warner’s book, More Than Words: How to think about writing in the age of AI (Tom Johnson)
- Introducing next-generation audio models in the API (OpenAI Team)
- Adapt as an AI Developer of Be Left Behind (Chris Pietschmann)
- Generative AI and its Use Cases for Enterprise Applications Part – 3 (Abdul Rafae Mohammed, Aby Joy & Shaibal Talukder)
- Personalizing travel at scale with OpenAI (Rob Francis)
- AI Agents Are Dumb Robots, Calling LLMs (Alex Williams)
- Integrate OpenAI with Twilio Voice Using ConversationRelay (Amanda Lange)
- Four Transformational Changes Coming to AI in 2025 (David DeSanto)
- A Hugging Face Project Is Uncovering DeepSeek-R1’s Secrets (Loraine Lawson)
- Protecting the public from abusive AI-generated content across the EU (Nanna-Louise Linde)
- 8 universities and schools transforming education with the help of Google AI (Shantanu Sinha)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Getting Started with TDD: A Practical Guide to Beginning a Lasting Practice (Tony Distinti)
- What’s New in TeamCity 2025.03: Recipes, Improved Docker and Podman Integration, UI Updates, and More (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Discontinuous improvement (Bart Wullems)
- Does Clean Code Mean Clean Architecture? (Peter Smulovics)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Kotlin 2.1.20 Released (Daniel Csorba)
- Announcing DirectX Raytracing 1.2, PIX, Neural Rendering and more at GDC 2025! (Cassie Hoef)
- Here’s the Steam on Xbox evidence Microsoft didn’t want you to see (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- How are you using AI in your day-to-day .NET MAUI development? | One Dev Question (Rachel Kang)
- Comparing Copilot Chat included with Microsoft 365 to a paid Copilot license (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Reduce risk and drive innovation with Azure Essentials | The Azure Essentials Show (Thomas Mauer)
- NVIDIA GTC Spring 2025 Keynote: Introducing NVIDIA DGX Spark and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers keynote at GTC 2025 and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots (Frank LaVigne)
- Shaving the Yak with AI ➡️ Devs want specs, Product Owners want speed | Adam Cogan | User Group (SSW TV)
- The Download: Copilot Vision input, TypeScript is 10x faster, and open source gaming (GitHub)
- New GitHub Copilot code completion model: GPT-4o Copilot (Simona Liao & Andrea Mah)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Deploying With Confidence: Sam Gomez on Terraform, Bicep, and Infrastructure as Code (Jamie Taylor)
- Developer Tea – Chesterton’s Fence – Why You Should Think Twice Before Rewriting That Project (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Beyond Process Compliance: True Indicators of Agile Team Maturity | Karen Suarez (Vasco Duarte)
- Adam Savage – Part 2 – “Creativity as performance” – The Well Podcast #069 (Anson Mount & Branan Edgens)
- InfoQ Podcast: Claire Vo on Building High-Performing, Customer-Centric Teams in the Age of AI (Claire Vo)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #633 – Securing ecommerce: “It’s complicated” (Ilya Grigorik & Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – An AI future free of slop (Eira May)
- The Microsoft Research Podcast – The reality of generative AI in the clinic (Peter Lee, Dr. Sara Murray & Dr. Christopher Longhurst)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #511 – G-Wiz (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- March 22-31: Global AI Bootcamp 2025 Local Event Information (Rie Moriguchi)
- Threads finally lets you set the following feed as default (Tom Warren)
- Arduino Days Are Back for 2025 (Sam Freeman)
- Threads adds new features to highlight topics and limit replies (Ivan Mehta)
- Bluesky makes it easier for publishers to track referrals (Sarah Perez)
Database
- MySQL vs PostgreSQL – String Datatypes (Aisha Bukar)
- ODBC Driver 18.5 for SQL Server Released (David Engel)
- Date Range SQL Server Query Performance Issues with Parameter Sniffing (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Data at rest (Leana Gerrard)
- Microsoft 365 subscribers can now experience Copilot in OneDrive (Greg Socha)
Miscellaneous
- Britain Issues Travel Warning for US (Billal Rahman)
- Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S. (NL Times)
- Apple puts the Vision Pro guy in charge of Siri (Emma Roth)
- Deprecation of Microsoft Defender Application Guard: Transitioning to Enhanced Security Solutions (hewagen)
- MacOS software setup 2025 (James E. Clarke)
- The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income (Jeff Atwood)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 20, 2025 (#516) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Humble Software Bundle – Becoming a C# and Unity Game Developer (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
