Top Links
- Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) (David Fowler)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Agent Mode Updates, Colored Connections, and Schema Designer updates (Carlos Robles)
- .NET Rocks! – AI Concerns with Mark Seemann (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- How to Build Variance Indicators Using .NET MAUI Toolkit Charts for Natural Gas Price Volatility (Kompelli Sravan Kumar Kompelli Lakshman)
- Docker MCP Catalog: Finding the Right AI Tools for Your Project (Saloni Narang)
- Can You Build Agent2Agent Communication on MCP? Yes! (Victor Dibia, Mike Kistler & Maria Naggaga)
Web & Cloud Development
- Workspaces Are Now Generally Available In Azure API Management Premium v2 (budzynski)
- How to Add a Popup on WordPress: 3 Easy Ways & Best Plugins (Jen Swisher)
- BFF in ASP.NET Core #3 – The BFF Pattern Explained (Tore Nestenius)
- Real-Time Server-Sent Events in ASP.NET Core and .NET 10 (Anton Martyniuk)
- dymaptic.GeoBlazor.Templates 4.1.0 (NuGet)
- Firebase Data Connect: Full Text Search, Enums, and More (Andrea Wu)
- Build a Storytelling Service With RCS Rich Cards and Gemini (Amanda Cavallaro)
- Decoding Cloud Terminology: What ‘Cloud-Native’ Really Means (Christopher Tozzi)
- How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected) (Mipsy Tipsy)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- New: Uno Tech Bite | Thickness Editor (Uno Platform Team)
- CherylUI theme for your Uno Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
Visual Studio & .NET
AI
- Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain (Emanuel Maiberg)
- FDA’s New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report. The AI, dubbed Elsa, is supposed to be making employees better at their jobs. (Matt Novak)
- TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? (Orr Zohar, Xiaohan Wang, Rui Li & Andres Marafioti)
- Post-Call Text Insights Now in GA – Featuring AI-Generated Summaries! (Kapil Mishra)
- Technical approach for classifying human-AI interactions at scale (Amber Hoak, David Tittsworth, Kate Lytvynets, Scott Counts, Weiwei Yang, Ben Cutler & Jonathan McLean)
- Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot (Emma Roth)
- Trump is bringing back the AI law moratorium (Hayden Field)
- Query Analyst with Semantic.Kernel (Jefferson S. Motta)
- How Trump’s war on clean energy is making AI a bigger polluter (Justine Calma)
- AI model from Microsoft and UW maps out breast cancer in MRIs with unprecedented accuracy (Lisa Stiffler)
- The Future of AI: Optimize Your Site for Agents – It’s Cool to be a Tool (Marco Casalaina)
- Smart AI integration with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) … part 3B (Mark Harrison)
- Trump is set to unveil his AI roadmap: Here’s what to know (Maxwell Zeff)
- Trump’s AI strategy trades guardrails for growth in race against China (Rebecca Bellan & Maxwell Zeff)
- Visualizing the Trade Lifecycle – Phase 2: Refactoring with Cursor IDE (Robert Griffiths)
- Solving the inference problem for open source AI projects with GitHub Models (Sean Goedecke)
- How to Use AI Effectively in Your Dev Projects (Spruce Emmanuel)
- Polaris: AI-Powered Conversational Data Intelligence for the Enterprise Through a Multi-Agent Architecture (Varuni H K)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Migrating from App-V to MSIX – What You Need to Know (Alex Marin)
- A Beginner Developer’s Guide to Scrum (Aditya Vikram Kashyap)
- How to Install Custom Fonts for Your Application Users (Renato Ivanescu)
- Advanced Installer 22.9 (Advanced Installer Team)
- Technical Debt Is Not Free: Chad Green on Making the Invisible Visible (David Ramel)
- Building better platforms with continuous discovery (Adora Nwodo)
- An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership (Michel Ferreira)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Code Anywhere: Turn Your Android Tablet Into a Dev Machine (Jack Wallen)
- Google leaks its full Pixel 10 lineup (Emma Roth)
- The many and varied uses of photography on Raspberry Pi (Rob Zwetsloot)
Screencasts & Videos
- Flagship MCP Sample App Powered by Azure AI Foundry And LlamaIndex.TS and Azure API Management + AI Content Safety: Shielding models from harmful prompts (Microsoft Azure Developers Team)
- Uno Platform Studio Thickness Editor | Uno Tech Bites (Uno Platform)
- Should I add a chatbot to my app? | One Dev Question (Steve Sanderson)
- Meet Daniel at VS Live! (Dan Roth)
- Join us at VS Live! Redmond (Visual Studio Team)
- Build Skills for Power BI’s Next Decade | Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark)
Podcasts
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #678 – Chris Love on Kubernetes Security (Robert Blumen)
- Preact, Performance, and the Future of Lightweight Frontends with Ryan Christian -JavaScript Jabber Episode #683 (Charles Max Wood)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #651 – Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Sugu Sougoumarane, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why plain English matters in science (and everywhere else), with Anne Greene (Mignon Fogarty)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Project Mindset to Product Thinking – Leading Client Transformation (Vasco Duarte & Anh Vu)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #922 – Pre-commit Hooks, requestAnimationFrame, Code Reviews, and More (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community & Events
- Announcing OpenAI DevDay 2025 (OpenAI Team)
- Startups can apply now for the Google for Startups Gemini Founders Forum | The Keyword (Google)
- Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature (Sarah Perez)
- Xinxing Xu bridges AI research and real-world impact at Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore (Xinxing Xu)
Database
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Window Functions and Aggregates (Erik Darling)
- Announcing Couchbase Support in Google’s MCP Toolbox for Databases (Yves Laurent)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s new in Viva Insights (Zach Miners)
- US nuclear weapons agency reportedly breached in Microsoft SharePoint attacks (Tom Warren)
Miscellaneous
- Yubico delivers PIN advancements with new YubiKey 5 – Enhanced PIN keys (Jeff Wallace)
- The dream denied: Windows Longhorn (Radu Zaharia)
- Apple introduces AppleCare One, streamlining coverage into a single plan (Apple)
- Top UN Court Says Countries Can Sue Each Other Over Climate Change and US To Withdraw From UNESCO Again (msmash)
- Exploring possible solutions to the inconsistency in how Windows searches case-insensitively for named resources (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 23, 2025 (#593) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #246 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
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