Top Links
- Custom Agents in Visual Studio: Built in and Build-Your-Own agents (Rhea Patel & Kelly Fam)
- An easy agentic Workflow for Developing with Uno Platform MCPs (Matt Mattei)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks (Gemini Team)
- Microsoft Agent Framework Reaches Release Candidate (Shawn Henry)
- The Modern .NET Show – The Paper Cuts Microsoft Actually Fixes: A Deep Dive into .NET 10 with Mark J Price (Jamie Taylor)
- Migrate your Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects to Microsoft Agent Framework Release Candidate (Dmytro Struk & Shawn Henry)
Web and Cloud Development
- Using Azure API Management with Azure Front Door for Global, Multi‑Region Architectures (juneesingh)
- API Security Best Practices: A Developer’s Guide to Protecting Your APIs (Postman Team)
- Hosting Declarative Markdown-Based Agents on Azure Functions (Anthony Chu)
- Vue Composition API: Computed and Ref Properties Explained (Lou Creemers)
- How I Used GitHub Copilot CLI to Build an Azure Governance Web App: From Zero to Maturity Score in One Weekend (Gregor Suttie)
- Coding Azure 21: Managing Configuration Information with App Configuration (Peter Vogel)
- Using the Azure Service Bus Emulator for Local Wolverine Development (Jeremy D. Miller)
Windows Development
- C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Sinem Akinci)
- Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-rc1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
- Visual Studio Insiders Release Notes – Version 11513.90 and Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.3.1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Keyed Services in Needlr: Managing Multiple Implementations (Nick Cosentino)
- Making Code Easier to Understand with Mermaid Diagrams and CodeRush (David McCarter)
AI
- The Missing Link Between AI and Business Value (Kris Kang)
- Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores—again (Lucas Ropek)
- Beware Project-Wrecking GitHub Copilot Premium SKU Quotas (David Ramel)
- Introducing Budget Bytes: Build powerful AI apps for under $25 (Jasmine Greenaway & Pablo Lopes)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Windsurf (Windsurf Team)
- Media Authenticity Methods in Practice: Capabilities, Limitations, and Directions (Eric Horvitz, Andrew Jenks & Jessica Young)
- Copilot quietly pulls your data from other Microsoft products, including Edge and MSN, but you can opt out (Mayank Parmar)
- Practical AI skills for everyone (Lisa Gevelber)
- Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro (Paul Thurrott)
- Vibe Coding: What Is It and Why I Think It Will Change Everything (Pinal Dave)
- How AI is reshaping developer choice (and Octoverse data proves it) (Andrea Griffiths)
- How Students Are Using AI-Powered Hints in Programming Courses (Katie Fraser)
- Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great (Frederic Lardinois)
- Turn creative prompts into interactive XR experiences with Gemini (Benjamin Hersh & Ruofei Du)
- The Copilot resource guide to share with your employees (Julie Hersum)
- Bringing AI fluency to every corner of the organization (even yours!) (Ashley Masters-Hall)
- Gas Town Explained: How to Use Goosetown for Parallel Agentic Engineering (Tyler Longwell)
- Agentic AI in Software Development: From Coding to Orchestration (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (Simon Willison)
- Implementing a secure sandbox for local agents (Cursor Team)
- Train AI models with Unsloth and Hugging Face Jobs for FREE (Ben Burtenshaw, Daniel, Michael Han, Maxime Lebonne, Daniel van Strien & Shaun Smith)
- Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online (James O’Donnell)
- Advancing independent research on AI alignment (OpenAI Team)
- Packaging Expertise: How Claude Skills Turn Judgment Into Artifacts (Han Lee)
- LangChain Python Tutorial: 2026’s Complete Guide (Cheuk Ting Ho)
- The challenges of measuring AI literacy (Bobby Whyte)
- Developer Productivity in the Age of AI: Why Your Past Predicts Your Future (Steve Fenton)
- Get AI-Ready With Erik: A Little About Finding Related Content (Erik Darling)
- Running OpenClaw safely: identity, isolation, and runtime risk (Microsoft Defender Security Research Team)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0rc1 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- TeamCity 2025.11.3 Is Here (Dmitrii Korovin)
