Top Links
- EPISODE 9 – Scott and Mark Learn To… Public Speaking (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premiering Feb 5 @ 12:15pm EST
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/2/3 – Clark V Kevin Battle Royale (Clark Sell, Kevin Griffin & Alec Harrison)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 2 (Kevin Gosse)
- Migrate from MSTest to xUnit using a Roslyn analyzer (Gérald Barré)
- Semantic Kernel Roadmap H1 2025: Accelerating Agents, Processes, and Integration (Shawn Henry)
- Customize your AI-generated git commit messages (Jessie Houghton)
Web & Cloud Development
- Impersonation in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
- Microsoft Entra Authentication for Azure PostgreSQL (Arun Sirpal)
- Build a ChatLens with Kendo UI, Gemini and Angular 19 (Dany Paredes)
- Why Every JavaScript Developer Should Try TypeScript (Denis Wachira)
- Integrate ASP.NET Core DataGrid With Boilerplate and Perform CRUD Actions (Maithiliy K.)
- Pulumi Copilot is Now Available in VS Code (Eron Wright)
- MassTransit – Competing Consumers (Bryan Hogan)
- Announcing Vonage Video API Client SDK Version 2.29 (Vikram Dham)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- WinUI TabView | Microsoft Learn (Jim Walker)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Challenge: Giving file system developer ulcer (Oren Eini)
- Random Neighborhoods Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- On trying to log an exception as it leaves your scope (Raymond Chen)
- [Field Notes] Troubleshooting .NET OpenTelemetry SDK: Why Can’t I see My App’s Metrics? (Sean Killeen)
- Query Tags: Debugging EF Core Like a Detective and Batching Like a Boss: Using IDbContextFactory for High-Performance EF Core Updates (Chris Woodruff)
- Numeric sorting in .NET (Anthony Simmon)
AI
- Enable knowledge sources from Microsoft Copilot Studio (preview) (Microsoft Learn)
- Anthropic Asks Job Applicants Not To Use AI In Job Applications and Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time For People Who Download DeepSeek and CERN’s Mark Thomson: AI To Revolutionize Fundamental Physics (BeauHD)
- Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations (Daniel Dominguez)
- Prompt Injection for Large Language Models (Georg Dresler)
- AI as System 0 Thinking (JD Meier)
- DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech (Kyle Wiggers)
- Do more with Copilot and agents (Matt Graven)
- Block Launches Open-Source AI Framework Codename Goose (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Deploy DeepSeek models locally and monitor with New Relic AI Monitoring (Ryan Kadrak)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Update to Azure DevOps Allowed IP addresses (Soo Stahl)
- Application Packaging Trends in 2025: What’s Changing (and What’s Not) and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT): Everything You Need to Know (Alex Marin)
- Productivity is Messing Around and Having Fun (Holly Cummins)
- TortoiseSVN + Assembla Cloud Repos: A Guide to Modern, Reliable SVN (Bryan Grover)
- TeamCity 2024.12.2 Bug Fix Is Now Available (Olga Bedrina)
Screencasts & Videos
- Ronald Reagan warns against trade wars — as if speaking directly to Donald Trump (video) (Carla Sinclair)
- Creating My First Postman Flow (Postman Team)
- Running Distilled DeepSeek R1 models Locally on Copilot+ PCs (Windows Developer)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Apoorva Joshi on LLM Application Evaluation and Performance Improvements (Apoorva Joshi)
- Betatalks the Podcast #101 – From Minicomputers to Cloud Computing: How Technology Shapes Our World with Rocky Lhotka (Rick & Oscar)
- Merge Conflict #448 – Did Android XR Just Destroy visionOS? (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Hidden Cost of Combined Scrum Master and Product Owner Roles | Chrissy Fleming (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast #873 – Standard Schema: The Universal JavaScript Data Interface (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Azure Podcast Episode 512 – WAF and WARA on the Azure Podcast (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- Meta Cast – Fix Your Agile Teams with These Simple Shifts (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- CloudChat Episode #18 – We Can Hardly Container Ourselves! (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- The Changelog News Podcast #130 – Everyone knows your location (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #209 – vCISO in the Cloud: Navigating the New Security Landscape (and Don’t Forget Resilience!) (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Leading the Shift Podcast – Creating the new field of data for social impact | data.org (Susan Etlinger)
- Only Malware in the Building – Cyber Groundhog Day and romance scams (Selena Larson, Dave Bittner & Rick Howard)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Will the web ever be the primary delivery system for 3D games? (Eira May)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Toeing’ the line. Metonym versus synecdoche. Ghost town mad (Jim Norrena & Mignon Fogarty)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #206 – The Best Advice You Can Give Someone Looking for Success (Max Ahumada)
Community & Events
- Productivity with GitHub Copilot: Docs and Unit Tests | 11 Feb 2025 Livestream (Microsoft Reactor)
- AI Is Spamming Open Source Repos With Fake Issues (Loraine Lawson)
- Medium: Why we’ve suspended some Partner Program accounts this week (Scott Lamb)
- Salesforce Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI (msmash)
- Hear from Microsoft Security experts at these top cybersecurity events in 2025 (Benjamin Lim)
- Volunteering at NDC London (Simon Foster)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- Open Source Friday AI with Angie Jones (GitHub Team)
- ID@Xbox Showcase Returns with IGN on February 24 (Joe Skrebels)
- GeekWire Awards nominations now open! Help us honor the best in Pacific Northwest tech (Kurt Schlosser)
Database
- Resetting Identity Seed in SQL Server After Deleting Records (Chris Pietschmann)
- Indexing SQL Server Queries For Performance: Indexed Views And Filtered Indexes (Erik Darling)
- Introducing the Enhanced Azure SQL Database Free Offer: Now Generally Available (amardigamberpatil)
- Full-Text Search in Azure Cosmos DB (Kevin Comba)
- Set up dbt for Fabric SQL Database (Nandan Hegde)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- New and Improved: Board View in My Tasks and My Day (David Hopkins)
PowerShell
- PowerShell for Windows Developers: Takeaways from Advanced Installer’s Tech Session | Part 1 (Renato Ivanescu)
- Fun with PowerShell Asynchronous (Laerte Junior)
Miscellaneous
- 7 essential plugins for the Steam Deck to make the best handheld even better (Richard Devine)
- This $75 SSD is one of the best Steam Deck upgrades you can make (Alice Jovanée)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4870 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- GrubHub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers (Carly Page)
- Can anyone stop President Musk? (Elizabeth Lopatto)
- Treasury Department sued over DOGE takeover (Gaby Del Valle)
- Bite-size learning with Windows skilling snacks (Harjit Dhaliwal)
- Opera launches a mindfulness-focused browser with break reminders and soundscapes (Ivan Mehta)
- China opens Google antitrust probe in retaliation to tariffs (Jess Weatherbed)
- Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts (Kate Knibbs)
- Elon Musk is staging a takeover of the federal budget (Lauren Feiner)
- Microsoft is bringing a powerful media transcoding feature to Advanced Paste in PowerToys v0.89 (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System (Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger & Tim Marchman)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-06 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #173 (Sam Basu)
- Daily Reading List – February 3, 2025 (#485) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024) (Donnie Prakoso)
- Reading List #335 (Bruce Lawson)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)