Top Links
- Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users (Thomas Dohmke)
- AI on Windows: Chat with Phi Silica and AI on Windows: Chat Styling (Nick Randolph)
- Your AI Companion (Microsoft)
- The Aspire Compiler (David Fowler)
- Technology & Friends – Rob Conery on Productivity Features in GitHub Copilot (David Giard)
- Semantic Kernel Agents are now Generally Available (Shawn Henry)
Web & Cloud Development
- Making Node.js Downloads Reliable (flakey5)
- HTML Bullet Point Maker – Convert Text to ul Lists (Dave Johnson)
- Deploying a Nuxt Static Website on Azure with Pulumi (Alexandre Nédélec)
- Secret management using Pulumi ESC SDK and Azure Key Vault (Adetokunbo Ige)
- Debugging htmx in ASP.NET Razor Pages: Tips, Tricks, and Tools and Boosting Razor Pages UX: The htmx Upgrade You Need (Chris Woodruff)
- ReactOS, an Open Source Take on Windows (Jack Wallen)
- A Peek at What’s Next for Vue (Loraine Lawson)
- CSS multicol block direction wrapping (Rachel Andrew)
- Introducing bulk suppressions (Iacovos Constantinou)
- ESLint v9.24.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- What’s New in Blazor: 2025 Volume 1 (Rajendran R.)
- Finding Bigfoot with Async Generators + TypeScript (Guy Royse)
- Hosting a DigitalOcean App Platform app on a custom subdomain (with CORS) (Dan)
- What’s new in Microsoft Entra – March 2025 (Shobhit Sahay)
- How to set up Windows 365 (2025 tutorial) (Zachary Cavanell)
- Enhancing healthcare productivity and security with Windows Cloud solutions (Stefan Kinnestrand)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- iNKORE.UI.WPF.Modern – Modern (Fluent 2) styles and controls for your WPF applications (iNKORE Studios)
Visual Studio & .NET
- Why Table Control in Templates is Important for Professional PDF Creation in C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- Using GUIDs with EF Core (Ricardo Peres)
- More LinkedIn “Tips”: Dragging your whole database into memory! (Steven Giesel)
- MediatR and MassTransit Going Commerical: What This Means For You (Milan Jovanović)
- Adding delays to our task sequencer, part 3 (Raymond Chen)
- Comparing Type Checking Methods in .NET: Performance vs. Readability (David McCarter)
AI
- Llama 4 is now available in Azure Databricks (Anavi Nahar)
- SSE-Powered MCP Server with C# and .NET in 15.7MB executable (Laurent Kempé)
- New capabilities in Azure AI Foundry to build advanced agentic applications (Asha Sharma)
- Run LLMs Locally with Docker: A Quickstart Guide to Model Runner (Kevin Wittek)
- An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test (Frank Landymore)
- MCP Agents (Peli de Halleux)
- Introducing Copilot Search in Bing (Bing Team)
- Llama 4 herd is here with Day 0 inference support in vLLM (clobner)
- Claude Code and the Art of Test-Driven Development (David Eastman)
- Microsoft updates Copilot with the greatest hits from other AIs (Dominic Preston)
- Microsoft Copilot can now use the web on your behalf (Jess Weatherbed)
- Using GenAI as a learning tool, not a crutch (Katja Skafar & Susi O’Neill)
- OpenAI says it’ll release o3 after all, delays GPT-5 (Kyle Wiggers)
- The AI industry doesn’t know if Trump just killed its GPU supply (Kylie Robison)
- Start building with Gemini 2.5 Pro (Logan Kilpatrick)
- PayPal Begins Rollout of MCP Servers to Accelerate Agentic Commerce (Prakhar Mehrotra)
- The Evolution of AI Function Calling and Interoperability (Peter Smulovics)
- AI Agents: Building Trustworthy Agents- Part 6 (Shivam Goyal)
- Building Your First Model Context Protocol Server (Stefan Blos)
- Microsoft brings Copilot Vision to Windows and mobile for AI help in the real world (Tom Warren)
- Selecting and upgrading models using Evaluations – Part 1 (vinayakh)
- Meta AI gets two new models as Meta releases Llama 4 (Wes Davis)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Boards Integration with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Data Residency (Public Preview) (Dan Hellem)
- How To Be a More Effective Coach and How To Become a Coach and How to Get the Most from Your Coach (JD Meier)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Trinh Tran on Windows Accessibility Tools (David Giard)
