Top Links
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Now Generally Available in Visual Studio đ (Allie Barry)
- Reimagining our front door – Using positive psychology to craft delightful sign-in & sign-up experiences (Eva McSweeney)
- GPT-OSS â A C# Guide with Ollama (Bruno Capuano)
- How to Deploy Syncfusion Spreadsheet Docker Image with ASP.NET Core 8.0 (Sastha Prathap)
- Building AI Agents with Docker MCP Toolkit: A Developerâs Real-World Setup (Rajesh Padmakumaran)
- Get the TechBash 2025 App and Labor Day Savings (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Why HTML is not a Substitute for Page-Oriented Formats like DOCX (Bjoern Meyer)
- Building a custom download GUI (Chris Ferdinandi)
- What Is .NET Aspire: Relevance and Advantages for Cloud-Native Development (Alexander BÄ k)
- Day 26: Running GAs in the Cloud with Azure Batch or Functions (Chris Woodruff)
- How I Reduced API Response Time by 70% in a Large .NET Project (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Blazor Basics: Exploring Blazorâs Enhanced Navigation (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Azure SDK Release (August 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Easily Visualize Indian Airline Traffic (2024) Using React HeatMap (Sabari Anand S)
- BFF in ASP.NET Core #7 â Introducing the Duende BFF Library (Tore Nestenius)
- Why is CSS ::first-letter not working? (Salma Alam-Naylor)
- Tips for Designing Clickable Components on Your Website (Suzanne Scacca)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.13 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Entity Framework or Dapper: which one is better for .NET/C#? (Denis Makarenko)
- Announcing Proxy 4: The Next Leap in C++ Polymorphism (Mingxin Wang)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 7: Non-modifying trackers, second try (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Building HAL 9000 (And It Runs Completely on My Mac) (Sahil Malik)
- 3 AI Websites That Will Blow Your Mind! (Alpha Design)
- Generate Images with Claude and Hugging Face (Shaun Smith)
- Building trustworthy AI: A developer’s guide to production-ready systems (Maarten Vandeperre, Camille Nigon)
- DeepSeek V3.1 just dropped â and it might be the most powerful open AI yet (Michael Nuñez)
- Why AI-Driven Client Apps Donât Understand Your API (Mike Amundsen)
- Is AI a âNormal Technologyâ? (Tim OâReilly)
- Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub (Tim Rogers)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Converting an xUnit test project to TUnit (Andrew Lock)
- Refactor an Azure DevOps pipeline into multiple stages (Bart Wullems)
- Strengthening the core: Stack Overflow for Teams 2025.6 (Carrie Koos)
- Why getting to bug zero is so hard (Tom Johnson)
Screencasts & Videos
- Is Blazor doomed like Silverlight? | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- Managing Azure Infrastructure with AI Shell | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: You Need 3 Places to Be Fully Human and Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: My Teen Son Asked for a Flip Phone to Save His Mental Health and EPISODE 22 – Scott and Mark Learn To⊠What Makes Good 1-1s and Stop Teaching Your Boss You Work at 2AM | Scott Hanselman TEDx (Scott Hanselman)
- FreeCodeSession – Episode 575 (Jason Bock)
- New PowerToys dashboard and a new .NET preview – Developer News 33/2025 (Noraa on Tech)
- It’s moving day! Moving our map component into TagzApp | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- From UX to AX: Why Agent Experience is the Next Frontier in Business AI | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Three Toxic Conditions That Destroy Agile Team Effectiveness | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Irene Castagnotto)
- The AI Fix Show #64 – AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the “Rumble in the Silicon Jungle” (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- RunAs Radio Show #998 – Data Governance for AI with Martina Grom (Richard Campbell)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #516 – Accelerating Python Data Science at NVIDIA (Michael Kennedy)
- Boagworld Episode #23 – Why Your UX Needs a Trust Audit (Paul Boag)
- Practical AI Podcast – Inside Americaâs AI Action Plan (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Desire Isnât Enough: Why Believing You Deserve More Changes Everything (with Dr. KTap) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Mailinâ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Exposing a $6 Million Mail Order Allergy Testing Scam â A USPIS True Crime Story (United States Postal Service)
Community & Events
- Lead Integration Architect Opening (Jason Gaylord)
- Protesters set up temporary encampment at Microsoft to pressure company on Israel contracts (Todd Bishop)
Database
- Faster & More Reliable Integration Testing Against Marten Projections or Subscriptions (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Neat Update Tricks (Erik Darling)
- Taking Control of our Data, One Happy Meal at a Time (Deeti Gandhi & Kirill Azhitsky)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- How Microsoft 365 Copilot Works: Understanding the Tech Stack Behind the Magic (Andrew Connell)
- Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells (Emma Roth)
Miscellaneous
- Electricity Prices Are Climbing More Than Twice as Fast as Inflation (msmash)
- How the MAGA goon squad became tech lobbyists (Tina Nguyen)
- Thunderbird Pro is moving closer to launch with new productivity tools: Thundermail, Appointment, and Send (Wayne Williams)
More Link Collections
- The .NET News Daily Issue #265 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link