Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Local AI Models with Joe Finney (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The $150 Secret Hiding in Plain Sight (Jim Harrer)
- Organize Blazor Diagrams Easily Using Diagram Container (Balavignesh RaviChandran)
- Microsoft marks 50 years with limited edition Crocs shoes nodding to Windows XP (Windows Team)
- Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer (Luis Quintanilla)
- TechBash 2025 Prices Increase Saturday; Register Today! (Jason Gaylord)
Web & Cloud Development
- Your HTML Comments Are More Powerful Than You Think: Building Custom Validation Grammars with HtmlAgilityPack (Aaron Stannard)
- Linear Regression with Two-Way Interactions Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
- Simulating Container Style Queries with CSS Animations (Keith Clark)
- Building an Ecosystem around DS Server: Join Us as a Plug-in Pioneer (Bjoern Meyer)
- Build a Full Stack Movie Streaming App with Go, React, MongoDB, OpenAI (Beau Carnes)
- What’s New in Azure Event Grid (Connected-Seth)
- Docker and Angular Part 1: How to Dockerize Angular Apps (Dany Paredes)
- What Exactly is the “Azure Well-Architected Review”? (Shannon Kuehn)
- React 19.2 (React Team)
- How Readymag’s free layout model drives unconventional web design (Manoela Ilic)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Embed WPF User Controls in WinForms Applications (Nitin Sharma)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Discovering Visual Studio 2026 – Bring your own model (Bart Wullems)
- Secure a .NET RAG System with Auth0 FGA (Andrea Chiarelli)
- How do I convert a FILETIME to a C++ clock like std::system_clock or winrt::clock? (Raymond Chen)
- Build a Secure Signup API in .NET that Filters Emails and Verifies with Twilio SendGrid (Oghenevwede Emeni)
- Microsoft .NET Aspire backs .NET 10 file-based apps (Paul Krill)
- What’s New in vcpkg (September 2025) (Augustin Popa)
AI
- 5 Ways I Use Background Coding Agents Every Day (James Montemagno)
- Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities (Azure AI Foundry Team)
- Reliably refreshing a Semantic Model from Azure Data Factory or Synapse Pipelines and Batch Processing Triggered Pipeline Runs in Azure Synapse and Reliably refreshing a Semantic Model from Microsoft Fabric Pipelines (James Broome)
- Keeping Agents on Track: Introducing Task Adherence in Azure AI Foundry (Katelyn Rothney)
- Foundry Fridays: Your Front-Row Seat to Azure AI Innovation (Lee Stott)
- Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and culture matter more than tools (Katja Skafar)
- Azure AI Foundry: Advancing OpenTelemetry and delivering unified multi-agent observability (Paul Shealy)
- Adding AI-powered reviews (Alexander Nohe & Jeff Huleatt)
- The Cognitive Shortcut Paradox (Andrew Stellman)
- How To Use Vibe Coding Safely in the Enterprise (Drew Robb)
- AI Won’t Replace Design Engineers, But It Will Change How We Work (Hassan Djirdeh)
- From sketches to prototype: Designing with generative AI (Ishaan Malhi)
- Agentic AI with model context protocol (MCP) (Matthew Casperson)
- Microsoft’s Agent Framework, Evolution, Excitement, and the Caution of Lock-In (Paul J. Swider)
- Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps (Takuto Higuchi, Shawn Henry & Elijah Straight)
- Autoscaling vLLM with OpenShift AI (Trevor Royer)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Software Quality Assessment as an Ongoing Practice, Not a One-Time Event (Chris Woodruff)
- Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET (20th Anniversary Edition) (David McCarter)
- Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Security starts with you (Vasu Jakkal)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- A Complete Guide to Flutter CI/CD: From Bitbucket Pipelines to Automated Play Store Deployment (Kefeh Collins)
- Xbox Cloud Gaming comes out of beta with improved 1440p resolution (Tom Warren)
- Trixie — the new version of Raspberry Pi OS (Simon Long)
- Apple’s next-gen Vision Pro revealed in new regulatory filing (Emma Roth)
Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Conf 2025 is coming (.NET Team)
- Fix Ambiguous Constructors in ASP.NET Dependency Injection! (Michael Jolley)
- Agent Framework: Building Blocks for the Next Generation of AI Agents | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro, Evan Mattson, Elijah Straight & Eric Zhu)
- Why is everyone suddenly talking about AI agents? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast) on Podcast Awesome (Zach Leatherman)
- Hear What Matters: The Pixel Buds 2a Experience | Made by Google Podcast S8E5 (Rachid Finge)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Shift Your Locus of Control to Take Charge of Your Engineering Career (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Dev Leader Podcast – Leading Engineering Teams Without Burning Out – Interview with Ray Nicholus (Nick Cosentino)
- The Three Pillars of Scrum Master Success | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and Systemic Change Management—Making the Emotional Side of Change Visible | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tom Molenaar)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #660 – Reinventing Python tooling with Rust (Charlie Marsh, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – October 1st, 2025 We’re Back (Alec Harrison)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why ‘Useless Etymology’ gives you super powers, with Jess Zafarris (Mignon Fogarty)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode 492 – The State of AI and Your Career w/ Mark Thompson, Sr. DevRel @ Google (Taylor Desseyn)
- Software Engineering Radio #688 – Daniel Stenberg on Removing Rust from Curl (Gavin Henry)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – A Conversation with New Postmaster General David Steiner (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- CodeMash 2026 Early Bird Tickets Now Available and CodeMash 2026 Accepted Speakers Announced (CodeMash Team)
- Call for Papers is open for the WeAreDevelopers Berlin and San Jose events 2026 – here’s what we’re looking for… (Chris Heilmann)
- Google Cuts More Than 100 Design-Related Roles In Cloud Unit (BeauHD)
- Bluesky’s Patent Non-Aggression Pledge (Bluesky Team)
Database
- Data Virtualization with PolyBase for SQL Server 2025 (Hugo Queiroz)
- SQL Server is Slow, part 3 of 4 (Kevin3NF)
- Locking in CockroachDB, Part 3 – Killing Sessions and Transactions (Bryan Hogan)
- Which Should You Use: VARCHAR or NVARCHAR? (Brent Ozar)
- DataGrip Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (Stanislav Garkusha)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Meet Microsoft 365 Premium: Your AI and productivity powerhouse (Yusuf Mehdi)
- VBA New Edge Web Browser Control in Access – Wait for Page Load (Massimo Paolini)
- Microsoft’s new Office icons are more curvy and colorful and Microsoft 365 Premium bundles Office and AI for the same price as ChatGPT Plus (Tom Warren)
- Fluid forms, vibrant colors: how a subtle refresh of our Microsoft 365 icons signals deeper change (Jon Friedman)
- Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Sumit Chauhan)
Miscellaneous
- Ford and GM are buying their own EVs to keep the $7500 tax credit alive (Andrew J. Hawkins)
- AirPods Pro 3 Impossible To Repair, Earn Score of 0 In iFixit Teardown (BeauHD)
- Intel and AMD Trusted Enclaves, a Foundation For Network Security, Fall To Physical Attacks (BeauHD)
- Microsoft reveal massive Game Pass Ultimate and PC Pass price hike, concede that price hikes are “never fun” (Edwin Evans-Thirlwell)
- Accelerating our commercial growth (Microsoft)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 1, 2025 (#639) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #294 (Jasen)
- Windows news you can use: September 2025 (Eric Moe)
The Geek Shelf
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