Top Links
- How to do Validation in Windows and Uno Platform Applications – the Easy Way (Nick Randolph)
- Identify Which Process Is Blocking a File in Windows (Orin Thomas) – Or you can use PowerToys File Locksmith
- Tech Nostalgia: Commodore is Back, and so is the C64! (Paul Thurrott)
- 5 Best React Data Grid Libraries Every Developer Should Know in 2025 (Mohammed Farook J.)
- Build your first iOS, Windows, & Android Apps with .NET MAUI & Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
- .NET Aspire Community Toolkit v9.6.0 Release (.NET Aspire Community Toolkit Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Building Event-Driven Go applications with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions (Abhishek Gupta)
- Critter Stack Futures for the rest of 2025 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Creators of Nuxt.js and Nitro Join Vercel (Loraine Lawson)
- Azure Functions for the .NET Architect: Beyond Simple Triggers to Durable and Resilient Workflows and The Modern .NET Architect’s Azure Host: Choosing Between App Service, AKS, and Container Apps (Sudhir Mangla)
- Global Error Handling in ASP.NET Core: From Middleware to Modern Handlers (Milan Jovanović)
- The JavaScript Error Handling Handbook (Tapas Adhikary)
- Introducing the BoldSign’s Free PDF Merge Tool (Sivasankaranarayanan Dharmalingam)
- What is a PWA and How You Can Create, Export, and Customize One (Alex Marin)
- ESLint v9.31.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- Google Brings the Lustre Parallel File System to Its Cloud (Joab Jackson)
- TOOLS: AADInternals – The Ultimate Entra ID hacking & admin toolkit (Kurt Shintaku)
- Are Microservices Becoming Easier? (Mark Heath)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Stop Using MVVM and Using Instruction Files with VS Code Agent Mode and the Uno Platform (Nick Randolph)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- So Microsoft Deleted Some of Our Packages From NuGet.org Without Notice (Aaron Stannard)
- 🧩 Why Most .NET Developers Misuse Records — and What It’s Costing Them (Yaseer Arafat)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Add Thread-Safety with ConcurrentHashSet from Spargine (David McCarter)
- Detecting and reporting all unhandled C++ exceptions as well as all unhandled structured exceptions (Raymond Chen)
- Building Modern, Observable .NET (Robert Felkins)
- GetService or GetRequiredService in IServiceProvider? (David Grace)
AI
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part II – ASP.NET Core Integration (Bart Wullems)
- Microsoft Learn Contributor Chatmode (Luke Murray)
- AI Agent MCP Tools: QuickStart to MCP Tools Development with Azure AI Foundry SDK (Christian Coello)
- Build a GenAI App With Java Using Spring AI and Docker Model Runner (Eddú Meléndez)
- Does Unit Testing Fit In with AI‑Driven Vibe Coding? (Eli Lopian)
- Microsoft Launches Azure DevOps MCP Server in Public Preview (Mark Silvester)
- Building Real-Time AI Apps with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Azure Web PubSub (Kevin Guo)
- LLM Inference Handbook – Introduction (BentoML)
- Replit Collaborates with Microsoft to bring Vibe Coding to Enterprise Customers and Introducing Web Search for Replit Agent: Your Smart App Creation Partner and Introducing Dynamic Intelligence for Replit Agent and Effort-Based Pricing Recap (Replit Team)
- Advanced User Manual Automation with Copilot and Playwright MCP and Generate User Manuals with Copilot and Playwright MCP (Copilot That Jawn)
- xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ (Anthony Ha)
- Throwing AI at Developers Won’t Fix Their Problems (Chris Westerhold)
- 10 Insights from Integrating AI into My Coding Workflow (Dieter Randolph)
- What’s new in Copilot Studio: June 2025 (Kendra Springer)
- APIs and Agents: What Developers Need to Know (Louise Corrigan)
- What Is Prompt Engineering and What Is LLM SEO and How do you protect your data from LLMs? (Mahesh Chand)
- Building a Bookmark Manager with AI Integration: My Journey with Model Context Protocol (Satih Tripathi)
- Is it AI, Or is it your Resume? (Sheila Romans)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Agile-powered empowerment (Dan Allsop)
- 8 Habits That Quietly Reveal a Limited Mind and Fragile Ego (J.D. Meier)
- Strategy Deployment And The Scrum Guide Expansion Pack (Karl Scotland)
