Top Links
- Multi-Process CPU Usage Analysis in Visual Studio (Harshada Hole)
- Microsoft Copilot in Azure is now generally available (Ruhiyyih Mahalati)
- No More UI Headaches! The Syncfusion Blazor UI Kit Makes Development Easy! (Jollen Moyani)
- Test out .NET 10 Previews in Dev Containers & Codespaces in Minutes! (.NET Team)
- Prototyping Web Apps with AI: Pair Programming with a Robot Friend (Alyssa Nicoll)
- Copilot on Windows: Vision and file search begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Beyond chat – a quick way to bring AI to your Blazor Web App (Jon Hilton)
- Creating Business Applications Using Blazor (David Ramel & Michael Washington)
- Azure SDK for Rust Goes Beta (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Optimizing JSON Serialization in .NET: Newtonsoft.Json vs. System.Text.Json (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- The Future of Server-Driven Web Apps: Why htmx and ASP.NET Are Just Getting Started (Chris Woodruff)
- Migrating Aurora Postgres Serverless v1 to v2 using CloudFormation (Ralph Willgoss)
- DevExpress Blazor AI Chat — Implement Function Calling (Dmitry Tokmachev)
- What’s New in React Router 7 (Prashant Yadav)
- Better typography with text-wrap pretty (Jen Simmons)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Neural Network Quantile Regression Using C# and Linear Support Vector Regression from Scratch Using C# with Evolutionary Training (James McCaffrey)
- What’s New in vcpkg (March 2025) (Augustin Popa)
- Building Clang on Window (j2inet)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Retry Logic Made Easy with Spargine’s ExecutionHelper (David McCarter)
- Generating Dynamic NDAs Using TX Text Control MailMerge in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
AI
- AI-Assisted Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi’s Model Context Protocol Server (Mikhail Shilkov)
- AWS announces Pixtral Large 25.02 model in Amazon Bedrock serverless (Sébastien Stormacq)
- GitHub Gists | GenAIScript (Peli de Halleux)
- Improving The Model Context Protocol Authorization Spec – One RFC At A Time (Den Delimarsky)
- Ollama Adds Mistral 3.1 Support (Luis Quintanilla)
- Gemini for DartPad (Amanda Fitch)
- How AI is transforming IDEs into intelligent development assistants (Chris Woodruff)
- GitHub Copilot–When to choose what? and Context is key–Add instructions to your copilot-instructions.md file (Bart Wullems)
- How to Write AI Prompts That Output Valid JSON Data (Chris Pietschmann)
- Optimize AI Workloads: Google Cloud’s Tips and Tricks (Claudio Masolo)
- AI Avatars: Redefining Human-Digital Interaction in the Enterprise Era (Gana Chandrasekaran)
- The 10 best AI coding tools for 2025 (Isaac Okoro)
- Post to social media using Claude Desktop and Crosspost (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Comparing Google’s Image Generation Models (Raymond Camden)
- Introducing Auth for GenAI: Launching Identity for AI Agents (Shiven Ramji)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- April Patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Announcing CI/CD Enhancements for Azure Load Testing (Nikita Nallamothu)
- Advanced Installer 22.6 (Advanced Installer Team)
- SAFe without silos in GitLab (Amanda Rueda)
- Verifying tricky git rebases with git range-diff (Andrew Lock)
- Managing PMs (Eric Brechner)
- Found means fixed: Reduce security debt at scale with GitHub security campaigns (James Fletcher)
- Seniors and Juniors (Mike Loukides)
- The Goldilocks zone of software stability (Raymond Chen)
- Shift Left: Bringing Developers into the Design Process Earlier (Teon Beijl)
- Tests are Documentation, or are they? (Urs Enzler)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Gemini in Android Studio for businesses: Develop with confidence, powered by AI (Sandhya Mohan)
- How to Build a Multilingual Social Recipe Application with Flutter and Strapi (Kevine Nzapdi)
- Animated Responsive Collapsible Menus in Flutter (Rawaha Muhammad)
- Tiny Computer, Big Headache – Porting Advent of Code to the Pi Pico (Simon Martin)
Screencasts & Videos
- TDD In The Age of AI – Webinar Recording (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Build a Smart Contact Center with Azure Communication Services and OpenAI | Sip and Sync with Azure (Eleanor Lewis & Hieu Nguyen Nhu)
- .NET Aspire 9.2 preview | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Customize Your Shell LIKE A PRO With Oh My Posh (Windows Developer Team)
Podcasts
- The PowerShell Podcast – PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – Steven Judd (James Petty)
- Leading the Shift Podcast – The transformative power of neurodiversity and AI | EY, Neurodiversity Center of Excellence (Susan Etlinger & Hiren Shukla)
- RunAs Radio Episode #979 – Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr (Richard Campbell)
- Azure Cloud Talk – The Serial Anarchist | Turning Paper cuts into a Thriving Startup Cory ODaniel (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
- The AI Fix Podcast #45 – The Turing test falls to GPT-4.5 (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Team Effectiveness With Arne Roock (Vasco Duarte)
- Software Engineering Radio #663 – Tyler Flint on Managing External APIs (Robert Blumen)
Community & Events
- CfP List Updated 2025-04-08 (Dave Aronson)
- The Importance of the Microsoft Community at Microsoft 50th Anniversary (Karuana Gatimu)
Database
- The Weird World Of SQL Server API Cursors #tsql2sday (Erik Darling)
- Python Vector Store Connectors update: Faiss, Azure SQL Server and Pinecone (Eduard van Valkenburg)
- Why Use a NoSQL Database for AI? There Are Many Great Reasons (Tim Rottach)
- Meet SurrealDB: The Multi-Tool Database Your Node.js App Needs (David Neal)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Five things for IT administrators to know about SharePoint agent management (Adam Harmetz)
- An update on Copilot in Viva Glint (Hao Liu)
- Repurpose existing content with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Alyse Maguire)
- M365 Developers Update | March 2025 (J. Weller)
Miscellaneous
- Trump believes iPhones can be made in the US, says White House (Richard Lawler)
- Trump’s DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud (Gaby Del Valle)
- Returning to Really Simple Syndication brought peace to my day (Séamus Bellamy)
- How Big Should a QR Code Be? It’s Trickier Than You Think. (Joseph Finney)
- Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Start menu is bigger and fixes a major pain point (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 8, 2025 (#528) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
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