Top Links
- Introducing Uno Platform Studio 2.0 – Build with AI! and Uno Platform 6.4: Agentic Development, .NET 10 and VS 2026 are here! (Uno Platform Team)
- Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters (Mads Kristensen)
- ReSharper 2025.3: Day-One C# 14 Support, Visual Studio 2026 Compatibility, and Major Performance Gains and Rider 2025.3: Day-One Support for .NET 10 and C# 14, a New Default UI, and Faster Startup (Sasha Ivanova)
- Announcing .NET 10 (.NET Team)
- Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 10 (Dan Roth)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) (M. Barickman)
- Windows App SDK Version 2.0 Experimental (2.0.0-Experimental3) Release Notes – Use on-device AI with Windows AI APIs (Microsoft Learn)
Web and Cloud Development
- Building a Blazor Financial Dashboard Using Syncfusion Components (Manikandan Murugesan)
- Node.js v24.11.1 (LTS) and Node.js v25.2.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- Powering Distributed AI/ML at Scale with Azure and Anyscale (Brendan Burns)
- StyleX: A Styling Library for CSS at Scale (Melissa Liu)
- Fixing JavaScript PDF CORS Issues: Practical Solutions for Developers (RajaVignesh BalaSankar)
- Strengthen Server Resilience: Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) for Windows Server with Azure Arc (Thomas Maurer)
- What’s New in React 19.2 – Activity API, useEffectEvent, cacheSignal & More (manikandan)
- Announcing Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview) (Jim Cheng)
- Effectively Monitoring Web Performance (Matt Zeunert)
Windows Development
- Windows App SDK 1.7.6 (1.7.251107005) and Windows App SDK 1.8.3 (1.8.251106002) and Windows App SDK 2.0 Experimental 3 (2.0.0-experimental3) 🧪 (agniuks)
- Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.7.251107005 and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.8.251106002 and Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 2.0.0-experimental3 (NuGet Gallery)
- Windows App SDK Version 1.7.6 (1.7.251107005) Stable Channel Release Notes and Windows App SDK Version 1.8.3 (1.8.251106002) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2026 version 18.0 (Augustin Popa)
- Windows 11 expands passkey manager support (Katharine Holdsworth)
- Meta just killed native WhatsApp on Windows 11, now it opens WebView, uses 1GB RAM all the time (Mayank Parmar)
- Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs (Raymond Chen)
- ReSharper C++ 2025.3: C++26 Language Support, Faster Unreal Engine Startup, and Visual Studio 2026 Compatibility (Sasha Ivanova)
.NET and Visual Studio
- What’s New in .NET 10 (Microsoft Learn)
- Memory Management Masterclass: Stack vs Heap, Span, Memory, and ArrayPool in High-Performance C# (Sudhir Mangla)
- How To Choose the Right C# PDF Generation Library: Developer Checklist (Deepika Kathiravan)
- Are C# 14’s new features worth updating your app to .NET 10? (David Grace)
- .NET 10 and the Release Cycle Paradox (Martin Stühmer)
- What’s Been Fixed in Rider 2025.3 (Sasha Ivanova)
- C# 14 Language Features in ReSharper and Rider 2025.3 (Matthias Koch)
- .NET and .NET Framework November 2025 servicing releases updates (Tara Overfield & Victor Israel-Bolarinwa)
- .NET 10 – Release (Jon Galloway)
- Cake v6.0.0 released (Mattias Karlsson)
- Use TimeSpan Or Specify Units In Duration Properties And Parameters (Steve Smith)
- .NET and C# Versions – .NET Framework 1.0 to .NET 10 & C# 1.0 to 14 (10/14 Update) (Nietras)
- Isolator with References Scanning (Ricardo Peres)
AI
- Vibe Coding with GitHub Spark: From idea to app in minutes (Bart Wullems)
- Real‑Time AI Streaming with Azure OpenAI and SignalR (Pranav Pratik)
- BlueCodeAgent: A blue teaming agent enabled by automated red teaming for CodeGen AI (Chengquan Guo, Yuzhou Nie, Chulin Xie, Zinan Lin, Wenbo Guo & Bo Li)
- Securing a retail AI endpoint from abuse for virtual try on (Alexander Nohe)
- How to structure Figma files for MCP and AI-powered code generation (Chinwike Maduabuchi)
- Build Your Own Custom Copilots with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Oracle Database@Azure (Rajya Laxmi Yellajosyula)
- I Read Sam Bhagwat’s AI Agents Bible So You Don’t Have To (But Probably Should) (Kuber Mehta)
- Fine-Tuning Techniques – Choosing Between SFT, DPO, and RFT (With a Guide to DPO) | OpenAI Cookbook (OpenAI Team)
- Bridging the AI divide: How Frontier firms are transforming business (Alysa Taylor)
- Towards Humanist Superintelligence (Mustafa Suleyman)
- CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to Standardize AI Workloads on Kubernetes (CNCF Staff)
- Azure OpenAI: Customize a model with fine-tuning (Microsoft Learn)
- Connect to Remote MCP Servers with OAuth in Docker (Simeon Ratliff)
