Top Links
- From Manual Testing to AI-Generated Automation: Our Azure DevOps MCP + Playwright Success Story (Igor Najdenovski)
- Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0 (Jason Helmick & Sean Wheeler)
- The ReSharper and .NET Tools 2025.2 Release Candidates Are Now Available and The Rider 2025.2 Release Candidate Is Here! (Sasha Ivanova)
- Developer Security Quick Fire Questions @ MS Build with Scott & Mark (Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman)
- Previewing a refreshed Link to Windows experience for Android phones (Phone Link & XDE Team)
- Build your first Windows app with WinUI and Visual Studio (Michael Hawker)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor Basics: Leveraging CircuitHandler in Blazor Server for Connection-Level Monitoring (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Never write your own Date Parsing Library (Zach Leatherman)
- Build a Storytelling Service With RCS Rich Cards and Gemini (Amanda Cavallaro)
- Supercharge Your Dev Containers on Windows (Mike Evans-Larah)
- Deno 2.4 is here: What’s new and what to expect (Ikeh Akinyemi)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Build a School Gradesheet App Easily with .NET MAUI DataGrid (Jayaleshwari N.)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Using Vector Search for Posts Recommendations (Oren Eini)
- Report: Visual Studio 18 to Be a Major Upgrade and Microsoft Pushes Windows Driver Developers to Embrace Rust (Paul Thurrott)
- .NET 10 Preview 6 Introduces Blazor Enhancements, Memory Optimization, and SDK Improvements (Almir Vuk)
- Upcoming Support for PDF/UA Compliance and Tagged PDF Generation in Version 34.0 (Bjoern Meyer)
- How can I wait until a named object (say a mutex) is created? (Raymond Chen)
- Deferred PDF Signing in .NET: How to Do It Right (Chinnu Muniyappan)
AI
- Introducing Opal: describe, create, and share your AI mini-apps (Ali Modarres, Bill Byrne & Paul Lewis)
- The agentic experience: Is MCP the right tool for your AI future? (Antony Arul & Ruben Gonzalez)
- The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again (Adi Robertson)
- How AI and a test-first approach can tackle modernization trade-offs (Irene Sandler & Shodhan Sheth)
- Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone (Jess Weatherbed)
- Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves (Lauren Goode)
- Two Powerful Ways to Create Surveys with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (Michael Gannotti)
- Automated repo maintenance via GitHub Copilot coding agent (Pamela Fox)
- OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August (Tom Warren)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Example of Using Alba for HTTP Testing (Jeremy D. Miller)
- How to streamline GitHub API calls in Azure Pipelines (Tiago Pascoal)
- CircleCI vs GitHub Actions: CI/CD Tool Comparison (Flavius Dinu)
- Redesigning Jenkins (Part Two) (Jan Faracik)
- What’s New in TeamCity 2025.07: Public Recipes, Pipelines, Dependency Control, and More (Dmitrii Korovin)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Integrate Firebase into Your Flutter Applications: A Handbook for Developers (Atuoha Anthony)
- Apple iOS 26 public beta arrives (Lauren Forristal)
- Why Native Google Sign-In Makes Android Apps Feel Right (Will Johnson)
Screencasts & Videos
- Real Developers. Powered by Visual Studio (Shorts) (James Montemagno)
- Upgrading to GitHub’s remote MCP server: From Docker setup to OAuth simplicity | GitHub Checkout (GitHub Team)
- Meet Merrie at VS Live! (Merrie McGaw)
- Let’s talk Aspire | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Get data into Fabric using Open Mirroring | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Maraki Ketema)
Podcasts
- People of AI podcast Season 5 is here: Meet the builders shaping the future (Ashley Oldacre & Christina Warren)
- Hello World podcast: What does AI education look like around the world? (Liz Eaton)
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Human-Centered Engineering Cultures with Leadership, Diversity, and Trust (Tara Hernandez)
- Workforce Identity Developer Podcast – MCP & Cross-App Access (E. Dunham)
- Hangar DX Podcast – The Limitations of Platform Engineering (Vilas Veeraraghavan & Bryan Finster)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Situational Leadership for Scrum Masters – Knowing When to Step Back (Vasco Duarte & Anh Vu)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Phillip Carter on Where Generative AI Meets Observability (Ben Lorica & Phillip Carter)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #313 – The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Saving the world with speed and at scale (Phoebe Sajor)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #530 – His proper name is Sasquatch (Brandon Whichard & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over (Iain Thomson)
- Recommitting to our why, what, and how (Satya Nadella)
Database
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Window Function Tricks for SQL Server 2022+ (Erik Darling)
- TempDB Performance Tuning in SQL Server 2022 vs 2016 vs 2019 (Rohit Garg)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Effortless Video Sharing in Microsoft 365: Unlocking the Power of SharePoint Media Libraries (Michael Gannotti)
Miscellaneous
- President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn’t even know what it was — ‘What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before’ (Stephen Warwick)
- Windows 11 Ditches Blue Screen for a New Look — Meet the Black Screen of Death! (Rabia Noureen)
- New Surface Laptop 5G for Business, Copilot+ PC (Zachary Cavanell)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 24, 2025 (#594) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #247 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Refactoring with C#: Safely improve .NET applications and pay down technical debt with Visual Studio, .NET 8, and C# 12 (Matt Eland) – Referral Link
