Top Links
- .NET Conf 2025 – Celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 10 at the biggest .NET virtual event – Nov 11-13 (.NET Team)
- Announcing TypeScript 5.9 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
- Event Hub Live Explorer – A Blazor-based frontend for interacting with Azure Event Hubs; Integrates smoothly into Aspire dashboards (lupusbytes)
- Building Your First MCP Server with .NET (Niraj Ranasinghe)
- Merge Conflict Episode #474 – Apple Intelligence for C# and .NET (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- .NET Bounty Program now offers up to $40,000 in awards (Barry Dorrans)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Add Goal-Gradient Effect in JavaScript Applications (Andrew Peterson)
- Issuer and verify credentials using the Swiss Digital identity public beta, ASP.NET Core and .NET Aspire (Damien Bowden)
- .NET Aspire 9.4 boasts CLI core commands, AI integrations (Paul Krill)
- What’s new in Svelte: August 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- How to Create a Landing Page in WordPress (3 Easy Methods) (Jen Swisher)
- React Compiler Is Coming (Loraine Lawson)
- Common errors to avoid in ASP.NET Core dependency injection (David Grace)
- 10 Things You Might Not Know You Could Do with Azure Communication Services (Sean Keegan)
- Application Insights’ sampling ratio affecting other Open Telemetry exports (Jiří {x2} Činčura)
- One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60% (Zach Leatherman)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Create AI-Assisted Mind Mapping in WPF Diagram Using OpenAI (Sarathkumar V.)
- Microsoft to Finally Improve and then Open Source the Windows App SDK (Paul Thurrott)
- TrueLayer Sample App – Sample app to showcase how to use AvaloniaUI and TrueLayer dotnet SDK to fetch user accounts, balances, and make simple SEPA payments (Antonio Valentini)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Disabling thread safety check in Entity Framework (Steven Giesel)
- The C# Career Architect (TM) and Learn to code a Min Heap from scratch in modern C# (for .NET developers) and Efficient Top K Algorithm in C# Using Built-In PriorityQueue (Andrea Angella)
- Testing races with a synchronizing Decorator (Mark Seemann)
- Streamline Data Collection with Embedded Forms in C# .NET and Text Control Begins ISO/IEC 27001 Certification Process to Strengthen Information Security (Bjoern Meyer)
- C# 14.0: Extension Members (Thomas Claudius Huber)
- .SLN is dead. Long live .SLNX! (Unicorn Developer)
- How we enforce .NET coding standards at Workleap to improve productivity, quality and performance (Anthony Simmon)
- Two related questions about keeping track of PIDs of IPC clients (Raymond Chen)
- .NET container troubleshooting in Openshift 4 (Francisco De Melo Junior)
AI
- Partner with the AI, throw away the code (Martin Fowler)
- Stop Prompting, Start Designing: 5 Agentic AI Patterns That Actually Work (Paolo Perrone)
- Top 8 Open Source MCP Projects with the Most GitHub Stars (NocoBase)
- Figma uses AI to transform digital design (OpenAI Team)
- Running AI On-Prem: A Practical Guide to Using Local LLMs (like Phi-3 & Llama 3) in .NET and Semantic Kernel vs. LangChain.NET: An Architect’s Guide to Choosing the Right AI Framework (Sudhir Mangla)
- User Interfaces in Agentic CLI Tools: What Developers Need (David Eastman)
- Updated .NET and JDBC Drivers with Native Vector Data Support for High-Performance AI Workload (Davide Mauri)
- Fiverr Ad Mocks Vibe Coding – with a Singing Overripe Avocado and Is AI Causing Tech Worker Layoffs? It’s Complicated (EditorDavid)
- How to Differentiate When Everyone Has AI (JD Meier)
- Python Vibe Coding Tools (Jessica Wachtel)
- Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access to Claude (Kylie Robison)
- Measuring Unsupervised Model Performance: Metrics & Best Practices and Combining Supervised & Unsupervised Learning: Hybrid Strategies for Powerful AI ⚙️ (Mahesh Chand)
- Try Deep Think in the Gemini app (Deep Think Team)
- Microsoft tries to keep its consumer Copilot out of New York Times AI copyright case (Todd Bishop)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The Untapped Power of Veteran Engineers: Why Companies Are Overlooking Their Most Valuable Assets – Part 3 (David McCarter)
- Future Back Thinking: How to Lead from the Future, Not the Past (JD Meier)
- The Observability of Observability (Megan Laddusaw)
