Top Links
- Announcing the NuGet MCP Server Preview (Jeff Kluge)
- Improving Codebase Awareness in Visual Studio Chat (Pablo Gonzalez)
- GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot: How I built a game in 60 seconds (Kedasha Kerr)
- What’s new in Flutter 3.35 (Kevin Chisholm)
- GPT-5 for Microsoft Developers (Jon Galloway, Pamela Fox & Dan Wahlin)
- How Visual Studio is AWESOME for WinForms, WPF, .NET MAUI and All Your Favorite Frameworks | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Merrie McGaw)
Web & Cloud Development
- Checking for focus in an element using CSS in your JavaScript (Chris Ferdinandi)
- Node.js v24.6.0 (Current) (Rafael Gonzaga)
- .NET Aspire 9.4 – CLI Magic and Developer-Friendly Dashboards (Adam Cogan)
- .NET Aspire for Real‑Time Monitoring and Smart Scaling: Basic To Advanced (Adem Korkmaz)
- Docker Desktop 4.44: Smarter AI Modeling, Platform Stability, and Streamlined Kubernetes Workflows (Deanna Sparks)
- Secure and Sign PDFs in Blazor: Master Digital Signatures with the Syncfusion .NET PDF Library [Webinar Show Notes] (Graham High)
- Astro 5.13 (Sarah Rainsberger & Emanuele Stoppa)
- From Zero To Duende IdentityServer in Under an Hour with Improved Templates (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Microsoft and the Rise of the Full-Stack Builder (Darryl K. Taft)
- Build a Reusable .NET Aspire API Template in Minutes (Julio Casal)
- Announcing Twilio Support for Meta’s WhatsApp Marketing Messages Lite API on Private Beta (Sebastian Del Aguila Fiocco)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Your First Steps with SkiaSharp in .NET MAUI (Héctor Pérez)
- Fix Maui Android “Doesn’t support required ABI” issue (Pieter Nijs)
- Uno Chefs Reference App for Uno Platform (Uno Platform Team)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- 31st Annual Visual Studio Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards Announced (David Ramel)
- How to Automate Invoices in C# with HTML to PDF Conversion (Ramkumar Ravy)
- .NET: Add proposal for dnup CLI-based acquisition tool (Chet Husk)
- Why Akka.Streams.Kafka is the Best Kafka Client for .NET (Aaron Stannard)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 4: Using a circular doubly linked list (Raymond Chen)
AI
- No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive (Colton Voege)
- With MCP Docs Servers You’ll Never Run Out Of Fresh Documentation (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI (Olivier Lacombe, Kathleen Kenealy, Kat Black, Ravin Kumar, Francesco Visin & Jiageng Zhang)
- MCP Horror Stories: The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist (Ajeet Singh Raina)
- Securing Trust in AI: A Developer’s Identity Guide (Bhawna Singh)
- GPT-5: A Choose Your Own Adventure for Frontend Developers (Richard MacManus)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- DevOps and AI Series: Azure Private MCP Registry (AJ Bajada)
- TeamCity 2025.07.1 Is Here (Dmitrii Korovin)
- How to Build an Internal Developer Platform: Strategy, Best Practices, and Self-Service Infrastructure (Engin Diri)
- From Tedious Task to Seamless Automation: Transforming our Customer Behavior Analytics (Kahlen Friske)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Test on a fleet of physical devices with Android Device Streaming, now with Android Partner Device Labs (Adarsh Fernando & Grant Yang)
- Accelerating development with monthly releases for Android Studio – releasing 2X more often than before (Xavier Ducrohet & Adarsh Fernando)
- Announcing Dart 3.9 (Amanda Fitch)
Screencasts & Videos
- Panel: Ask the Visual Studio Team Anything | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Anson Horton, Mads Kristensen & Andy Sterland)
- What are you most excited about at Build 2025? | One Dev Question (Craig Loewen)
- Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Mads Torgersen)
- What’s New & Next in Testing & Code Coverage in Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Matt Soucoup & Cathy Sullivan)
- Scott Hanselman’s TEDx: We’re Going to Make Things (Scott Hanselman)
- Measure Twice, Optimize Once: Real-World .NET Profiling with Visual Studio | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Nik Karpinsky)
- She Tried 39 AI Engineering Courses: Here Are the BEST 5 (Frank LaVigne)
- Fuel Your Fixes: Visual Studio Debugging, Powered by Copilot | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Harshada Hole & Cagri (Charlie) Aslan)
- The Future of Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 10 | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Mike Kistler & Daniel Roth)
- Unlocking AI Interoperability: A Deep Dive into the Model Context Protocol | VSLive! @ MSHQ 2025 (Den Delimarsky)
Podcasts
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – The future of Vue is you (and You) (Phoebe Sajor, Ryan Donovan & Evan You)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #177 – Vibe Coding — The future of AI-assisted development? (Omshree Butani)
- PPP 474 | A Candid Conversation with Stuart Taylor: LinkedIn, Careers, and AI (Andy Kaufman)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #654 – Biocomputing on human neurons (Ewelina Kurtys, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
- AWS Developers Podcast Episode #178 – Empowering Women in Tech: A Perspective from India (Poonam Pratik Patel, Shefali Arora, Dr. Abhilasha Rakesh Vyas & Dipali Kulshrestha)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #533 – It’s a Type 2 Kolache (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- Layoffs.fyi – Tracking tech layoffs and Trump’s U.S. government job cuts (Roger Lee)
- .NET Foundation Board Nominations – Closes today! (.NET Foundation)
- Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office (Tom Warren)
Database
- Data encryption with customer-managed key (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore (Nik Larin)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Identity Annoyances (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Improved margins in OneNote for Android and iOS (Bola Soneye)
PowerShell & Terminal
- How to Set Up GitHub CLI on WSL2 (Ayu Adiati)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27924 (Canary Channel) and Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.5061 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5837 to the Release Preview Channel and Releasing Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 to the Release Preview Channel (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – August 14, 2025 (#609) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
The Ultimate C++ Developer Masterclass eBook Humble Bundle (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link