Top Links
- Windows App SDK 1.8.2 (1.8.251003001) (Roy MacLachlan)
- Announcing Uno Platform and Microsoft .NET team Collaboration (Uno Platform Team)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.17 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11111.16 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Announcing the .NET Security Group (Jamshed Damkewala)
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – October 2025 (PuiChee (PC) Chan)
- Now Available by Popular Demand: GitHub Copilot in SSMS (Preview) (Erin Stellato)
- Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 (.NET Team)
Web Development
- Relying Party ID and Origin With Passkeys (Maarten Balliauw)
- Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for Windows 365 (Ivaylo Ivanov)
- Go 1.25.3-1 and 1.24.9-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
- Enterprise-Grade Monitoring Now Standard: Grafana Dashboards and InfluxDB Come to Meadow.Cloud (Bryan Costanich)
- React Basics: Getting Started with React and Visual Studio Code (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- Maintenance release: Blazorise 1.8.5 (Mladen Macanović)
- Transition to Azure Functions V2 on Azure Container Apps (DeepGanguly)
- How to move Active Directory Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra ID and why (Zachary Cavanell)
- JWT Authentication in Go with Gin (Benjamin Aronov)
.NET
- What’s New in the AWS Deploy Tool for .NET (Philippe El Asmar)
- .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 (Jon Galloway)
- .NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield & Victor Israel-Bolarinwa)
- .NET 10: Run Standalone C# Files Without Project (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- Modernizing Authentication for Legacy Visual Studio Clients (Angel Wong)
- How .NET Garbage Collector works (and when you should care) (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- ReSharper Is Now on the Open VSX Registry (Alexander Kurakin)
AI
- Get your VLM running in 3 simple steps on Intel CPUs (Ezequiel Lanza, Helena, Nikita, Ella Charlaix & Ilays Moutawwakil)
- AI agents: The next wave of AI-powered innovation (Anne Nicole)
- Agentic Workflows vs AI Agents (Shivay Lamba)
- Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity (Anand Mudgerikar)
- The AI Mandate (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Hosting Remote MCP Server on Azure Container Apps (ACA) using Streamable HTTP transport mechanism (DeepGanguly)
- How to build and deploy a portable AI agent that uses a managed memory service (Richard Seroter)
- The Developer’s Guide to Smarter Fine-tuning: Unlock custom AI for every business challenge (Malena Lopez-Sotelo & Jacques Guibert de Bruet)
- How GitHub Copilot and AI agents are saving legacy systems (Andrea Griffiths)
- Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI (Beatrice Nolan & Jeremy Kahn)
- Generative AI and the Bullshit Singularity (Erik Dietrich)
- Paper2Agent Converts Scientific Papers Into Interactive AI Agents (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Introducing MAI-Image-1, debuting in the top 10 on LMArena (Microsoft AI Team)
- Build a Multi-Agent System in 5 Minutes with cagent (Srini Sekaran)
- Enlightenment (Mike Loukides)
- Meta Data: How Data about Your Data is Optimal for AI (Exxact Team)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Design for Sustainability: New Design Principles for Reducing IT Hardware Emissions (Sanjay Gupta, Emre Tepedelenlioglu & Lisa Rivalin)
- Tabs: Taboo or Turbo in Enterprise Apps? (Teon Beijl)
- Applying Domain-Driven Driven Design to Integration and Consumption (Kin Lane)
- Building trust into UX: What I learned from Airbnb, PayPal, and more (Yaroslav Malymon)
- DevOps ROI: Why it Matters & How to Measure (James Walker)
Mobile and Game Development
- Sharpnado.Shadows 2.0: The MAUI Reborn (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)
- Customize Flutter Stock Charts Easily: Add Timeframes, Trendlines & More (Mugunthan Ramalingam)
- How to Update .NET MAUI 9 for Apple Xcode 26 (Vijay Anand E G)
- Can Arduino Teach a Tech Giant How To Win Over Developers? (Mary Branscombe)
- Accelerate Updates – Empowering Professional Avalonia Development (Steven Kirk)
Screencasts and Videos
- Building Multiple Implementations Of The Same Spec with GitHub Spec Kit (Den Delimarsky)
- EPISODE 26 – Scott and Mark Learn To… AI-Assisted Coding: Can AI Take the Wheel? (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Brian Pontarelli (Isaac Levin)
- From Local to Cloud: An Integrated Developer Tool Suite for Every Stage of Development (MongoDB Team)
- Meet the GitHub Podcast hosts | Episode 0 | The GitHub Podcast (GitHub Team)
- A Look Into OpenAI’s Agent Builder and 3 things to know about Red Hat AI 3 (Frank La Vigne)
- Random.Code() – Automatically Logging Invocations Using Interceptors, Part 5 (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- The AI Fix Show #72 – The AI hype train, space data centers, and lifelike robot heads (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- RunAs Radio Show #1006 – The End of NTLM with Steve Syfuhs (Richard Campbell)
- The Hidden Cost of Constant Restructuring in Agile Organizations | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Renee Troughton)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Black Women Deserve Careers That Love Them Back (with Mercedes Swan) (‘Tine Zekis)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – AI agents for your digital chores (Phoebe Sajor)
- Software Engineering Radio #690 – Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems (Giovanni Asproni)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The political, royal and obscene meanings of blue. The differences in ‘plumb’ and ‘plum.’ (Bonnie Mills & Mignon Fogarty)
Community
- 30 Years on the Web! Happy Birthday FranksWorld.com (Frank La Vigne)
- Join Us in Rebooting the Docker Model Runner Community! (Eric Curtin)
- Tech Prediction: The Data Kings Will Rule the World (David McCarter)
- W3C logo refresh: more than a cosmetic change, a small step towards durable and sustainable success (Seth Dobbs)
- MVP & RD Impact at the 2025 Microsoft Global Hackathon (Alice Piras)
- Ada Lovelace: Countess Of Computing (Sue Gee)
- Festive Tech Calendar 2025 – Call for Speakers Open (Festive Tech Calendar Team)
Database
- Random Gaussian Numbers in SQL using Box-Muller Transform (Sebastiao Pereira)
- Implementing Azure Arc for SQL Server (David Ramel)
- Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3 (M. Barickman)
- Yes, Oracle Autonomous JSON Database is Multicloud (Hermann Bär)
- Install SQL Server Management Studio Preview and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.6.17 Release Notes and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v22.0 Preview 3 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Support for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 ends today (Exchange Team)
- Office 2016/2019 have reached end of support – here’s what to do now (Jeremy Carlson)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Show me your ls (Michael Kennedy)
Tools
- NordVPN Embraces Open Source By Releasing Its Linux GUI On GitHub (BeauHD)
- I remember taking a screen shot of a video, and when I opened it in Paint, the video was playing in it! What witchcraft is this? (Raymond Chen)
- Choose how you search and stay organized with Firefox (Jenifer Boscacci)
- Demo Time – Never stress about live coding again (Elio Struyf)
General
- Common Yeast Can Survive Martian Conditions (BeauHD)
- Apple teases M5 MacBook (Jay Peters)
- End of Windows 10 Support: What Defender Customers Need to Know (Claire Levy)
- Discord blamed a vendor for its data breach — now the vendor says it was ‘not hacked’ (Jay Peters)
- As Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10, millions of users won’t (Tom Warren)
- Converting Office Open XML (DOCX) to PDF in Java (Bjoern Meyer)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 14, 2025 (#648) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #303 (Jasen)
