Top Links
- GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)
- .NET 10 Preview 7 is now available! (.NET Team)
- How to Build a Live Weather Dashboard Using REST API In .NET MAUI (Sowndharya Selladurai)
- ReSharper and the .NET Tools 2025.2 Are Out! and Next-Level Performance Improvements in ReSharper 2025.2 (Sasha Ivanova)
- From Redmond to San Diego: VS Live! Highlights, Session Examples, and What’s Next (Jim Harrer)
- Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns (Yina Arenas)
- .NET MAUI in .NET 10 Preview 7 (David Ortinau)
- PowerToys 0.93 is here: faster Command Palette, new dashboard UX and more (Niels Laute)
Web & Cloud Development
- Building Modern and Scalable Applications with TanStack Router in React (Christian Nwamba)
- Upgrading eShopLite to Aspire 9.4 and GPT-5 with Azure AI Foundry (Bruno Capuano)
- Getting to Know the Blazor TreeView Control (Héctor Pérez)
- How to Get Started with ASP.NET Core and gRPC: A Handbook for Developers (Isaiah Clifford Opoku)
- How to Build a Blazor HeatMap Chart to Visualize Global Temperature Anomalies (Karthick Panneerselvam)
- Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0 Generally Available! (Manish Sharma)
- Secure PostgreSQL in Docker: SSL, Certificates & Config Best Practices (Mercy Bassey)
- Integrating Telerik Reports with Your ASP.NET Webpage and Coding Azure 16: Deploying Your Application (Peter Vogel)
- Secure Document Editing with Role-Based Toolbars in React Word Editor (Ramkumar Ravy)
- BFF in ASP.NET Core #6 – Securing our BFF with CORS (Tore Nestenius)
- Building a Blended Material Shader in WebGL with Solid.js (Nathan Nye)
- Migrating legacy services to a modern developer portal: A technical guide to Backstage integration (Damola Obaleke)
- .NET Aspire 3: Service Defaults (Dave Brock)
- Go 1.25.0-1 Microsoft build now available (Davis Goodin)
- Go 1.25 is released (Dmitri Shuralyov)
- Pull print is now available in Universal Print (Nishant Lakhanpal)
- Postman (Free) is secure by design (Sam Chehab)
- 🚀 General Availability: Enhanced Data Mapper Experience in Logic Apps (Standard) (Shah Parth)
- Now Generally Available: Platform SSO for macOS with Microsoft Entra ID (Veena Soman)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Fix Maui Android “Doesn’t support required ABI” issue (Pieter Nijs)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.12 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- The Right Tool for the Job: An Architect’s Guide to Leveraging F# and VB.NET in a C#-Dominant World (Sudhir Mangla)
- Day 23: Introduction to Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) in C# and Day 24: Combining Genetic Algorithms with Hill Climbing: The Hybrid Memetic Approach (Chris Woodruff)
- XAML Speeds Up, JSON Gets Smarter in .NET 10 Preview 7 (David Ramel)
- 🐋 F5 / Debug .NET Apps in Containers with Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
- AutoMapper vs. Manual Mapping in .NET (Vitor Gomes)
- .NET 10.0 dotnet run app.cs or file-based program (NDepend Team)
- Free JetBrains Student Pack – Your Toolkit for a Future in Tech (Maria Sharobaeva)
- Mining PDFs with Regex in C#: Practical Patterns, Tips, and Ideas and TX Text Control 33.0 SP3 is Now Available: What’s New in the Latest Version (Bjoern Meyer)
- Cake.Sdk 5.0.25225.53-beta released (Mattias Karlsson)
- Clean up your *.csproj | Customize a build by Directory.Build.props (Denis Makarenko)
- File & Document Processing APIs — New PowerPoint Presentation API Library (Maria Nikulina)
- .NET 10 Preview 7 (Jon Galloway)
- Filtering Exception Messages with Serilog Expressions (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- How to Create a WinForms Data Entry Form in Minutes using InputPanel (Greg Lutz)
- Introducing PDF/UA-2: The New Standard for Accessible PDFs (Chinnu Muniyappan)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 2: Using a std::list and Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 3: Using a std::vector (Raymond Chen)
- Rider 2025.2 Is Here with Junie, In-IDE OpenTelemetry, Game Dev Upgrades, and More (Alexander Kurakin)
AI
- Google Launches Jules, an Asynchronous Coding Agent Powered by Gemini 2.5 (Robert Krzaczyński)
- Exciting News: Azure AI Blogs Have Come Together in the New Azure AI Foundry Blog (Galimah B.)
