Top Links
- Visual Studio Code 1.115 Release (VS Code Team)
- Three New MAI Models (Mark Downie)
- Betatalks, the Podcast Episode #127 – Why PowerShell is Fun and Automation Matters – with Harm Veenstra (Rick van den Bosch & Oscar van Tol)
- Build and Deploy a Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agent: A Hands-On Workshop (Lee Stott)
- Live Coding – Building a Code Agent Cleaner with Copilot SDK & VS Code (James Montemagno)
- Microsoft Agent Framework Version 1.0 (Shawn Henry)
Web and Cloud Development
- ESLint v10.2.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- Blazorise 2.0.4 – Usability and Stability Improvements (Mladen Macanović)
- go-gui: A New GUI Framework for Go (Mike Ward)
- Wolverine “Gap” Analysis (Jeremy D. Miller)
- How to minimize downtime in a cloud migration (Pat Wright)
Windows Development
- How can I use ReadDirectoryChangesW to know when someone is copying a file out of the directory? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.8148 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8155 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for Canary Channel 29560.1000 and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1803 (Canary Channel) (Donna Little)
.NET and Visual Studio
- EF Core transactions: Stop your data getting out of sync (David Grace)
- Source code generated string enums with exhaustion support (Steven Giesel)
- Convert Anything to Markdown in .NET — Meet ElBruno.MarkItDotNet Build QR Codes in .NET FAST with ElBruno.QRCodeGenerator (Bruno Capuano)
- Extracting Structured Table Data from DOCX Word Documents in C# .NET with Domain-Aware Table Detection (Bjoern Meyer)
- Migrating from Semantic Kernel to Microsoft Agent Framework in C# and Evaluating AI Agents with Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation in C# (Nick Cosentino)
- 10 New Tools for Visual Studio 2026 from Mads Kristensen (David Ramel)
- String Performance: Avoid Unnecessary Conversions with StringBuilder (David McCarter)
AI
- Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 0 (Jesse Liberty)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.5 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- NanoResearch: The Autonomous AI Research Assistant (OpenRaiser Team)
- Congratulations to the Microsoft Agent Framework Team (Lino Tadros)
- Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly? (Daniel Lemire)
- AI Engineering from Scratch – 260+ lessons across 20 phases (Rohit Ghumare)
- VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI (Microsoft)
- New and improved: Multi-agent orchestration, connected experiences, and faster prompt iteration (Nitasha Chopra)
- Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use (Anthony Ha)
- What Is AI-Native? and How to Become AI-Native: A Practical Guide (Mahesh Chand)
- AI Unit Testing in 2026: What Developers Still Get Wrong (Eli Lopian)
- Introducing multi-model intelligence in Researcher (Gaurav Anand)
- New Copilot for Windows 11 includes a full Microsoft Edge package, uses more RAM (Mayank Parmar)
- Claude Code Windows Migration Guide: Move Your Entire Setup to a New Machine (Dirk Strauss)
- Hands On with OpenClaw Node for VS Code: Real Workflow, Real Friction (David Ramel)
- Powering Multimodal Intelligence for Video Search (Meenakshi Jindal & Munya Marazanye)
- The cognitive impact of coding agents and Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (Simon Willison)
- How we build Azure SRE Agent with agentic workflows (saziz)
- Some Engineering Teams Won’t Be Ready for AI Orchestration – and It Will Cost Them (Ivan Pelivanovic)
- “I started to lose my ability to code”: Developers grapple with the real cost of AI programming tools (David Cassel)
- The hidden reason your AI assistant feels so sluggish (Alasdair Brown)
- Run Claude Code Locally with Ollama (Yogyata J.)
