Top Links
- Announcing ASP.NET Core OData 10.0.0 Preview 1 (Samuel Wanjohi)
- Syncfusion AI Coding Assistant Now Supports WPF, WinUI & WinForms (Jayaleshwari N.)
- How to automate your desktop layout with PowerToys Workspaces on Windows 11 and create a one-click app layout (Marco Huculak)
- Overcoming WASDK’s XAML Limitation with Uno Platform’s C# Markup: (Matt Mattei)
- What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v8.0 (Vijay Anand E G)
- .NET Day on Agentic Modernization Coming Soon (Matt Soucoup)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Digital Runway: IT at the Philadelphia Airport with Camille Tomlin (Scott Hanselman)
Web and Cloud Development
- How to Implement PDF Annotations in React for Seamless Document Review and How to Implement PDF Annotations in JavaScript: Highlights, Sticky Notes, and More (Sumathi Uthayakumar)
- Bring AI to Your Blazor Apps: Build Smart, Interactive Maps with Azure OpenAI [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- Performance Tuning in ASP.NET Core: Best Practices for 2025 (Arulraj Aboorvasamy)
- How to Store Files on a User’s Device Using OPFS (Origin Private File System) (Christian Nwamba)
- Aspire 13 Delivers Multi-Language Support and Significant Enhancements Across the Platform (Almir Vuk)
- HTMX with ASP.NET Core Partials: The Server-Side Renaissance and Background Services in ASP.NET Core – Part 1: The Approaches and Part 2: Practical Examples (Scott Galloway)
- Letting the Creative Process Shape a WebGL Portfolio (Roman Jean-Elie)
- A Handy Shell Script to Publish Jekyll Drafts (Rachel Kaufman)
- A first look at the Web Install API (Bruce Lawson)
- Angular 21 Is Here: How Syncfusion Delivers Compatibility Support (Sabari Anand S.)
- Ripple over React? Evaluating the newest JS framework (Chizaram Ken)
Windows Development
- Message-only windows are for messaging, not as a convenient victim for hosting UI and At what point in the Windows development cycle is it too late to change the text of a translatable string? (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft Post-Quantum Crypto APIs Are Now Generally Available (K. Brian Kelley)
- Build an AI-Powered WinUI Line Chart to Visualize the Wealth of Billionaires (Baranibharathi Pandian)
.NET and Visual Studio
- C# 14 New Feature: Script Directives (Ian Griffiths)
- Deploy apps in production with Oracle Entity Framework Core 10 (Alex Keh)
- How to Build AI Prompts in C# 14 (Ziggy Rafiq)
- ReSharper and Rider 2025.3.0.3: A Fresh Set of Updates Released (Sasha Ivanova)
- Nullable and Required Types (Ricardo Peres)
- Code signing your .NET Core application (Bart Wullems)
- Background tasks in .NET (riturajjana)
- How to Create an MSI Installer with Visual Studio 2026 (Renato Ivanescu)
AI
- It’s not the AI, it’s what you do with it (Marko Crnjanski)
- Top 5 AI code review tools in 2025 (Emmanuel John)
- Mixpanel security incident: what OpenAI users need to know (OpenAI Team)
- Build Smarter with Azure AI Landing Zones: Your Blueprint for Scalable, Secure AI Solutions (Thomas Maurer)
- Cursor 2.0 IDE Is Now Supercharged With AI and I’m Impressed (Jack Wallen)
- Observability for the Age of Generative AI (Hong Gao)
- Ask AI from Anywhere: No GUI, No Heavy Clients, No Friction (Frank Boucher)
- Hiding Prompts in Plain Sight: A New AI Security Risk (Deepu K Sasidharan)
- Prompt-to-Prototype Generators Are My New Favorite Research Tool (Torang Asadi)
- Bye-Bye Clicks! AI Agents Are Running the Web Now (Anastasija Uspenski)
- Build a Smart QA ChatOps Assistant with Playwright, Twilio WhatsApp, LLMs, and MCP (Jacob Snipes)
- Building our first MCP Resources enabled MCP Server with C#–Advanced (Bart Wullems)
- How vibe coding can make your software headaches worse, experts warn (Joe McKendrick)
- You don’t need AI for everything: A reality check for developers (Alexandra Spalato)
- Stumbling into AI: Part 6—I’ve been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong (Robin Moffatt)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Unit Testing HttpClient WITHOUT Mocks and Multi-Browser E2E Testing with Playwright for .NET (Scott Galloway)
- What’s New in TeamCity 2025.11: AI Assistant, New Pipeline Features, Enhanced Server Encryption Settings, and More. (Dmitrii Korovin)
- How to install RSAT on Windows 11 (Horatiu Vladasel)
- Creating Impactful Software Teams That Continuously Improve (Ben Linders)
- Change Management with the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator and Kargo (Elisabeth Lichtie)
- You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? (Simeon Ratliff)
- The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA (Eleanor Hecks)
