Top Links
- .NET 10 Preview 3 is now available! (.NET Team)
- .NET MAUI Updates in .NET 10 Preview 3 (David Ortinau)
- New Docker Extension for Visual Studio Code (Remy Suen)
- JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 – Help Shape the Future of Development (Anastassiya Sichkarenko)
- Let’s Build & Deploy a MCP Server with C# (James Montemagno)
- .NET Aspire 9.2 is Now Available with New Ways to Deploy (Jeffrey Fritz)
Web & Cloud Development
- Speed Matters: Optimize Image Performance in Next.js 15 Like a Pro (Adhithi Ravichandran)
- Build a Token Visualizer in .NET (Ed Charbeneau)
- When ASP.NET Core Identity Is No Longer Enough (Andrea Chiarelli)
- Announcing the Auth0 Fastify API SDK: Secure Your APIs with Speed! (Dan Arias)
- Deploying the TX Text Control Document Editor Backend Web Server in Docker (Bjoern Meyer)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 3 (Dan Roth)
- Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts (Geoff Graham)
- Supercharge Your Angular Development with 39 New UI Blocks in Syncfusion Angular UI Kit (Meena Alagiah)
- Coding Azure 10: Securing the Frontend to Authorized Users with Enterprise Applications (Peter Vogel)
- Configuring ASP.NET Core Forwarded Headers Middleware (Tore Nestenius)
- 2025 Volume 1: Must-Know Updates in the Syncfusion Diagram Component (Sarathkumar V.)
- Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 (Microsoft Edge Team)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI 9.0.60 (Service Release 6) (David Ortinau)
- Windows UWP Maps Control Deprecation Announcement (Bing Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET 10 Preview 3 (James Montemagno)
- How to Programmatically Create MS Word DOCX Documents with .NET C# on Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
- Function overloading is more flexible (and more convenient) than template function specialization (Raymond Chen)
- From C# to Rust: A 42-Day Developer Challenge (Chris Woodruff)
- C# Language Support in ReSharper and Rider 2025.1 (Matthias Koch)
AI
- How Azure Copilot Helped Me Quickly Troubleshoot a Demo (David Giard)
- Microsoft Collaborates with Anthropic to Launch C# SDK for MCP Integration (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Azure API Management Your Auth Gateway For MCP Servers (Pranami J.)
- Self-Hosted AI Chatbots with Docker and Couchbase Capella (Ben Greenberg)
- GenAIScript – MCP Tool Validation (Peli de Halleux)
- Secure and Deploy Remote MCP Servers with Auth0 and Cloudflare (Will Johnson & Jessica Temporal)
- Train Your Own LLM (Beau Carnes)
- Using Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing (Ben Linders)
- Debug-gym: an environment for AI coding tools to learn how to debug code like programmers (Eric Yuan, Morgane Moss, Charbel Feghali, Chinmay Singh, Darya Moldavskaya, Drew MacPhee, Lucas Caccia, Matheus Pereira, Minseon Kim, Alessandro Sordoni & Marc-Alexandre Côté)
- Microsoft is about to launch Recall for real this time (Jay Peters)
- Unlocking AI’s Global Potential: Progress, Productivity, and Workforce Development (Juan Lavista Ferres)
- Using an MCP Server in GitHub Copilot (Mark Heath)
- Understanding AI workload cost considerations (Sonia Cuff)
- OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1 (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Azure Pipelines–Consolidate all build output in one folder (Bart Wullems)
- Static Variables & Methods are Evil? (Derek Comartin)
- How To Increase Code Quality in GitHub With Qodana (Kerry Beetge)
- How we’re making security easier for the average developer (Klint Finley)
- Navigating Your Career Path: A Comprehensive Guide (Kunal Chowdhury)
- What does it mean to “design” an app? (Matt Lacey)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- Intro To GitHub Copilot in 3 Languages (David Giard)
- Refactoring Database Interactions | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale: Elevating Performance with Continuous Priming | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Aditya Badramraju)
- Building Copilot Agents in Copilot Studio Agent Builder (Michael Gannotti)
- CQRS, DDD and GraphQL, a perfect fit? – NDC Porto 2024 (Michael Staib)
- Why would I add vectors to a relational database? | One Dev Question (Davide Mauri)
- .NET Aspire Community Standup – .NET Aspire 9.2 Release Party (David Fowler, Jeff Fritz, Maddy Montaquila & Damian Edwards)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – AI Data Infrastructure for the Global South with Kate Kallott (Scott Hanselman)
- Talk Python to Me #500 – Django Simple Deploy and other DevOps Things (Michael Kennedy)
- The Changelog Podcast #636 – The era of durable execution (Stephan Ewen, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How do you fact-check an AI? (Eira May)
- UX Podcast Episode #336 – UX for business with Joel Marsh (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
- Lenny’s Podcast – OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Boagworld Podcast #017 – Beyond Usability: Why Emotion and Delight Matter in UX (Paul Boag)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The future of editing jobs in the age of AI, with Samantha Enslen (Mignon Fogarty)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #514 – It’s All Affiliate Links (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS The End of Product Management? Three Experts Reveal the Unstoppable Rise of Product Engineers | Anton Zaides, Rafa Paez, and Max Piechota (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Bluesky gets a revamped search page and emoji reactions in DMs (Umar Shakir)
- Dream Big, Change the World (Microsoft Garage Team)
- Making + Science Take Center Stage In Los Angeles This Weekend (Jennifer Blakeslee)
- A Recap of the MVP Summit 2025 (Rie Moriguchi)
- Microsoft Has Been Inducted Into the National Recording Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress (Paul Thurrott)
Database
- Equality, Sort, Range Indexing In SQL Server – When It Works (Erik Darling)
- Get Ready for SQL Server 2025: Accelerating AI, Performance, and Resilience—From Query to Infrastructure (MSSQL Tips)
- Getting insights from changes to items in Azure Cosmos DB just got easier! (Justine Cocchi)
- Migrating to Azure SQL Hyperscale (Kieran Mitchell)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- As Agentic AI Explodes, Microsoft Announces MS365 Copilot Agent Debugging (David Ramel)
- Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: Privacy (Leana Gerrard)
Miscellaneous
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Microsoft made a stunning 50th-anniversary Surface Laptop. Here’s how to win one. (Daniel Rubino)
- Inside Elon Musk’s Gleeful Destruction of the Government (Miles Klee, Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng & Meagan Jordan)
- MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ smartphone chip offers 10km Bluetooth range (Aditya Tiwari)
- Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power (Louise Matsakis)
- New York City gets first decent subway map since the 1970s (Rob Beschizza)
- Microsoft releases PowerToys update to fix issues with the new Command Palette (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 10, 2025 (#530) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time eBook Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link