Top Links
- Azure SDK Release (July 2025) (Ronnie Geraghty)
- Building a Full-Stack App with React and Aspire: A Step-by-Step Guide (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
- Publish your .NET MCP Server to NuGet (Erik EJ)
- See Who Rules Cricket: ICC Trophy Wins in a Powerful .NET MAUI Treemap Chart (Vimala Thirumalai Kumar)
- Design AI Workloads with the Azure Well-Architected Framework (Thomas Maurer)
- A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server (Andrea Griffiths)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Use an Angular Report Viewer to Display Blood Test Results (Joel Parks)
- The CSS if() function: Conditional styling will never be the same (Ikeh Akinyemi)
- .NET 10 Preview Release 6 Tackles Blazor Server’s Lost State Problem (Jon Hilton)
- Build. Secure. Launch Your Private MCP Registry with Azure API Center. (JuliaKa)
- Composition API vs Options API: Vue.js (Mahesh Chand)
- A fresh look for the Microsoft authentication background (Ankur Patel)
- How to Use MongoDB with Go (Dami)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- High-Performance Text Replacement in Large DOCX Files using C# .NET and Document Viewer 33.2.1 Released: New Event and Bug Fixes (Bjoern Meyer)
- In C++/WinRT, how can I await multiple coroutines and capture the results?, part 0 (Raymond Chen)
- Simple State Machine Updates (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- Three lessons for creating a sustainable AI advantage (OpenAI Team)
- Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering (Vishal Dharmadhikari & Janie Zhang)
- Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse. (K. Matt Dupree)
- Bluesky’s CEO: You Shouldn’t ‘Fully Outsource Your Thinking’ to AI (Ana Altchek)
- Graph RAG for Security: Insights from a Microsoft Intern (anishalatchman)
- Firebase Studio Has Me Second-Guessing My Opinion on Developing With AI (Jack Wallen)
- Scaling generative AI in the cloud: Enterprise use cases for driving secure innovation (Maria Bledsoe)
- AI Code Generators Are Writing Vulnerable Software Nearly Half the Time, Analysis Finds (msmash)
- Microsoft is getting ready for GPT-5 with a new Copilot smart mode (Tom Warren)
- AI evals for MCP in AIOps (Zichuan Xiong, Larissa Dornelles & Scott Juang)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Securing Your Software Supply Chain: A .NET Architect’s Guide to SBOMs and NuGet Auditing (Sudhir Mangla)
- Day 17: Greedy Isn’t Always Bad: Heuristics in Genetic Algorithms (Chris Woodruff)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Shorebird: Deliver Real-Time Updates to Your Flutter app (Mahesh Jamdade)
Screencasts & Videos
- MCP C# SDK Deep Dive | MCP Dev Days (Mike Kistler)
- Taming the Matrix with PowerShell (a PoShaKucha) – PSConfEU 2025 (Frank Lindenblatt)
- Supercharge your data with Azure AI Search and OpenAI – NDC Oslo 2025 (Peter Gallagher)
- Warp Updates: Coding just got a lot better (Warp Team)
- .NET Aspire – Adding Custom Commands to the Dashboard | On .NET (Jeff Fritz)
- How to use GitHub Copilot (the complete beginner’s guide) (GitHub Team)
- Random.Code() – Writing an Analyzer for AutoDeconstruct (Jason Bock)
- MCP Dev Days Day 2: From Concept to Code (Katie Savage & Marc Baiza)
- Vibe Code your first MCP server with GitHub Copilot | MCP Dev Days (Burke Holland)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Event Sourcing with Hannes Lowette (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Practical Strategies for Organizational Tool Rollouts | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Anamaria Ungureanu)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #924 – Sync Engines and Local Data (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- A Geek Leader #428 – Lucy Adams (John Rouda)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #314 – Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3’s New AI Storage Play (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Spark words’ and the hidden history of ‘panic’ and ‘Ritalin,’ with Martha Barnette (Mignon Fogarty)
Community & Events
- Microsoft cut product R&D jobs, added operations roles over the past year, new filing confirms (Todd Bishop)
- GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users (Maxwell Zeff)
- Top 7 Professional Growth Sessions to Attend at PASS Summit 2025 (Laura Ray)
- Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree (Mia Sato)
- Windows 10 Turns 10 (Paul Thurrott)
- Vision for W3C to reach durable and sustainable success (Seth Dobbs)
Database
- Spotting Batch Mode Opportunities in SQL Server Query Execution Plans (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server Maintenance Plans (Kevin3NF)
- High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance: Key Differences (Anisha Padamshi)
- MySQL Index Overviews: PRIMARY KEY Indexes (Lukas Vileikis)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Merge table cells in OneNote on Windows and for Mac (Bola Soneye)
- What’s new in Microsoft Planner – July 2025 (NancyatMSFT)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27913 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
- Microsoft plans record $30 billion in quarterly capital spending to meet surging AI demand and Microsoft beats expectations, says Azure revenue tops $75B annually in new financial disclosure and Internal memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges long-term thinking as Azure marks 15 years (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too and Hey Microsoft, is it ‘Xbox PC’ or ‘Xbox on PC’? (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – July 30, 2025 (#598) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #251 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
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