Top Links
- Learn how to build agentic apps with Flutter, Angular, Firebase, and Vertex AI (Kelvin Boateng)
- A guide to deciding what AI model to use in GitHub Copilot (Klint Finley)
- Pocket Flow Tutorial – Codebase–>Knowledge – Turns Codebase into Easy Tutorial with AI (Zachary Huang)
- The Prof G Pod – Why Women Still Struggle for Real Power — with Melinda French Gates (Scott Galloway)
- AI Agent with Dart + Gemini (Chris Sells)
- Hands On with Microsoft’s AI Playground in a Windows App (David Ramel)
Web & Cloud Development
- Announcing Version 1.1 of the Vonage Video Reference Application for React (Chris Tankersley)
- Building a composite Web Component library with Vite, Tailwind CSS and daisyUI (Alan Mendelevich)
- Enforce Customer Email Verification in Your B2B Blazor Web App (Andrea Chiarelli)
- E-Sign Comes to Blazor: Document Viewer 33.0.1 Released (Bjoern Meyer)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) in a real-life scenario (Frank Boucher)
- Coding Azure 11: Recreating and Deploying Azure Resources with ARM and Bicep Templates (Peter Vogel)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Syncfusion Essential UI Kit for .NET MAUI 2.0.0: 8 Customizable Pages to Boost App Development (Jeyasri Murugan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Announcing the General Availability of the Couchbase EF Core Provider (Matthew Groves)
- When I define a window class with no default cursor, what is the explanation for the cursors that appear in my client area? (Raymond Chen)
- Why C#? (Milan Milanović)
AI
- Customer Case Study: Microsoft Store Assistant — bringing multi expert intelligence to Microsoft Store chat with Semantic Kernel and Azure AI (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Bryan Levy & Jeff Iris)
- Claude Code overview (Anthropic Docs)
- Charted: The Surging Cost of Training AI Models (Dorothy Neufeld)
- Tool calling using MCP with Semantic Kernel (Bart Wullems)
- Code Your Own Llama 4 LLM from Scratch (Beau Carnes)
- Unleash AI Innovation with a Modern Integration Platform and an API-First Strategy (beenamore)
- Building With MCP? Mind the Security Gaps (Bill Doerrfeld)
- What Can You Learn from the AI Frameworks Mud Fight? (Eleanor Berger)
- Skyrocketing Your Career in the Age of AI: Strategies for Success in an AI-Driven World (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Mastering Getting Started with Agents: Your On-Demand Resource Hub (Lee Stott)
- Microsoft’s design chief on human creation in the AI era (Tom Warren)
- Distributed Cloud Computing: Enhancing Privacy with AI-Driven Solutions (Rohit Garg & Ankit Awasthi)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Create unit tests from Standard workflow definitions in Azure Logic Apps with Visual Studio Code (Preview) (Microsoft Learn)
- How UX and Marketing Are Saying the Same Things, Differently (Anamol Rajbhandari)
- Why IT Pros Should Start Paying Attention to Git (Christopher Tozzi)
- Revolutionizing Application Security: The Plea for Unified Platforms (Damir Mujezinovic)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Create a Student–Tutor Booking App with Flutter Calendar – A Step-by-Step Guide (Preethika Selvam)
- Unity 6.1, a Supported Update release, is now available (Nichole Wong)
- Reverse Engineering the Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter (Jaco Pretorius)
- Best AI Tools to Make Mobile Apps (Mahesh Chand)
Screencasts & Videos
- C# and Database Configuration | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- SQL MI pools: optimize costs with small 2-vcore instances | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Djordje Marinkovic)
- How can I learn more about .NET Aspire? | One Dev Question (Jayme Singleton)
- Agents with Copilot Studio – Webinar Series for Microsoft AI Agents Recording (Michael Gannotti)
- Windows Server Migration & Skilling | Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark & Janine Patrick)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Empathy and Accessibility: Fostering Better Engineering Cultures and Developer Experiences (Erin Doyle)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Neverending support for open source with Hayden Barnes (Scott Hanselman)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Dual Focus, Balancing Agile Team Health with Value Delivery | Chris Sims (Vasco Duarte)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX (Eira May)
- UX Podcast Episode #337 – Headspace with Cal Thompson (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #516 – Vibe Strategy (Brandon Whichard & Coté)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Leaders of Code – Standardization and simplification as key to engineering excellence (Katja Skafar)
Community & Events
- Mastering Row-Level Security (RLS) in Bold BI: Secure Multitenant Data Access for Authenticated and Anonymous Users [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- #UCK25 | Built by developers, for developers – that’s Update Conference Krakow – Tickets now 30% off for a limited time (Update Conference)
- Meta is laying off employees in Reality Labs (Alex Heath)
- Intel Says Employees Must Return To the Office 4 Days a Week (BeauHD)
- Threads’ web app is moving from .net to .com (Emma Roth)
- Week 3 . Microsoft Agents Hack Online Events and Readiness Resources (Lee Stott)
- Happy 15th Birthday Go! (Go Team)
- 14 Secure Coding Tips: Learn from the Experts at Microsoft Build 2025 (Joey Snow)
- Microsoft Offers Underperformers Cash To Quit (msmash)
Database
- Recent Improvements to sp_HealthParser (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing new agentic features for Copilot in Forms – Create, Refine, and Share with Ease (Junyu B.)
- Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: HIPAA (Tony Balkan)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft kills Windows Maps app (Taras Buria)
- Your LG TV Is Now an Xbox (Jorge A. Aguilar)
- Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer (Rio Yamat)
- Trump goes after websites that raise money for his enemies (Tina Nguyen)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 24, 2025 (#538) (Richard Seroter)
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