Top Links
- Join us at .NET Conf: Dive into the future of development with Visual Studio 2026 (Mads Kristensen)
- Behind the Universe demo: From prompt to production with VS Code, GitHub Copilot and the Microsoft Agent Framework (Amanda Silver, Rong Lu & Shayne Boyer)
- How can I get started writing extensions for the Command Palette in PowerToys? | One Dev Question (Kayla Cinnamon)
- Define a default startup project in your slnx file (Mark Downie)
- Extending Bluetooth® LE Audio on Windows 11 with shared audio (preview) (Windows Insider Program Team)
- Building Better Apps with GitHub Copilot Custom Agents (James Montemagno)
Web and Cloud Development
- What’s new in Svelte: November 2025 (Dani Sandoval)
- Microsoft Still Blocking Azure Frontdoor Configuration Changes (Jason Gaylord)
- Using Local LLMs to Automatically Simulate APIs in ASP.NET Core MimimalAPI (Kevin Logan)
- Optimize Azure Costs with Reserved Instances (Thomas Maurer)
- Read & write to a CSV file using a list in ASP.NET Core (David Grace)
- Protecting more Edge users with expanded Scareware blocker availability and real-time protection (Patrick Brosset)
- ESLint v9.39.0 released (Francesco Trotta)
- Electron.NET – Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET Core – What’s New (Electron.NET Team)
Windows Development
- Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2025: Trip Report (Michael Price)
.NET and Visual Studio
- A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with C# and Visual Studio Code (Dean Hume)
- What’s New in EF Core 10: LeftJoin and RightJoin Operators in LINQ (Milan Jovanović)
- ArrayPool Benchmarks: We have a problem (Steven Giesel)
AI
- Debugging in the Age of AI Isn’t About Fixing Broken Code (Marko Crnjanski)
- Implement a secure MCP server using OAuth DPoP and Duende identity provider (Damien Bowden)
- Mr. Bones: A Pirate-Voiced Halloween Chatbot Powered by Docker Model Runner (Mike Coleman)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: First Look (Jamie Maguire)
- Meet the Syncfusion AI Coding Assistants: Build Blazor and React Apps at Lightning Speed [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- OpenAI’s Apps SDK: A Developer’s Guide to Getting Started (David Eastman)
- Claude Sonnet 3.7 deprecation notice for GitLab Duo (Karishma Kumar)
- Restrict MCP server access when using Github Copilot (Bart Wullems)
- Vibe Coding, Six Months Later: The Honeymoon’s Over (Alexander T. Williams)
- How To Use Warp’s Agentic Programming To Manage Kubernetes Clusters (Janakiram MSV)
- Elon Musk’s Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: Is AI Changing How We Learn Online? (Jeyasri Murugan)
- Mini book: AI Assisted Development: Real World Patterns, Pitfalls, and Production Readiness (InfoQ)
- Part 2: Build Long-Running AI Agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework (Jordan Selig)
- An Open-Source ChatGPT App Generator (Thomas Hansen)
- Stop Citing AI (Leo)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Automating Jenkins on Android with Infrastructure as Code (unknown)
- When to Use Mocking in Unit Testing (.NET & C++) (Eli Lopian)
- What is a YAML file? A guide from basics to practical use (GitLab Team)
- Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making (Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova)
- Microspeak: turn into a pumpkin (Raymond Chen)
- Defensive Programming Rule #2: Always Validate Method Parameters (David McCarter)
- 8 Log Detections for Credential Stuffing and MFA Exploit Prevention (Maria Vasilevskaya)
- Stop Writing Code, Start Writing Docs (Frederic Lardinois)
- Security Doesn’t Have to Hurt (Simeon Ratliff)
Mobile and Game Development
- Escape from Duckov’s massive hit, and Game Jam next week! (Code Monkey)
- What’s new in Swift: October 2025 Edition (Joe Heck & Dave Lester)
- Next Week on Xbox: New Games for November 3 to 7 (Will Fulton)
- Getting Started with Flutter Lint and Static Analysis (Majid Hajian)
- Renaming prefabs in Lens Studio (Joost van Schaik)
- Full Screen Experience Expands to More Windows 11 Handhelds via Windows Insiders Program (Joe Skrebels)
Screencasts and Videos
- IoT Coffee Talk: Episode 285 – “IoT Sports Center” (The World Series Edition!) (IoT Coffee Talk Crew)
- The new Agent Sessions panel in VS Code is WILD – TLDR in 60 seconds (James Montemagno)
- Technology & Friends – Sam Gomez on AI Agents (David Giard)
- PowerShell Meets DuckDB Integrate, Query, and Analyze Data Seamlessly (Doug Finke)
- Random.Code() – Minimizing Expectation Naming Structure in Rocks, Part 9 and Random.Code() – Minimizing Expectation Naming Structure in Rocks, Part 8 (Jason Bock)
- Power agentic workflows in your terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI | GitHub Universe 2025 (Ryan Hecht)
