Tag: c++

I’m back! Apologies if I missed any posts from the past week. I picked a few each day while I was away. Back to regular service tomorrow.  

Top Links

• Join the .NET & C# Teams at Microsoft Build 2025 (.NET Team)
• Windows App SDK 1.8.0 Experimental 1 (1.8.250410001-experimental1) 🧪 Release (Roy MacLachlan)
• Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions (Matt Soucoup)
• React Compiler RC (Lauren Tan & Mofei Zhang)
• GitHub Copilot Highlights in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 (Available Now) (Katie Savage)
• New Windows Arm64 Hosted Runners for GitHub Actions Accelerates Developer Workflows (David Whaley)
• Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available (Jordan Matthiesen)
• Syncfusion’s Free Tools Every Developer Should Know (Meena Alagiah)
• Better Logic For Showing Auth Windows With Your Local MCP Server (Den Delimarsky)
• Introducing the Azure MCP Server (Rohit Ganguly)
• Toolbox Support for Explicit Assembly References in Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer (Merrie McGaw)

Web & Cloud Development

• Secure Remote MCP Servers With Entra ID And Azure API Management (Den Delimarsky)
• Using Azure Container Apps to Handle Memory Intensive Blazor UI (Michael Washington)
• Getting Started with WhatsApp Messaging in Azure Communication Services feat. Microsoft Software Engineer Gloria Li (ACS Team)
• Blazor Basics: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) with Blazor WebAssembly (Claudio Bernasconi)
• Implement client assertions for OAuth client credential flows in ASP.NET Core (Damien Bowden)
• Getting Started with .NET on Azure Container Apps (Frank Boucher)
• Astro 5.7 (Matt Kane, Florian Lefebvre, Emanuele Stoppa & Nate Moore)
• Using YARP as BFF within .NET Aspire: Integrating YARP into .NET Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
• Major Updates to VS Code Docker: Introducing Container Tools (fiveisprime)
• Speed Up React Development Using 39 New UI Blocks in Syncfusion’s UI Kit (Meena Alagiah)
• Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ: Introducing the enhanced Java Code Quality Analyzer! (Sameeksha Vaity)
• Configuring ASP.NET Core Forwarded Headers Middleware (Tore Nestenius)
• Understanding GraphQL in .NET: When and why to use it (Ali Hamza Ansari)
• Announcing a New Release of the Auth0 OIDC Client for .NET (Andrea Chiarelli)
• NetEscapades.​AspNetCore.​SecurityHeaders 1.0.0 has been released (Andrew Lock)
• What’s New in .NET Aspire 9.2: Infrastructure Diagrams Made Easy (funkysi1701)
• How the Copilot team leverages .NET Aspire (Katie Savage)
• Contextual logging with console.context() (Patrick Brosset)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Using MVVM Toolkit in .NET MAUI Applications (Héctor Pérez)
• CodeRush for Roslyn: XAML support (Rory Becker)
• Build an AI-Powered Air Quality Dashboard: Real-Time Analytics & Predictive Insights with WPF Spline Chart (Saiyath Ali Fathima M)
• WPF in .NET 9.0: Hyphen-based Ligatures (Thomas Claudius Huber)
• .NET MAUI in .NET 10 Preview: A Focus on Quality and the Developer Experience (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
• Get Started with AI imaging in the Windows App SDK (Microsoft Learn)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Nadaraya-Watson Kernel Regression Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• How to Export XML to Excel in 3 Easy Steps using C#? (Mohan Chandran)
• ReSharper 2025.1: Initial C# 14 Support, Performance Updates, and Comprehensive Quality-of-Life Enhancements and dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2025.1 Have Arrived! and Rider 2025.1 Is Here: Improved Solution Explorer, New AI Assistant Features, Game Dev Updates, and More! (Oluwatise Okuwobi)
• CodeRush for Visual Studio – New Options Layers (Rory Becker)
• Use EF Core to easily save dates as UTC & show in local time (David Grace)
• C# 13 – Discover the C# 13 new features in this two-part series (Tom Deseyn)
• JetBrains Toolbox App 2.6 Is Here With Remote Development Support (Aleksandra Krupskaya)
• CSLA 2-tier Data Portal Behavior History (Rocky Lhotka)
• Extensions get an update in .NET 10 (Steven Giesel)
• The Fastest Way to Get a String’s Length in Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)
• Mastering xUnit v3: What’s New and How to Leverage It in Your .NET Projects (Eli Lopian)
• Introducing Incrementalist, an Incremental .NET Build Tool for Large Solutions (Aaron Stannard)
• AutoMapper and MediatR Licensing Update (Jimmy Bogard)
• Why It’s Time to Migrate from System.Data.SqlClient to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (pskountrianos)
• The Strong ARM of .NET: Wrestling with x64 and Arm64 Desktop App Deployment (Rick Strahl)