- How to Automate WinGet Manifest Generation with Advanced Installer (Renato Ivanescu)
- GitHub Actions Workflows: How to Create and Manage (James Walker)
- Structural Design Pattern – Composite (Abdul Rahman)
- The Ultimate Guide to CI/CD Pipelines in 2025: Tools, Trends, and Best Practices (Kunal Chowdhury)
- How to Build HIPAA-Compliant Software: A 10-Step Developer’s Guide (Mahesh Chand)
- The reality of GitOps application recreation (Matthew Allford)
- Improved control over package retention (Michelle O’Brien)
- Navigating Turmoil and Chaos at Work Like a Pro (Suzanne Scacca)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Google exec: ‘We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android’ (Dominic Preston)
- Why games end up in Development Hell, and AI hallucinates feature that doesn’t exist (Code Monkey)
- Shannon’s Recent Take: The best Public DNS Servers for BOTH Unifi & Pi-Hole (Shannon Kuehn)
Screencasts & Videos
- Making C# COOL again | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- 5 New VS Code AI Features & Settings You Need To Try Today (James Montemagno)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 269 – Your Personal Tay (Realizing Your Inevitable AI You) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Creating the documentation of your libraries with DocFx (Javier Suárez)
- VIDEO: Bill Gates, Satya Nadella & Steve Ballmer on Microsoft in the AI Era | The Circuit with Emily Chang (Kurt Shintaku)
- Mr. Maeda’s Cozier AI Kitchen – Coming Soon (John Maeda)
- Message Center Overload? Try This Copilot Agent! Complete walkthrough for Message Center Agent! (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Blog Videos)
- Beyond the API: MCP and the Death of Integration Hell with Calum Simpson (SSW TV)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: GitHub Next: how their research and prototyping team operates (Idan Gazit & Eddie Aftandilian)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – Saving State while Still Growing with Temporal’s Preeti Somal (Scott Hanselman)
- Merge Conflict Episode #471 – Cracking Open VS Code AI Agent Mode Code (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- React Native Radio Episode #337 – Meta Quest for React Native w/ Markus Leyendecker (Jamon Holmgren)
- Changelog and Friends Podcast Episode #101 – Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Abi Noda, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #257 – Comparing Real-World Python Performance Against Big O (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Unhandled Exception Podcast Episode #78 – Goals and time management – with Gui Ferreira (Dan Clarke)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #528 – You can’t spell Clippy without CLI (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Mobile Product Owner—Why Great POs Have Legs and Use Them (Vasco Duarte & Pascal Papathemelis)
Community & Events
- RavenDB Community Talk: RavenDB & MCP (Oren Eini)
- Philly .NET Meetup – Thrill Us, Then Kill Us? AI Existential Risk: The Hardest Conversation – REPRISE (Bill Wolff)
- MCP Developers Summit – The Talks (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Thanks, Microsoft! Google Snags Top Windsurf Talent After Nixed OpenAI Deal and Yes, AI is to Blame for the Microsoft Layoffs (Paul Thurrott)
- ‘Firefox is Fine. The People Running It are Not’ (EditorDavid)
- Microsoft President Brad Smith on AI investments, job cuts, and the uncertain future of work (Todd Bishop)
Database
- RavenDB 7.1: The Gen AI release (Oren Eini)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- A new header and footer experience in Word for the web (Marko Panic)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Warp Goes Agentic: A Developer Walk-Through of Warp 2.0 (David Eastman)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27898 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Solar Was the Leading Source of Electricity In the EU Last Month (BeauHD)
- DOJ paves the way for a legal war on fact-checking (Lauren Feiner)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #28, 2025 – Beyond Zero-Allocation (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – July 11, 2025 (#585) (Richard Seroter)
- Azure Weekly #523 – 13th July 2025 (The Editor)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #238 (Jasen)
- Links For You (7/13/25) (Raymond Camden)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link
