Top Links
- C# Dev Kit Updates: .NET Aspire, Hot Reload, and More! (Wendy Breiding)
- Visualize Multi-Dimensional Data Using the .NET MAUI Parallel Coordinate Chart (Ezhilarasan Elangovan)
- Integrate .NET Aspire into your .NET projects with VS Code & C# Dev Kit | On .NET (James Montemagno)
- Integrating AWS with .NET Aspire (Norm Johanson)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available! (Mads Kristensen)
- Windows App SDK v1.7.0-preview1 release (Roy MacLachlan)
Web & Cloud Development
- ASP.NET Core and Chunking HTTP Cookies (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Integrating GraphQL into Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
- Announcing the end of support for Node.js 18.x in the Azure SDK for JavaScript (Maor Leger)
- Exploring Neon as a Serverless Postgres Alternative for .NET Applications on Azure – Part 1 (Simple ASP.NET Core on App Service) (Tomasz Pęczek)
- Save and Load Reports Efficiently in React Pivot Table Using Redux (Sastha Prathap)
- Build Interactive UML Class Diagrams in React (Sivaranjith Jeyabalan)
- Node v22.14.0 (LTS) (Antoine Du Hamel)
- Preventing client-side cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities with Trusted Types (Andrew Lock)
- Go 1.23.6-2 and 1.22.12-2 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
- Go 1.24 is released! (Junyang Shao)
- Azure Communication Services Technical Documentation Table of Contents Update (sroons)
- Stock Price Simulation: Visualize Real-Time Market Data Using React Candle Chart (Swetha Babu)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Windows App SDK 1.6.5 (1.6.250108002) release (Roy MacLachlan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- MSVC Compiler Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13 (Cameron DaCamara)
- Transactional Savepoints in EF Core: Rollback Just What You Need! (Chris Woodruff)
- What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.13 (Sy Brand)
- .NET and .NET Framework February 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Leveraging Span-Based String Concatenation for Improved Performance (David McCarter)
AI
- AI Assistant expands with cutting-edge models (Daniela Bentrup)
- GenAI Patterns: Query Rewriting (Martin Fowler)
- Integrating AI into Your Existing Applications Using Semantic Kernel and C# (David Ramel)
- Tutorial: Build a RAG Agent With Azure AI Agent Service SDK (Janakiram MSV)
- AlphaProteo – DeepMind’s Latest Protein Folding Model (Exxact Team)
- Whisk, a Google Labs experiment, is expanding to more than 100 new countries | The Keyword (Google)
- How to refactor code with GitHub Copilot (Anthony Grutta)
- Building an OpenAI powered Recommendation Engine (Bipul Raman)
- Teaching AI safety: Lessons from Romanian educators (Elena Coman)
- Preparing for AI (Mike Loukides)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- February Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- The hell of Git line endings and the (not so) simple fix (Randolph West)
- Process Standardization Is Stifling My Creativity (Danielle Meinert)
- Getting started with GitLab: Mastering project management (GitLab Team)
- Everybody wants to rule the world (Eric Brechner)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- Agentic AI: A Philosophical Take | Sip and Sync with Azure (Matt Soucoup & David Barkol)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Giorgi Dalakishvili (Isaac Levin)
- Need Better File Management in Windows? This Changes Everything! (Windows Developer Team)
Podcasts
- Official Xbox Podcast: Deep Dive and Hands On with South of Midnight (Mike Nelson)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – When Process Becomes a Prison, Breaking Free from Over-Rigid Agile Team Practices | Mateusz Komander (Vasco Duarte)
- The Amp Hour #688 – The Tandy Train (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Until the Ice Cream Truck Podcast – Navigating the Hype Cycle (Howard Dierking & Glenn Block)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why some holidays have apostrophes. Why Californians say ‘the 405.’ MIGD (Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
- Temple Grandin Talks About Why Clear Feedback for Neurodivergent Individuals Matters (Radical Candor)
- RunAs Radio Episode #971 – Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 with Robert Smit (Richard Campbell)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – How Postal Inspectors Clipped a $31 Million Coupon Scam – True Crime (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- O’Reilly Virtual Conference: Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It (April 24th) (O’Reilly)
- Challenge to Opportunity: The Power of Community (Claire S.)
- Get ready for Google I/O May 20-21 (Google I/O Team)
- Full Steam Ahead: Text Control Expands Conference Sponsorship with KCDC 2025 (Bjoern Meyer)
- Safer Internet Day 2025: Tackling abusive AI-generated content risks through education and empowerment (Courtney Gregoire)
- CfP List Updated 2025-02-11 (Dave Aronson)
- Power Dressing: Silicon Valley’s Macho Makeover Is a Warning, Not a Trend (Amy Francombe)
- 🚀 Calling all Microsoft partners! 🚀 and Register today | Ability Summit: Fifteen years of accessibility (Jill Armour)
- How we’re working to keep students safe in the AI age (Jennifer Holland)
- Paris AI Action Summit: A milestone for open and Public AI (Mitchell Baker)
- Meta Starts Eliminating Jobs in Shift To Find AI Talent (msmash)
- Unity’s struggles continue with fresh wave of layoffs (Ash Parrish)
- 3 reasons you should tour a conference talk (Salma Alam-Naylor)
- Google I/O 2025 to Overlap with Microsoft Build 2025 (Paul Thurrott)
Database
- The 8 Worst Things Microsoft Ever Did to SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
- Announcing the Release of SSMS 21 Preview 4 (mbarickman)
- A Powerful, Open-Source MongoDB GUI for Everyone (Tomasz Naumowicz)
- Adopting Hybrid Search with Azure Cosmos DB (Kevin Comba)
- Data Connect: All About Schemas | Firebase (Andrea Wu)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How to set up agents and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, included with Microsoft 365 (Zachary-Cavanell)
- Unified manifest support for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is available for preview (luyihan)
PowerShell & Terminal
- PowerShell Universal v5.3 (Adam Driscoll)
- Running Powershell inline with Az commands- Logic App Standard (Pedro M. Almeida)
- NerdFonts and Starship: Elevating Your Developer Experience in the Command Line (Peter Smulovics)
Miscellaneous
- KDE Plasma 6.3 Released (BeauHD)
- The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order (Justine Calma)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 11, 2025 (#491) (Richard Seroter)
- Pair Programming Listicle (Tim Ottinger)
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