Top Links
- Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Amanda Silver)
- .NET MAUI ScreenRecording Plugin v1.0.0 Preview 4: Windows Support (Gerald Versluis)
- AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale (Prasad Rao)
- Evaluating content safety in your .NET AI applications (Shyam Namboodiripad)
- Create a Beautiful Photo Gallery Using .NET MAUI Tab View and ListView (Naveenkumar Sanjeevirayan)
- Semantic Kernel: Package previews, Graduations & Deprecations (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Sergey Menshykh)
Web & Cloud Development
- Styling console text in Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- The Verifiable Credentials 2.0 family of specifications is now a W3C Recommendation and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) is a W3C Proposed Recommendation and Privacy Principles is a W3C Statement and First Public Working Draft: CSS Functions and Mixins Module (W3C)
- Kubernetes 1.33: Job’s SuccessPolicy Goes GA (Kubernetes Team)
- Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel (Geoff Graham)
- Announcing Native Azure Functions Support in Azure Container Apps (Nitesh Jain)
- Finding Your Next Amusement Park Ride with APIs (Raymond Camden)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Wolverine 4 is Bringing Multi-Tenancy to EF Core (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- Creating an Azure AI Search service (David Giard)
- đŒïžâš How to Use GPT-IMAGE-1 to Generate Images with C# and Azure OpenAI (Bruno Capuano)
- Agentic AI: Powerful but Fragile â What You Need To Know (Howard Beader)
- On Global Accessibility Day, we are committing to change powered by AI (Jill Armour)
- The Model Context Protocol: Getting beneath the hype (Karrtik Iyer)
- Vibing at Home (Mike Loukides)
- Navigating the Blurred Lines Between Agents and AI Tools in Healthcare (Paul Swider)
- Mistral Unveils Medium 3: Enterprise-Ready Language Model (Robert KrzaczyĆski)
- Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? (Ryan Donovan)
- AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era and Takeaways from Coding with AI (Tim OâReilly)
- Vibe Composing (Pt. 2) – The “boring” but exciting parts (Alberto Barnoy)
- Box tightens Microsoft ties with new Copilot integration, builds out its own suite of AI agents (Todd Bishop)
- AI Cheat Sheet for Job Hunting (David Neal)
- Introducing Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python (Jia Chen, Rebecca Chen, Sam Goldman, David Luo, Kyle Into, Zeina Migeed, Neil Mitchell, Maggie Moss, Conner Nilsen, Aaron Pollack, Teddy Sudol, Steven Troxler, Lucian Wischik, Danny Yang & Sam Zhou)
- AI for Developers: How To Start, What To Use and Why It Matters (Ankit Awasthi)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Expanding Continuous Improvement beyond Agile Practices (Ben Linders)
- Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability (Donnie Prakoso)
- Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity (Eric Olive)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New AI and accessibility updates across Android, Chrome and more (Angana Ghosh)
- CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today (Apple)
Screencasts & Videos
- GCast 194: Creating a Chatbot with the Question Answering feature of Azure Language Service (David Giard)
- What’s my favorite .NET MAUI feature in .NET 9? | One Dev Question (James Montemagno)
- If AI is so good at coding ⊠whereâs the open source? (Frank LaVigne)
- Make Software Faster with VS Profiler & Copilot | Visual Studio (Nik Karpinsky)
- MCP vs API: Simplifying AI Agent Integration with External Data | IBM Technology (Martin Keen)
- Upgrade your SQL projects with confidence with DacpacVerify | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Drew Skwiers-Koballa)
Podcasts
- The Modern .NET Show – .NET Web App Modernization Made Easy with TomĂĄĆĄ Herceg’s New Book and DotVVM (Jamie Taylor)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Courage to QuestionâSigns of a Healthy Agile Team| Simina Fodor (Vasco Duarte)
- Observability in the CI/CD Pipeline with Adriana Villela – Adventures in DevOps Episode #240 (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – KubeCon EU 2025 (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- Reinventing Web Development with Brisa: A Conversation with Aral Roca – JavaScript Jabber Episode #677 (Charles Max Wood)
- Meta Tech Podcast – Open-sourcing Pyrefly: A faster Python type checker written in Rust (Pascal Hartig, Maggie Moss, Rebecca Chen & Neil Mitchell)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS (Eira May)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode #040 â Musings on .NET Open Source! (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #519 – This is a âhit by pitchâ (Brandon Whichard, CotĂ© & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Join Us at Build 2025: Explore Whatâs New with Azure Managed Redis (Collin Brian)
- Docker at Microsoft Build 2025: Where Secure Software Meets Intelligent Innovation (Melissa Sussmann)
- Thinking of Joining the MVP Program? Hear What Makes It Special! (Alice Piras)
- Microsoft Statement on the Issues Relating to Technology Services in Israel and Gaza (Microsoft)
Database
- Is OUTPUT Broken In SQL Server? (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Accessibility, a year in review: Microsoft 365 Copilot support and better user experiences (Clint Covington)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.5912 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5409 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Week 5: Reflecting on Traits & Lifetimes Power and Pain (Chris Woodruff)
- How do I force RunOnce commands to run in a specific order? (Raymond Chen)
- Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust! (Rust Release Team)
- Microsoftâs simplified Surface lineup puts another device on the chopping block (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Abbey Normal Tech – First (Abbey Perini)
- Daily Reading List â May 15, 2025 (#553) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development: Build high-performance apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using XAML and Blazor with .NET 8 (Roger Ye) – Referral Link
