Top Links
- Available today: DeepSeek R1 7B & 14B distilled models for Copilot+ PCs via Azure AI Foundry – further expanding AI on the edge (Vivek Pradeep)
- Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET (Wendy Breiding)
- Microsoft Dragon Copilot provides the healthcare industry’s first unified voice AI assistant that enables clinicians to streamline clinical documentation, surface information and automate tasks (Microsoft)
- Add image generation to your apps with Imagen 3 (Miguel Ramos)
- Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime (Simon Bisson)
- 20 year old cloud native apps with .NET – NDC London 2025 (Scott Hanselman)
- Great new productivity features in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- Update for Copilot on Windows begins rolling out to Windows Insiders with new features and improvements (Brandon LeBlanc)
Web & Cloud Development
- Bloom Filter: A Friendly Deep Dive (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Introducing a new curriculum: Generative AI with JavaScript (Chris Noring)
- Dependency Injection in Angular (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Create AI-Assisted Mind Maps Using OpenAI and React Diagram Library (Sarathkumar V.)
- Functions in CSS?! (Juan Diego Rodríguez)
- The Missing Intro To Flexible Federated Identity Credentials (Den Delimarsky)
- .NET Aspirations – Tailor It To Your Stack (Alexandre Nédélec)
- Breaking News! A New Vonage CLI Version Has Been Released! (Chuck Reeves)
- .NET Aspire improves developer onboarding while reducing costs (Anthony Simmon)
- February 2025 Updates: What’s New in Auth0 (Ana Cidre)
- Building and Debugging .NET Lambda applications with .NET Aspire (Part 1) (Norm Johanson)
- Introducing Regional and City-Level Insights in Jetpack Stats (Tiago Ilieve)
- Building secure multi-tenant applications with Microsoft Entra ID: A guide for ISVs (Vic Perdana)
- Is this the next step in the evolution of front end dev? (Salma Alam-Naylor)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Toolkit Adds Offline Speech Recognition (Kay Ewbank)
- AI-Driven Natural Language Filtering in WPF DataGrid for Smarter Data Processing (Susmitha Sundar)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Poisson Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
- .NET Updates February 2025 – .NET 10 Preview, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, Gen AI for Beginners and more! (Frank Boucher)
- Everything Old Is New Again: Hardening the Trust Boundary of VBS Enclaves (Josh Watson)
- Here’s what’s new in C# 14 (Ziggy Rafiq)
- Lexically scoped functions accessing parent locals: The display (Raymond Chen)
- Using legacy text encodings in .NET Core (Bart Wullems)
- Pro .NET Memory Management 2nd Edition (Kevin Gosse)
AI
- Gemini Code Assist Review: Code Completions Need Improvement (David Eastman)
- The iPhone 15 Pro will get Visual Intelligence with iOS 18.4 (Jay Peters)
- Enhancing DeepSeek R1 performance for on-device inference with ONNX Runtime (Parinita Rahi, Sunghoon Choi, Kunal Vaishnavi & Maanav Dalal)
- What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel (Simon Bisson)
- Data Science Agent in Colab: The future of data analysis with Gemini (Jane Fine, Mahi Kolla & Ilai Soloducho)
- 10 Best AI Code Review Tools and How They Work (Anna Hrechka)
- Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster (BeauHD)
- AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? (Fred Hebert)
- Trump Administration cuts may threaten AI research efforts (Kyle Wiggers)
- Is your LLM-powered app providing safe answers? Evaluate it! (Pamela Fox)
- Unlocking the Power of AI Agents: An Introductory Guide – Part 1 (Shivam Goyal)
- LLMAgentOps Toolkit for Semantic Kernel (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Prabal Deb)
- All the news on Microsoft’s latest Copilot and Windows AI features (Verge Staff)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Configuration as Code for Runbooks (Harriet Alexander)
- Advanced Installer 22.5 (Advanced Installer Team)
- There is No Automatic Reset for Engineering (Tim Ottinger)
- Terraform on Autopilot: Building Dynamic, Self-Scaling Infrastructure (Chris Woodruff)
- Piercing Questions to Sharpen Your Strategy (JD Meier)
- Backing Up Your Laptop Applications, Packages, and Configuration (Joseph Guadagno)
- GitHub for Beginners: How to get started with GitHub Copilot (Kedasha Kerr)
