Top Links
- GitHub Copilot Spaces: Bring the right context to every suggestion (Andrea Griffiths)
- Building Cross-Platform Media Applications in .NET with MediaPlayerElement (Uno Platform Team)
- Remote MCP support in Claude Code (Anthropic Team)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Local Containers, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Connection Groups (Carlos Robles)
- AI Agents with MCP Explained | Azure Developers (Jeffrey Richter)
- Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0 (Jason Helmick)
Web & Cloud Development
- How robots talk: building distributed robots with gRPC and WebRTC (Joyce Lin)
- Combining .NET Aspire with Temporal – Part 3 (Rebecca Powell)
- Docker State of App Dev: Security (Rebecca Floyd)
- Strengthen business resilience with Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (Stefan Kinnestrand)
- Enhanced security defaults for Windows 365 Cloud PCs (Derek Su)
- TypeScript: supporting the new class Iterator at the type level (Axel Rauschmayer)
- How to convince your boss to sponsor Open Web Docs (Patrick Brosset)
- Bring Your Own Keys With Pulumi ESC (Boris Schlosser)
- Deno 2.3 Now Supports Local NPM Packages (Bruno Couriol)
- Windows 365 Cloud Apps now in private preview (Serena Zheng)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- From Chat to Charts: Build an AI-Powered .NET MAUI Chatbot That Converts Text into Charts (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
Visual Studio & .NET
- 8 EF Core Query Hacks to Supercharge Your App’s Performance (Gibran Fahed)
- You have to tell Get- and SetSecurityInfo the object type, you can’t make it guess (Raymond Chen)
- TX Text Control 33.0 SP2 is Now Available: What’s New in the Latest Version (Bjoern Meyer)
AI
- Why Docker Chose OCI Artifacts for AI Model Packaging (Emily Casey)
- Using Model Context Protocol in agents – Streamable HTTP support in Copilot Studio (Matteo Pagani)
- Using Context7 MCP for Up-to-date Code Documentation with GitHub Copilot (Copilot That Jawn)
- Update To MCP Authorization Spec – Resource Parameter (RFC 8707) (Den Delimarsky)
- AI thoughts, June 2025 (Jimmy Nilsson)
- Behind the scenes: How we designed Docker Model Runner and what’s next (Jacob Howard)
- Maximize your ROI for Azure OpenAI (Steve Sweetman)
- Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro: Unlocking AI-powered geospatial insights for enterprises across industries (Douglas Phillips)
- Anthropic’s Claude Code Gets Support for Remote MCP Servers (Frederic Lardinois)
- The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works (Hayden Field)
- Frontend devs: Here’s how to get the most out of Cursor (Isaac Okoro)
- Software Developers on AI: Insights and Opportunities (Katie Fraser)
- eBook: Strategic CIO’s Generative AI Playbook (Kurt Shintaku)
- Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1 (Maxwell Zeff)
- The Model Context Protocol Security Reality Check (Nick Taylor)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Expert Generalists: first three characteristics (Martin Fowler)
- The New Separation of Concerns (Brad Frost)
- TeamCity 2025.03.3 Is Now Available (Dmitrii Korovin)
- Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable (Ashleigh Marvos)
- GitOps Gap: Few Use Declarative Configuration To Manage State (Steve Fenton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Development Is A Mess (Mike James)
- This Flutter Method Eliminated 200+ Lines of My Scrolling Code (unbox_flutter)
- NFC is getting a range boost (Jess Weatherbed)
- TIL: Smart glasses aren’t just for pricks, they are an accessibility aid (Chris Heilmann)
- When (and Why) to Roll Back Features on Apps (Suzanne Scacca)
- Xbox President: We’re Working To Ensure Windows Is the Number One Platform For Gaming (msmash)
Screencasts & Videos
- What’s New for ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 9? | One Dev Question (Dan Roth)
- Out of the Box – HUBba HUBba! Meet the Streamplify Hub Ctrl 7 | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom & Jessica Engstrom)
- MCP Resources: Build a Server With Claude, Cursor & Postman (Postman Team)
Podcasts
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #646 – The CEO of htmx likes codin’ dirty (Carson Gross & Jerod Santo)
- .NET Rocks! – Frictionless Development with Nicole Forsgren (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Amp Hour #696 – It Works With Option Number 5 (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #308 – SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities? (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Leaders of Code Episode 7 – “My job is going to change in a dramatic way”: Exploring the future of the internet with Cloudflare (Katja Skafar)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #510 – 10 Polars Tools and Techniques To Level Up Your Data Science (Michael Kennedy)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Learn like a lurker: Gen Z’s digital-first lifestyle and the future of knowledge (Phoebe Sajor)
- Practical AI Podcast – Behind-the-Scenes: VC Funding for AI Startups (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #673 – Abhinav Kimothi on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Priyanka Raghavan)
Community & Events
- Report: Microsoft set to slash thousands more jobs in July — sales teams in the crosshairs (Daniel Rubino)
- Microsoft isn’t done cutting jobs yet: Report says sales roles are next on the chopping block (Todd Bishop)
Database
- A Little About Forwarded Fetches In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- Getting started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server (Robert Sheldon)
- Unlocking More Power with Flexible Memory in Azure SQL Managed Instance (Uros Milanovic)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Teams Toolkit Rebranded to Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit (Edin Kapić)
- WHITEPAPER: Microsoft 365 Copilot – Readiness and Adoption Guide for Public Sector (Kurt Shintaku)
- Smarter Context Awareness for Copilot in Excel (Itai Goldstein)
Miscellaneous
- Stephen Miller’s wife ordered Social Security workers to cover up a lie from her new boss Elon Musk: report (John Bowden)
- Framework Laptop 12 review: plastic fantastic (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – June 18, 2025 (#571) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #221 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Head First C#: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with C# and .NET Core (Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene) – Referral Link