Top Links
- The Wait is Over: TX Text Control for Linux is Officially Here (Bjoern Meyer)
- Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 and Get started with Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 and Authoring Enhancements in Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0 (Jason Helmick)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 2 release notes and Visual Studio 2022 v17.13.3 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Make more sense of multithreaded debugging (Junyu Wang)
- .NET Rocks! – Automapper V14 with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Hello HybridCache! Streamlining Cache Management for ASP.NET Core Applications (Claudia Regio)
Web & Cloud Development
- Getting Started: Document Editor with ASP.NET Core and Linux WSL Support and Getting Started: Document Editor with ASP.NET Core and Docker Support with Linux Containers and Getting Started: Document Viewer with ASP.NET Core and Linux WSL Support (Bjoern Meyer)
- Playing with Light and Refraction in Three.js: Warping 3D Text Inside a Glass Torus (Matt Park)
- Coding Azure 6: Debugging and Logging an Application in an Azure App Service (Peter Vogel)
- ASP.NET Core Extension Points – MVC (Ricardo Peres)
- Kubernetes Troubleshooting: A Step-by-Step Guide (Vishu Goyal)
- Using Cloudflare to prevent Bot Attacks (Paul Michaels)
- Updated Candidate Recommendation: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) and Updated W3C Recommendation: WebRTC: Real-Time Communication in Browsers (W3C Team)
- Breaking Down HTTP: What Really Happens in a Request and Response and Decoding HTTP Response Codes: What Your Browser Isn’t Telling You (Chris Woodruff)
- Traversal-resistant file APIs (Damien Neil)
- Static Web App WASM Search (Mattias Karlsson)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Sleep Pattern Analysis using .NET MAUI Toolkit Range Column Chart (Saravanan Madheswaran)
Visual Studio & .NET
- What are the thread safety requirements of HSTRING and BSTR? (Raymond Chen)
AI
- AI Time-Travel: Your JavaScript Quest Begins! (Dan Wahlin)
- Create AI-Powered Mind Maps using OpenAI and Blazor Diagram Library (Issacimmanuvel Thomas Jebaraj)
- GitHub Copilot Chat now available in public preview for Eclipse (Hang Wang)
- Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation (Kat Kampf & Nicole Brichtova)
- Driving growth and ‘WOW’ moments with OpenAI (OpenAI Team)
- Tweak your LLM models with Ollama (Bart Wullems)
- DeepSeek outperforms US models in new AI Trust Score (Ian Barker)
- Customer Case Story: Creating a Semantic Kernel Agent for Automated GitHub Code Reviews (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Rasmus Wulff Jensen)
- The Future of AI: Customizing AI agents with the Semantic Kernel agent framework (Tao Chen)
- Junky data is like an out-of-tune guitar—it prevents AI harmony (Katja Skafar)
Design, Methodology & Testing
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Competes With React Native (Loraine Lawson)
- Unlock Deeper Health Insights: Health Connect Jetpack SDK is now in beta and new feature updates (Brenda Shaw)
- Jetpack WindowManager 1.4 is stable (Xiaodao Wu)
- Microsoft isn’t launching its Xbox handheld this year, but Asus might be (Tom Warren)
Screencasts & Videos
- What Every .NET Developer NEEDS to Know About Blazor Render Modes! | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER are two new Gemini models designed for robotics | The Keyword (Google)
- How can I access third-party native libraries like Firebase in my .NET MAUI apps? | One Dev Question (Rachel Kang)
Podcasts
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – BONUS Transforming Conflict into Opportunity, Leadership Lessons for Agile Teams | Eagan Rackley (Vasco Duarte)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #632 – Reaching industrial economies of scale (Beyang Liu & Adam Stacoviak)
- Made by Google Podcast – March Feature Drop: Updates for Gemini Live, Scam Detection and more! (Rachid Finge)
- Grammar Girls Podcast – Behind the scenes of Wikipedia: editing, accuracy, and notability, with Jonathan Rick (Mignon Fogarty)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder & CEO of StackBlitz) (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Beyond the Hype Podcast – Is architecture for AI even necessary? (Oliver Cronk)
- Software Engineering Radio #659 – Brenden Matthews on Idiomatic Rust (Gavin Henry)
- Boagworld Podcast – The Art of Stealth Research (Paul Boag)
Community & Events
- Stack Overflow: A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant (Derek Cheng, Caroline Thomas & Ryan Donovan)
- Women’s History Month: 6 Pioneers in Software Security and Protection (Ben Nettleton)
- Upcoming March 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call (Jessie Hwang)
- Meta is launching Community Notes in the US next week (Maxwell Zeff)
- Join the ONNX Generative AI Runtime teams for a discussion on the newest releases (Lee Stott)
Database
- All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Isolation Levels (Erik Darling)
- Effortless Scaling: Autoscale goes GA on vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (Sudhanshu Vishodia)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Skill Up on Microsoft 365 Copilot (Michael Kophs)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27813 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines (João Medeiros)
- Make Your Windows PC Last 30 Percent Longer by Adjusting These Settings (John Brandon)
- Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed (Sean Hollister)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 12, 2025 (#510) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals: Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 9, Blazor, and EF Core 9 (Mark J. Price) – Referral Link