- Cursor 2.0 is here… 5 things you didn’t know it can do (Frank La Vigne)
- Making Desktop Frameworks More Accessible with Electron | Episode 4 | The GitHub Podcast (Abby Cabunoc Mayes, Kedasha Kerr & Keeley Hammond)
- Introducing Aspire – Modern app development made easy and Introducing aspire.dev (Teaser) (Aspire Team)
- Authentic DevOps with AI Foundry + GitHub | Sip & Sync with Azure (Katie Novotny & Krystal Folkes)
- “Would YOU Survive the Titanic?”, with ML and .NET – NDC Copenhagen 2025 (Simon Painter)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The VS Code Insiders Podcast Episode #12 – Behind the Scenes of VS Code’s Planning Agent with Bhavya U (James Montemagno)
- Meta Cast – Hard Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Josh Arzt: 23 Years of .NET – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #374 (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Merge Conflict Episode #487 – Waymo Review & All The Agents from GitHub Universe 2025 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- InfoQ Podcast: If You Can’t Test It, Don’t Deploy It: The New Rule of AI Development? (Magdalena Picariello)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – Certs, Copilot, and Code: From Microsoft Learn to Speech-to-Infrastructure (Alec Harrison)
- Version History Podcast – Why the Zune never killed the iPod (David Pierce)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Talk Python to Me #526 – Building Data Science with Foundation LLM Models (Michael Kennedy)
- Organizations as Ecosystems — Understanding Complexity, Innovation, and the Three-Body Problem at Work | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Simon Holzapfel)
- Guarding the JavaScript Supply Chain: Preventing NPM Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh – JavaScript Jabber #695 (Charles Max Wood)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #116 – Kia EV4 Canceled For US; Slate, Toyota, Subaru Get Supercharger Access (Batteries Included Team)
- PPP 482 | The PM Readiness Iron Triangle and How It Can Transform Your Career, with Kayla Quijas (Andy Kaufman)
- ai unprompted Podcast #004 – AI in the Workplace: Bugs, ROI, and Human Integration (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #115 – We see dead projects (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #272 – Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure (Chrisopher Bailey)
- A Geek Leader #441 – Magdalene Amegashitsi (John Rouda)
- From Missing in Action to Present and Collaborative—The Product Owner Spectrum | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Darryl Wright)
- The Amp Hour #708 – All the Connectors with Davide Andrea (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Community and Events
- Seattle’s tech paradox: Amazon’s layoffs collide with the AI boom — or is it a bubble? (Todd Bishop)
- Call For Papers Listings for 10/31 (Leon Adato)
- Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media (Bluesky Team)
- Dapr Steering and Technical Commitee Elections – Call for Nominations (Dapr Team)
- GitHub Game Off 2025 theme announcement (Lee Reilly)
Database
- SQL Parameter Sniffing Fix with a Covering Index (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025 (Andrew Pruski)
- Accelerate Your Growth: Azure Cosmos DB Partner Acceleration Program (Manish Sharma)
- Local AI Models for SQL Server – A Complete Guide (Pinal Dave)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Join us for a professional development session on the new AI-powered Teach module in M365 Copilot (Mike Tholfsen)
- What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | October 2025 (Seth Patton)
PowerShell and Terminal
Tools
- Photoshop’s biggest rival is now free, with one big exception (Simon Batt)
- Linux: Microsoft WSL’s Decade-Long Journey to Open Source (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
General
- Best Linux Distros for Development (Jack Wallen)
- Microsoft revamps the Start menu in Windows 11 — scrollable layout, new views, and fewer clicks (Marco Huculak)
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (Dev & Beta Channels) (Amanda Langowski)
- “Update and shut down” no longer restarts PC, as Windows 11 25H2 patch addresses a decades-old bug (Mayank Parmar)
- First look at how Copilot will change Windows 11 taskbar search (Abhijith M B)
More Link Collections
- Azure Weekly #538 – 2nd November 2025 (The Editor)
- F# Weekly #44, 2025 – .NET Conf – Nov 11-13 (Sergey Tihon)
- Daily Reading List – October 31, 2025 (#656) (Richard Seroter)
- Reading List 349 (Bruce Lawson)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #316 (Jasen Fici)
