Top Links
- Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! (Mads Kristensen)
- Windows App SDK 1.8.0 Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- .NET MAUI in .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 (David Ortinau)
- Prepare your VBA projects for VBScript deprecation in Windows (Wenjun Gong)
- Announcing the release of SSMS 22 Preview 1 (M. Barickman)
- Come Party with Palermo at TechBash 2025 (Jason Gaylord)
- Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Electron 38.0.0 (Keeley Hammond)
- Learning web development: Frontend frameworks (Axel Rauschmayer)
- OpenID Connect Providers, Claims, and Duende IdentityServer (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Feature Flags at Enterprise Scale with .NET: Azure App Configuration + OpenFeature Patterns (Sudhir Mangla)
- Kubernetes v1.34: Snapshottable API server cache (Marek Siarkowicz)
- Handling Null Values in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- Docker Approaches to Multiple Environments (Austin Brown)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 (Dan Roth)
- React Basics: How to Use React useCallback Effectively (David Adeneye Abiodun)
- Format Painter in ASP.NET Core: Building Custom Text Formatting with TX Text Control (Deepika Kathiravan)
- A new experimental Go API for JSON (Joe Tsai, Daniel Martí, Johan Brandhorst-Satzkorn, Roger Peppe, Chris Hines, & Damien Neil)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Design Smarter Data Tables in .NET MAUI with the DataGrid Control (Farjana Parveen)
- Windows App SDK 1.8.0 (1.8.250907003) (Roy MacLachlan)
Visual Studio & .NET
- .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 (James Montemagno)
- Packaging self-contained and native AOT .NET tools for NuGet: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 7 (Andrew Lock)
- Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! (Augustin Popa)
- Day 28: Building a Pluggable Genetic Algorithms Framework in C# (Chris Woodruff)
- Visual Studio Insiders (Mark Downie)
- Advanced AI Setup for AiGen and AiFind in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
- .NET and .NET Framework September 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield & Victor Israel-Bolarinwa)
- Get Ready to Love Document Processing with these Volume 3, 2025 Upgrades! (Ramkumar Ravy)
- Implementing CQRS with MediatR and FluentValidation: A Production-Ready Pattern Library (Sudhir Mangla)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.14 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Building AI-Resistant Technical Debt (Andrew Stellman)
- Build an AI Powered Air Quality Dashboard Using Blazor Spline Chart and GPT-4o (Ilamathi Govindaraj)
- A deep dive into RavenDB’s AI Agents (Oren Eini)
- Announcing Genkit Go 1.0 and Enhanced AI-Assisted Development (Chris Gill & Cameron Balahan)
- Claude can now create and edit files (Anthropic Team)
- Coffee with Firebase Studio’s App Prototyping agent (James O’Reilly)
- Shipping smarter agents with every new model (OpenAI Team)
- A2A Extensions: Empowering Custom Agent Functionality (Philip Stephens, Junjie Bu, Mike Smith & Chitra Venkatesh)
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part VIII–Evaluations (Bart Wullems)
- Refactoring, AI Style (Gil Zilberfeld)
- New AI testing platform uses crowdsourcing to deliver better results (Ian Barker)
- Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI (Iván Palomares Carrascosa)
- The latest Google AI literacy resources all in one place (Jennie Magiera)
- Leveraging Copilot to rapidly refactor test automation (Maxwell Nyamunda)
- Megawatts and Gigawatts of AI (Mike Loukides)
- MCP is replacing the browser: Here’s how devs should prepare (Peter Aideloje)
- AI Quests: Bringing AI literacy to the classroom (Ronit Levavi Morad)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- System of Record And Source of Single Truth Are Not The Same (Peter Ritchie)
- How to use the GitHub and JFrog integration for secure, traceable builds from commit to production (April Yoho)
- A suggestion to people who assign nicknames to meeting rooms (Raymond Chen)
- Your IDP needs DDD (Steve Fenton)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- iOS 26 is out on September 15th (Jay Peters)
- This Atari handheld with retro controls is finally available for preorder (Andrew Liszewski)
- Android: Improve app performance with optimized resource shrinking (Johan Bay)
- Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26 update releases September 15th (Antonio G. Di Benedetto)
- As Nova Launcher loses its last dev, Microsoft Launcher feels abandoned — for the first time in years, I need a new launcher (Sean Endicott)
- Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) Coming to Select Vehicles in Partnership with LG (Joe Skrebels)
Screencasts & Videos
- Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen — What’s Next for Developers (Martin Zikmund)
- VS Code Copilot Extension is Open Source | Open at Microsoft (Jorge Arteiro & Burke Holland)
- All new features in the new VISUAL STUDIO 2026!! (Noraa on Tech)
- Visual Studio Toolbox Live – Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Release Party 🎉 (Visual Studio Team) – Premieres at noon EDT today
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Let’s take a look at VS 2026, then a FileSavePicker issue! (Jereme Laban)
- Announcing Visual Studio 2026 w/MadsK (Steve Smith)
- Breaking Down How ChatGPT Actually Works – Explained Like You’re Five (Frank LaVigne)
- Let’s build some web apps! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Overview of Different Windows Server Management and Administration Tools | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Cooking Up AI Agents in Spreadsheets with Sarah DeAtley, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- Yet Another Podcast – Visual Studio 2026! with Mads Kristensen (Jesse Liberty)
- Coffee & Open Source – Alvin Ashcraft (Recorded on 9/9/2025) (Isaac Levin)
- The Triangulation Technique—Coaching Agile Teams Through Challenges | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bernie Maloney)
- How to Use Web Components, Iframes, and Module Federation for Multi-Framework Apps – JavaScript Jabber #689 (Charles Max Wood)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #9 – Preserving Government Information (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- The AI Fix Episode #67 – Will Smith’s AI crowd scandal, and gullible agents fall for scams (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Break the Scarcity Spell: A Money Mindset Reset for Black Women (‘Tine Zekis)
- RunAs Radio Show #1001 – Training for AI with Stephanie Donahue (Richard Campbell)
- How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale | Adventures in DevOps Podcast (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #685 – Will Wilson on Deterministic Simulation Testing (Sriram Panyam)
Community & Events
- The eight biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone Air event (Cameron Faulkner)
- Flexible work update | Microsoft (Amy Coleman)
- Microsoft sets new RTO policy, requiring employees in the office 3 days per week (Taylor Soper)
- Microsoft mandates a return to office (Tom Warren)
- 🎉 Excel Turns 40! Join Our Reddit AMA 🎉 (Ms. Excel)
Database
- SQL Server 2025 REGEXP_COUNT Function to Count Occurrences in Text (Koen Verbeeck)
- What’s new in SSMS 21.5.14 (M. Barickman)
- 10 New Features in SQL Server 2025 (MSSQL Tips Team)
- K-Means Clustering in SQL Server (Sebastiao Pereira)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.5.14 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR (SrinivasSQL)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: What Does Read Committed Guarantee? (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Excel announces undo support for 3rd-party Copilot declarative agents & web add-ins (Adrian Wu)
- MS Access: Application.SaveAsText posible Bug (JF Ruiz)
- Fix spelling and grammar faster with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word for the web (Mohit Beri)
PowerShell & Terminal
- 6 sudo tricks every Linux user needs to know – plus 1 just for fun (Jack Wallen)
- Stitch Prompt: A CLI for Design Variety (Dion Almaer)
Miscellaneous
- Security Notice: Data Leak Affecting a Limited Number of Accounts | PostSharp (Gael Fraiteur)
- I want to love Apple’s new iPhone Air, but the iPhone 17 is a better deal (Julie Bort)
- Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air (Emma Roth)
- US Created 911,000 Fewer Jobs Than Previously Thought in the 12 Months Through March (msmash)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 9, 2025 (#624) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #280 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Ultimate Programming Languages eBook Humble Bundle (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