- How to Keep Your Data Boundaries Intact in a Modular Monolith (Milan Jovanović)
- Changelogs: Why You Should Have One & Tips for Maintaining It (Suzanne Scacca)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Push Silent Updates in Flutter Using Shorebird (Atuoha Anthony)
- Swift 6.2 Introduces Approachable Concurrency to Simplify Concurrent Programming (Sergio De Simone)
- Prism 2.0.0-beta.1 – A high-performance color manipulation library for Dart & Flutter with multiple color models, accessibility-focused schemes, and pre-built palettes (rocketware)
- What looks easy but is insanely hard? And Battlefield 6 uses Godot! (Code Monkey)
- Service driven development for Snap Spectacles in Lens Studio and Adapting MRTK3 apps for Apple Vision Pro (Joost van Schaik)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 272 – Don’t Sell Out! (Don’t Go Quietly into the Night!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- MCP: Ensuring Our Tools Are Ready for the Robot Overlords with Anton Polkanov (SSW TV)
- Video: Visual Toolbox: Git in Visual Studio (Jesse Liberty)
- Xbox Is Doing WAY Better Than You Think (Brad Sams)
- Rx.NET Packaging Plan – July 2025 (endjin)
- How to Build a multi-modal researcher with Gemini 2.5 (Frank LaVigne)
- The Download: GitHub Copilot overtakes ChatGPT, Google AI prevents hack, Netflix uses Gen AI & more (Andrea Griffith)
- Random.Code() – Working on Rocks and AutoDeconstruct Issues (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #184 – Senior Playstation Engineer’s tips for learning new tools and getting things done (Beau Carnes)
- Practical AI Podcast – Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- From Burnout to Balance: A Scrum Master’s Reality Check | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Florian Georgescu)
- Building Self-Awareness in Overly-Technical Product Owners | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Anamaria Ungureanu)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #259 – Design Patterns That Don’t Translate to Python (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- React Native Radio Episode #339 – RN Web vs React Strict DOM (Pt 1) w/ Nicolas Gallagher (Tyler Williams, Robin Heinze & Jamon Holmgren)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #104 – SO much to dig into (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Hot Takes & Hard Truths: Growing Your Tech Career (Without Losing Your Mind) (Alec Harrison)
- Meta Cast – Are You a Leader or Just In the Role? (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Brian Chesky’s secret mentor who died 9 times, started the Burning Man board, and built the world’s first midlife wisdom school | Chip Conley (founder of MEA) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Ted Neward: Software Architecture – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #361 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Community & Events
- Nominations are open for the .NET Foundation Board (.NET Foundation)
- Grace Hopper – The Mother of Cobol (I Programmer Historian)
- The Google Developer Program is evolving (Chris Demeke & Kevin Flores)
- The Why of Substack (Om Malik)
- Turning Slack into a network (Johnny Rodgers)
- Things to Do in Philadelphia This Week & Weekend (Visit Philly)
Database
- Step-by-Step SQL Server Migration Using SSMS: Best Practices & Use Cases (Rohit Garg)
- Announcing General Availability of UNISTR function and ANSI SQL || Operator in Azure SQL (Abhiman Tiwari)
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Agent Mode Updates, Colored Connections, and Schema Designer Enhancements (Carlos Robles)
- MS SQL with VS Code + GitHub Copilot (Mike Irving)
- It’s Time to Get Rid of the Cost Threshold for Parallelism Setting. (Erik Darling)
Miscellaneous
- This is Microsoft’s canceled Windows-based Surface Duo — the dual-screen Windows Phone from 2018 that we never got (Zac Bowden)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5733 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5733 (Dev Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ (Emma Roth)
- Bing made Google dance and then stole some search traffic and Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #31, 2025 – Aspire 9.4 (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #526 – 3rd August 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – August 1, 2025 (#600) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #253 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)
