Top Links
- WinUI Community Call: November 5, 2025 (Beth Pan)
- Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key (Olivia Guzzardo McVicker & Pierce Boggan)
- Build an AI Agentic RAG search application with React, SQL Azure and Azure Static Web Apps (Raffaele Garofalo)
- C# AI Buddy: Early Preview (Jordan Matthiesen)
- Restyle in Paint begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
- Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview) (Rhea Patel)
- .NET Rocks! – CSLA 9 with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web Development
- Azure File Sync with ARC… Better together. (Pierre_Roman)
- An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions (Mat Marquis)
- How to Build a To-Do List MCP Server Using TypeScript – with Auth, Database, and Billing (Shola Jegede)
- Blazor vs. JavaScript: Is Blazor the Right Choice for Your Next Project? (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Google Cloud Outlines Key Strategies for Securing Remote MCP Servers (Craig Risi)
- Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire (Simon Bisson)
- Array Buffers in JavaScript (Christian Nwamba)
- GraphQL vs REST API: Which Is Better for Your Project in 2025? (Yilia Lin)
Windows Development
- Rust vs. C++: a Modern Take on Performance and Safety (Zziwa Raymond Ian)
- 10 XAML Binding Pitfalls That Trip Up Even Experienced .NET Developers (Matthew Mattei)
- What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std::chrono::high_resolution_clock? (Raymond Chen)
- Build a WPF Health Tracker Dashboard: Visualize Calories and Steps with Interactive Charts (Ezhilarasan Elangovan)
.NET
- MCP Support in Visual Studio Reaches General Availability (Edin Kapić)
- Create Interactive Excel Forms in C# Using .NET Excel Library (Mohan Chandran)
- Boxing in C#: What It Costs You and How to Get Rid of It (NDepend Team)
- How to Use a Scoped Service Inside a Hosted Service in .NET (Yohan Malshika)
- Adding metadata to fallback endpoints in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
- C# 14: The field Keyword – Or Should I Say: I Had a Dream? (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- Modern C# Design Patterns You Should Actually Use in 2025 (Vahid Bakhtiary)
AI
- Hugging Face and VirusTotal collaborate to strengthen AI security (Adrien Carreira & Bernardo Quintero)
- Deployment Guide-Copilot Studio agent with MCP Server exposed by API Management using OAuth 2.0 (muafzal)
- Transform Your AI Applications with Local LLM Deployment (Lee Stott)
- AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time (BeauHD)
- From karaoke terminals to AI résumés: The winners of GitHub’s For the Love of Code challenge (Lee Reilly)
- Yet Another Vibe Coding Article or ‘LucidForum’ an annoying experiment. (LucidForum Part 1) (Scott Galloway)
- Introducing Matter: The AI Development Companion for Product Teams (Elena Berendeeva)
- Orchestrating Multi-Agent Intelligence: MCP-Driven Patterns in Agent Framework (heenaugale)
- Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure – Part 2 (Security) (pranabpaul)
- Securing the Future: Protecting AI Workloads in the Enterprise (JJ Guirola)
- Missing The Point Of LLMs (Mike James)
- AI Is Reshaping Developer Career Paths (Andrew Stellman)
- Copilot Agents: From Prompts to Agents (Michael Gannotti)
- ChatGPT Atlas isn’t competing against other browsers (Stephanie Stimac)
- Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face! (Tom Aarsen)
- Progress without control in the age of AI and compliance (Sarah Lahiff)
- The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents (Asha Sharma & Rolf Harms)
- Modernize Java applications quickly with GitLab Duo with Amazon Q (Cesar Saavedra)
- How spec-driven development improves AI coding quality (Rich Naszcyniec)
Python
- From Python to Kotlin: A Transition Worth Making (Alina Dolgikh)
- How to Build an AI-Powered T-SQL Assistant with Python & SQL Server (Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes)
- Tame Python Chaos With uv – The Superpower Every AI Engineer Needs (Edvin Teskeredžić)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Building Secure AI Chat Systems: Part 2 – Securing Your Architecture from Storage to Network (Abdulhamid Onawole)
- Prometheus with Docker Compose: Guide & Examples (James Walker)
- Beyond the Hype: Is Agile now a dirty word? (Oliver Cronk)
- Technical Debt vs. Architecture Debt: Don’t Confuse Them (Nadzeya Stalbouskaya)
- Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2) (Andy Clarke)
- Authorization: Domain or Application Layer? (Derek Comartin)
Mobile and Game Development
- How to Build Scalable and Performant Flutter Applications: A Handbook for Devs (Atuoha Anthony)
- GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs (Nick Statt)
- Welcome to Android XR Spotlight Week! (Jan Kleinert & Bradley Allen)
- Bringing Androidify to XR with the Jetpack XR SDK (Dereck Birdie)
- Giving your apps a new home on Samsung Galaxy XR, the first device powered by Android XR (Matthew McCullough)
- Cordova Create 6.0.0 Released! (Bryan Ellis)
- Samsung takes on Apple’s Vision Pro with new Galaxy XR headset (Aisha Malik)
Screencasts and Videos
- Microsoft Agent Framework WorkFlows Explained | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Artiero, Evan Mattson & Victor Dibia)
- GitHub Spec Kit 🤝 Agent Handoffs in Visual Studio Code (Den Delimarsky)
- Introduction to Godot C# Essentials: A Complete Beginner’s Guide: FULLCOURSE (Stacey Haffner)
- What’s the deal with LangChain V1? | Python on Azure (Sydney Runkle)
- What is Azure AI Foundry Local? | One Dev Question (Dona Sarkar)
- Mermaid Charts in Visual Studio 2026 | Visual Studio Toolkit (Robert Green & Johan Smarius)
- How Hackers Use SQL Injection to Get Into Websites (Frank La Vigne)
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Podcasts
- The Cloud Pod Episode #326 – Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies) (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker & Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn)
- Decoder Podcast: Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay (Nilay Patel)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #663 – Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Ellie Huxtable & Jerod Santo)
- PPP 481 | Why Great Managers Add Zero Value and Why That is Good News, with author Matthew Ley (Andy Kaufman)
- AI & I Podcast – 🎧 He Built an AI Ghostwriter With Taste (Rhea Purohit)
- Coaching Teams Trapped Between Agile Aspirations and Organizational Control | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alex Sloley)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #948 – Zed is Ready For Primetime (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community and Events
- Meta cuts 600 AI jobs amid ongoing reorganization (Amanda Silberling)
- WinUI Community Call – Nov 5, 2025 (Windows Developer Team) – Coming November 5th!
Database
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Scalar UDFs (Erik Darling)
- Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip (Erik EJ)
- Bringing Context to Copilot: Azure Cosmos DB Best Practices, Right in Your VS Code Workspace (Sajeetharan Sinnathurai)
- Improved Connectivity Types in Azure SQL Managed Instance (Zoran Rilak)
- Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI (Steve Jones)
- Simple Way to Calculate Running Totals in SQL Server (Jared Westover)
PowerShell and Terminal
General
- Google Porting All Internal Workloads To Arm and OpenBSD 7.8 Released (BeauHD)
- WPBL announces its first four teams: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston (Women’s Pro Baseball League)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.6132 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Builds 26100.7015 and 26200.7015 to the Release Preview Channel (Amanda Langowski)
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