Top Links
- Better Models, Smarter Defaults: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, and More Control in Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)
- Intro To Uno Platform – Full Cross-Platform C# Development (Tim Corey)
- Dev Proxy v0.29 with refactored architecture, MCP server, and exposed LM prompts (Waldek Mastykarz & Garry Trinder)
- Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent (Ryan J. Salva)
- TrailBlazor Spotlight: Syncfusion Provides Valuable .NET Insights for Developers (Meena Alagiah)
- From pair to peer programmer: Our vision for agentic workflows in GitHub Copilot (Tim Rogers)
Web & Cloud Development
- .NET 10 Previews 4 and 5 Improve Blazor Performance Monitoring and JS Interop (Jon Hilton)
- Event Sourcing in ASP.NET Core: How to Store Changes as Events (Assis Zang)
- Securing Terraform State in Azure Blob Storage using Best Practices (Chris Pietschmann)
- Document Protection in ASP.NET with TX Text Control: Healthcare Use Cases (Deepika Kathiravan)
- Making the Most of ThemeBuilder’s Figma-to-HTML Import (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Cloud Native App Local Development Made Easy with Microcks and Dapr (Mauricio Salatino & Laurent Broudoux)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Why do I get errors about some weird symbol called ?main@@YAHP$01E$AAV?$Array@PE$AAVString@Platform…, part 1 (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Docker State of App Dev: AI (Olga Diachkova)
- Quest 8: I want to automate code reviews and Quest 9: I want to use a ready-made template (bethanyjep)
- Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot (Jay Peters)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Spec Updates from June 2025: One Small Step for a Spec, One Giant Leap for Security (Jessica Temporal)
- Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training (msmash)
- My Top AI Certifications: Boost Your Tech Career Now (Stephen Simon)
- How to Build a Custom MCP Server with TypeScript – A Handbook for Developers (Sumit Saha)
- Speed meets governance: Model Selection comes to GitLab Duo (Susie Bitters)
- ‘Massive productivity booster’: Seattle developers on how Cursor is changing the way they code (Taylor Soper)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Growing Expert Generalists (Martin Fowler)
- Removing Azure Resource Manager reliance on Azure DevOps sign-ins (Angel Wong)
- The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design (Lea Verou)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Rider 2025.2 EAP 7: Low-Level Exception Suppression and Other Updates for Debugging Games (Sasha Korepanov & Sasha Ivanova)
- Advanced Swift Package Management (Karan Pal)
Screencasts & Videos
- Show & Tell: Corvus.Text.Json – Enhancing JSON Data Handling in .NET (Matthew Adams)
- Introducing Gemini CLI (Sam Witteveen)
- What’s your favorite OpenAPI feature? | One Dev Question (Safia Abdalla)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – The Imagine Cup Finalists from Build! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Leading Transformation: Leading an Agile Transformation—The Power of Patience and Small Winss | Lilia Pulova (Vasco Duarte)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #914 – 5 Upcoming + Next Gen JavaScript Features (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win? With Omer Hamerman | Adventures in DevOps (Will Button & Warren Parad)
- The PowerShell Podcast – A Conversation from the Heart of PSConfEU (James Petty)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #511 – From Notebooks to Production Data Science Systems (Michael Kennedy)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – The language of children’s storytelling, with Doug Fraser (Mignon Fogarty)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Not an option, but a necessity: How organizations are adopting and implementing AI internally (Phoebe Sajor)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Stefania Druga on Designing for the Next Generation (Ben Lorica)
Community & Events
- Bumble to lay off 30% of its workforce (Aisha Malik)
- Meta’s recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers (Connie Loizos)
- People of Purview: Karen Lopez (Ren Woods)
Database
- Enhancing reporting and analytics with SQL Server 2025 tools and services (Debbi Lyons)
- SQL Server Editions: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters (Kevin3NF)
- Upgrading SQL Server in a Container (Steve Jones)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing the New SharePoint Template Gallery (Helen Chen)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Warp: How we scored #1 on Terminal-Bench (52%) (Jack Nichols)
- Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals (Jess Weatherbed)
Miscellaneous
- The Trump Phone no longer promises it’s made in America (David Pierce)
- An Intro to ty – The Extremely Fast Python type checker (Mike Driscoll)
- Surface Copilot+ PCs: Built for teaching, learning and security (Sandra Andrews)
- Discord is working on a Windows on Arm app (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – June 25, 2025 (#575) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #226 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link