- Rewriting Project Claw Code (Bellman, Sisyphus, YeonGyu-Kim & Sigrid Jin)
- Cursor’s $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default (Janakiram MSV)
- Perplexity’s ‘Incognito Mode’ Is a ‘Sham,’ Lawsuit Says (BeauHD)
- Awesome Free LLM APIs (Manifest Team)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- The uphill climb of making diff lines performant (Luke Ghenco)
- Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 5. Policies (Matthew Casperson)
- An appreciation for (technical) architecture (Matt Webb)
- DevSecOps on AKS: Governance Gates That Actually Prevent Incidents (lakshaymalik)
Mobile and Game Development
Screencasts and Videos
- Exploring Gemma 4: The Future of Local AI Models (Frank La Vigne)
- How to Build a Personal Context MCP (AIDailyBrief)
- Insert Widsom Episode #20 – Project Hail Mary + Artemis II’s Historic Flight to the Moon (Kate Hill)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 307 – “Fly Me to The Moon” (Avoiding the Coming Abundance Badlands) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- How can AI help me modernize my app? | One Dev Question (Matt Soucoup)
- The Download: LiteLLM hacked, Pretext layout engine, OpenAI news & more (GitHub Team)
- Random.Code() – Managing Properties From Records in C#, Part 6 and Part 7 (Jason Bock)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Aaron Stannard: Software 2.0 using AI – The AI DevOps Podcast Episode #396 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Merge Conflict Episode #509 – How AI Fleets Fixed 31 Issues in Two Days (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Anthropic’s $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol Avasare (Lenny Rachitsky)
- BONUS #NoEstimates, Throughput, and the Superstition of Project Management | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Felipe Engineer-Manriquez)
- Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI buys TBPN, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure (Alex Kantrowitz)
- AI Unprompted Podcast Episode #020 – What’s It Like to Have a Full-Time Personal AI Assistant (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Hard Fork Podcast – The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #566 – The code is actually kinda useless (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Adaptable Product Owner — How Progress Over Perfection Drives Real Value in Scrum | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
Community and Events
- Call For Papers Listings for 4/3 and Job listings for week ending 4/3 (Leon Adato)
- The fastest growing GitHub repos this week (Sharbel)
Database
- SQL Server Security: Always Encryption (Vinay Thankur)
- Sysbench vs MariaDB on a small server: using the same charset for all versions and CPU-bound sysbench on a large server: Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB (Mark Callaghan)
- Beware When Copying From SSMS to Excel for CSVs (Kevin Logan)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Resource Usage Overview (Erik Darling)
- Connect to Azure SQL Database using a custom domain name with Microsoft Entra ID authentication (Sunil Nair)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft has started issuing Publisher retirement notifications (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Move Existing Sharepoint Linked Database to a different Sharepoint Site (Henry D.)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.18 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Using GitHub Copilot CLI session data and GitHub Copilot CLI command reference (GitHub Docs)
- Microsoft Terminal v1.24.10921.0 Release and Microsoft Terminal v1.25.923.0 Release (D. Howett)
- GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners (GitHub Team)
Tools
- Powerpointer: Write Presentations in Markdown, Export to PowerPoint (Kris van der Mast)
- Build QR Codes in .NET FAST with ElBruno.QRCodeGenera (Bruno Capuano)
- RustRover 2026.1: Professional Testing With Native cargo-nextest Integration (Tatiana Parshutkina)
General
- How often do threat actors default on promises to delete data? (Dissent)
- Are Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest Salary You’ll Accept? (EditorDavid)
- Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Have Been Delayed or Canceled (BeauHD)
- The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering (Simon Willison)
- Windows 11 will now tell you if your Secure Boot certificates need attention (Abhijith M B)
More Link Collections
- Links For You (4/5/26) (Raymond Camden)
- F# Weekly #14, 2026 – Serde.FS Brings Compile-Time RPC to F# (Sergey Tihon)
- Android Weekly Issue #721 (Gyuri Grell, Martin Cremerius-Gauer & Sebastian Deutsch)
- Daily Reading List – April 3, 2026 (#756) (Richard Seroter)
- Windows news you can use: March 2026 (Chris Morrissey)
- The Batch: Claude Code’s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference (DeepLearning.AI)
- INFO: Microsoft Weekly Entra Newsletter – “Your weekly dose of Microsoft Entra” and INFO: Microsoft Weekly Newsletters for Azure & Power BI (Kurt Shintaku)
