Top Links
- VisualStudio.Extensibility: Managing .NET runtime versions (Tina Schrepfer (LI))
- AI Sparks: AI Toolkit for VS Code – from playground to production (vinayakh)
- Microsoft.Testing.Platform: Now Supported by All Major .NET Test Frameworks (Amaury Levé)
- NotebookLM Plus is now available in the Google One AI Premium subscription. (Vikas Kansal)
- Updating the Visual Studio Code extension for Swift (Swift.org Team)
- TechBash 2025 Call for Speakers – Submit your sessions now through March 31st (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Updating AWS SDK defaults – AWS STS service endpoint and Retry Strategy (Alban Gicquel)
- Jaspr – The Web Framework for Dart Developers (Jaspr Team)
- Brave Now Lets You Inject Custom JavaScript To Tweak Websites (BeauHD)
- Using Angular in a Windows Forms Application (Jefferson S. Motta)
- Critter Stack Roadmap Update for February (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Micro Frontends with Angular and Native Federation (Manfred Steyer)
- React Image Editor: Load and Save Images from a Database Easily (Satheeskumar S.)
- TypeScript: extracting parts of composite types via infer (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Node v20.18.3 (LTS) (Marco Ippolito)
- Supercharge Your TypeScript Workflow: ESLint, Prettier, and Build Tools (Denis Wachira)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Custom PhoneEntry with Country Code Dropdown in .NET MAUI (Ali Raza)
Visual Studio & .NET
- VS Code Copilot Gets Closer to Tab, Tab, Tab Coding (David Ramel)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 3 (Kevin Gosse)
- Unlocking delegate’s potential in C# (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Mail Merge: Skipping Records During the Merge Process in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Tapping into Database Views with EF Core: Reverse Engineering Made Easy (Chris Woodruff)
- Why Large JSON Objects Are Slowing Down Your .NET Application (And How to Fix It) (Hossein Kohzadi)
- Using Snapshot Testing to validate EF Core schema (Gérald Barré)
- deicrypt – A command-line tool designed for encoding and decoding files. Using using DEI-related terms padded by safe spaces. (Mattias Karlsson)
AI
- Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Portfolio Manager: A Multi-Agent System with Microsoft Semantic Kernel and Azure OpenAI (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Akshay Kokane)
- Using Azure AI Foundry SDK for your AI apps and agents (Zachary Cavanell)
- Plan the perfect Valentine’s Day with Copilot (Alyse Maguire)
- Announcing New Meta Llama Releases on OCI Generative AI (David Miller)
- Test your prompt injection skills (Bart Wullems)
- How To Build Web Components Using ChatGPT (Jon Udell)
- Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition ‘Atrophied and Unprepared’ (msmash)
- Is Fine-Tuning or Prompt Engineering the Right Approach for AI? (Rajat Tiwari)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Build a stronger security strategy with proactive and reactive incident response: Cyberattack Series (Microsoft Incident Response Team)
- Do Automated Tests Find Bugs? (Gil Zilberfeld)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- The Ultimate Guide: Flutter Architecture Template — II (Veli Bacık)
- Pico Powered Camera Shutter Controller (Rob Miles)
Screencasts & Videos
- Tizen Setup with VSCode and deploy Lightning JS / Web / Solid / React applications to Samsung TV (LightningTV & SolidJS)
- How to set up agents and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, now included with Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- TechTalk: Accelerating Europe’s Competitiveness (Fredrik Erixon)
Podcasts
- SQL Server Radio Episode 172 – Between SQL Squid Games and SSMS (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The True Purpose of Scrum, Enabling Individuals And Interactions | Mateusz Komander (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast #875 – JavaScript Signals Explained (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Changelog News Podcast #131 – Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #210 – Cloud Security Surprises: Real Stories, Real Lessons, Real “Oh No!” Moments (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – “In the short term, more chaos”: What’s next for API design (Eira May)
- Defense Unicorns Podcast – Building Trust and Security in the DoD: A DevSecOps Perspective (Robert Slaughter, Michaela Flatau, Rebecca Lively & Luke Shabro)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast Episode #86 – Pie-ning for Pizza at Trader Joe’s (Trader Joe’s Team)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast Episode #207 – Navigating Neurodiversity and Adult ADHD in Engineering with Skye Waterson | ADHD Skills Lab (Max Ahumada)
- Microsoft Research Podcast – Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi (Chris Stetkiewicz)
Community & Events
- Join the Windows development community! Connect with other developers and expand your skills through our events and online content. (Windows Developer Community)
- TechBash 2025 Call for Speakers (CFP Watch)
- Introducing the Pulumi Puluminaries 2.0 Program (Engin Diri)
- Roblox, Discord, OpenAI, and Google found new child safety group (Jess Weatherbed)
- Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas, NV from March 30 – April 2, 2025! (Jill Armour)
- Shifting left without slowing down: Q&A with Moti Gindi of Apiiro (Ryan Donovan)
- What’s at stake for Washington’s flagship research institutions in the legal battle over NIH funding (Lisa Stiffler)
- NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’ (Matt Reynolds & Emily Mullin)
- Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals (Charity Majors)
- OneDrive Office Hours | February 2025 (Rob Nunez)
Database
- RavenDB 7.1: Next-Gen Pagers (Oren Eini)
- Redgate Monitor Support for Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server (Özkan Pakdil)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing the SharePoint Pages Authoring Accessibility Assistant (Tina Chen)
- List It, Track It, Done! Unleash the Power of Microsoft Lists (Tiffiany Law)
PowerShell
- PSSA_Rules – A collection of custom PowerShell Script Analyzer Rules (Christian Ritter)
Miscellaneous
- Elon Musk-led-team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI (Brian Heater)
- Big Tech is still silent on Trump’s tariffs (Jay Peters)
- Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’ (Umar Shakir)
- How does Explorer find the “first” icon in a file (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-07 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #174 (Sam Basu)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Q Developer, and more (February 10, 2024) (Matheus Guimaraes)
- Daily Reading List – February 10, 2025 (#490) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft)
