Top Links
- Windows App SDK v1.8.0-preview1 release (Roy MacLachlan)
- Copilot Diagnostics toolset for .NET In Visual Studio (Harshada Hole)
- Quantum-safe security: Progress towards next-generation cryptography (Mark Russinovich & Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk)
- .NET Rocks! – C# 14 with Dustin Campbell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Designing Multi-Agent Intelligence (Vinicius Souza, Maggie Liu & Thiago Rotta)
- Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio (Rhea Patel & Samruddhi Khandale)
- Copilot on Windows: Semantic Search and new home begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- What Debugging JavaScript on WebAssembly Looks Like (B. Cameron Gain)
- Learning web development: Booleans, comparisons and if statements (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Angular Basics: Setting Up Angular Development Environment (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- How to Embed PDFs in HTML: Native Tags vs. Syncfusion JavaScript PDF Viewer (Ramkumar Ravy)
- How to Deploy Spreadsheet Server on AWS EKS with Docker for React (Sastha Prathap)
- First Public Working Draft: A Well-Known URL for Relying Party Passkey Endpoints (W3C)
- Supercharging API Development with Fast Endpoints (Assis Zang)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Windows App SDK Version 1.8 Preview 1 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- How to Build a .NET MAUI Beeswarm Chart for Stock Price Volatility Visualization (Harsha Midadhala)
- AI Text to Flowchart Converter: Building Smart Diagrams with WPF and OpenAI (Karkuvel Rajan Shanmugavel)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- MCP C# SDK Aligns with New Protocol Specification, Bringing Security and Tooling Updates (Almir Vuk)
- Type Aliases in C#: Bringing F#-style readability to your C# code (Bart Wullems)
- Filtering and Sorting Repeating Blocks in MailMerge using C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 8: Tracking const objects (Raymond Chen)
- Using the new WebView2 AllowHostInputProcessing Keyboard Mapping Feature (Rick Strahl)
AI
- Gemini Live: A more helpful, natural and visual assistant (Angela Sun)
- The role of junior developers in the world of LLMs (Oren Eini)
- Gemini for Home: Your household’s new, more helpful assistant (Anish Kattukaran)
- Does Gemini CLI fall short? Here’s how Codex compares (Emmanuel John)
- The Next 5 Years of Prompt Engineering: Benefits, Career Paths, and How to Stay Layoff-Proof (John Godel)
- Beyond Prompts: How Agentic AI is Redefining Human-AI Collaboration (Julie Trajan)
- Notion Finally Adds an Offline Feature and DuckDuckGo Brings GPT-5 mini to Duck.ai (Paul Thurrott)
- MCP-UI Creators on Why AI Agents Need Rich User Interfaces (Richard MacManus)
- Top 10 GitHub Copilot Features Every Developer Should Know (Stephen Simon)
- Top LLM insights from FHIR DevDays 2025 (Team Firely)
- Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes (Yina Arenas)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Post-quantum resilience: building secure foundations (Amy Hogan-Burney)
- Security Product Efficacy (Eric Lawrence)
- Documents: The architect’s programming language (Isaac Lyman)
- Learning in the flow: Unlocking employee potential through continuous learning (Katja Skafar)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Build a Secure iOS App with MFA (Darko Spasovski)
- Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 is here (Matthew McCullough)
- How to Deploy a Flutter Web App to Firebase Hosting with GitHub Actions and How to Set Up Firebase Crashlytics in a Flutter App (iOS and Android) (Atuoha Anthony)
- Microsoft and Asus’ new Xbox Ally handhelds launch on October 16th (Tom Warren)
- Amazon Looks To Ditch Homegrown Software For Android in Fire Tablet Revamp (msmash)
- How I Built a Plant RAG Application with Couchbase Vector Search on iOS (Pulkit Midha)
- Beyond Dart: Tapping into C’s Power with FFI (AbdulMuaz Aqeel)
- Introducing Advanced Shader Delivery (Wendy Ho, Jesse Natalie & Cassie Hoef)
- Unity 6.2 Now Available (Nitin)
Screencasts & Videos
- Mistral Document AI in Azure AI Foundry (April Gittens)
- The Future of Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI with Meri Williams, CTO at Pleo (Hangar DX podcast)
- 5 essential C# debugging tips in Visual Studio – fast & beginner-friendly (Mads Kristensen)
- Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: They Gave Me a Pencil for Diabetes and Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: One Phone vs All of 1980 (Scott Hanselman)
Podcasts
- Unpacking a Decade of Pixel: The OG Story | Made by Google Podcast (Rachid Finge)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #930 – Text Editor Keybindings, WASM Replacing Docker, LLM apathy and hosting mini apps (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Timing Is Everything – Learning When Agile Teams Are Ready for Change | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Irene Castagnotto)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – LLM-D, with Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #682 – Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce on Refactoring from Java to Kotlin (Giovanni Asproni)
Community & Events
- Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16? (Sean Hollister)
- Made by Google 2025 (Shakil Barkat)
- Made by Google 2025: all the Pixel news and announcements (Verge Staff)
- Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation (Abigail Cabunoc Mayes)
- Meta Freezes AI Hiring (BeauHD)
- 18 arrested at Microsoft headquarters in latest protest over Israel tech contracts (Todd Bishop)
- Announcing Microsoft Rewards Ultimate Giveaway: More Prizes, More Winners (Bing Team)
- Discover the latest security innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Brooke Lynn Weenig)
- gamescom Opening Night Live 2025: Everything Xbox Revealed, Including a Fallout TV Show Teaser (Joe Skrebels)
Database
- The Architect’s Guide to SQL Server Indexing: From B-Trees to Batch Mode in 2025 (Sudhir Mangla)
- SQL Server Backups: The Basics (Kevin Hill)
- Adding SQL Server 2025 to my Laptop (Steve Jones)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Some Merge Tips (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing the New SharePoint Page Template Gallery (Tina Chen)
- Streamlining Document Creation with Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Step-by-Step Workflow (Michael Gannotti)
- OneNote for Windows 10 support is ending (Bola Soneye)
Miscellaneous
- TLS Cipher Suites in Windows Server 2025 and later (Microsoft Learn)
- Hotpatch readiness: Enable VBS at scale (Nikita Deshpande)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Bradon LeBlanc)
- The GitLab documentation site gets a major design overhaul (Julia Miocene)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – August 17 (Peter Ritchie)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #266 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Blender 3D Modeling Course Software Bundle (Humble Bundle) – Referral Link
