Top Links
- The Visual Studio August Update is here – smarter AI, better debugging, and more control (Mads Kristensen)
- Cutting the wire without cutting the audio quality (Mike Ajax)
- Exploring .NET MAUI: Popups, Messages, and Data Validation (Paul Sheriff)
- MCP Introduces Deep Integration—and Serious Security Concerns (Andrew Stellman)
- Uno Platform 6.2: Smoother, Faster, Everywhere (Uno Platform Team)
- Gemini SDK for .NET quickstart (Jochen Kirstätter)
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 Release (Kayla Cinnamon)
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Build Micro Frontends in React with Vite and Module Federation (Grant Riordan)
- Visual Studio Code Polyglot Notebooks vs Azure Data Studio SQL Notebooks (Haroon Ashraf)
- Custom Formulas in Spreadsheet: A Practical Guide for React Developers (Sastha Prathap)
- Identity Insights API Now in Beta (Jose Luis Zamorano Priego)
- Why I switched from NVM to Fast Node Manager (you should too) (Andrew Connell)
- Learning web development: Web servers (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is now generally available (Morgan Chen & Tyler Crowe)
- Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes (Declan Chidlow)
- AI vs Identity Threats: How Microsoft Entra Is Making You More Secure (Jacques Guibert DeBruet)
- Postman August 2025 Product Update: Multi-file Specs, Better Jira Integration, and Workflow Fixes (The Postman Team)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET MAUI DataGrid: Display Transaction Details, Account Summaries (Leomaris Reyes)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Automate Find and Replace in Excel Using C# with XlsIO Library (Mohan Chandran)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 12: A shared tracking pointer (Raymond Chen)
- Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine (Andrew Lock)
AI
- GitHub Copilot for Azure Previews in Visual Studio 2022 (David Ramel)
- I Automated My Life With AI and Made $3,000 This Month (Here’s My Exact System) (Berker Ceylan)
- Vibe Coding + Expertise = Mega Win! 🏆 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Azure Authentication Changes in Semantic Kernel Python (Dmytro Struk)
- Anthropic settles AI book piracy lawsuit and Google is building a Duolingo rival into the Translate app (Emma Roth)
- Your new intelligent companion – The Oracle Guided Learning AI Assistant (Ramkishore Vasudevan)
- Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our state-of-the-art image model (Alisa Fortin, Guillaume Vernade, Kat Kampf & Ammaar Reshi)
- Introducing the Most Comprehensive Design Support for AI Apps (Replit Team)
- Piloting Claude for Chrome (Anthropic Team)
- No engineering productivity gains, and no jobs lost due to AI (Antonija Bilic Arar)
- AI Projects Aren’t Killing Open Source Because They Can’t Survive Without It (B. Cameron Gain)
- Techniques for autonomous agents in Copilot Studio – blog series part 1 (Chris O’Brien)
- Performance of Llama 3.1 8B AI Inference using vLLM on ND-H100-v5 (Cormac Garvey)
- Encoding Changes for Template Arguments in Semantic Kernel (Dmytro Struk)
- Avoiding the AI Agent Reliability Tax: A Developer’s Guide (Drew Robb)
- Securing and governing the rise of autonomous agents (Igor Sakhnov)
- The Top 6 Things I’ve Learned from Developing with AI (Jefferson S. Motta)
- AI Contrarians on the Problems With Vibe Coding (Loraine Lawson)
- New AI-powered live translation and language learning tools in Google Translate (Matt Sheets)
- This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you (Michael Nuñez)
- Connecting an Agent in Copilot Studio to an MCP Server (Ning Wei)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Workplace Jargon Hurts Employee Morale and Collaboration, Study Finds (BeauHD)
- Why DEI Won’t Die: The Benefits of a Diverse IT Workforce (Nathan Eddy)
- Platform Engineering and woodworking (Paul Stovell)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for iOS Projects (Olga Bedrina)
- Google Will Make All Android App Developers Verify Their Identity Starting Next Year (Ryan Whitwam)
- Get Started With Kotlin Multiplatform (Android Docs)
- Use Arduinos for Computer Vision (Beau Carnes)
Screencasts & Videos
- Think Blazor Developers Are Rare? Think Again! | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
- New highly demanded GitHub issue feature, a new Windows API and more – Developer News 34/2025 (Noraa on Tech)
- Writing some code | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Demo: end-to-end agentic development with GitHub Copilot (GitHub Team)
- GraphRAG in Action with Anisha Latchman, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
Podcasts
- RunAs Radio Show #999 – Common Azure Mistakes with Scott Sauber (Richard Campbell)
- Developer Tea Podcast – Backup Plans and Risk Reward Curves (Jonathan Cutrell)
- From Isolation to Integration—Rebuilding Agile Team Connection For Remote Teams | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Salum Abdul-Rahman)
- The PowerShell Podcast – Unlocking Automation with AI Shell and Desired State Configuration with Jason Helmick (James Petty)
- The AI Fix Podcast #65 – Excel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media? (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversations – Patrik Svensson (Isaac Levin)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – Get Ready for Microsoft’s Coming Licensing Changes (Mary Jo Foley)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – From punch cards to prompts: a history of how software got better (Ryan Donovan)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Start Scared, Move Anyway: 6 Ways to Quiet the Fear of Failure (‘Tine Zekis)
Community & Events
- Apple is holding its iPhone 17 event on September 9 (Ivan Mehta)
- Ready for the Best School Year Ever? Join Our STEM Clubs, Camps, and Competitions (Alena Gupaisova)
- Building Connections and Fostering Growth: Highlights from the MVP Networking & Mentorship Event (Alice Piras)
- Microsoft locks down a building after protesters get inside president’s office (Tom Warren)
- Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office (Connie Loizos)
- MVP Champ Spotlight- Pierre Thoor (Brooke Lynn Weenig)
- Press conference on August 26 (Microsoft)
Database
- SQL Server 2025 RC0 Is Out with New Preview Features Settings (Brent Ozar)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: A.C.I.D. (Erik Darling)
- Unlocking the Power of FULL OUTER JOIN in SQL: Performance, Use Cases & Examples (Lee Asher)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Microsoft Purview OCR and SharePoint Premium OCR (Joanne Klein)
- What’s New in Excel (August 2025) (Ms. Excel)
Miscellaneous
- The winners and losers of Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement (Mia Sato)
- Framework 16 Laptop Review (Kevin W. Griffin)
More Link Collections
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – August 24 (Peter Ritchie)
- Daily Reading List – August 26, 2025 (#615) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #270 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
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