Top Links
- Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET (Wendy Breiding)
- Announcing the new Azure DevOps Server RC Release (Gloridel Morales)
- Announcing a new OData.NET serializer (Clément Habinshuti)
- MCP and A2A Basics (Rocky Lhotka)
- Passkeys in .NET 10 Blazor Apps with ASP.NET Identity (Maarten Balliauw)
- Semantic Kernel and Microsoft Agent Framework (Shawn Henry)
Web & Cloud Development
- Why Devs Are Ditching React for Preact’s Simplicity and Speed (Alexander T. Williams)
- Remembering the end of support for VRML in Internet Explorer (Raymond Chen)
- Docker and Angular Part 2: Environment Variables and Share Docker Images (Dany Paredes)
- Your API Errors Suck (Here’s How to Fix Them) (Derek Comartin)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET Core vs. .NET Framework: Key Differences and Best Use Cases (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Libsql.Client – A .NET client library for libsql (Tom van Dinther)
- Defensive Programming with Microsoft .NET: Anticipate Errors and Eliminate Bugs (David McCarter)
- Pass the State (Szymon Kulec)
AI
- Update on the Next MCP Protocol Release (David Soria Parra)
- Introducing the MCP Registry (David Soria Parra, Adam Jones, Tadas Antanavicius, Toby Padilla & Theodora Chu)
- How to Build Apps Inside ChatGPT: Step-by-Step Guide and ChatGPT App Monetization Models — What Developers Need to Know and Security, Privacy & Permissions in ChatGPT Apps — Risk Factors & Best Practices and Top 10 Use Cases for Apps Inside ChatGPT — Embed vs. Standalone (Mahesh Chand)
- How to Build an Adaptive Tic-Tac-Toe AI with Reinforcement Learning in JavaScript (Mayur Vekariya)
- What’s new in Azure AI Foundry | September 2025 (Nick Brady)
- See Your Site Through AI: WordPress.com Now Supports MCP (James W. LePage)
- Top Agentic AI Tools for VS Code, According to Installs (David Ramel)
- MCP Center – Unlocking the power of MCP servers in your enterprise (Microsoft)
- Announcing Pulumi Remote MCP Server (Artur Laksberg)
- Accelerate AI agent development with the Nova Act IDE extension (Donnie Prakoso)
- How ‘Guess Who?’ Logic Shapes AI Decision Trees and Predictive ML (Emin Mulaimović)
- How to Do High-Quality AI Deep Research for Product Development (Maryam Maleki)
- 10 Things You Can Do With Our Infrastructure Agent, Neo (Meagan Cojocar)
- DesignCoder and the future of AI-generated UI (Rosario De Chiara)
- LoRA Fine-Tuning for Phi Silica and What is Windows ML and Develop AI applications for Copilot+ PCs and What is the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code? (Microsoft Learn)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Using Personal Access Tokens(PAT) to clone Azure DevOps Git Repositories (Bart Wullems)
- New Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices: Practical guides to strengthen security (Hammad Rajjoub)
- How we test a web framework (Franjo Mindek)
- How to build incredible developer documentation (Lee Robinson)
- Natural consequences (Eric Brechner)
- Pathways to Wow-Worthy: How to Navigate Expectation Violations in Product Design (Audrey Aday)
- Start with Security, End with Confidence (Samantha De Mont)
- Making a case for slower UX: When to prioritize story over speed (Neil Nkoyock)
- New Microsoft Entra ID Free Subscription Enhances Identity Management for Organizations (Rabia Noureen)
- Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change (Sam Bailey)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Microsoft and Valve issue warning to gamers about Unity vulnerability (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
Screencasts & Videos
- From Realtor to AI Developer, with Brandon Gallmeyer, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- How to move Active Directory Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra ID and why | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #1005 – Managing for Failure with Amy Norris (Richard Campbell)
- Agile Meets AI—How to Code Fast Without Breaking Things | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Llewellyn Falco)
- PPP 480 | What If You Managed Your Life Like a Project? Insights from Coach Tony Weaver (Andy Kaufman)
- The GitHub Podcast Episode #48 – Mike McQuaid on the Greatest Lessons He’s Learned in Over 16 Years at Homebrew (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes & Andrea Griffiths)
- The AI Fix Episode #71 – Hacked robots and power-hungry AI (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – The Business Formula to Shift from Hustle to Real Profit (with Joy Rowland) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Women in Technology Podcast Episode #51 – Women at the Intersection of AI, Privacy and Finance (WiT Team)
Community & Events
- Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native (Meta)
- From ASP.NET to Angular: My MVP Story – Sonu Kapoor (Kim Sanchez)
- Introducing the React Foundation (Seth Webster, Matt Carroll & Joe Savona)
- GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development (Frederic Lardinois)
- The Latest Women in Cybersecurity Stats (Oct 2025) (Programs Team)
- Make Your GitHub Profile Update Itself (WordPress posts, GitHub releases, LinkedIn newsletters) (Chris Woodruff)
- Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter ‘Packs’ (Sarah Perez)
- How a top bug bounty researcher got their start in security (Shilpa Kumari)
Database
- MySQL Basics: Seek and You Shall SELECT—Retrieving Data from Your Tables (Scott Stroz)
- Managing Underused Indexes in SQL Server Availability Groups – Part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)
- SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 32 (Erik Darling)
- DBAs should never run SSMS under their everyday Windows account (Peter Skoglund)
- VS Code SQL Extension Gets Schema Designer (Kay Ewbank)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Disrupting threats targeting Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team)
- Changes to inline image representation in Outlook on the web and new Outlook for Windows (Office Add-ins Team)
Miscellaneous
- Will Microsoft’s free ESU program for Windows 10 in Europe create a global precedent? (Kevin Okemwa)
- Running Code in the Pre-Boot Environment (j2inet)
- Installing a Standalone Root Certificate Authority & Web Enrollment on Windows Server 2025 (Orin Thomas)
- The Red Hat data breach is worse than first thought (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Big Tech is ‘donating’ to Trump’s ‘nonprofits’ (Tina Nguyen)
- Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for some subscribers (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 7, 2025 (#643) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #298 (Jasen)
- Radar Trends to Watch: October 2025 (Mike Loukides)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency in C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