- New e-book: Establishing a proactive defense with Microsoft Security Exposure Management (Adi Shua Zucker)
- GitOps Best Practices I Wish I Had Known Before (Engin Diri)
- Developer Goals Don’t Have to Be Corporate Theatre (Piotr Machner)
Mobile and Game Development
- We’re sharing how we kept the Google Play and Android app ecosystems safe in 2025 | The Keyword (Google)
- Minecraft Java Is Switching From OpenGL To Vulkan (BeauHD)
- IoT Hub with ADR and Certificate Management – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 (Pete Gallagher)
- Java to Kotlin Conversion Comes to Visual Studio Code (Alina Dolgikh)
- ☂️ Bring Material 3 Expressive to Flutter (Pierre) – The material and cupertino libraries are being decoupled into standalone packages to accelerate feature development
Screencasts and Videos
- Uno Platform 6.5 Release Community Standup (Sam Basu, Steve Bilogan & Martin Zikmund)
- How People Actually Use AI Agents (AIDailyBrief)
- How to use the Postman MCP Server with Claude Code (Postman Team)
- SQL Server Migration Made Easy with Azure Arc | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Dani Ljepava)
- Fabric SQL Database Use Cases Within Analytics Solutions | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Paul Andrew)
- What do you find exciting about Aspire 13? | One Dev Question (Maddy Montaquila)
- MCP is so back! (feat. David Soria Parra) | Python on Azure (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza & Marlene Mahngami)
- Squad looks into TagzApp | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #560 – You Can Feel It Coming (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #708 – Jens Gustedt on C in 2026 (Gavin Henry)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The Changelog Podcat Episode #677 – Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Steve Ruiz, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags | Adventures in DevOps Episode #263 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft 365 Copilot Licensing: Five Things You Need to Know (Mary Jo Foley)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #131 – Ford’s Road To Their EV Future! Universal EV Platform Huge Updates, Polestar Revamps Lineup, & More (Batteries Included Team)
- Build Mode Podcast – Compensation, culture, and cap tables with Yuri Sagalov, General Catalyst (Isabelle Johannessen)
- BONUS The Future of Seeing—Why AI Vision Will Transform Medicine and Human Perception | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Daniel Sodickson)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source (Phoebe Sajor)
Community and Events
- Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2026 (Jakub Beránek & Jack Huey)
- What Developers Actually Need to Know Right Now (Tim O’Reilly)
- Alt text 101 for Bluesky (Manning Krull)
- Jenkins accepted as mentoring org for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 (Kris Stern)
- Is it time to leave Discord? We asked Windows Central readers as the platform faces severe backlash over age verification — and ties to Peter Thiel (Cale Hunt)
- IRS Loses 40% of IT Staff, 80% of Tech Leaders In ‘Efficiency’ Shakeup (BeauHD)
- The week the world changed (Johnny Rodgers)
- The National Constitution Center’s New Gallery Is a Must-Visit — Here’s Why (Visit Philly)
Database
- Upgrade to SQL Server 2025 Enterprise Developer Edition (Jim Evans)
- The SQL Server Transaction Log, Part 2: Log Architecture (Paul S. Randal)
- Download Free SQL Server Error Log Scripts (MSSQL Tips)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- OneDrive is Going Liquid Glass on the Mac (Paul Thurrott)
PowerShell and Terminal
- PowerShell v7.6.0-rc.1 Release (jshigetomi)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.412 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Writing
- Where Does Conflict Come From In Fiction? (Writers Write)
Tools
- Exclusive: Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad on Windows 11 (Mayank Parmar)
- Create studio-quality marketing assets with Photoshoot in Pomelli (Daniel Adonai)
General
- Diving into Retro Computing with the Amstrad PCW 8256 (Lucy Hancock)
- OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation (Rebecca Bellan)
- Windows Hello for Business – Registered Methods and Last-used Method (Michael Hildebrand)
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