Top Links
- Windows App SDK Version 1.7.0 (1.7.250310001) Stable Channel Release Notes | Microsoft Learn (Roy MacLachlan)
- VTM is a based open-source text-based desktop environment that pushes Windows Terminal to the limit (Scott Hanselman)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 2 (Dan Roth)
- .NET MAUI Updates in .NET 10 Preview 2 (Rachel Kang)
- Boost your GitHub productivity with Visual Studio’s new multi-account support! (Ruben Rios)
- .NET 10 Preview 2 is now available! (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Acquiring Tokens For Non-Graph APIs In Azure Functions (Den Delimarsky)
- How to log to Azure Application Insights using ILogger in ASP.NET Core (Davide Bellone)
- Getting Started: Document Viewer Version 33.0 with Angular CLI 19.0 (Bjoern Meyer)
- Blazor Basics: Real-time Web Applications with Blazor WebAssembly and SignalR (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Deploy Your First App Using GitHub Copilot for Azure: A Beginner’s Guide (Muhammad Samiullah)
- Awesome Self-Host Docker – A curated list of open-source, self-hosted projects deployable with Docker and docker-compose (Salman Qureshi)
- Duende IdentityServer 7.2.0 Release Now Available (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- .NET Aspire Dashboard – The mystery of the hidden endpoint (Bart Wullems)
- Copilot in Bing Webmaster Tools is Now Available to All Users and Supercharge Your Search Performance with Bing Webmaster Tools (Bing Team)
- Announcing the General Availability of OpenID Connect external identity provider support for Microsoft Entra External ID (Bora Ozbayburtlu)
- RESTful API Design: Why Simplicity Wins (Chris Woodruff)
- How to Use Dual-Axis Charts for Effective Data Visualization? (Easwaran Azhagesan)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Add a .NET MAUI Datagrid Control to an Uno Application (Matt Cowles)
- Windows App SDK 1.7.0 (1.7.250310001) release and Windows App SDK 1.7.0 (1.7.250310001) announcement | GitHub Discussions (Roy MacLachlan)
- OpenSilver 3.2 Takes WPF Apps to Mobile with .NET MAUI Hybrid Integration (David Ramel)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.7.250310001 (NuGet)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Create PDF Documents with TX Text Control using C# .NET on Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.13.4 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Boosting Performance with Span and Memory (David McCarter)
- .NET 10 Preview 2 announcement | GitHub Discussions (James Montemagno)
- .NET Metrics (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- Accelerating Agentic Workflows with NVIDIA AgentIQ, Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey)
- Azure AI Foundry: Revolutionizing AI-Powered Applications (Mohamed El-Qassas)
- Cursor vs. Claude Code – Which is better the AI Coding Agent? (Greg Baugues)
- Microsoft and NVIDIA accelerate AI development and performance (Omar Khan)
- How Google and NVIDIA are teaming up to solve real-world problems with AI (Google Keyword Team)
- Model Context Protocol: Expanding LLM Capabilities (Esteban Solano G.)
- AI Code Completion: Less Is More (Irina Mariasova)
- Anthropic is reportedly prepping a voice mode for Claude (Ivan Mehta)
- Nvidia announces two ‘personal AI supercomputers’ (Rebecca Szkutak)
- Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs (Taketomo Isazawa, Xi Wang, Liana Mikaelyan, Mathew Salvaris & James Hensman)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Upcoming Updates for Azure Pipelines Agents Images (Shubham Agarwal & Eric van Wijk)
- How to Use AI with the New Isolator++ API (Eli Lopian)
- Creating provenance attestations for NuGet packages in GitHub Actions (Andrew Lock)
- Seamless service: Advancing cloud technology for our restaurants (Yoel Nozar)
- Secure by design: a UX toolkit (Sabine Roehl)
- Optimizing Build Times with Build Insights: How Activision Cut Call of Duty’s Build Time by 50% (Moyo Okeremi)
- Maintainable software requires these three things (Matt Lacey)
- Unlocking talent with Windows accessibility (Melissa Grant)
- The Human Cost of NDAs and Forced Arbitration in the Workplace (Brandi Neal)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Leveraging Docker with TensorFlow Models & TensorFlow.js for a Snake AI Game (Harsh Manvar)
- Automating Apple Builds: A Practical Guide to GitHub Secrets (Marco Siccardi)
- ID@Xbox: Developers of All Sizes Are Finding More Success With Xbox – $5 Billion Paid Out to Date (Mike Nelson)
- Monitor your Genkit features in production (Konstantin Mandrika & Alex Singer)
Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Preview Unboxed – .NET 10 Preview 2, DevContainers, Blazor, & More! (.NET Team)
- UI writing will change forever 🤯 | Figma | Flutter | MCP (Codepur)
- Add & Reply to Pull Requests Comments Directly from Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)
- XAML Resources are the BEST Way to Manage Reused Strings (Windows Developer Team)
- BDD In Action – Webinar Recording (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Looking at Ubuntu Mate and troubleshoot WebView2 on WebAssembly (Jerome Laban)
- MAUI Lead Leaves to Work on .NET Aspire (Nick Chapsas)
- Introducing Canvas in Gemini (Google Gemini Team)
- .NET Aspire on the open web (Jeff Fritz)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Maxim Fateev (Isaac Levin)
- Build Your Own Health Coach Agents with Govind Kamtamneni, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- Deep dive on Inspektor Gadget | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Mauricio Vasquez)
- Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
Podcasts
- The AI Fix Podcast – AIs with anxiety, and why AIs don’t know what happened (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – WBIT #5: Building a framework to lure web devs to mobile (Ryan Donovan)
- RunAs Radio #976 – Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff (Sonia Cuff)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #660 – Pete Warden on TinyML (Kanchan Shringi)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Balancing Team Protection and Stakeholder Engagement | Karen Suarez (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- #UCK25 – All Speakers Announced (Update Conference Krakow)
- Irresponsible AI Agents – April 29, 2025 (Microsoft Reactor)
- CfP List Updated 2025-03-18 (Dave Aronson)
- Microsoft Ability Summit 2025: Accessibility in the AI era (Jenny Lay-Flurrie)
- Build, Innovate, and #Hacktogether! (Lee Stott)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Conditional Logic (Erik Darling)
- RavenDB 7.1: One IO Ring to rule them all (Oren Eini)
- Query Exercise: Looking for Email Addresses (Brent Ozar)
- Foreign Keys and Performance in a Microsoft Fabric Warehouse (Jared Westover)
- Using SQLFluff (Josephine Bush)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- ProcDump 3.4.1 for Linux and Sysmon 1.3.5 for Linux (Alex Mihaiuc)
- Gavin Newsom Is Reportedly Sending Burner Phones To Tech CEOs (BeauHD)
- Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.3613 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Why didn’t Windows 95 setup use a miniature version of Windows 95 as its fallback GUI? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Rust 1.85.1 (Rust Release Team)
- Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months (Wes Davis)
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