Top Links
- A 10x Faster TypeScript (Anders Hejlsberg)
- GPT-4o Copilot code completion model available now in Visual Studio public preview (Simona Liao)
- Uno Platform & Hot Design for Rider (Andres Pineda)
- Introducing Gemma 3: The Developer Guide (Omar Sanseviero & Philipp Schmid)
- Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio (Charles Lamanna)
- Windows App SDK 1.6.6 (1.6.250228001) release (RD MacLachlan)
Web & Cloud Development
- A closer look at the details behind the Go port of the TypeScript compiler (Axel Rauschmayer)
- A Paging View Component ASP.NET Core Tag Helper (Part 1 the Bare-Bones) (Scott Galloway)
- Implementing Chat History for AI Applications Using Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK (Abhishek Gupta)
- Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js (Bryan Robinson)
- Getting started with Azure Developer CLI (azd) (rmmartins)
- .NET Aspirations – Embracing OpenTelemetry (Alexandre Nédélec)
- HTTP Methods: The Verbs That Make the Web Go Round (Chris Woodruff)
- Line Charts vs. Bar Charts: Which One to Choose? (Nishanthi Panner Selvam)
- Dapr in Two Minutes: Simplifying Distributed Application Development (Whitney Lee)
- API – Functions Part 3: Routing (Jesse Liberty)
- The Importance of an API Source of Truth (Kin Lane)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Sneak Peek at .NET MAUI: 2025 Volume 1 (Paul Anderson)
- Exploring Android Asset Packs in .NET MAUI (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Load, Modify, and Save DOCX in C# .NET (Mackenzie Albitz)
- Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: When CountAsync() Outperforms AnyAsync() in .NET (David McCarter)
- .NET and .NET Framework March 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield & Rahul Bhandari)
AI
- Announcing the Responses API and Computer-Using Agent in Azure AI Foundry (Steve Sweetman)
- The Perplexity Windows app is now available (Aravind Srinivas)
- Super Charge Copilot Chat (Peli de Halleux)
- When AI Spits Your Own Shitty Code Back at You (Maho Pacheco)
- New tools for building agents (OpenAI Team)
- HuggingFace AI Agents Course (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Safer and Multimodal: Responsible AI with Gemma (Dana Kurniawan, Wenjun Zeng & Ryan Mullins)
- Running LLMs locally using LM Studio (Bart Wullems)
- Can AIs be psychopaths, and why we should be AI optimists (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- AI App Builders – Re-take – TempoLabs (Nick Randolph)
- Gemma 3 on mobile and web with Google AI Edge (Cormac Brick, Marissa Ikonomidis, T.J. Alumbaugh & Mark Sherwood)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- March Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- On the role of design documents (Oren Eini)
- Enhancing Infrastructure as Code Generation with GitHub Copilot for Azure (Ji Dong)
- New Boards Hub Update (Dan Hellem)
- Do you really need that abstraction or generic code? (YAGNI) (Derek Comartin)
- Is The Terminator coming for you? (Eric Brechner)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android Clean Architecture: Understanding The Domain Layer (Sean Coyle)
- App Hosting updates: rollbacks, SDK auto-configuration, and more (Julia Reid & Jeff Huleatt)
Screencasts & Videos
- Headlamp – Your Kubernetes UI focused on extensibility | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Joaquim Rocha)
- Using Claude 3.7 Sonnet with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
- Control AI Services with Azure API Management | Sip and Sync with Azure (David Barkel & Alex Vieira)
- How to Get Unlimited Leads for Free Using DeepSeek (Frank LaVigne)
- Bootstrap Themes and .NET Aspire (Jeff Fritz)
- A 10x faster TypeScript (Anders Hejlsberg)
- Copilot Chat: Understand its Potential and Leveraging it in Healthcare (Microsoft Healthcare and Life Team)
- Mastering Windows Command Line Tricks Saves You Time (Windows Developer Team)
Podcasts
- No Dogma Podcast #177 – Ted Neward, The Interview Industrial Complex, Part 1 (Bryan Hogan)
- Developer Tea – Reframing Areas of Growth to Your Manager (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Escaping the Agile Doom Loop With Pete Oliver-Krueger and “Agile Mike” Dougherty (Vasco Duarte)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes Ingress & Gateway API Updates, with Lior Lieberman (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- The PowerShell Podcast – How PowerShell and the Right Mindset Can Transform Your IT Career with Steven Wight (James Petty)
- Syntax Podcast #884 – Typescript Just Got 10x Faster (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Amp Hour #690 – Clap on, clap off, lights flicker (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- RunAs Radio Episode #975 – Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell)
Community & Events
- Thoughtworks University, an immersive journey into learning and community (Daniel Negrete & Eylem Bars)
- Reflections on International Women’s Day (Claire S.)
- CfP List Updated 2025-03-11 (Dave Aronson)
- Announcing the Microsoft AI Skills Fest: Save the date! (jeanaj)
- BlizzCon Returns In 2026 (Joe Skrebels)
- Tech Moves: Longtime Google leader Umesh Shankar joins Microsoft as new corporate VP (Lisa Stiffler)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Some Notes On Locking Hints (Erik Darling)
- Announcing the release of SSMS 21 Preview 5 (mbarickman)
- Optimize Delta Tables with VACUUM in Microsoft Fabric (Kenneth A. Omorodion)
- Making MongoDB workloads more affordable with M10/M20 tiers in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB (Sudhanshu Vishodia)
- The Microsoft.Build.Sql project SDK is now generally available (Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Copilot for all your employees (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
- Enabling agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Richard Riley)
PowerShell
- PowerShell Universal v5.4 (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free (Sarah Perez)
- Facebook Was ‘Hand In Glove’ With China (BeauHD)
- Quick Wins – Custom Images for Windows 365 (Michael Hildebrand)
- What an insightful observation, you get to wear “the hat” (Raymond Chen)
- Trump says he will label violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism (Rebecca Bellan)
- Paint.NET 5.1.5 is now available (Rick Brewster)
- Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google (Sarah Vasquez)
- Sunsetting the JetBrains Writerside IDE (Sasha Maximova)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 11, 2025 (#509) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# (Alvin Ashcraft)