Top Links
- Multimodal Vision Intelligence with .NET MAUI (David Ortinau)
- Building an MCP Server for Microsoft Learn (Chris Noring)
- Azure DevOps MCP Server, Public Preview (Dan Hellem)
- What’s new in SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1: Building momentum from public preview (Venkata Raj Pochiraju)
- I built my first MCP server. Here’s what I learned. (Matt Lacey)
- Visual Studio: Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support (Rhea Patel)
Web & Cloud Development
- Blazor Basics: Integrating Third-Party APIs in Blazor WebAssembly (Claudio Bernasconi)
- Upgrading your AWS SDK for Go from V1 to V2 with Amazon Q Developer (Gamal Gayle)
- Coding Azure 15: Storing Certificates in a Key Vault, Retrieve from a Server-Side Application (Peter Vogel)
- Visualize Workforce Data with Interactive React Drill-Down Charts (Sabari Anand S.)
- How to Keep Up With New CSS Features (Sacha Greif)
- What is an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Client? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Bluesky Likes Web Components (Lea Verou)
- What’s new in Jetpack: June 2025 Update (Jetpack Team)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Sep 0.11.0 – 9.5 GB/s CSV Parsing Using ARM NEON SIMD on Apple M1 🚀 (Nietras)
- Day 8: One Point or Two? How Crossover Shapes Genetic Diversity (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- Best 5 Open-Source LLMs for Developers: ChatGPT Alternatives in 2025 (Jegan R.)
- Microsoft should change its Copilot advertising, says watchdog (Tom Warren)
- Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building Multi Server MCP with Azure OpenAI (Delyn Choong)
- Writing GenAIScript Workflows Faster with Coding Assistants (Volkan Unsal)
- Getting Started with MCP Servers for Copilot and Use Copilot as Your Personal Checklist and Interviewer (Copilot That Jawn)
- GitHub Copilot Premium Requests (Rob Bos)
- Gemini 2.5: Updates to our family of thinking models (Shrestha Basu Mallick & Logan Kilpatrick)
- Empowering a New Era of Agent-Based Experiences: Upwork and Microsoft Power Platform Partnership (David Abu)
- Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools (Jess Weatherbed)
- Amazon CEO says it will cut jobs due to AI’s ‘efficiency’ (Emma Roth)
- Atari beats ChatGPT at chess, and Apple says AI “thinking” is an illusion (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- 5 tips for using GitHub Copilot with issues to boost your productivity (Klint Finley)
- New methods boost reasoning in small and large language models (Li Lyna Zhang, Xian Zhang, Xueting Han & Dongdong Zhang)
- Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training (Ivan Mehta)
- Microsoft Is Calling Too Many Things ‘Copilot,’ Watchdog Says (msmash)
- Model Mondays S2E01 – AMA on Advanced Reasoning (Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D)
- Vibe Coding in a Post-IDE World: Why Agentic AI Is the Real Disruption (Rob Whiteley)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Smarter teams, brighter insights: Stack Overflow for Teams Business summer bundle (Carrie Koos)
- UX designers vs. developers: Who really owns accessibility (A11y) in UX design? (Allie Paschal)
- The Logic, Philosophy, and Science of Software Testing – A Handbook for Developers (Han Qi)
- The State of GitOps report: Exploring effective GitOps (Steve Fenton)
- UI Component Testing Revisited: Modern Implementation with Visual Verification (Paul Hammant)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift 6.2 Adds WebAssembly Support (Kay Ewbank)
- Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’ (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- C# and Web Development | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Random.Code() – Adding Digit Separators to Numbers (Part 2) (Jason Bock)
- 5 Minute SXSW, in Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Culture Shock of Applying Agile and Lean to Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The Parade of Trades—Teaching Flow in Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino (Vasco Duarte)
- RunAs Radio Episode #989 – SQL Server 2025 with Bob Ward (Richard Campbell)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #912 – Why did Figma buy a CMS? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Side Hustle or Full-Time? How to Start a Business That Lasts (‘Tine Zekis)
Community & Events
- .NET Aspire Workshop with Fritz & Friends – July 25, 2025, 10AM-6PM EDT and .NET AI Bootcamp with Fritz & Friends – July 18, 2025, 10AM-6PM EDT (Jeff Fritz)
- Intel to layoff up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers (Rebecca Szkutak)
- The Biggest Concerts & Music Fests in Philadelphia for Summer 2025 & Beyond (Visit Philly)
Database
- Multidimensional or Tabular: How to Choose the Best SSAS Model for Your Pivot Table (Manikandan Murugesan)
- Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21.3.6 (mbarickman)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Derived Tables (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- MVP Collective Launches In-Depth Guide on SharePoint Content AI (Tina Stenderup)
Miscellaneous
- KDE Plasma 6.4 Released (BeauHD)
- Junctions, Hard Links, Symbolic Links on the Windows File System (j2inet)
- Funding the Egghead store shopping spree took a little extra legwork (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – June 15 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – June 17, 2025 (#570) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #220 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
