Top Links
- Windows App SDK Version 1.7.5 (1.7.251014001) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Securing AI agents on Windows (Dana Huang)
- 9 open-source projects the GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code teams are sponsoring—and why they matter (Katie Savage & Stacey Haffner)
- Automating Away Cross-Platform Packaging Complexity for .NET Developers (Uno Platform Team)
- New experiences currently rolling out for Windows 11 (The Windows Team)
- LangChain v1 is now generally available! (mmhangami)
- Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC (Yusuf Mehdi)
Web Development
- Coding Azure 19: Writing Messages to a Storage Queue (Peter Vogel)
- Blazor for JavaScript Developers (David Ramel)
- Deployment and Build from Azure Linux based Web App (theringe)
- September 2025 in Auth0: Advanced Security Controls and Auth0 for AI Agents (Ari Schapiro)
- Debug Docker Builds with Visual Studio Code (Remy Suen)
- Refactoring a form to a Signal Form (Tim Deschryver)
- The “10x” Commandments of Highly Effective Go (Anna Protsenko)
- Microsoft Revamps Marketplace (Kay Ewbank)
Windows Development
- Windows App SDK 1.7.5 (1.7.250909003) (agniuks)
.NET, C++ and Visual Studio
- Top 8 C# PDF Libraries .NET Developers Can’t Miss in 2025 (Ramkumar Ravy)
- .NET 10 Release Candidate 2: Finalizes SDK, MAUI Stabilization, and MSBuild Enhancements Ahead of GA (Almir Vuk)
- Using RAII to remedy a defect where not all code paths performed required exit actions (Raymond Chen)
AI
- 5 Essential MCP Servers That Give Claude & Cursor Real Superpowers (2025) (Prithwish Nath)
- Teaching AI Models to Dance (Paul J. Swider)
- 🧠Taking Multi-Model AI Orchestration Further: Azure AI Foundry Persistent Agents in .NET 9 (Bruno Capuano)
- AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs (Ben Paviour)
- Automating PDF/UA Accessibility with AI: Describing DOCX Documents Using TX Text Control and LLMs (Bjoern Meyer)
- Transform Your Development Experience with the DevExpress Documentation MCP Server (Dmitry Tokmachev)
- Introducing Claude Skills and Claude and your productivity platforms (Anthropic Team)
- Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it (Tom Warren)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Revamped Tests UI in Jenkins (Jan Faracik)
- Pathways to Wow-Worthy: How to Navigate Expectation Violations in Product Design (Audrey Aday)
- Azure DevOps Extensions for Spin, Fermyon Wasm Functions and Fermyon Cloud (Thorsten Hans)
- The age of the design hacker (Venita Subramanian)
- How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore (Vitaly Friedman)
- 12 Application Security Testing Tools for Every Dev Stage (Ben Nettleton)
Mobile and Game Development
- Customize Your Game: New Accessories for ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds and ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Now Available Worldwide (Joe Skrebels)
- Building Premium Apps with .NET MAUI and Syncfusion [Webinar Show Notes] (Carter Harris)
- Bookshelf application revamped for Trixie (Simon Long)
Screencasts and Videos
- Introducing GitHub Copilot in SSMS 22 | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Erin Stellato)
- .NET Data Community Standup – Jeremy Miller shares his view on migrations and Marten (Jiri Cincura & Shay Rojansky)
Podcasts
- Software Defined Talk Episode #542 – Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud. (Matt Ray)
- InfoQ Podcast: Building Composable Teams: Moving Beyond Rigid Organizational Structures (Luv Kapur)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #186 – Building AI Agents with the Strands SDK (Aaron Bailiss)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #325 – Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Python Bytes Podcast #453 – Python++ (Michael Kennedy)
- The CSS Podcast Episode #93 – State queries in 2025 (Una Kravets & Adam Argyle)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Game Designers Workbook with Bobby Lockhart (Scott Hanselman)
- Lenny’s Podcast – Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Decoder Podcast – The EV tax credit is gone — now the hard part begins (Jacob Kastrenakes)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Context Engineering with Drew Breunig (Ben Lorica & Drew Breunig)
- How Vulnerability Creates Magic in Agile Leadership | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Renee Troughton)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Why rent a cloud when you can build one? (Phoebe Sajor)
- Practical AI Podcast Episode #332 – Dealing with increasingly complicated agents (Donato Capitella, Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
Community
- Sal Khan Will Become the Public Face of the TED Conference (msmash)
- How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert (GitHub Team)
- PowerShell Universal Joins Devolutions (Adam Driscoll)
- Apple loses another AI exec to Meta (Rebecca Bellan)
- Deno’s Other Open Source Projects (Andy Jiang)
- You asked: What is the the right way to use Slack? (Johnny Rodgers)
- SponsorLink is dead: long live OSMF (Daniel Cazzulino)
Database
- Bulk Get Documents in Couchbase using Reactive or Asynchronous API (Rohit Kumar)
- Migrations the “Critter Stack” Way (Jeremy D. Miller)
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for SQL Server and Azure SQL – Part 1 (Aleksey Vitsko)
- Intelligent Query Processing in Azure SQL: A Deep Dive into Adaptive Execution (Muhammad Hassan Arshad)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Touch keyboard appears automatically in OneNote on Windows (Bola_Soneye)
- New Microsoft 365 icons for the AI era (Jessica Hu)
- Claude now integrates directly with Microsoft 356 (Webb Wright)
- Exciting new capabilities and enhancements for M365 Developer Program – October 2025 (Microsoft 365 Platform Team)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Warp Q&A: Why UI Zoom took five years (Olivia Johnston & Aloke Desai)
Tools
- Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27971 (Canary Channel) (Amanda Langowski)
- Meta to shut down Messenger desktop apps for Mac and Windows (Aisha Malik)
General
- Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks (Amy Hogan-Burney)
- Windows 10 updates are ending. Here’s what it means for Firefox users. (David Rubino)
- Steve Jobs will appear on commemorative $1 coin (Robert Hart)
- Microsoft is reportedly moving its Surface manufacturing out of China (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – October 16, 2025 (#650) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #305 (Jasen)
