Top Links
- GDC 2026: Announcing new tools and platform updates for Windows PC game developers (Ian LeGrow)
- VS Code 1.112 Insiders Release (Visual Studio Code Team)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #711 – Scott Hanselman on AI-Assisted Development Tools (Jeremy Jung)
- Introducing Replit Agent 4: Built for Creativity (Replit Team)
- .NET Rocks! – Avalonia 12 with Mike James & Matt Lacey (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- GDC 2026: Next generation of Xbox designed to play console and PC games (Athima Chansanchai)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0-rc4 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Web and Cloud Development
- Quadratic Regression with SGD Training Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
- Testing Live Content Collections in Astro V6 (Raymond Camden)
- How to Add Mentions and Slash Commands to a React Rich Text Editor (Thangavel E.)
- How to use refresh tokens in ASP.NET Core – a complete guide (Joydip Kanjilal)
- How to Organize Minimal APIs (Assis Zang)
- Introducing the Vonage Video API Native Reference Apps 1.0 GA (Julia Biro)
- Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes (Kent C. Dodds)
Windows Development
- How do compilers ensure that large stack allocations do not skip over the guard page? (Raymond Chen)
- How to Save Your Application Data in WPF Apps Using a Database (Renato Ivanescu)
- What’s new for developers – Highlights – March 2026 | Windows apps (Microsoft Learn)
.NET and Visual Studio
AI
- Building a Multi-Agent On-Call Copilot with Microsoft Agent Framework (Lee Stott)
- Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure (Yina Arenas)
- Learn How AI Agents Are Changing Software Development by Building a Flutter App Using Antigravity and Stitch (Atuoha Anthony)
- How NVIDIA AI-Q Reached \#1 on DeepResearch Bench I and II (unknown)
- AI is Making Libraries Obsolete (Maho Pacheco)
- Copilot Java SDK v1.0.11 Release (github-actions[bot])
- Learn how to fine-tune LLMs in 12 hours (Beau Carnes)
- Tracking Agent Metrics (Rocky Lhotka)
- Hands On: Building an MCP Server with VS Code AI Toolkit’s New Tool Catalog (David Ramel)
- Tool Approval and Human-in-the-Loop in Microsoft Agent Framework (Nick Cosentino)
- Introducing Tracy: The AI Observability Library for Kotlin (Anton Bragin)
- Claude Code isn’t going to replace data engineers (yet) (Robin Moffatt)
- Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection and From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment (OpenAI Team)
- Over 30 new plugins join the Cursor Marketplace (Cursor Team)
- A roadmap for safer generative AI for young people (Christy Abizaid)
- What OpenClaw Reveals About the Next Phase of AI Agents (Kesha Williams)
- Building AI Teams: How Docker Sandboxes and Docker Agent Transform Development (Jennifer Kohl)
- Code Concepts: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset Generated from Programming Concept Seeds (Joseph Jennings & Brandon Norick)
- The Future is Actually Very Human (Replit Team)
- Fast Paths and Slow Paths (Varun Raj)
- Advancing Claude for Excel and PowerPoint (Claude Team)
- Understanding MCP Extensions (MCP Community Maintainers)
- The Ethics of AI Code Review (Kerry Beetge)
Python
- Microsoft Agent Framework for Python v1.0.0rc4 Release (Dmytro Struk)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- “EXE and MSI file signature mismatch” Warning and Solving (Alex Marin)
- To test, or not to Test? Part 2 – Make it hard to make mistakes (Urs Enzler)
- MSIX Installer for Office: Microsoft giving up on the idea? (Radu Popescu)
- Temporary rollback: build identities can access Advanced Security: read alerts again (Laura Jiang)
- Centralized Power: How TeamCity’s Architecture Solves Jenkins’ Scaling Problem (Olga Bedrina)
- Preparing your team for the agentic software development life cycle (Dirk Lässig)
- Extended Tag Sets (Michelle O’Brien)
- Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues (Vlad Fedorov)
Mobile and Game Development
- Cordova iOS 8.0.1 is now available! (Bryan Ellis)
- DirectStorage 1.4 release adds support for Zstandard (Clarke Rahrig & Larry Chen)
- How to install and use AI agent skills in Xcode (Paul Hudson)
- Microsoft brings new “Xbox mode” to Windows 11 PCs next month — Prepares major gaming advancements that lay foundations for the next Xbox (Zac Bowden)
Screencasts and Videos
- Next-Level SQL in VS Code: Edit Data, DACPAC Import/Export, and More | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman, Yo-Lei Chen & Tauseef Siddique)
- Pragmatic AI in NET Show: Shipping AI-written Code, with Kevin Griffin (Sam Basu)
Dometrain Course
From Zero to Hero: Serverless with Azure Functions: Simplify your development and deployment by building Serverless services with Azure Functions. (Mohamad Lawand) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Announcing Pragmatic AI in .NET Show (Sam Basu)
- Build Mode Podcast- When startups become a family business (Isabelle Johannessen, Hala Jalwan, Alessio Tresanti & Anna Sun)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – ‘Mini’ and ‘factoid’ don’t mean what you think, with Jess Zafarris (Mignon Fogarty)
- CollabTalk Podcast: Episode 183 with David McCarter (David McCarter)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #345 – Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- The Changelog Podcast Episode #679 – From Tailnet to platform (David Carney & Adam Stacoviak)
- Windows Weekly Podcast Episode #974 – DIY Crocs – Project Helix Details From GDC 2026 (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- Managing Uncertainty As A Scrum Master, How Scrum’s Rhythm Creates Stability In Unstable Times | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #199 – AWS Hero Linda Mohamed: Juggling Cloud, Community & Agentic AI (Linda Mohamed)
- Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast (Natalie Wossene)
- The Shift Podcast – Are my agents hunting for data? (Ronald Chang, Dipti Borkar, Cillian Mitchell & Josh Caplan)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Even the chip makers are making LLMs (Phoebe Sajor)
- Big Technology Podcast – AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore (Alex Kantrowitz)
- The Amp Hour #718 – Layout Review with Zachariah Peterson (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #986 – Does Code Quality Matter Anymore? (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community and Events
- A Look Ahead at Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026: From AI Agents to Global Scale (Jay Gordon)
- Atlassian layoffs impact 63 workers in Washington as CTO steps down (Taylor Soper)
- Microsoft Teams Takes Center Stage at the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Jon Jones)
- Reporting from GDC 2026! (Code Monkey)
- EVENT: “Windows Server Summit” – Virtual – May 11-13, 2026 (Kurt Shintaku)
- Introducing The Anthropic Institute (Anthropic Team)
- They Don’t Need to Fire You (Jeffrey Snover)
- Stack Overflow Repositioning (Sue Gee)
Database
- Row-Level Security Can Slow Down Queries. Index For It. (Brent Ozar)
- February 2026 Recap: Azure Database for MySQL (Saurabh Kirtani)
- Announcing: SSIS Lifecycle Advisory (Andy Leonard)
- February 2026 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Gauri Kasar)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft brings new Publish to Web feature to PowerPoint and Excel (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Why You Should Create Custom Agents for M365 Copilot and 25 Years of SharePoint: A Developer’s Reflections on Building a Career on One Platform (Andrew Connell)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI Tips & Tricks — Part 4: Automating and enforcing policies with hooks (Bart Wullems)
- Plan mode is now available in Gemini CLI (Jerop Kipruto, Jack Wotherspoon & Dmitry Lyalin)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.4 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible (Darryl K. Taft)
General
- After using MacBook Neo, it’s clear Windows needs to rethink its PC strategy (and fast) (Kyle Kucharski)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – March 11, 2026 (#739) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C#.