- Build Remote MCP servers using Azure Functions in C# & .NET (Matt Soucoup)
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 255 – IoT Renaissance Delayed? (The Impact of Global Tariffs) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- Meta Llama 4 BEATS DeepSeek R1. It is COMPLETELY FREE! (Frank LaVigne)
- NSScreencast #591 – Getting Started with AudioKit (Ben Scheirman)
Podcasts
- freeCodeCamp Podcast #167 – From drop-out to software architect with Jason Lengstorf (Quincy Larson)
- Meta Cast – Breaking Leadership Boundaries (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Merge Conflict #457 – Nintendo Switch 2, MCP Remote Servers, & Vibe Coding Games (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- GeekWire Podcast with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the company’s 50th anniversary (Todd Bishop)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast #87 – Turn him into a walrus (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- PPP 453 | She Helps People Love Mondays Again–Here’s How, with Corinna Freitag (Andy Kaufman)
- Azure Podcast Episode #516 – Digital Intelligence Architecture (Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D’Mello)
- AGL 411: Heather Inocencio (John Rouda)
- The Cloud Pod #299 – We Predict Next, for Next Week’s, Next-Level Google Next Event. What’s Next? (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- React Native Radio #327 – Automating App Releases with Pratul Kalia (Robin Heinze, Jamon Holmgren & Mazen Chami)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS X-Matrix and Obeya: How to Make Strategy Visible and Actionable for Everyone | Jim Benson and Karl Scotland (Vasco Duarte)
Community & Events
- Celebrating Microsoft’s 50 years (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Turns 50 Today! Here is My Life With Their Tools! (David Giard)
- Sharing Your Details Quickly At A Conference (Mark Oliver)
- From BASIC to Copilot: 50 Years of Microsoft Technology Innovation and Leadership (Chris Pietschmann)
- CfP List Updated 2025-04-01 (Dave Aronson)
- From BASIC to Vibes: Microsoft’s 50-Year Code Evolution (Darryl K. Taft)
- Rejoining the Windows team in 2025 (James E. Clarke)
- Microsoft flag flies atop Space Needle to celebrate company’s 50th anniversary (Taylor Soper)
- In their own words: Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company’s legacy and impact (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft is now 50 years old and How Microsoft made it through 50 years and Why I’ve covered Microsoft for 25 years (Tom Warren)
- All of the news from Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary Copilot event (Umar Shakir)
Database
- Why Does My Trigger Have Multiple Plans In SQL Server? (Erik Darling)
- RavenDB on AWS Marketplace (Oren Eini)
- PostgreSQL monitoring with pg_stat_activity and pg_locks (Andrea Gnemmi)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Removal of deprecated DISCO & WSDL aspx pages from SharePoint Online (SharePoint Team)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- VMware Alternatives: A Strategic Guide to Modern Virtualization (Adam Swidler)
- How tariffs will change your gadgets (David Pierce)
- Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns (Emma Roth)
- Here’s the original source code for Microsoft’s very first product (Jess Weatherbed)
- DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data (Makena Kelly)
- Meta officially says goodbye to its US fact-checkers on Monday (Amanda Silberling)
- Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever (Umair Irfan)
- ‘Millions’ may have protested Trump and Musk yesterday and DOGE plans now reportedly include an IRS ‘hackathon’ (Wes Davis)
- Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival (Will Knight & Zeyi Yang)
More Link Collections
- F# Weekly #14, 2025 – Electrifying Norway with F# and DDD (Sergey Tihon)
- Azure Weekly #510 – 6th April 2025 (The Editor)
- Links For You (4/5/25) (Raymond Camden)
- The latest AI news we announced in March (Google Keyword Team)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)
