Top Links
- Azure SDK Release (February 2026) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Announcing Shader Model 6.9 Retail and New D3D12 Improvements (Amar Patel & Serena Tang)
- Copilot Tasks: From Answers to Actions (Copilot Team)
- VS Code: Building Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions (Vikram Duvvur, Gaurav Mittal & Benjamin Simmonds)
- Announcing new Cloud PC devices designed for Windows 365 (Stefan Kinnestrand)
- The Second Beta of Android 17 (Matthew McCullough)
- Vector Data in .NET – Building Blocks for AI Part 2 (Jeremy Likness)
Web and Cloud Development
- Why JavaScript obfuscation matters: How to protect client-side code from attacks (Michelle Pruitt)
- Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (Ryan Hunt)
- Building Async Page Transitions in Vanilla JavaScript (Valentin Mor)
- CSS Snapshot 2026 published as a Group Note (W3C)
- Implementing Modal Dialog Functions with Promise-based Dialog Results in Angular (Joel Parks)
- React 19 Suspense for Data Fetching: A New Model for Async UI (Prashant Yadav)
- ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1 Brings New Blazor Components, Improved Navigation, and WebAssembly (Almir Vuk)
- A minimal way to integrate Aspire into your existing project (Tim Deschryver)
- Microsoft Azure SDK For Projects » 2.0.0-beta.1 for Java (Maven Repository)
- How We Built a Distributed Work Scheduling System for Pulumi Cloud (Davide Massarenti)
Windows Development
- Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, installing the message filter (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing ReFS Boot for Windows Server Insiders (chcurlet-msft)
- WinUI Tips & Tricks for WinForms Developers (Greg Lutz)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Rx.NET v7 and Futures On .NET Live talk and demos (Ian Griffiths)
- .NET Synchronisation APIs – Part 1 – In-Process Synchronisation (Ricardo Peres)
- Don’t use the Microsoft Timestamp Server for Signing (Rick Strahl)
- Kafka CLI in C# (Bryan Hogan)
- Builder vs Fluent Interface Pattern in C#: Key Differences Explained and GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET: Complete Developer Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- Mend Renovate Now Supports C# File-Based Apps and Cake.Sdk (Mattias Karlsson)
- Text-to-Image in .NET — FLUX.2 Pro in the Foundry and Stable Diffusion on Your Machine (Bruno Capuano)
- Developing an MCP Server with C#: A Complete Guide (NDepend Team)
- New AiGen Functionality in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
AI
- Optimising AI Costs with Microsoft Foundry Model Router (Lee Stott)
- Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed (Naina Raisinghani)
- Creating a Fun Multi-Agent Content Strategy System with Microsoft Agent Framework (Abdulhamid Onawole)
- Microsoft Open Sources Evals for Agent Interop Starter Kit to Benchmark Enterprise AI Agents (Edin Kapić)
- Upgrading old code with Copilot (Mark Downie)
- What’s new with GitHub Copilot coding agent (Andrea Griffiths)
- Building AI Agents That Wait For Humans (Sunil_Sattiraju)
- Build with Nano Banana 2, our best image generation and editing model (Bea Alessio)
- Claude Code Edges OpenAI’s Codex in VS Code’s Agentic AI Marketplace Leaderboard (David Ramel)
- Closing the code review loop with Bugbot Autofix and The third era of AI software development (Cursor Team)
- Why Multi-Agent Systems Need Memory Engineering (Mikiko Bazeley)
- Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’ (msmash)
- GitLab Duo Agent Platform with Claude accelerates development (Cesar Saavedra)
- AI in Windows 11 (Zachary Cavanell)
- Lessons from my overly-introspective, self-improving coding agent (Joel Hans)
- Announcing extended support for Fine Tuning gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini (Dave Voutila)
- We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is (Replit Team)
- OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience (OpenAI Team)
- Why Your OpenClaw Agent Keeps Forgetting Everything (And How to Fix It in Under 15 Minutes) (Nick Spisak)
- Semantic Layers in the Wild: Lessons from Early Adopters (Jeremy Arendt)
Python
- Learn Python and Build Autonomous Agents (Beau Carnes)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Advanced Installer 23.5 and What’s New in Advanced Installer 23.5 (Advanced Installer Team)
