Top Links
- Building Your First MCP Server with .NET and Publishing to NuGet (Jon Douglas, Joel Verhagen & Jon Galloway)
- Copilot on Windows: Vision Desktop Share begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
- .NET Aspire 2: The Developer Dashboard (Dave Brock)
- The Day the Software Community Died: Let’s Stop Coding in Isolation and Start Creating Community—And Software—People Truly Love (David McCarter)
- .NET MAUI in .NET 10 Preview 6 (David Ortinau)
- Reachy Mini – The Open-Source Robot for Today’s and Tomorrow’s AI Builders (Thomas Wolf & Matthieu Lapeyre)
- .NET 10 Preview 6 is now available! (.NET Team)
Web & Cloud Development
- Understanding Parallel Programming in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
- Bar vs. Pie Chart: How to Pick the Right One for Your Business Data (Sabari Anand S.)
- AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits (Channy Yun)
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 6 (Dan Roth)
- The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module (Filippo Valsorda, Daniel McCarney & Roland Shoemaker)
- How To Render Large Datasets In React without Killing Performance (Prashant Yadav)
- Introducing the Fully Managed Couchbase Connector for Confluent Cloud (Yves Laurent)
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS Free Tier Account (Victoria Nduka)
- Node v24.4.1 (Current) and Node v22.17.1 (LTS) and Node v20.19.4 (LTS) (Rafael Gonzaga)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- How to Convert Excel XLSX to CSV Files in a WPF App using C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
- How to Build a Student Attendance App with .NET MAUI ListView and DataGrid (Jayaleshwari N.)
- Uno Platform vs Uno Platform Studio: What’s the Difference? (Nick Randolph)
- .NET MAUI 9.0.90 (Service Release 9) (David Ortinau)
- Centering a WPF TreeViewItem in the TreeView ScrollViewer (Rick Strahl)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- .NET 10 Preview 6 (Jon Galloway)
- Adding QR Codes to PDF Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Updates to Warning Suppressions in Microsoft C++ Code Analysis (Carson Radtke)
- Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.9 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
AI
- Generative AI Creates APIs Faster Than Teams Can Secure Them (Saqib Jan)
- Building the Hugging Face MCP Server (Shaun Smith, Julien Chaumond, Eliott Coyac & Abubakar Abid)
- Intellectual freedom by design (OpenAI Team)
- From chaos to clarity: Using GitHub Copilot agents to improve developer workflows (Chris Reddington)
- Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Trump announces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub (Jay Peters)
- Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve? (Tim O’Reilly)
- CollabLLM: Teaching LLMs to collaborate with users (Shirley Wu, Michel Galley, Baolin Peng, Swadheen Shukla & Jianfeng Gao)
- AI compliance: A core product competency you shouldn’t skip (Kayode Adeniyi)
- MCP: A Practical Security Blueprint for Developers (Mohith Shrivastava)
- Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People (msmash)
- Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model (Rebecca Bellan)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (Jared Sulzdorf, Joseph Godlewski & Sam Horradarn)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- New tools to help drive success for one-time products (Laura Nechita & Rejane França)
- Xbox Insiders can stream owned console games on the Xbox PC app (Athima Chansanchai)
- Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini Robots for Human-Robot Interaction (Daniel Dominguez)
- Shake off your App’s problems (Exxeta Team)
Screencasts & Videos
- From Web to Hardware: Blazor’s Secret IoT Power | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- Build your first Blazor Hybrid mobile & desktop apps with Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
- Using agent mode to refactor and iterate on a project (Simona Liao)
- Custom Metrics with .NET Aspire | On .NET and Rewriting !hat | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Hybrid AI for Security at Microsoft, with Emmanuel Victorio, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Episode #993 – Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag (Richard Campbell)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #5 – Averting the Digital Dark Age (Ian Milligan, Brewster Kahle & Takara Small)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #440 – Can’t Register for VibeCon (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- o11ycast Episode #84 – Maddy Montaquila on .NET Aspire (Ken Rimple & Martin Thwaites)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #321 – Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #677 – Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum on Testing ML Models for Enterprise Products (Kanchan Shringi)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – They’re Counting on You Not Knowing This: 5 Bold Negotiation Strategies for Black Women at Work (‘Tine Zekis)
Community & Events
- Candy Crush-Maker King Lays Off 200 Staff, Replacing Many With AI Tools They Built (msmash)
- Microsoft Ignite Unplugged: Get a look at the latest speakers and topics! (Microsoft Ignite Team)
- The Sprinklr-Bluesky Integration in Detail I Sprinklr (Naveen Mahadevan)
- How we use GitLab to grow open source communities (Daniel Murphy)
Database
- RavenDB and Gen AI Security (Oren Eini)
- Stubborn NOT EXISTS Ordering (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Mastering Agent Governance in Microsoft 365 (Chad Stout)
- Microsoft Stream and Microsoft Clipchamp: Brand unification update for Microsoft 365 video (Torin Didenko)
PowerShell
- Mastering PowerShell Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership (Michael Reinders)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Updated Static Analysis Requirement for Windows Driver Certification (Paul Eze)
- Trump claims deep state wrote fake documents about imaginary list that doesn’t exist (Ellsworth Toohey)
- Perhaps not a recommended usage for an emergency power outlet (Raymond Chen)
- DOGE staffer with access to Americans’ personal data leaked private xAI API key (Zack Whittaker)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – July 13 (Peter Ritchie)
- dotInsights | July 2025 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – July 15, 2025 (#587) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #240 (Jasen)
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