Top Links
- Local AI + .NET = AltText Magic in One C# Script (Bruno Capuano)
- Migrating Uno Platform Applications from Native to Skia (Uno Platform Team)
- Color Selection Made Easy Now: Meet the New .NET MAUI Color Picker (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
- 5 ways to transform your workflow using GitHub Copilot and MCP (Klint Finley)
- .NET Rocks! – Thinking Agentic AI with Seth Juarez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Introducing the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo (Matt Soucoup & Aaron Powell)
Web & Cloud Development
- The Angular Custom Profiling Track is now available (Angular Team)
- Azure SDK Release (June 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Deno 2.4: deno bundle is back (Andy Jiang)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Build a Real-Time Cloud Monitoring Dashboard Using WPF Charts (Tinesh Kumar Sivakumar)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Giving Copilot Agent in Visual Studio a try (Bart Wullems)
- Unintended yet somehow entirely expected consequences of marking a COM interface as local (Raymond Chen)
- AutoMapper and MediatR Commercial Editions Launch Today (Jimmy Bogard)
AI
- Build AI-Ready Apps and Agents with PostgreSQL on Azure (iemejia)
- Building secure, scalable AI in the cloud with Microsoft Azure (Maria Bledsoe)
- Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary (Dmitry Kobak, Rita González-Márquez, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát & Jan Lause)
- GenAIScript – Continuous Markdown Translations (Peli de Halleux)
- Refactor Legacy Code Faster with GitHub Copilot (Copilot That Jawn)
- AI Coding Tools Create More Bugs Than They Fix (Darryl K. Taft)
- Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail (Jess Weatherbed)
- Responsible AI and the Evolution of AI Security (Konstantinos Passadis)
- The Great Copilot Journey: Now Available through Power Automate (Kristin Ginn)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why Organizations Need Expert Generalists (Martin Fowler)
- Bringing architecture to life with Firebase Studio (Romy El Sayah)
- Testing custom events with Playwright (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Why Quality Code Matters and How To Achieve It (Liz Acosta)
- Using Gordon to Containerize Your Apps and Work with Containers (Steve Buchanan)
- Driving Content Delivery Efficiency Through Classifying Cache Misses (Vipul Marlecha, Lara Deek & Thiara Ortiz)
Screencasts & Videos
- Can Copilot REALLY Build My Blazor Website for Me? (Nick Cosentino)
- Get started with C# & .NET Development in Visual Studio and Is developing for Linux on Windows feasible? | One Dev Question (Scott Hanselman)
- .NET AI Community Standup – AI in .NET: What’s New, What’s Next (.NET Team)
- Keynote: CTRL+SHIFT+(BUILD) PAUSE – NDC Oslo 2025 (Laila Bougria)
- Gemini CLI: The AI Secret Google Kept From Developers (Until NOW!) 🤯 (Codepur)
- How Microsoft Engineers Build AI: Building and Evaluating Agents (Frank Boucher, Aditya Challapally & Emmanuel Barajas Gonzales)
- Model Mondays S2E03 – AMA on SLMs and Reasoning (Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D)
Podcasts
- Developer Tea – Your System is Perfectly Designed for Your Current Outcomes (Jonathan Cutrell)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #648 – Agent, take the wheel (Thorsten Ball, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – One-on-One Insights—Building Change Strategy Through Individual Conversations | Bernard Agrest (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #916 – I got fired, what should I focus on? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Talk Python to Me #512 – Building a JIT Compiler for CPython (Michael Kennedy)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The surprising history (and politics) of emoji, with Keith Houston (Mignon Fogarty)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #319 – Finding Nemotron (Joey Conway & Chris Benson)
Community & Events
- Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts and Microsoft cancels its Perfect Dark and Everwild Xbox games (Jay Peters)
- Register today for the Microsoft Entra Suite Summer Camp (kamurphy)
- PASS Summit on Tour in New York City (Steve Jones)
- Microsoft cuts another 4% of its workforce, about 9,000 jobs, in continued efficiency push and Microsoft cuts 830 jobs in Washington state — less than 10% of latest global layoffs (Todd Bishop)
- Phil Spencer isn’t retiring as the chief of Xbox ‘anytime soon’ (Tom Warren)
Database
- PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 5: Understanding Wait Analysis (Kellyn Gorman)
- SQL Server Errorlog: Not Just for Errors! (Kevin3NF)
- 10 Essential Things to Know Before Diving into Database DevOps (Graeme Lilly)
- Boost your MySQL apps: why enterprises are migrating MySQL databases to Azure (TELAWRENCE)
- Running high-performance PostgreSQL on Azure Kubernetes Service (Qi Ke)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Keeping Up with Microsoft 365 Copilot Changes (Michael Gannotti)
Miscellaneous
- Google Undercounts Its Carbon Emissions, Report Finds (msmash)
- Paramount agrees to pay $16m “bribe” to Trump (Rob Beschizza)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 2, 2025 (#580) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #231 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Becoming a C++ and Unreal Game Developer Humble Bundle of Video Learning Courses (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