- Replacing developers with GPUs (Oren Eini)
- Gemini CLI + VS Code: Native diffing and context-aware workflows (Shreya Keshive, Jack Wotherspoon & Christine Betts)
- Building AI agents made easy with Goose and Docker (Oleg Selajev)
- Red-teaming a RAG app with the Azure AI Evaluation SDK (Pamela Fox)
- Open-Source in AI-assisted Software Development (Eleanor Berger)
- TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games? (Long Phan & Clémentine Fourrier)
- Today we’re releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 and Offering expanded Claude access across all three branches of the U.S. government and Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context (Anthropic Team)
- Introducing App Storage – building apps with images, video, and PDFs just got easier (Yu Zhang & Victoria Kim)
- Using an LLM in GitHub Actions (Anthony Shaw)
- OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again (Carl Franzen)
- The GPT-5 Launch Broke the AI Internet (And Not in a Good Way) (Docker Team)
- Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 Model Gets a 1M Token Context Window (Frederic Lardinois)
- Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars (Hayden Field)
- What you may have missed about GPT-5 (James O’Donnell)
- GitHub: Why we open sourced our MCP server, and what it means for you (Kedasha Kerr)
- Custom rules in GitLab Duo Agentic Chat for greater developer efficiency (Michael Friedrich)
- The Abstractions, They Are a-Changing (Mike Loukides)
- The road to artificial general intelligence (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview (msmash)
- Implementing a Center of Excellence for Generative AI (Thomas Maurer)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Impact Intelligence, addressing common objections and Team OKRs in Action (Martin Fowler)
- Real-Time Security with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) comes to Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps OAuth Client Secrets Now Shown Only Once (Angel Wong)
- Azure DevOps Pipelines: Fixing the old NuGet version problem and Azure Pipelines and NuGet Package Source Mapping–Not best friends (yet) (Bart Wullems)
- Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (Michael Omokoh)
- Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with Azure DevOps Pipelines (PuiChee (PC) Chan & Kristen Womack)
- Learn DevSecOps and API Security (Beau Carnes)
- Backstage vs Pulumi IDP: Why Infrastructure-First Wins! (Engin Diri)
- Scaling Playwright Test Automation: A Practical Framework Guide (Priti Gaikwad)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Trimming the FAT: Flash Raspberry Pi OS images faster (Richard Oliver)
- Xbox PC App Experience Expanding on Arm®-based Windows 11 PCs (Brynnan Fink, Peter Dawoud, Brandon LeBlanc & Nicole Allen)
- What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release (Meghan Mehta & Nick Butcher)
- Meadow.OS v2.3 Brings Automatic OtA to Devices (Bryan Costanich)
Screencasts & Videos
- Technology & Friends – Guy Royse on Ham Radios (David Giard)
- Getting the Most out of the Latest in Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Jessie Houghton & Harshada Hole)
- The Future of Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Mads Kristensen)
- Getting the Most Out of .NET Development with Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Allie Barry & Wendy Breiding)
- The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & Visual Studio | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Simona Liao, Etienne Baudoux & Rhea Patel)
- Building Mobile and Desktop Apps with VS and .NET MAUI | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (David Ortinau)
- Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 (Jon Galloway)
- Building Confident Application Systems with .NET Aspire: From Dev to Deployment | Visual Studio LIVE! @MSHQ 2025 and Building a streamer widget for TagzApp | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- .NET 10 Preview 7 Unboxed (.NET Team)
- How to chat with your repo & create PRs with Copilot | GitHub Checkout (Andrea Griffiths & Daniel Adams)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Isaac Levin)
- Trish Winter-Hunt on Emotional Support Geese & Content Design | Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- Model Mondays S2E9: Models for AI Agents (Sharda Kaur)