AI

• Multiagent Research – An exploration of using multiple agents collaborating to perform research (Jennifer Marsman)
• Which AI model should I use with GitHub Copilot? (Cassidy Williams)
• Integrate Custom Azure AI Agents with Copilot Studio and M365 Copilot (Hannah Abbott)
• Google Gemini 2.5 Pro arrives in JetBrains AI Assistant (Oksana Mandryka)
• o3 and o4-mini: Unlock enterprise agent workflows with next-level reasoning AI with Azure AI Foundry and GitHub (Steve Sweetman)
• Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash (Tulsee Doshi)
• .NET AI Chat Web App Template Preview 2 Released with Qdrant and .NET Aspire Support (Almir Vuk)
• GitHub Models in GitHub Actions (Peli de Halleux)
• Geometric Deep Learning: AI Beyond Text & Images (Exxact Team)
• Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI (Anthony Ha)
• Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS? (EditorDavid)
• Semantic Kernel adds Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Python (Eduard van Valkenburg)
• Semantic Kernel Python Now Speaks Google’s A2A Protocol and Integrating Semantic Kernel Python with Google’s A2A Protocol (Evan Mattson)
• Making AI smarter with an MCP server that manages short URLs (Frank Boucher)
• The Auth0 MCP Server is here! (Jessica Temporal)
• Augmented Coding: an Experience Report (Jessica Kerr)
• College students in the U.S. are now eligible for the best of Google AI — and 2 TB storage — for free (Josh Woodward)
• Mastering GitHub Copilot: Your Ultimate Guide to the AI-Powered Coding Revolution (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How AI Is Reshaping the Software Development Life Cycle (Lee Faus)
• OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B (Marina Temkin)
• A specialty-specific approach with Microsoft Dragon Copilot (Marjorie Veihl)
• If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs? (Mark Downie)
• AI Isn’t Just a Tool — It’s Your Newest Teammate (Munish Munagala)
• Technical debt and AI slop (Seth Godin)
• AI Agents: The Multi-Agent Design Pattern – Part 8 (Shivam Goyal)
• Build an AI App That Can Browse the Internet Using Microsoft’s Playwright MCP Server & Semantic Kernel — in Just 4 Steps (Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey & Akshay Kokane)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Azure Boards + GitHub: Recent Updates (Dan Hellem)
• Open Source and Container Security Are Fundamentally Broken (Benji Kalman)
• Securing our future: April 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (Charlie Bell)
• Dev Mode – Easily turn dev mode on and off (Daniel Roe)
• How to Write Actionable Bug Reports (Chris Sells)
• How to make your images in Markdown on GitHub adjust for dark mode and light mode (Cassidy Williams)
• Lost In Translation Or Where do bugs come from? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• When to choose GitHub-Hosted runners or self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions (Ken Muse)
• Racing into 2025 with new GitHub Innovation Graph data (Kevin Xu)
• Understanding Microservices: Core Concepts and Benefits (Milan Jovanović)
• CI/CD Security Best Practices (Olga Bedrina)
• Cleaning up gone branches (Phil Haack)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Ensure your Firebase Cloud Messaging notifications reach your users on Android (Sumit Chandel & Alice Yuan)
• Firebase Studio: Everything You Need to Know About (Vladislav Guzey)
• Flutter Developers, Meet AI: Smart, Fast PDF Form Filling (Deepak G)
• How to build a home recording studio with Raspberry Pi 500: choosing your equipment (K. G. Orphanides)

Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Adi Polak on AI Agents and the Necessary Data Infrastructure (David Giard)
• A Year in Review: Microsoft’s Latest CMake Improvements in Visual Studio and VS Code | Pure Virtual C++ (Visual Studio Team)
• Code Cleanup in Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Shawn Wildermuth)
• Upskill your team on Azure Databricks with an on-demand webinar and Microsoft Learn (Anavi Nahar)
• Introduction to the C# SDK for Model Context Protocol (MCP) (James Montemagno)
• .NET 10 Preview 3 – Extension Properties & Null-Conditional Assignment for C# 14! (.NET Team)
• .NET Conf: Focus on Modernization – Day 1 (.NET Team)
• Responsible AI & Synthetic Data with April Speight, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
• Intro to .NET Aspire – Modern app development doesn’t have to be painful | Future Tech 2025 (Maddy Montaquila)
• Scott & Mark Learn To… ShaderGlass and Vibe Coding (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)

