Top Links
- Unlock Free Access to Cloud Academy: A New Benefit for Visual Studio Subscribers (Jim Harrer)
- Running DeepSeek-R1 14B on a CoPilot+ Snapdragon PC in Airplane Mode (using the NPU!) (Scott Hanselman)
- Build a Real-Time Trading App Using .NET MAUI DataGrid (Farjana Parveen)
- Boosting GitHub Copilot Accuracy (David Ortinau)
- Copilot on Windows: Press to talk begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Save the Date – .NET Conf Focus on Modernization (April 22-23) (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Send a WhatsApp Message with Node.js (Tutorial) (Amanda Cavallaro)
- Running an ASP.NET Core app inside IIS in a Windows container (Andrew Lock)
- How to Use .NET 9’s Built-in OpenAPI Support to Document Your Web API (Jon Hilton)
- Replicating CSS Object-Fit in WebGL: Optimized Techniques for Image Scaling and Positioning (Nicolas Giannantonio)
- Azure Database for MySQL triggers for Azure Functions (Public Preview) (Sai Kondapalli)
- 10 Hidden Gems in Angular That You Should Use (IE 33)
- HTTP Demystified: The Secret Sauce of the Web (Chris Woodruff)
- Windsurfing the Codespaces (Eleanor Berger)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Uno Platform Takes ‘Hot Design’ for Cross-Platform .NET Apps to Public Beta (David Ramel)
- Build AI-Powered Smart Form Filling App Using WPF PDF Viewer (Vikas S.)
- When to use IsReadOnly or IsEnabled? (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Create Excel XLSX Using a .NET C# Server-Side API (Shilpa Sharma)
- Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 5 (Kevin Gosse)
- Visual Studio 2022 – GitHub Copilot Vision support (Bart Wullems)
- Convert PowerPoint to PDF in C# Using Advanced Formatting Options (Mohanaselvam Jothi)
- How do I destroy an ABI pointer that I extracted from a C++/WinRT object? (Raymond Chen)
- .NET Dependency Injection: Advanced Techniques Beyond the Basics (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Generating architecture diagrams from .NET Aspire resources at publish time (Anthony Simmon)
- .NET 10 Preview 1: Updates in Runtime, SDK, Frameworks and More (Almir Vuk)
AI
- AI Coding Assistants Are Reshaping Engineering — Not Replacing Engineers (Ralph Gootee)
- Extract entities using Azure OpenAI structured outputs mode (John Alexander)
- AI Assistant Comes to Kotlin Developers in Android Studio (Anna Maltseva)
- Speed Up OpenAI Embedding By 4x With This Simple Trick! (Wassim Chegham)
- Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models (OpenAI Team)
- Semantic Telemetry: Understanding how users interact with AI systems (Amber Hoak, Scott Counts, Kate Lytvynets, David Tittsworth, Siddharth Suri, Ben Cutler & Weiwei Yang)
- DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock (Channy Yun)
- Keeping the Conversation Flowing: Managing Context with Semantic Kernel Python (Evan Mattson)
- Use AI for Free with GitHub Models and TypeScript! 💸💸💸 (Glaucia Lemos)
- Why AI Tools Are Not Ready to Replace Human Heuristic Evaluations — Yet (Jackie Ianni)
- Building AI Agents on edge devices using Ollama + Phi-4-mini Function Calling (Kinfey Lo)
- How to Export an Agent Developed in Copilot Studio (luisdem)
- How GitHub Copilot Can Help with Writing Documentation and Comments (Mahesh Chand)
- Appeal to aithority (Mark Seemann)
- Building a Serverless Meme Generator With Nitric and OpenAI (Ryan Cartwright)
- AI Agents: Exploring Agentic Frameworks – Part 2 (Shivam Goyal)
- What I Discovered After Analyzing 2,500 ChatGPT Conversations (Travis Frisinger)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Full exposure: A practical approach to handling sensitive data leaks (Alexis Wales)
- How Do I Secure Business Apps That Need Prehistoric Versions of Windows? (Brien Posey)
- Merging Two Projects Into One Git Repository (funkysi1701)
- Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 1: Getting Started (Kathi Kellenberger)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to remove unwanted Swift Package schemes in XCode (Jesse Squires)
- Apple is reportedly planning a design overhaul for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS (Jay Peters)
- Can Gaming Save the Apple Vision Pro? (Matt Kamen)
- Microsoft To Launch Xbox Handheld in 2025, Next-Gen Consoles in 2027 (msmash)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 251 – Wake Up Call (Live from MWC 2025 in Barcelona) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Introducing Azure AI Foundry – Everything you need for AI development | Microsoft Mechanics (Yina Arenas)
- How Good is Copilot with Agents for .NET MAUI Development? (Daniel Hindrikes)
- How to view Semantic Kernel telemetry in .NET Aspire dashboard (Authorised Territory)
- Armchair Architects: Zero Trust Architecture and Part 2 (Microsoft Developer Team)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Understanding What Really Matters for Developer Productivity: A Conversation with Lizzie Matusov (Lizzie Matusov)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/3/10 – 🚀 From Farm Boy to Tech Powerhouse: Chris Thompson’s Journey on Azure Cloud Talk! 🎙️ (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
- SQL Server Radio Episode 173 – SQL Noir and the fate of Azure Data Studio (Guy Glantser & Eitan Blumin)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #135 – Everyone is talking about MCP (Jerod Santo)
- PPP 450 | Why Most Leaders Fail—And How to Avoid Their Mistakes, with Mark Miller (Andy Kaufman)
- Meta Cast – Why Great Leaders Prioritize Active Mentoring (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #214 – Reconciling the Impossible: Engineering Cloud Systems for Diverging Regulations (Anton Chuvakin)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – How are sandwich generation developers dealing? and The Stack Overflow Podcast – Sharing the power of the command line (Eira May)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How did our holidays become so ‘corny’? Why do some words have accent marks in English? Cubby hole (Karen Lunde, Mignon Fogarty & Valerie Fridland)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Episode 87: A List for Springtime Shopping at Trader Joe’s (Trader Joe’s Team)
- Python Bytes Podcast #423 – Traveling the Python Universe (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Syntax Podcast #883 – Web Vitals Explained (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community & Events
- Microsoft is holding a 50th anniversary and Copilot event in April (Tom Warren)
- Bluesky now lets users upload videos that are up to 3 minutes long (Aisha Malik)
- At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt (Amanda Silberling)
- Developer-focused sessions and talks at Google Cloud Next ’25 (Brad Calder)
- Livestream: Essential Tools for JetBrains IDE Plugin Development (Elena Kerpeleva)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Transactions (Erik Darling)
- Gauss-Seidel Method SQL Function to Solve Linear Equations (Sebastiao Pereira)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3380 (Dev and Beta Channels) (Amanda Langowski)
- Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 (BeauHD)
- Windows App to replace Remote Desktop app for Windows (Hilary Braun)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-11 (Michael Eaton)
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #178 (Sam Basu)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and more (March 10, 2025) (Danilo Poccia)
- Daily Reading List – March 10, 2025 (#508) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Real-World Web Development with .NET 9: Build websites and services using mature and proven ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Umbraco CMS (Mark J. Price) – Referral link