- How to Avoid Software Update Security Vulnerabilities with Advanced Installer (Renato Ivanescu)
- Docker Model Runner Brings vLLM to macOS with Apple Silicon (Yiwen Xu)
- Threat modeling AI applications (Scott Christiansen, Alyssa Ofstein & Neil Coles)
- Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team (Ben Linders)
- How to Identify Technologies Worth Exploring (Jefferson S. Motta)
- Introducing TeamCity’s New Design, Phase II: Creation Flow (Marharyta Milovanova)
- Design Principles Unpacked, No. 1: Alignment (Teon Beijl)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to Add Email and Toast Reminders to a .NET MAUI Scheduler (Yuvaraj Gajaraj)
- Fence Barriers: Fine-Grained GPU Synchronization in Direct3D 12 (Bill Kristiansen)
- D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering (Amar Patel)
- D3D12 Opacity Micromaps (Amar Patel & Adam Miles)
Screencasts and Videos
- The OpenClaw-ification of AI and Claude Code Turns One (AIDailyBrief)
- How I used AI voice to help me play Magic: The Gathering – NDC London 2026 (Michelle “MishManners” Duke)
- VS Code for the Web | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Meera Haridasa)
- We Built an App That Runs 10 Copilot Agents at Once — Here’s How (Gerald Versluis)
- AI Agents Need Permission Slips – NDC London 2026 (Heather Downing)
- Agentic RAG for Everyone Using Azure SQL, OpenAI, and Web Apps | Budget Bytes (Davide Mauri)
- How I built an AI Python tutor with the GitHub Copilot SDK (April Gittens)
- Let’s ship this jawn! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Building a Pizzabot with Foundry and C# – Complete Demo with Code | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #561 – Two Guys and Their Tokens (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #709 – Bryan Cantrill on the Data Center Control Plane (Jeremy Jung)
- The Vergecast – Xbox is in danger. Will Microsoft fix it or kill it? (Nilay Patel)
- Lenny’s Podcast – AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel (Lenny Rachitsky)
- MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast Episode #422 – Back to the Terminal: The Rise of AI CLI Interfaces (Scott Hoag & Ben Stegink)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #132 – We Drive Polestar 3 & 4 Back To Back! Tom’s Snowblower Breaks The Internet, Again (Batteries Included Team)
- Build Mode Podcast – Using AI to hire for compatibility, not just skill (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
- What Scrum Masters Must Do More of in 2026—Think Like a Business Owner | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lai-Ling Su)
- DAWbench Radio Show Episode #41 – TechBytes 11 : 2025 Music Technology Round Up : The Year in Review ! (Vin Curigliano, Pete Brown & Chris Mann)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – To live in an AI world, knowing is half the battle (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- CNCF joins 2026 Google Summer of Code as mentoring organization: Calling all contributors! (Nate Waddington)
- A Minute from the Moderators (Hachyderm Team)
- Community is a verb (Bart Wullems)
- EBay Is Laying Off About 800 Workers, 6% of Global Workforce (msmash)
- Security & DevEx: Can We Have Both? • Abby Bangser, Adrian Mouat & Holly Cummins • GOTO 2025 (Holly Cummins)
- Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same (Ramishah Maruf)
Database
- Azure DocumentDB: A Fully Managed MongoDB-Compatible Database (Khelan Modi)
- Why disabling the SQL Server sa account still matters in 2026 (Greg Low)
- Dashboards with Grafana – Now in Azure Portal for PostgreSQL (Varun Dhawan)
- Azure Cosmos DB Event Trigger Solution (Temidayo Omoniyi)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Overview + live demo- February 2026 M365 Champions Community call (Tiffany Lee)
PowerShell and Terminal
- 10 Powerful Ways to Use PowerShell Across Windows, Linux, and macOS (Kezia Jungco)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.419 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Toolbox App 3.3: Introducing jetbrainsd, an Improved Linux Experience, and More (Svetlana Novikova)
General
- USB Driver Documentation Updates on UCSI, USB4 Testing (Ugan Sivagnanenthirarajah)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – February 26, 2026 (#730) (Richard Seroter)
