Tag: mcp

Top Links

• Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (October) (Rhea Patel)
• Blazor Server Reconnection Gets an Upgrade in .NET 10 (Jon Hilton)
• Technology & Friends – Arthur Doler on Code Archaeology (David Giard)
• What’s new in Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Mahima N.)
• Peter Ritchie: .NET Foundation – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #370 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Introducing XAML.io Preview v0.5 — Visual .NET Development, In-Browser (OpenSilver Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Introducing the Syncfusion AI-Powered Blazor PDF Viewer: Unleashing AI for Smarter PDFs [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
• Blazor Basics: Using Local Storage to Save and Restore Form Input (Claudio Bernasconi)
• SPA vs. SSR vs. SSG (and Edge Rendering) in 2025: How .NET Backends Power Modern React, Vue, and Angular (Sudhir Mangla)
• ESLint v9.37.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
• What’s coming in ESLint v10.0.0 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Online Identity Verification with the Digital Credentials API (Marcos Cáceres, Erik Melone & Andreas Thoma)
• 11ty Hacks for Fun and Performance (Alex Russell)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• .NET MAUI Learning Resources – A repository filled with resources available to you to start learning or deepen your knowledge about .NET MAUI (Gerald Versluis)
• Migrating MaterialFrame to MAUI Handlers: A StackBlur Story (Jean-Marie Alfonsi)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

• Using Stored Procedures and Functions With EF Core and PostgreSQL (Milan Jovanović)
• Create Dynamic Excel Slicers in C# Using Syncfusion XlsIO (Mohan Chandran)
• No More Mocking ILogger (Adam Storr)
• Use CancellationTokens (Steven Giesel)
• Cake v5.1.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
• Boost Your .NET Projects: Secure Passwords with PBKDF2PasswordHasher in Spargine (David McCarter)
• Rx.NET v6.1 Now Available and Rx.NET v6.1 New Feature: TakeUntil(CancellationToken) and Rx.NET v6.1 New Feature: DisposeWith() and Rx.NET v6.1 New Feature: ResetExceptionDispatchState() (Ian Griffiths)
• Can we get weak functions for static linking? The Visual C++ compiler says “We have weak functions at home” (Raymond Chen)

AI

• The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• MCP Overview (Svelte Documentation)
• Level Up Your Dev Game: The Jules API is Here! (Jane Fine & Jenny Cong)
• Your CEO is in the AI Arms Race. Your Job is to Provide the Guardrails. (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible (Lily Hay Newman)
• Resilient AI agents with MCP: Timeout and retry strategies (Matthew Casperson)
• Optimize and deploy LLMs for production with OpenShift AI (Philip Hayes)
• AI + LLM Code Review: Find Hidden Issues Before They Break Production (Praveenkumar)
• Copilot Chat: Snack Pack and Copilot Chat: Prompting (Sam Hitaraman)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• This self-hosted alternative to Figma is better than I expected (Nolen Jonker)
• Shift left on x (Mark Seemann)
• SignTool GUI 2.0.0.0 — Major Update Out Now! (Michael Morten Sonne)
• Enabling real-time responsiveness with event-driven architecture (MIT Technology Review Insights)
• xUnit advanced Assert methods: Throws, IsType + more (David Grace)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• How to Use Animations in Flutter (Atuoha Anthony)
• AWS Introduces M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances for Faster Apple App Development (Renato Losio)
• Inside Apple’s quest to add a heart-rate sensor and full workout tracking into AirPods Pro 3 (Jacob Krol)
• Ghost Stories to scare indie devs, and play Snake in the URL (Code Monkey)
• Is Apple’s Liquid Glass the Next Material Design? (Suzanne Scacca)

Screencasts & Videos

• Aubrey Wade @ TechBash 2025 #conferencespeakers #conference (TechBash Dev Conference)
• Technology & Friends – Arunava Majumdar on AI and an Automation Platform (David Giard)
• IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 281 – How to Beat AI (The Critical Thinking Episode) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
• Random.Code() – Automatically Logging Invocations Using Interceptors, Part 1 (Jason Bock)
• Have we made any progress securing code in the last 25 yrs? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)

Podcasts

• InfoQ Podcast: Building Engineering Culture Through Autonomy and Ownership (Marcos Arribas)
• Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Platform > Servers: Elliott Leighton-Woodruff on Landing Zones, FinOps, and Real-World Cloud Tradeoffs and Engineer in the Loop Podcast – News Oct 3, 2025 (Alec Harrison)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Beyond code generation: How AI is changing tech teams’ dynamics and The Stack Overflow Podcast – One is not the loneliest number for API calls (Phoebe Sajor)
• When Product Owners Eat the Grass for Their Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Tom Molenaar)
• Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #493 – Pretending to Have The Job Before You Get It w/ Josh Cirre, DevRel @ Laravel (Taylor Desseyn)
• A Geek Leader Episode #437 – Noam Krasniansky (John Rouda)
• The Real Python Podcast Episode #268 – Advice on Beginning to Learn Python (Martin Breuss & Stephen Gruppetta)
• Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #111 – npm under siege (what to do about it) (Feross Aboukhadijeh, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
• Meta Cast Podcast – Self-Care for Leaders Who Never Stop (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
• Batteries Included Podcast Episode #112 – US Tesla Model Y Performance Arrives Just In Time To Snag $7,500 Incentive (Batteries Included Team)
• Lenny’s Podcast – How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) (Lenny Rachitsky)
• The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #8 – Impact of AI on How We Learn to Code with Scott Tolinski (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)

Community & Events

• Call For Papers Listings for 10/03 (Leon Adato)
• Teaching Millions to Code: Quincy Larson on 10 Years of freeCodeCamp (Oct 29th) (GitHub)
• CfPs Closing Soon (as of 2025-10-04) (Dave Aronson)
• How to Use a Custom Domain with the Bluesky App (Jason Gaylord)
• Startups and the U.S. government: It’s getting complicated (Kirsten Korosec)

Database

• Why Developers Shouldn’t Have sysadmin access in SQL Server (Peter Skoglund)
• Storing and Reporting on Genealogy Data in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
• How Redgate’s Foundry is Shaping the Future of Database Innovation with AI (Fergus Reed)
• Reducing SQL Connection Latency for Apps Using Azure AAD Authentication (Melania Nitu)
• Learn T-SQL With Erik: How to Pick a Temporary Object (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Microsoft Teams is finally getting a highly requested multitasking feature to boost your productivity (Rahul Naskar)
• New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Zachary Cavanell)

PowerShell

• Entra ID – Soft-delete & Restore for Conditional Access + New PowerShell Module (Michael Morten Sonne)

Miscellaneous

• As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is ‘harming both gamers and developers’ (Andy Chalk)
• Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs (Jay Peters)
• Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips (EditorDavid)
• Words Change Because We Do: The Evolution of Language on Sexuality and Gender (Heather Paterson)
• Discord admits customer data theft after third-party security breach (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
• If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great (Terrence O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• F# Weekly #40, 2025 – Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) (Sergey Tihon)
• Azure Weekly #534 – 5th October 2025 (The Editor)
• Daily Reading List – October 3, 2025 (#641) (Richard Seroter)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #296 (Jasen)

The Geek Shelf

 Beyond Vibe Coding – A practical guide to AI-assisted development (Addy Osmani)