Top Links
- TypeScript 7 native preview in Visual Studio 2026 (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
- Introducing ‘SQL Project Power Tools’ – create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio (Erik EJ)
- Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI (Tomas Vesely)
- Scott & Mark Learn To… Episode #25 – Level Up: Navigating Career Growth in Microsoft (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering at 12pm EDT today
- Visual Studio September Update – profiler agent, app modernization, and more (Simona Liao)
- How to get the Windows 11 2025 Update (John Cable)
Web & Cloud Development
- Building WinGet Search – A fast web interface for Windows Package Manager (John Smith)
- Goodbye WordPress and thanks AI (Michael Kennedy)
- Tips for Efficient Data Queries in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- What’s new in Svelte: October 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- How Deno protects against npm exploits (Andy Jiang)
- What’s new in Astro – September 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Build Interactive Doughnut Charts in .NET MAUI for Mobile Dashboards (Baranibharathi Pandian)
- Securely Load Encrypted PDFs in WPF PDF Viewer Using Credentials (Vikas S.)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Publishing NuGet packages from GitHub actions the easy way with Trusted Publishing (Andrew Lock)
- Why Microsoft Won’t Revive WinForms (and What Developers Are Using Instead (Matthew Mattei)
- Visual Studio 2026 – The Copilot Profiler Agent (Bart Wullems)
- Optimizing Array Performance in .NET: Getting the Most from ArrayPool (David McCarter)
AI
- Is .NET 10 for AI Replacing Python? (Prayag Vakharia)
- How WebMCP Lets Developers Control AI Agents With JavaScript (Richard MacManus)
- Google releases AI-powered ransomware detection features for cloud files (Ed Bott)
- Replit acquires OpenInt and Introducing Connectors (Replit Team)
- Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with (Jess Weatherbed)
- Sora 2 System Card and Launching Sora responsibly and Sora 2 is here (OpenAI Team)
- The Agentic Imperative: The future for banking and financial services with Agentic AI (Amit Choudhary, Muralikrishnan Puthanveedu & Sandeep Reddy)
- Better AI Depends on Better Data: We Need Your Help (Kris Kang)
- AI Mode can now help you search and explore visually (Lilian Rincon)
- Cursor 1.7 Adds Hooks for Agent Lifecycle Control (Matt Foster)
- How to deploy MCP servers on OpenShift using ToolHive (R. Kieley)
- Empowering defenders in the era of agentic AI with Microsoft Sentinel (Vasu Jakkal)
- Perplexity Launches Search API to Power Next-Gen AI Applications (Robert Krzaczyński)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introducing Argo CD in Octopus (Robert Erez)
- Turning investments into impact: Stack Overflow for Teams 2025.7 (Carrie Koos)
- Microspeak: Convicted (Raymond Chen)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Let’s talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification (Matthew Forsythe)
Screencasts & Videos
- Securing AI Deployments with HashiCorp Vault & Azure | Sip and Sync with Azure (David Wright & Govind Kamtamneni)
- C#, Aspire, and Open Source Code with YOU | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Why Open-Weight Models Matter | Hugging Face + VS Code | Python on Azure (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, Marlene Mahngami & Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Don Mackinnon (Isaac Levin)
- Hello Claude Sonnet 4.5! This things is a BEAST! (James Montemagno)
- ADHD: Living with it | Sharp & Unfiltered (Mads Torgersen & Klaus Loffelmann)
- Microsoft Security Copilot agents | Microsoft Mechanics (Dilip Radhakrishnan)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1004 – HaveIBeenPwned with Troy Hunt (Richard Campbell)
- Building Trust in Teams – The Foundation of Self-Organization | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tom Molenaar)
- PPP 479 | The AI Skills You Need to Stay Relevant, with Matt Mong (Andy Kaufman)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- The AI Fix Episode #70 – AI behaves… until it knows you’re watching (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Doing Too Much? This Is Your Sign to Start Delegating (with Renee Hastings) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Do you remember your first computer? (Pam Selle & Sarah Withee)
Community & Events
- Celebrating Marten’s 10th Birthday! (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Imagine Cup 2026: Where students build what’s next (MS Student Developer Team)
- So You Want to Become an MVP: A Practical Guide for Aspiring Tech Leaders (Kim Sanchez)
Database
- SQL Partition By Examples for Aggregating Data (Burt King)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Cursor Loops Are Better Than While Loops (Erik Darling)
- VS Code MSSQL Extension v1.35 Brings Schema Compare, Designer and Local Containers to GA (Edin Kapić)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2025 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
- Microsoft Excel turns 40! (Alyse Maguire)
- What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | September 2025 (Seth Patton)
- What’s new in Microsoft Planner – September 2025 (Nancy)
- What’s New in Excel (September 2025) (Ms. Excel)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files v4.0.12 (Files Team)
- Amazon debuts next-gen color Kindle Scribe with AI-powered notebook and more (Karthik Mudaliar)
- Amazon announces new Kindle Scribes including one with a color screen (Andrew Liszewski)
- Windows 11, version 25H2 security baseline (Rick Munck)
- Hands-on with Amazon’s new Kindle Scribes, including one with a color screen (Todd Haselton)
- Microsoft’s Windows 11 2025 update is available now (Tom Warren)
- Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans (Zack Whittaker)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 30, 2025 (#638) (Richard Seroter)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – September 28 (Peter Ritchie)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #293 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Unity 2022 by Example: A project-based guide to building 2D and 3D games, enhanced for AR, VR, and MR experiences (Scott H. Cameron) – Referral Link
