Top Links
- Celebrating innovation, scale, and real-world impact with Serverless Compute on Azure (Scott Hunter)
- Introducing Warp 2.0: Reimagining coding with the Agentic Development Environment (Zach Lloyd)
- Stay secure with Windows 11, Copilot+ PCs and Windows 365 before support ends for Windows 10 (Yusuf Mehdi)
- Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Nov 18-20; San Francisco) – Unlock the future of AI with insights, networking, and innovation (Microsoft) – Registration is now open
- Edit command line tool (Microsoft Learn)
- TechBash Early Bird Discounts End Monday, June 30th at 11:59pm EDT (TechBash Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Speculative Optimizations for WebAssembly using Depots and Inlining (Daniel Lehmann & Matthias Liedtke)
- .NET Aspire 1: What Is .NET Aspire? (Dave Brock)
- How to Build Multi-Tenant Reports in ASP.NET Core Applications (Alec Gall)
- Seamless Tool Integration for Agents: A Deep Dive into the new Toolbox JS SDK (Twisha Bansal)
- Tips for making regular expressions easier to use in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Managing Secrets in .NET Applications with Azure Key Vault & Managed Identity (Sudhir Mangla)
- Unit Testing in Angular: Modern Testing with Vitest (Dany Paredes)
- Node.js 24: Your Next Big Frontend Upgrade? (Loraine Lawson)
- Corvus.Text.Json – Enhancing JSON Data Handling in .NET (Matthew Adams)
- How to Add Error Bars to Blazor Charts: A Complete Guide with Examples (Sakthiviknesh Chellappa)
- Vite 7.0 is out! (Vite Team)
- .NET 8.0.17 Upgrades, Forwarded Headers, and Unknown Proxy Issues (Khalid Abuhakmeh & Wesley Cabus)
- Node v24.3.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- Node v22.17.0 (LTS) (Antoine du Hamel)
- The Quest for SSR with Web Components: A Stencil Developer’s Journey (Stencil Team)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
Visual Studio & .NET
- Enhancing PDF Searchability in Large Repositories by Adding and Reading Keywords Using C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Mastering LINQ in C# (Divyansh Gupta)
- AiGen & AiFind in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.7 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Develop reasoning apps with DeepSeek models on Azure AI Foundry using the OpenAI SDK (Microsoft Learn)
- Adding GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions (David Giard)
- Semantic Search and Knowledge Retrieval (PRIVATE PREVIEW) (Microsoft Learn)
- LLMs bring new nature of abstraction (Martin Fowler)
- The Future of AI: Developing Code Assist – a Multi-Agent Tool (hammadomar)
- Create Stunning AI Videos with Sora on Azure AI Foundry! (suzarilshah)
- The official Manus Windows app (Microsoft Store)
- Driving scalable growth with OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA (OpenAI Team)
- Supercharge your notebooks: The new AI-first Google Colab is now available to everyone (Nick Sharma, Jeffrey Mew & Ilai Soloducho)
- Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio (Alisa Fortin, Guillaume Vernade & Seth Odoom)
- GitLab Duo Agent Platform: What’s next for intelligent DevSecOps (Bill Staples)
- Avoiding unexpected costs from GitHub Copilot premium requests (Bart Wullems)
- Using KerasHub for easy end-to-end machine learning workflows with Hugging Face (Yufeng Guo, Divyashree Sreepathihalli & Monica Song)
- Semantic Kernel Python Gets a Major Vector Store Upgrade (Eduard van Valkenburg)
- The rise of AI worship: the cult that believes ChatGPT is divine (Ellsworth Toohey)
- Introducing Agent in a Day (Kent Weare)
- Why developer expertise matters more than ever in the age of AI (Laura Lindeman)
- Model Mondays S2E02 – AMA on Model Context Protocol (Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D)
- Report Confirms Microsoft’s Copilot Struggles (Paul Thurrott)
- Graph-Based AI System for Real-Time Detection and Rollback of Performance Regressions in Software (Piyush Patel)
- Connect Claude AI with Obsidian: A Game-Changer for Knowledge Management 🚀 (Sumit Roy)
- FYAI: How to leverage AI to reimagine cross-functional collaboration with Yina Arenas (Toby Bowers)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Preserve User Settings Across Updates in an MSIX Package (Renato Ivanescu)
- Assessing Expert Generalists (Martin Fowler)
- Advanced Installer 22.8 (Advanced Installer Team)
- UX Chronicles: Why Developers Should Care About User Experience (Yes, You!) (David McCarter)
- Working with stacked branches in git (Part 2) (Andrew Lock)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- SwiftUI for iOS 26 Embraces LiquidGlass, Introduces WebView and Rich Text Editing (Sergio De Simone)
- A week in Xbox VR with Microsoft and Meta’s new $399 headset (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- Agent mode in Visual Studio (Pablo Lopes)
