Top Links
- Visual Studio Next Version: What’s Coming and What to Expect (NDepend Team)
- Technology & Friends – Steve Smith on How Generative AI is the New Offshoring (David Giard)
- Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI (Yina Arenas)
- Angular Summer Update 2025 (Angular Team)
- Microsoft Graph CLI retirement and Microsoft Graph Toolkit retirement (Ben Summers)
- The VS Code Podcast Episode #3 – Building a MCP to Build VS Code & The Impact of AI on Kent C. Dodds (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Build a Sales Dashboard with React (Andrew Peterson)
- Learning web development: JavaScript Maps and Learning web development: JSON and processing files in Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- What’s new in Astro – August 2025 (Sarah Rainsberger)
- Boost Your Copilot with SonarQube via Docker MCP Toolkit and Gateway (Anna Chernyshova)
- Fixing ValidationProblemDetails serialization Issues when using the JSON Source Generator in ASP.NET Core (Bart Wullems)
- Node.js Moves Toward Stable TypeScript Support With Amaro 1.0 (Bruno Couriol)
- CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation (Christian Sabourin)
- Azure Communication Services is now Generally Available in Azure Government (hrazi)
- Update on Wolverine 5.0 Work (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems (Mark Russinovich, Omar Khan & Bryan Kelly)
- How To Organize PDF Pages in React for Seamless Document Workflows (Parthipan R.)
- Build Faster with Blazor HTML Editor: Template Insertion Made Easy (Saravanan G.)
- Site to Site Networking with Tailscale: Part 2 — Teaching Azure Some New Tricks (Shannon Kuehn)
- Addressing TLS 1.3 Compatibility Issues in IIS Express on Windows 11 (Matt Hamrick)
- Minimal API filters: Run code before the endpoint handler (David Grace)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Sneak Peek: What’s New in .NET MAUI – Volume 3, 2025 (Paul Anderson)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- How to Create a C# .NET WinForms Heatmap Chart (Matt Cowles)
- How to Hash Passwords with BCrypt in C# (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Boost Your .NET Projects: Find the Fastest Way to Get an Item’s Index in Arrays (David McCarter)
- Song recommendations with C# free monads (Mark Seemann)
- Does .ConfigureAwait Still Matter in .NET? 🤔 (Bruno Capuano)
- Standalone Aspire Dashboard Setup for Distributed .NET Applications (Milan Jovanović)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 15: A custom shared pointer (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Multi‑Agent Orchestration with Azure AI Foundry: From Idea to Production (Lakshay Malik)
- How to build a multimodal AI app with voice and vision in Next.js (Elijah Asaolu)
- Secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) Implementation with Azure and Local Servers (ikshitas)
- sosumi.ai – Making Apple docs AI-readable. So sue me. (sosumi)
- Google Gemma3 270M : The best Smallest LLM for everything (Mehul Gupta)
- Vibe coding makes prototyping close to code, closer to users (Quirine van Walt Meijer)
- I’m an AI hater (Chris Ferdinandi)
- How PMs Build Fintech Prototypes with Replit + Plaid (Replit Team)
- Under the hood: Exploring the AI models powering GitHub Copilot (Alexandra Lietzke)
- Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy and OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police (EditorDavid)
- Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI (Lyndon Cerejo)
- Are You Ready for AI Coding? (Eleanor Berger)
- Building Your First MCP Server: A Beginner’s Guide (Kevin Toshihiro Uehara)
- What is Nano Banana? Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image AI for Image Editing (Mahesh Chand)
- Connect the OpenAI Realtime SIP Connector with Twilio Elastic SIP Trunking (Paul Heath)
- How GitHub Copilot Can Help You Learn New Programming Languages (Stephen Simon)
- Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure (Terrence O’Brien)
- The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ (Zoë Schiffer)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Why Your Biggest Fears Shrink When You Face Them (J.D. Meier)
- Is writing a test a good contribution to an open source project? (Matt Lacey)
- The Book of Redgate: Meetings (Steve Jones)
- Building the Right Platform Engineering Team (Shannon Kuehn)
- Reimagining work: Microsoft’s vision for the future of Desktop as a Service (Stefan Kinnestrand)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Flutter 3.5 Offers New Developer Experience Features (Loraine Lawson)
- One interesting way to use Roblox, and don’t be afraid of Silksong (Code Monkey)
Screencasts & Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 276 – Essential Water (For Life and AI) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- The Download: Next.js 15.5, new GitHub Actions security, Vite’s big milestone & more (Andrea Griffiths)
- Open Source Friday with Demo Time – A VS Code extension (Elio Struyf)
- Random.Code() – Adding Filtered Properties to AutoDeconstruct, Part 2 and Random.Code() – Adding Filtered Properties to AutoDeconstruct, Part 3 (Jason Bock)
- How AI Datacenters Eat the World (Frank LaVigne)
Podcasts
- Yet Another Podcast – Mads K (Microsoft) on Visual Studio and VS Code (Jesse Liberty)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #318 – One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them) (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #263 – Exploring Mixin Classes in Python (Christopher Bailey & Christopher Trudeau)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #108 – Action absorbs anxiety (Arun Gupta, Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Batteries Included Podcast #107 – The $7,500 EV Incentive Extension Loophole Is Huge, Porsche Cayenne Charges Like A Beast (Domenick Yoney, Tom Moloughney & Kyle Conner)
- Lenny’s Podcast – How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast – Train Like an Athlete, Lead Like a Pro: The Career Growth Most Engineers Ignore (Max Ahumada)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #518 – Celebrating Django’s 20th Birthday With Its Creators (Michael Kennedy)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode 479 – Aaron Presley on Leaving Nike, Freelancing & Finding Purpose Beyond Code (Taylor Desseyn)
Community & Events
Database
- TempDB Under Pressure: The Architect’s Guide to Diagnosing and Fixing SQL Server’s Hidden Bottleneck (Sudhir Mangla)
- Getting Started with Change Event Streaming in SQL Server 2025 (Part 2: Consuming Events) (Leonard Lobel)
- Don’t rely solely on SQL Server’s missing index recommendations (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Redgate Monitor Adds Support for Oracle Multitenant (Ricky Eaton)
- Using SQL Server’s new AI features and Python to create a T-SQL assistant (Rodrigo Ribeiro Gomes)
- Divide and Conquer the Database (Steven Giesel)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Serializable Is Not A Snapshot (Erik Darling)
- TanStack DB Enters Beta with Reactive Queries, Optimistic Mutations, and Local-First Sync (Daniel Curtis)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | August 2025 (Seth Patton)
PowerShell
- Update Entra ID Device Extension Attributes via PowerShell & Create Dynamic Security Groups. (Santosh Pargi)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v3.9.83 (Files Team)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5770 (Beta Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5770 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Releasing Windows 11, version 25H2 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit and Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental (EditorDavid)
- Retailers warn Trump tariffs will trigger consumer price explosion — who will he blame? (Ellsworth Toohey)
- Women are not people, and Karoline Leavitt is just fine with it (Jason Weisberger)
- No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD (Terrence O’Brien)
- USB Type-C Notifications in Windows: What OEMs Need to Know (Ugan Sivagnanenthirarajah)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #35, 2025 – AI agents can write F#! (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – August 29, 2025 (#618) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #273 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