- The AI Paradox: GitLab finds faster coding is slowing teams down (Wayne Williams)
- The next phase of dev: Building for MCP and the open web (Peter Aideloje)
- Autonomous agents – Technique 2: Define explicit steps in agent instructions when “reasoning the process” isn’t appropriate (Chris O’Brien)
- Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: The Architectural Decision That’ll Make or Break Your AI Project (Maho Pachecu)
- Anthropic Finds LLMs Can Be Poisoned Using Small Number of Documents (Anthony Alford)
- Build a Spring AI MCP Server With MongoDB (Tim Kelly)
- Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator (Joe Wilkins)
- Driving ROI with Azure AI Foundry and UiPath: Intelligent agents in real-world healthcare workflows (Marco Casalaina)
- The power of the prompt (Julie Yack)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Agile Speccing: Writing Feature Specs That Actually Work (Scott Galloway)
- Docker Engine v29: Foundational Updates for the Future (Simeon Ratliff)
- November Patches for Azure DevOps Server (Gloridel Morales)
- What’s new for developers in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 (Shannon Madden)
- The Other 80%: What Productivity Really Means (Mike Loukides)
- Clean Up Bloated CQRS Handlers (Derek Comartin)
- The Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment: Helping you operationalize the hardening of your Microsoft security products (Tarek D.)
- Always Do Everything from a Peak State (JD Meier)
Mobile and Game Development
- Journey to Raspberry Pi — from CoderDojo volunteer to software engineer (Matias Wang Silva)
Screencasts and Videos
- Build AI Agents with Zero Code Using Azure Logic Apps | Sip and Sync with Azure (Priyanka Vergadia & Rohitha Hewawasam)
- The Open Source AI Model Beating GPT-5 on Agentic Performance and With AI, What Should the Government’s Role Be? (AIDailyBrief)
- EPISODE 28 – Scott and Mark Learn To… Second Brain (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2025 Recordings Are Now Live (Elena Kerpeleva)
- Visual Studio Live – Live from VSLive Redmond (Leslie Richardson & Robert Green)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- The Cloud Pod Episode #329 – Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- RunAs Radio Show #1010 – Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers (Richard Campbell)
- Dev Leader Podcast – Imposter Syndrome, Grit, and Growth: How Bhavya Rebuilt Confidence (Nick Cosentino)
- The AI Fix Show #76 – AI self-awareness, and the death of comedy (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- The CSS Podcast Episode #97 – Invokers and commands (Una Kravets & Bramus Van Damme)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #233 – Transforming Presentation Workflows with Brandin – and we like it! (Troy Chollar)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- When a Billion-Dollar Team Becomes Invisible | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alidad Hamidi)
Community and Events
- Surface Highlights at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Andrea Director)
- MVPs with Microphones: How Three MVPs Amplify a Global Community with The Presentation Podcast (Kim Sanchez)
- Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup (Ram Iyer)
- Q&A AI First Answer: Get answers faster with AI (Microsoft Learn)
- 2025.8 release introduces Stack Overflow Internal: The next generation of enterprise knowledge intelligence (Carrie Koos)
- How Can I Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group On The Microsoft Tech Community? (UhLukas)
- Looking Back on Our Shared Digital History: “The Web We’ve Built” Mini-Doc (Chris Freeland)
Database
- Running SQL Server in Local Containers with VSCode MSSQL Extension (Eduardo Pivaral)
- A Little About Scalar UDFs and Read Committed Snapshot Isolation In SQL Server (Erik Darling)
- How to Query JSON Data Quickly in SQL Server, Part 1: Pre-2025 (Brent Ozar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Retirement Date for Office Online Server (OOS) Announced (Dinesh Hariharan)
PowerShell and Terminal
- The Ardalis Cli (Steve Smith)
- How to Run PowerShell Scripts: A Complete Guide (Mike Kanakos)
Tools
- Microsoft adds news screen recording capabilities to Sysinternals ZoomIt (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Search on steroids: Using regex in VS Code (Satej Bidvai)
- ZoomIt v9.20, Process Explorer v17.07, and RDCMan v3.11 (Alex Mihaiuc)
General
- A dual strategy: legal action and new legislation to fight scammers (Halimah DeLaine Prado)
- How to sign up for Windows 10 ESU, now rolling out (Abhijith M B)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – November 11, 2025 (#663) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #323 (Jasen Fici)