- Converting Terraform to Pulumi Just Got Easier (Meagan Cojocar)
- 5 Learning techniques you should know (Marco Siccardi)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Level Up Your App: Why Android Widgets are a Game-Changer (André Labonté)
- 10 Flutter Widgets Probably Haven’t Heard Of (But Should Be Using!) (Majid Hajian)
- Koodo Reader – A cross-platform ebook reader on GitHub (troyeguo)
- Google Play enhances widget discovery to drive engagement with your app (Yinka Taiwo-Peters)
- Spotlight Week: Design and Develop Widgets (Summers Pitman)
Screencasts & Videos
- SQLite Toolbox Extension for Visual Studio (Erik Jenson)
- Run Distilled DeepSeek R1 models on Copilot+ PCs (Windows Developer Team)
- Unveiling .NET Secrets with the World’s Smallest C# Program – NDC London 2025 (Steve Gordon)
- Connect to any data with Shortcuts, Mirroring and Data Factory using Microsoft Fabric (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts
- The Changelog News Podcast #134 – JavaScript fatigue strikes back (Jerod Santo)
- Fragmented, The Software Podcast #257 – Future of AndroidDev in an AI world with Vinay Gaba (Vinay Gaba & Kaushik Gopal)
- Syntax Podcast #881: What Happened to Remix. Worth Using Axios? Client Only Next.js? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – From Process Police to People Partner, Self-Accountability and Self-Awareness for Scrum Masters | Anuj Ojha (Vasco Duarte)
- Betatalks, The Podcast Episode #102 – Integrating AI in C#: Trade-offs and Best Practices – with Panu Oksala (Rick & Oscar)
- Cloud Chat Episode #19 – All Your Data Are Belong to Us (Carl Schweitzer & Brandon Martinez)
- PPP 449 | Beyond Scope, Time, and Cost: Rethinking Project Success, with Dave Garrett (Andy Kaufman)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #213 – From Promise to Practice: LLMs for Anomaly Detection and Real-World Cloud Security (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – Bad Leadership Habits That Are Slowing Your Team Down (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #10 – The new malware on the block (Selena Larson & Dave Bittner)
- Workforce Identity Developer Podcast Episode #1 – Hello World (E. Dunham)
- Python Bytes Podcast #422 – You need 4 spaces (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The mystery of ‘it’ in English. The most dramatic moments in grammar history. Ghost Town Mad, the song (Mignon Fogarty & Karen Lunde)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Secure coding beyond just memory safety (Eira May)
Community & Events
- Where can you find MySQL during March 2025 – May 2025 (Lenka Kasparova)
- Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul (Nilay Patel)
- Open Letter to Nonprofits and Public Organizations: Reconsidering Our Social Media Platforms (Maho Pacheco)
- Working With Me (Mark Oliver)
- A letter to the American People (18F)
- Announcing Rustup 1.28.0 (The Rustup Team)
- Google Summer of Code 2025 (D. Sanders)
- Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2025 (Jakub Beránek, Jack Huey & Paul Lenz)
- The FTC is being hit by terminations (Lauren Feiner)
- Top 5 Women Allies in Tech Campaign (Ringa Rusanen)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
- Microsoft partners are shaping the future of healthcare with Microsoft Dragon Copilot (Shrija Sharma)
Database
- MySQL 9.2 : thank you for your contributions! (Frederic Descamps)
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Error And Situation Handling (Erik Darling)
- Azure Data Studio Retires February 28, 2026 (Chris Pietschmann)
- What is Deferred Name Resolution? (Steve Jones)
- RavenDB 7.0 Released: AWS SQS & AWS Lambda integration (Oren Eini)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.21 – First release of upcoming features (Vesa Juvonen)
- INFO: Microsoft 365 Copilot App Keyboard Shortcuts (Kurt Shintaku)
- Delivery and read receipts in Outlook for Android and iOS (Beth Jester)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-10 (Michael Eaton)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic Claude 3.7, JAWS Days, cross-account access, and more (March 3, 2025) (Veliswa Boya)
- Daily Reading List – March 3, 2025 (#503) (Richard Seroter)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #177 (Sam Basu)
- Reading Notes #638 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Ed. (Alvin Ashcraft)