Top Links
- How the .NET MAUI Team uses GitHub Copilot for Productivity (Jonathan Peppers)
- Announcing the new Microsoft Learn Plan – Preparing for your organization’s AI workloads (Vinicius Apolinario)
- .NET Rocks! – A Better AI Development Assistant with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Introducing a New Lightweight DataGrid for Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
- Building an AI Assistant for Microsoft Learn Docs MCP (Konstantinos Passadis)
- Let’s Learn MCP: C# (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- 5 Open-Source Projects to Boost Your Productivity in Blazor (Héctor Pérez)
- Implementing BFF Pattern in ASP.NET Core for SPAs (Tore Nestenius)
- Node v24.4.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Compose your way with Provider services! (Guillaume Lours)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Discover India’s Top Hotel Brands with Stunning .NET MAUI Lollipop Charts (Baranibharathi Pandian)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- A Practical Guide to eBPF: The Future of High-Performance Networking and Observability in .NET (Sudhir Mangla)
- When I install an unhandled structured exception filter, why doesn’t std::terminate get called? (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Docker MCP Gateway: Open Source, Secure Infrastructure for Agentic AI (Jim Clark)
- Multi-Agent Systems and MCP Tools Integration with Azure AI Foundry (Lee Stott)
- Docker Brings Compose to the Agent Era: Building AI Agents is Now Easy (Mark Cavage)
- Supercharge your Firebase Studio workflow with MCP servers (James O’Reilly)
- Today we are launching Comet (Perplexity Team)
- Advancing agentic AI development with Firebase Studio (Jeanine Banks)
- Start your own coding adventure with GitHub Copilot (Bart Wullems)
- Beyond prompt crafting: How to be a better partner for your AI pair programmer (Christopher Harrison)
- OpenAI closes its deal to buy Jony Ive’s io and build AI hardware and Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown (Hayden Field)
- OpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks (Maxwell Zeff)
- Will LLMs and Vibe Coding Fuel a Developer Renaissance? (Sylvain Kalache)
- As AI reshapes its workforce, Microsoft commits $4 billion to help others adapt (Todd Bishop)
- OpenAI’s open language model is imminent (Tom Warren)
- The Healthcare Leader’s AI Beach Reading List (Tressha)
- How MCP can help us investigate security incidents faster (Zichuan Xiong, Paul Rinaldi & Jack Naglieri)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- July Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Better performance, smarter workflows: What’s new in Stack Overflow for Teams (Carrie Koos)
- A quick note on “At Scale” (Tim Ottinger)
- Microsoft Elevate: Putting people first (Brad Smith)
- Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research (Victor Yocco)
- Skilling for impact: A new era of learning for Microsoft Partners (Jill Armour)
- There is no golden path anymore: Engineering practices are being rewritten (Katja Skafar)
- Dear Rounded Corners, You Win (Simon Sterne)
- Collaborative Function App Development Using Repo Branches (theringe)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Critical Flutter OSS Projects Need Love! (aka Funding) (Chris Sells)
- 4 new AI updates on Android coming to Samsung Galaxy devices (Mindy Brooks)
Screencasts & Videos
- Write Better C# Tests with xUnit V3 and Microsoft Testing Platform (Nick Cosentino)
- How do I get started with .NET web development? | One Dev Question (Katie Savage)
- AI Red Teaming 101 – Full Course (Episodes 1-10) (Amanda Minnich & Gary Lopez)
- Meet Rhea at VS Live! (Visual Studio Team)
Podcasts
- New Hello World podcast series: Bringing computer science into every classroom (Sean Sayers)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Waterfall to Agile—A Multi-Level Change Strategy and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Selecting the Appropriate Agile Values for Organizational Impact (Vasco Duarte & Pascal Papathemelis)
- no dogma podcast #178 – Ted Neward, The Interview Industrial Complex, Part 2 (Bryan Hogan)
- Syntax Podcast – Extreme Native Perf on the Web with Superhuman (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Metaphors and your brain. How figurative language works, with Dr. Vicky Lai (Mignon Fogarty)
Community & Events
- Introducing AWS Builder Center: A new home for the AWS builder community (Channy Yun)
- Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career (Charity Majors)
- Microsoft Touts $500 Million in AI Savings While Slashing Jobs (msmash)
Database
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- We’ve got a surprise Pixel Drop for you | The Keyword (Google)
- Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots (BeauHD)
- Linda Yaccarino quits as Twitter CEO after Nazi chatbot meltdown (Rob Beschizza)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 9, 2025 (#583) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #236 and The .NET News Daily Issue #237 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, 2nd Ed. (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link