- Build an AI Agent in VS Code with AI Toolkit and Azure AI Foundry | PyConUS 2025 (Leo Yao)
- Introducing Warp 2.0: The Agentic Development Environment (Warp Team)
- PowerShell Features in SSMS along with the SQLServer Module | Data Exposed: MVP Edition (Anna Hoffman & Ben Miller)
- CHARLIE Chatbot and chill vibe coding | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Adding Digit Separators to Numbers (Part 5) (Jason Bock)
- Vibe Coding with GitHub Copilot Agent Mode | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Krystal Folkes)
- Scott & Mark Learn To… EPISODE 19 – How do executives at Microsoft manage their stress? (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich) – Premieres Wednesday at 9:15am PDT
Podcasts
- Developer Tea – Using LLMs To Expand Your Working Vocabulary (Jonathan Cutrell)
- How Holepunch Is Redefining Peer-to-Peer Apps with Bear.js — A New Era for JavaScript Developers -JavaScript Jabber Episode #681 (Charles Max Wood)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes & Cloud Native Trends, with Alain Regnier and Camila Martins (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- RunAs Radio Episode #990 – Getting More from GitHub with April Yoho (Richard Campbell)
- Leading the Shift Podcast – Human agency is the force-multiplier for AI | Scott Hanselman, Microsoft (Susan Etlinger)
- The AI Fix Episode #56 – ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – You’ve vibe coded an app. Now what? (Ryan Donovan)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #525: AI Native vs. AI Add-on (Brandon Whichard & Coté)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #674 – Vilhelm von Ehrenheim on Autonomous Testing (Brijesh Ammanath)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Do you need to get another degree to change careers? spoiler: NO! (with Ileka Falette) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Mailin’ It! – The Official USPS Podcast – Before Disaster Strikes: Behind the Scenes of USPS National Preparedness (United States Postal Service)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leadership Red Flag—When Managers Care More About Career Than Team Success | Lilia Pulova (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Report Confirms Big Layoffs at Xbox Next Week (Paul Thurrott)
- MySQL Meetups and Events with 30 years of MySQL Celebration! – UPDATED (Lenka Kasparova)
- Meta’s Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community (BeauHD)
- MindsEye developer undergoing layoffs less than a month after launch (Ash Parrish)
- EVENT: Registration is live for Microsoft Ignite 2025! (San Francisco, CA – November 18-21, 2025) (Kurt Shintaku)
- 5 reasons PASS Summit 2025 should be in your calendar this fall (Laura Hardwick)
- A Guide to 100+ Outdoor Movie Screenings in Philly in Summer 2025 (Visit Philly)
Database
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.3.7 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- PostgreSQL for the Oracle DBA, Part 4: Query Tuning and the PostgreSQL Planner (Kellyn Gorman)
- Automating SQL Server Deployments Across Multiple Databases Using Python (Pinal Dave)
- Measuring and Improving SQL Server Query Plan Cache Efficiency (SQLPals)
- Preparing for the Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Azure Databases (talawren)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Common Table Expression Mediocrity (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s New in Excel (June 2025) (Ms Excel)
- OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival To Google Workspace, Microsoft Office (msmash)
- Embracing the future: Transitioning to new Outlook for Windows (Margie Clinton)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Exposing PowerShell Universal as an MCP server to GitHub Copilot (Adam Driscoll)
- Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor For Linux (BeauHD)
- Building a Windows Storage Dashboard, Part 2: Collecting Historical Data (Brien Posey)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there’s a catch, and you might not like it (Zac Bowden) – Spoiler: You have to sync your PC to the cloud
- Researchers Discover How Caffeine Could Slow Cellular Aging (BeauHD)
- UPDATED: Surface Hub support ends for Windows 10—start your transition (Frank Buchholz)
- The US is stripping its forests of decades-old protections (Justine Calma)
- Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it’s running on your competitor’s PC (Raymond Chen)
- Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free, but there’s a catch (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – June 24, 2025 (#574) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #225 (Jasen)
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