Top Links
- AI Toolkit for VS Code June Update (Junjie Li)
- Microsoft Teases Visual Studio Subscriber Discounts to VSLive! Dev Conference at Redmond HQ (David Ramel)
- Technology & Friends – Laurent Bugnion on Coordinating Hands on Labs (David Giard)
- SQL and NoSQL Query langauge support come to ReSharper! (Rachel Appel)
- Android 16 is here (Matthew McCullough)
- .NET 10 Preview 5 is now available! (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Monitoring Duende IdentityServer License Usage with ASP.NET Core Health Checks (Maarten Balliauw)
- The cluster layout with modern CSS (Chris Ferdinandi)
- API contracts and nullability in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 5 (Dan Roth)
- Docker Desktop 4.42: Native IPv6, Built-In MCP, and Better Model Packaging (Deanna Sparks)
- Visualize Global Water Access Disparities with Blazor Bubble Charts (Gopalakrishnan Veeraraghavan)
- Why a Free React UI Kit Might Be Your Smartest Design System Move (Teon Beijl)
- Learn the MERN Stack in 2025 (Beau Carnes)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI Updates in .NET 10 Preview 5 Release Notes (David Ortinau)
- Windows App SDK 1.7.3 (1.7.250606001) Release and Windows App SDK 1.6.9 (1.6.250602001) Release (Roy MacLachlan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET 10 Preview 5 Release (James Montemagno)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.5 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- C# Tip: Handling exceptions with Task.WaitAll and Task.WhenAll (Davide Bellone)
- Mastering the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern: Ensuring Cloud Stability with C# (Sudhir Mangla)
- Convert MS Word DOCX to PDF including Text Reflow using .NET C# on Linux (Bjoern Meyer)
- Are Your LINQ Queries Slowing Down Your App? Here’s How to Fix Them (Meena Alagiah)
- .NET and .NET Framework June 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield & Victor Israel-Bolarinwa)
- Day 7: Putting It Together: Simulating Your First GA Cycle in .NET (Chris Woodruff)
- .NET Coded Report Design, No IDE Strings Attached (Ivan Ivanov)
AI
- Quest – I want to move my AI prototype to Azure (bethanyjep)
- Configure Embedding Models on Azure AI Foundry with Open Web UI (suzarilshah)
- Starbucks reveals AI-powered assistant to help baristas focus more on coffee and customers (Kurt Schlosser)
- New Code.org Curriculum Aims To Make Schoolkids Python-Literate and AI-Ready (BeauHD)
- Getting started with Granola on Windows (beta) (Granola Docs)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- June Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- Functional Programming Overview (Kevin Logan)
- Observability as a Developer Superpower (Adam Gordon Bell)
- How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems (Fabian Aguilar Gomez)
- Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 3: Self-hosted runners (Kathi Kellenberger)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Developer preview: Enhanced Android desktop experiences with connected displays (Francesco Romano & Fahd Imtiaz)
- The Apple Code Signing Handbook (Sravan Karuturi)
- Converting a Microsoft XNA 3.1 game to MonoGame (Andrew Lock)
- First Look: Apple’s NEURLFilter API (Eric Lawrence)
Screencasts & Videos
- Super-charging GitHub Copilot with Model Context Protocol (MCP), with Krystal Folkes | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Krystal Folkes)
- Supercharge your Power Apps model-driven apps and Dynamics 365 apps with Infinity AI Agents | The Low Code Revolution (Elaiza Benitez & Paul Nieuwelaar)
- Uno Platform 6.0 Migration: Updating the Host Builder & Enabling Skia (Uno Platform)
- I locked 1000 architects in a room until they all agreed on the best solution | NDC Melbourne 2025 (Bronwen Zande)
Podcasts
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – AI Code Reviews with CodeRabbit’s Howon Lee and The Hanselminutes Podcast – AI and visualizing multidimensional vectors with Pamela Fox (Scott Hanselman)
- Made by Google Podcast – June Pixel Drop: All Your Favorites Are VIPs! (Rachid Finge & Aisha Sharif)
- The AI Fix Episode #54 – Will AI collapse under its own garbage, and AI charity “Hunger Games” (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- The Breakpoint Show Episode #042 — Summer Chat (Khalid Abuhakmeh, Maarten Balliauw & Chris Woodruff)
- RunAs Radio Episode #988 – The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones (Richard Campbell)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Microsoft Security Copilot: What You Need to Know (Mary Jo Foley)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Leave Loud: 7 Things to Know Before Quitting Your Job (‘Tine Zekis)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Trust-Based Leadership and Team Implosion | Stuart Tipples (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- 📽️ #UCK25 🔁 Relive the moments. Feel the energy. Get ready for what’s next. (Update Conference)
- A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers (Molly Taft)
- Remembering Bill Atkinson (Sue Gee)
- Google is offering employee buyouts in Search and other orgs (Alex Heath)
- Microsoft is moving its Build conference out of Seattle for 2026 (Tom Warren)
Database
- Release Notes for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.2.5 (Microsoft Learn)
- SQL Server 2025 : Zstandard Backup Compression (Aaron Bertrand)
- An Oracle DBA’s Introduction to PostgreSQL – The New Reality (Kellyn Gorman)
- Entra Authentication in Arc enabled SQL Server 2025 – Windows (PDasgupta)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Getting Fancy With CASE Expressions (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- SharePoint: A Game-Changer for Team Collaboration (TaylorTech)
- New Agent Management Experience in Microsoft 365 Admin Center (Michael Goad)
Miscellaneous
- Trump Quietly Throws Out Biden’s Cyber Policies (BeauHD)
- Rewriting SymCrypt in Rust to modernize Microsoft’s cryptographic library (Jonathan Protzenko, Samuel Lee, Samreen Khadeer, Son Ho, Oleksii Oleksenko, Michael Naehrig & Cédric Fournet)
- 1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope Data Just Hit the Internet (msmash)
- Application compatibility for Windows 95 crashed a cash register (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – June 8 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – June 10, 2025 (#565) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #215 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link
