Top Links
- TypeScript 7 Beta Now Enabled by Default in Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
- Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET’s Composable AI Stack (Luis Quintanilla)
- Zed is 1.0 (Nathan Sobo)
- Visual Studio Code 1.119 (VS Code Team)
- Saying goodbye to CocoaPods: Swift Package Manager is soon the default in Flutter! (Jenn Magder)
- GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Interactive v. non-interactive mode (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Announcing WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9 (Niels Laute & Marcel Wagner)
Web and Cloud Development
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2026 (Kristen Womack)
- What’s new in Astro – April 2026 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- Astro 6.2 (Emanuele Stoppa & Matthew Phillips)
- The Importance of Native Randomness in CSS (Alvaro Montoro)
- Build a Role-Based LMS with In-Document Learning Using a React PDF Viewer (Deepa Thiruppathy)
- Why over-communication is critical to the success of a cloud migration (Pat Wright)
Windows Development
- Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 2: Taking turns when being grabby (Raymond Chen)
- Windows Package Manager 1.29.160-preview (hackean-msft)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Boost Your .NET Projects with Spargine: High-Performance Character Processing with CharacterExtensions (David McCarter)
- Multi-layer Caching with the Decorator Pattern (Jonathan George)
- C# and .NET Mega eBook Bundle 2026 | Packt Publishing (Humble Bundle) – Referral link
- C# / .NET Performance: Why Is It Slow ‘Here’ and What Should You Optimize First? (Chris Pietschmann)
AI
- DocumentDb AI Tools — Give Your LLM a Database and One Contract, Three Transports — Mediator AI Tooling and Turn Any Interface Into an AI Tool — Shiny DI 3.0 (Allan Ritchie)
- VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot’s Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch (David Ramel)
- Building with Gemini Embedding 2: Agentic multimodal RAG and beyond (Patrick Löber, Lucia Loher & Roberto Santana)
- Work IQ API Public Preview: Build Copilot Powered Agents with A2A (tolgaki)
- Introducing DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro in Microsoft Foundry (Rashaud Savage)
- AI Crash Course: MCP Servers, Agents, AI Assistants and Skills (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Continually improving our agent harness (Cursor Team)
- Building AI agents for the enterprise and Claude Security is now in public beta and Lessons from building Claude Code: Prompt caching is everything (Claude Team)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.29 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Red-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale (Microsoft Research)
- 13 CTOs walk into a bar and realize: There is no best AI adoption strategy (Petar Dučić)
- Stop Burning Your AI Tokens: Top 25 Ways To Reduce LLM Token Costs (Mahesh Chand)
- AI Is Changing the Infrastructure Economics of Software Engineering (Chris Pietschmann)
- With AI, Headline isn’t the story and What’s wrong in my thinking about Errors? (Om Malik)
- Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI (Aisha Malik)
- The IDE Is Already an AI Quality Variable. Is It on Your AI Agenda? (Colette Des Georges)
- How to get 80% of GPT-4’s value for 20% of the cost (5 tips for reducing AI spend) (Abhishek Goyal)
- Introducing Open Vibe: Learn Web Dev While You Build Apps With an AI Tutor (Vinny)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- CI/CD for .NET on AWS: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and Blue-Green Deployments on ECS (Sudhir Mangla)
- What’s new, updated, or recently released in Microsoft Security (Alym Rayani)
- The End of NGINX Ingress on AKS: What You Need to Know (Piotr Kolodziej)
- Tolerating Inaccessibility (Christopher Phillips)
- Jenkins: Introducing the Secret Guard Plugin (Donghui Wang)
Mobile and Game Development
- Microsoft is Rolling Out Xbox Mode in Windows 11 (Paul Thurrott)
- AI-Powered Navigation in Shiny MAUI Shell (Allan Ritchie)
- Automatic Super Resolution Preview Comes to the ROG Xbox Ally X for Docked Play (Amanda Skrabut, Sameer Nene & Luke Olsen)
- New Raspberry Pi Magazine Available (Rob Miles)
Screencasts and Videos
- Microsoft SQL Drivers and SDKs: Python, AI, Bulk Copy, Arrow & more! | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & David Levy)
- Zero to Blazor Apps with GitHub Copilot | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Allen Conway)
- Keynote: Knowledge is the Key: The Path for AI Applications | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 (Jerry Nixon & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
- SharpSite and StreamerMaps | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- 5 Types of Developers AI is KILLING in 2026 (Codepur)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – Measure Twice, Cut Once: Benchmarking, Hot Paths and the Chainsaw of Unsafe Code with Szymon Kulec (Jamie Taylor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #570 – The Enterprisification of Agents (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1043 – The Joy of Unplugging Cables: Kelly Shortridge on Security Resilience and The Hanselminutes Podcast Episode #1044 – Making opinionated AI tooling decisions with Nimbalyst’s Greg Hinkle (Scott Hanselman)
- The Azure Security Podcast Episode #127 – Threat intel update and AI (Sherrod DeGrippo, Michael Howard, Sarah Young & Mark Simos)
- AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Jorgen Bach on Closing the ERP Value Gap and Operationalizing AI (Tom Smith)
- Build Mode Podcast – Maintaining Momentum and Morale During the Long Road to FDA Approval with Robhy Bustami, BioticsAI (Maggie Nye & Isabelle Johannessen)
- BONUS Agile in Construction Track Preview With Felipe Engineer-Manriquez At The Global Agile Summit | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The hidden superpower of verbs, with Sarah L. Kaufman (Mignon Fogarty)
- Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.4: Mono, micro, mesco (Steve Fenton)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Time is a construct but it can still break your software and The Stack Overflow Podcast – The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Welcoming Abigail Besdin, Mozilla’s new Chief Operating Officer (Mozilla)
- Meta lost 20 million users last quarter (Jess Weatherbed)
Database
- Query Hashes and Parameter Names in SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- PostgreSQL enters its AI era: Run PostgreSQL like a pro in the era of AI and rapid growth (Charles Feddersen)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2026 (Kerry Perez-Heffernan)
- What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | April 2026 (Seth Patton)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Announcing Native PowerShell Tooling for ReFS Snapshots (Christina Curlette)
- Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal (Simon Willison)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.40-3 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Fast .NET CLI ISO Downloader with Integrity Validation (Bryan Hogan)
- From Terminal to Autonomous Coding: Mastering GitHub Copilot CLI ACP Server (Ravindra Kumar Vishwakarma)
Tools
- Microsoft brings a Linux-style window trick to Windows 11 via PowerToys, and I can’t go back (Abhijith M B)
- Zed, the Rust-Made Coding Editor, Hits 1.0 (Paul Thurrott)
- Microsoft PowerToys 0.99 Adds Multi-Monitor Tools for Windows Users (TechRepublic Staff)
General
- Planning your path to Windows Server 2025: What organizations are prioritizing in 2026 (Windows Server Team)
- What Microsoft’s 10-Q Says About OpenAI (Om Malik)
- The Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum have been turned into retrofuturistic handhelds (Andrew Liszewski)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links – April 2026 (Robin Moffatt)
- Daily Reading List – April 30, 2026 (#774) (Richard Seroter)
