Top Links
- VS Code: Open Source AI Editor (VS Code Team)
- Introducing Windows ML: The future of machine learning development on Windows (Tucker Burns)
- ReSharper Comes to Microsoft Visual Studio Code: Public Preview Now Open (Sasha Ivanova)
- Windows App SDK v1.8.0 Experimental 2 Release (1.8.250515001-experimental2) đ§Ș (Roy MacLachlan)
- Advancing Windows for AI development: New platform capabilities and tools introduced at Build 2025 (Pavan Davuluri)
- Agent mode for every developer (Katie Savage)
- The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source (Pierre Boulay)
- Enhance your application security with administrator protection (Nilanjana Ganguly)
- Accelerating AI development with Windows-based AI workstations (Shen Chauhan)
- Accelerate Your .NET Upgrades with GitHub Copilot (McKenna Barlow)
- Announcing SQL Server 2025 Public Preview (Bob Ward)
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Comes to Windows Insiders and Linux (Aabha Thipsay)
- Securing the Model Context Protocol: Building a safer agentic future on Windows (David Weston)
- Edit is now open source (Christopher Nguyen)
- Microsoft Store expands opportunities for Windows app developers (Giorgio Sardo)
- .NET Aspire 9.3 is here and enhanced with GitHub Copilot! (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Web & Cloud Development
- IndexNow Enables Faster and More Reliable Updates for Shopping and Ads (Bing Team)
- Empowering Developers and Organizations: Microsoft Edge Innovations at Build (Microsoft Edge Team)
- The State of JavaScript Debugging in WebAssembly (B. Cameron Gain)
- Build Apps and Agents with Visual Studio Code and Azure (Mandy Whaley)
- Introducing Docker Hardened Images: Secure, Minimal, and Ready for Production (Michael Donovan)
- Microsoftâs plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap (David Pierce)
- Whatâs New in Angular 20: Key Features, Differences from Angular 19, and Major Benefits (CodeBriefly)
- Magentic-UI, an experimental human-centered web agent (Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Cheng Tan, Adam Fourney, Victor Dibia, Friederike Niedtner, Jack Gerrits, Jacob Alber, Jingya Chen, Griffin Bassman, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Ece Kamar & Saleema Amershi)
- Essential Moments in the OAuth and OpenID Connect Timeline (Joe DeCock, Khalid Abuhakmeh & Brett Hazen)
- What is Narrowing in TypeScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Windows App SDK 1.7.2 (1.7.250513003) (Roy MacLachlan)
- Windows AI Code Samples – ChatApp (Morten Nielsen)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Storing JSON data in relational databases using EF Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- âZLinqâ, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET (Yoshifumi Kawai)
- How to Import and Read Form Fields from DOCX Documents in .NET on Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
AI
- Introducing Syncfusion Cody: AI Code Editor for Enterprise App Development (Praveenkumar)
- GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent (Thomas Dohmke)
- Microsoft is now hosting xAIâs Grok 3 models (Tom Warren)
- Simplified access to AI in Microsoft Edge: Introducing the Prompt and Writing Assistance APIs (Patrick Brosset)
- Agentic Windows – Model Context Protocol (MCP) and App Actions supercharges agentic interactions on Windows (Windows Dev Center)
- JetBrains AI Assistant â Now in Visual Studio Code (Anastasia Kazakova)
- Whatâs new in Azure AI Foundry Fine Tuning (Dave Voutila)
- Enterprise-grade controls for AI apps and agents built with Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio (Lou Adesida)
- Things I Currently Believe About AI and Tech Employment (Camille Fournier)
- Natural Language Web – What is NLWeb (Microsoft on GitHub)
- Run automation workflows from actions in agents with Azure AI Foundry and Azure Logic Apps (Preview) (Esther Fan)
- Building a Local RAG Pipeline with Oracle 23ai and Ollama in Visual Studio Code (Doug Does Database)
- Build skills that matterâfasterâwith AI-assisted learning and Applied Skills (jeanaj)
- Integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) With Microsoft Copilot Studio AI Agents (Aravind Nuthalapati)
- Understand anything, anywhere with the new NotebookLM app (Biao Wang)
- Windsurf Launches SWE-1 Family of Models for Software Engineering (Daniel Dominguez)
- Microsoft Opens AI âStoreâ for Healthcare Developers (Darryl K. Taft)
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI can save the web, not destroy it (Nilay Patel)
- The Real Cost of Chinese Open-Source AI (Om Malik)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- GitHub vs Azure DevOps: Is GitHub Ready for Enterprise-Grade Software Development Lifecycle (SDL) Management? (Chris Pietschmann)
- Agentic DevOps: Evolving software development with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure (Amanda Silver & Mario Rodriguez)
- Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena, But for Developers (Michael Kennedy)
- Communicating Change with Clarity and CareâA Framework for Leaders (Farrah Mitra)
- Writing Tests in Rust: Familiar and Fast (Chris Woodruff)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Extreme Raspberry Pi: projects taking Raspberry Pi to its very limits (Rob Zwetsloot)
- What’s NEW in Unity 6.1, and how to port to consoles (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- Uno Platform Live Coding: ApplicationDataContainer (Basics) (Martin Zikmund)
- Fork Yeah! Microsoft open sourcing Copilot | Syntax Podcast (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Advancing Windows for AI Development (Windows Developer Team)
- Microsoft Build 2025 | Satya Nadella Opening Keynote (Microsoft)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: How developer platforms, Wasm and sovereign cloud can help build a more effective organization (Max KörbÀcher)
- Merge Conflict Episode #463 – Good and Bad Vibes (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Building Confidence and Community with PowerShell with Brock Bingham (James Petty)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #145 – Windows Subsystem for Linux is open source (Jerod Santo)
- Meta Cast – Why Firing All Managers Wonât Fix Your Culture (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Defense Unicorns, A Podcast – Why Contributing to Open Source Matters for the Mission (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How Intense Delivery Pressure Destroyed Team Trust, Culture, and Brought Burnout | Deniz Ari (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Microsoft Build 2025: The age of AI agents and building the open agentic web (Frank X. Shaw)
- Great Devs Donât Build Alone: Welcome to Azure AI Foundry Developer Community (Lee Stott)
- Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet (Kate Knibbs)
- Microsoft employee disrupts Satya Nadellaâs Build conference keynote (Tom Warren)
- Secret passages on Microsoft main campus, episode 3 (Raymond Chen)
- Bluesky is testing a new âliveâ indicator, starting with the NBA (Wes Davis)
Database
- SSMS v21 and SSIS (Andy Leonard)
- SQL Server 2025 Integration Services Public Preview (Chunhua)
- Announcing the preview of Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Erin Stellato)
- SQL Server 2025 & SSMS: New Bling (Karen Lopez)
- Announcing the Public Preview of the PostgreSQL Extension for Visual Studio Code (JoshMSFT)
- SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 24.04 step by step (Laerte Junior)
- SQL Server 2025 – AI ready enterprise database from ground to cloud (Venkata Raj Pochiraju)
- Whatâs new in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL at Microsoft Build 2025 (Jay Gordon & Andrew Liu)
- Release notes for SQL Server 2025 Preview on Linux (Microsoft Learn)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs (Zakiullah Khan)
- Whatâs New in Microsoft Teams | May 2025 – Build Edition (Pete Daderko)
- OneDrive Client for Linux (abraunegg)
- Transitioning from Microsoft 365 Business Premium to Business Basic: What Nonprofits Need to Know (Tiffiany Law)
- The Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Built for the new way of working (Ron Pessner)
- Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning (Ranveer Chandra)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Learning Python via PowerShell â A turn to the dark side? (Mark Wragg)
- Using Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3 on Windows Server 2025 (Orin Thomas)
Miscellaneous
- Advanced Windows Settings (PREVIEW) | Windows Developer Tools documentation (Microsoft Learn)
- Go Cryptography Security Audit (Roland Shoemaker & Filippo Valsorda)
- Windows 11 is testing a new wireless PC-to-PC data transfer feature (Mikael Markander & Joel Lee)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.4188 to the Release Preview Channel and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4151 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5603 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Paint.NET 5.1.8 is now available (Rick Brewster)
- Microsoft is giving Windows 11 power users and developers new Advanced Windows Settings (Sofia Elizabella WyciĆlik-Wilson)
- Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is Now Live! (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-21 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025) (Danilo Poccia)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – May 18 (Peter Ritchie)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #187 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List â May 19, 2025 (#555) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading Notes #649 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
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