Podcasts

• The Modern .NET Show – Google Gemini in .NET: The Ultimate Guide with Jochen Kirstaetter (Jamie Taylor)
• The Hanselminutes Podcast – Computer Science for Kids with Jen Looper (Scott Hanselman)
• Merge Conflict – A chat with Larry Osterman on Microsoft’s Transformation, AI, & Interviewing (James Montemagno)
• Merge Conflict #459 – Red Robin’s Auto Scaling Problems (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
• The PowerShell Podcast – The PowerShell Podcast Summit sessions with Adam Rivera, Asmar Fontenot, & Luis Orta (James Petty)
• RunAs Radio Episode #980 – How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes (Richard Campbell)
• .NET Rocks! – Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Dev Leader Podcast – Psychology To Software Engineering – Interview With Sofia Sarhiri (Nick Cosentino)
• April Yoho: GitHub in 2025 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #346 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• The Cloud Pod Episode #300 – The Next Chapter: How Google’s Next-Level Next Event Nexted All Our Next Expectations – and What’s Next Now That Next Is Past (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matthew Kohn)

Community & Events

• Microsoft targets ‘low performers’ in a sensational new memo (FE Business)
• Return-to-Office Policies Are Impacting Neurodivergent Workers (EditorDavid)
• Pure Virtual C++ 2025: Full Schedule (Sy Brand)
• CFPB workers are receiving mass layoff notices (Lauren Feiner)
• A New Form of Verification on Bluesky (Bluesky Team)
• Cracking the code: How to wow the acceptance committee at your next tech event (Rachel Cohen)
• Over 700 events and protests across the US mark ‘A National Day of Action’ (Wes Davis)
• Join us at Microsoft’s campus for the Ultimate Partner LIVE event! (susantommy)
• Microsoft Implements Stricter Performance Management System With Two-Year Rehire Ban (msmash)

Database

• Your SQL Server Needs Spring Cleaning, Too. (Brent Ozar)
• All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Temporary Object Performance (Erik Darling)
• Exploring the SQL Server CHOOSE Function (Louis Davidson)
• Announcing the Release of SSMS 21 Preview 6 (M. Barickman)
• Streamlining SQL Server Upgrades with SSMS Migration component (neelball)
• Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Preview) (Shreya Aithal)
• Introduction to SQL Commands, Part 2: Adding, Updating Data (Brien Posey)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Boost your Microsoft Teams Skills with our Last Chance Offer for Microsoft 365 Conference (Karuana Gatimu)
• Introducing the Microsoft Graph API usage report (Jeremy Kelley)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Power User Tips (Zachary Cavanell)
• Microsoft 365 Certification control spotlight: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Krishna Mawani)

PowerShell & Terminal

• PowerShell Universal v5.5 and Creating Dynamic Forms with Dynamic Parameters in PowerShell Universal (Adam Driscoll)
• Docker x Warp (Olivia Johnston)

Miscellaneous

• Get started with quick machine recovery in Windows (Riddhi Ameser)
• Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs (Timothy W. Ryback)
• Shein and Temu to raise prices for US shoppers in response to tariffs (Aisha Malik)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5562 (Dev Channel) and Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3872 (Beta Channel) (Amanda Langowski & Brandon LeBlanc)
• 8 Free Career Development Courses From LinkedIn – Offer Ends May 7 (Aminu Abdullahi)
• WD Launches HDD Recycling Process That Reclaims Rare Earth Elements, Cuts Out China (BeauHD)
• Releasing Windows 11 Build 22631.5261 to the Release Preview Channel (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Text extractor in Snipping Tool begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
• Notion Mail is a minimalist but powerful take on email (David Pierce)
• The Bees Are Disappearing Again (EditorDavid)
• In Major Ruling, Judge Finds Google ‘Willfully Acquired and Maintained Monopoly Power’ Over Digital Ad Market (J.R. Johnivan)
• Hertz says hackers stole customer credit card and driver’s license data (Jess Weatherbed)
• How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border (Lily Hay Newman & Matt Burgess)
• The ongoing story of seconds on the taskbar (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting links of the week 2025-17 (Michael Eaton)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025) (Channy Yun)
• F# Weekly #16, 2025 – Rider 2025.1 & SqlHydra 3 (Sergey Tihon)
• Reading Notes #644 and Reading Notes #645 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

 Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition (Alvin Ashcraft)