- Platform Engineering’s True Value Is in Application Development (Massimiliano Bianchessi)
Mobile and Game Development
- New ROG Xbox Ally Updates: Default Game Profiles Available in Preview (Danielle Partis)
- Kotlin 2.3 Improves Swift Interop (Mike James)
- Xbox November Update: Gaming Copilot Available on Mobile, Full Screen Experience Out Now, and More (Mike Nelson)
- Cloud-init on Raspberry Pi OS (Paul Oberosler)
- Theming and Customization in Flutter: A Handbook for Developers (Atuoha Anthony)
- It’s the 2025 Maker Shed Gift Guide! (Make: Editors)
- Artisan Brew House: A “WOW Factor” UI built with Uno Platform (Devendra Shyoran)
- How to “Make” Friends – 4 Clever Companion Bots (Make: Editors)
Screencasts and Videos
- How to use GitHub Copilot coding agent in Slack (GitHub Team)
- Everything new in Warp (Warp Team)
- Amazing Free Popup Controls for MAUI by UXDivers: Toast, Forms, Custom (Gerald Versluis)
- dotNET Conference 2025 Top Videos Playlist (Mark Pahulje)
- Study Says AI Can Automate 57% of Current Human Work Hours (AIDailyBrief)
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Podcasts
- Hard Fork Podcast – Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025 (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- BONUS Building Reliable Software with Unreliable AI Tools | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Lada Kesseler)
- BONUS Transactional AI Development – Commit, Validate, and Rollback | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Sergey Sergyenko)
- AI Assisted Coding: Augmented AI Development – Software Engineering First, AI Second | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Dawid Dahl)
- A Geek Leader Episode #445 – Len Ward (John Rouda)
- The Modern .NET Show – Building on .NET 10: A Chat with Kajetan Duszyńsk, Author of ‘.NET 10 Revealed’ (Jamie Taylor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #548 – Household CMDB (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #192 – Local Unit Testing for Step Functions (Jas Narula)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #331 – Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- InfoQ Podcast: Authenticity Over Convention: Lessons from 16 Years of Solo Game Development (Joe Cassavaugh)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – Turkey turkey, turkey turkey turkey (Pam Selle & Sarah Withee)
- .NET Rocks! – More Sustainable Software with Tom Kerkhove (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- PPP 485 | What Project Teams Can Learn From Sketch Comedy, with author John Krewson (Andy Kaufman)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #338 – Chris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust! (Jerod Santo, Adam Stacoviak & Chris Benson)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #668 – The inner workings of Wikipedia (Bill Beutler, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture (Phoebe Sajor)
- AI & I Podcast – Inside The Browser Company: Why They Killed Arc to Build Dia (Rhea Purohit)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #958 – 2025 Holiday Gift Guide (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Rob Drummond on languaging and our fluid speaking identities (Mignon Fogarty)
Community and Events
- Azure Skilling at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Aaron Stark)
- HP Announces Up to 6,000 Layoffs in Massive AI Restructuring Plan (Aminu Abdullahi)
- Ask the Windows experts at Tech Community Live (Eric Moe)
Database
- 15 Practical Tips for Securing SQL Server (Greg Low)
- Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS (aen)
- Row Goals: Part 2 and Row Goals: Part 3 and Row Goals: Part 4 (Erik Darling)
- Query Exercise Answer: Generating Big TempDB Spills (Brent Ozar)
- New in Redgate Flyway Enterprise – Drift detection and rollbacks just got easier (Stephanie Herr)
Tools
- Microsoft releases PowerToys v0.96.1 with a nice surprise for Windows 10 users (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Windows 11 Notepad now lets you create tables like in Microsoft Word, and it’s free (Mayank Parmar)
General
- Apple’s upcoming iPhone Fold looks to copy Microsoft’s Surface Duo — and that’s genuinely great news (Zac Bowden)
- Exploring USB4 in Windows Device Portal (Ugan Sivagnanenthirarajah)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – November 23 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – November 26, 2025 (#674) (Richard Seroter)
- Interesting links – October 2025 (Robin Moffatt)
- Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Too Many News to Keep Quiet About (Kodee)