- MCP Workflow: I stopped using SQL for database management (Bobur Umorzokov)
- GPT-5 vs GPT-4.5: 3 Huge Changes You’ll Notice (Postman Team)
- What’s It Like To Be A Data Visualization Wizard – Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio) (Den Delimarsky)
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Thirty Years of Application Security with Michael Howard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #928 – State of Devs 2025 Results (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Dev Leader Podcast – How AI Changed Our Dev Jobs FOREVER – Interview With Brian Jenney (Nick Cosentino)
- The AI Fix Show #63 – GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager’s avatar (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #316 – Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software) (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – AI’s impact on translators, untranslatable Dutch words, and more, with Heddwen Newton (Mignon Fogarty)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #325 – Confident, strategic AI leadership (Allegra Guinan, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #681 – Qian Li on DBOS Durable Execution/Serverless Computing Platform (Kanchan Shringi)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – 5 Morning Habits to Help You Get Paid More and Stress Less (‘Tine Zekis)
- RunAs Radio Show #997 – The Power of the Graph with Tony Redmond (Richard Campbell)
- Why Collaboration Should Be Your Team’s Primary Goal | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Somya Mehra)
Community & Events
- VS Code Dev Days – Wed, Sept 17th (Philly .NET Meetup Team)
- 60 Can’t-Miss Shows on Philly Stages for Fall 2025 & Winter 2025/2026 (Visit Philly)
- Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users (Aisha Malik)
- Microsoft Global Hackathon 2025: MVPs Driving Innovation Across Communities (Alice Piras)
- A Mission to Bring the Clean Energy Future (Ed Essey)
- Connect with the security community at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Microsoft Security Team)
- Microsoft is Trying To Poach Meta AI Talent and Offering Multimillion-Dollar Pay Packages (msmash)
- T-Mobile layoffs hit IT org at wireless giant and F5 laying off 106 employees in Washington state as part of changes to product org (Taylor Soper)
Database
- SQL Server on Linux Now Supports cgroup v2 (Attinder Pal Singh)
- Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU20 (Harvey Mora)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: SELECT INTO (Erik Darling)
- Connecting to a Local CockroachDB from DataGrip or DBeaver (Bryan Hogan)
- Security, AI, and Databases–AI in SQL Server 2025 (Joey Dantoni)
- Using SQL Compare to Revert a Stored Procedure (Steve Jones)
- SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v21.4.12 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Build the Future of AI-Driven Apps with SharePoint Embedded (W. Baer)
- Microsoft releases lightweight Office taskbar apps for Windows 11 (Tom Warren)
- Encryption in Microsoft Teams: June 2025 (Will Dixon)
PowerShell & Terminal
- Securing PowerShell: How to Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Part 5 (Brien Posey)
- Warp University – Tutorials to help you work smarter and build faster in Warp (Warp Team)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v3.9.15 (Files Team)
- BitUnlocker: Leveraging Windows Recovery to Extract BitLocker Secrets (Alon Leviev)
- How to select your preferred sources in Top Stories in Search (Duncan Osborn)
- Windows image-building service for OpenShift Virtualization (Karel Simon)
- Perplexity Offers to Buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 Billion (Paul Thurrott)
More Link Collections
- The .NET News Daily Issue #260 and The .NET News Daily Issue #261 and The .NET News Daily Issue #262 (Jasen)
- dotInsights | August 2025 (Rachel Appel)
- 🚀 Vonage Developer Newsletter, July 2025: RCS, AI, and Network APIs! (Daniela Facchinetti)
- Daily Reading List – August 12, 2025 (#607) and Daily Reading List – August 13, 2025 (#608) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency in C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link