Top Links
- AI on Windows: Progress Responses with Phi Silica (Nick Randolph)
- Microsoft Contributes to Uno Platform: Dramatically Reducing Testing Time (Uno Platform Team)
- Awesome CmdPal – A curated list of awesome things related to PowerToys Command Palette (CmdPal) (Alexandre Nédélec)
- ReSharper’s Out-of-Process Journey: Major Progress and Next Steps (Sasha Ivanova)
- The latest Azure AI Foundry innovations help you optimize AI investments and differentiate your business (Jessica Hawk)
- Advanced Cloud Native Development with .NET Aspire | NDC London 2025 (Scott Hunter & Maddy Montaquila)
Web & Cloud Development
- .NET on Heroku: Now Generally Available (Rune Soerensen & Terence Lee)
- Docker Image Layers – What They Are & How They Work (James Walker)
- Mastering Blazor Authentication and Authorization (David Ramel)
- AWS or Azure? My Team Can’t Decide (Brien Posey)
- CRUD Made Easy: Building Dynamic Apps with htmx and ASP.NET Razor Pages (Chris Woodruff)
- Step Up Performance in Angular: Pure Pipes vs. Memoization (Christian Nwamba)
- Azure Linux 3.0 now Generally Available with Azure Kubernetes Service v1.32 (Flora Taagen)
- Code signing on Windows with Azure Trusted Signing (Sudara)
- Top 5 React Stock Chart Libraries for 2025 (Nishanthi Panner Selvam)
- Docker Desktop 4.40: Model Runner to run LLMs locally, more powerful Docker AI Agent, and expanded AI Tools Catalog (Yiwen Xu)
- Connect Calls Using the Vonage Voice API and How to Get Started with Vonage Network APIs in 2025 (Amanda Cavallaro)
- Node v23.11.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
- March 2025 Updates: What’s New in Auth0 (Developer Edition) (Ana Cidre)
- Bun 1.2 Improves Node Compatibility and Adds Postgres Client (Bruno Couriol)
- Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript (Bryan Robinson)
- Go 1.24.2-1 and 1.23.8-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
- Wasp: The first full-stack framework powered by an LLM – running on vibes, not a compiler (Matija Sosic)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- WinUI3Localizer – A NuGet package that helps you localize your WinUI 3 app (AndrewKeepCoding)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How to Add a WinForms Rich Text Editor in a C# .NET App (Aastha Gupta)
- Linear Support Vector Regression from Scratch Using C# with Evolutionary Training (James McCaffrey)
- Top 5 Real-World Applications for TX Text Control Document Processing Libraries (Bjoern Meyer)
- Supporting Companies That Use Microsoft .NET (David McCarter)
- Ports and fat adapters (Mark Seemann)
- MediatR 12.5.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
- Modernizing push notification API for Teams (Rudolf Kurka & Frantisek Kaduk)
AI
- Introducing Rook AI (Oren Eini)
- AST Grep and Transform (Peli de Halleux)
- GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative (Rob Bos)
- Not Everything is an Agent (Ariya Hidayat)
- OpenAI Releases Improved Image Generation in GPT-4o (Anthony Alford)
- Understand and Code DeepSeek V3 (Beau Carnes)
- Automating PowerPoint Generation with AI: A Learn Live Series Case Study (bethanyjep)
- Making Sense of the AI Developer Tools Ecosystem (Colin Eberhardt)
- Agentic AI and Platform Engineering: How They Can Combine (Jennifer Riggins)
- How we built the new family of Gemini Robotics models (Joel Meares)
- How to Use Copilot for Code Commenting and Documentation (Mahesh Chand)
- Refactoring and Optimizing Code with GitHub Copilot (Mark Heath)
- Introduction to Agents (Michael Gannotti)
- Vibe Coding: Buy Now, Pay Later—The Fast Track to Product Debt (Teon Beijl)
- Gemma 3 for Beginners: An Introduction to Google’s Open-Source AI (Vladislav Guzey)
- Enhancing Healthcare AI with Model Context Protocol and Semantic Kernel (Tressha)
- OpenAI Accused of Training GPT-4o on Unlicensed O’Reilly Books (msmash)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- MSIX Flat Bundle Application Packages: Definition, Creation, Deployment and What Is a VSIX Package and How Does It Work? (Alex Marin)
- Important Update: Server Name Indication (SNI) Now Mandatory for Azure DevOps Services (Soo Stahl)
- Creating SBOM attestations in GitHub Actions (Andrew Lock)
- GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here’s what we’re doing to help (Erin Havens)
- Building and Deploying Microservices With Spring Boot and TeamCity (Olga Bedrina)
- Attack of the Clones – The War on Code Duplication (Gil Zilberfeld)
Screencasts & Videos
- Uno Platform Live Coding: Let’s run an Uno app on Android on Ubuntu on #WSL on Windows! (Uno Platform Team)
- C#, Web, SharpSite (Jeff Fritz)
- Modern Observability and Event Driven Architectures – NDC London 2025 (Martin Thwaites & Ian Cooper)
- GitHub Accounts in Visual Studio Just Got Way AWESOME! (Ruben Rios)
- Azure AI Talk and Watch, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)
- New reasoning agents: Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Microsoft Mechanics)
- Introduction to secret leaks with GitHub (GitHub Team)
- OpenAI’s New Image Generator: An AI Revolution! (Frank LaVigne)
- Closing FROZEN APPS On Windows 11 Is Now SUPER EASY (Windows Developer Team)
- Trying out .NET Aspire with CosmosDB and more | The Dev Talk Show (Rich Ross & Chris Gomez)
Podcasts
- Developer Tea – Meta Models – Logarithmic Returns (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Context Diagramming, Helping Agile Teams See Their Complex Communication Network | Zvonimir Durcevic (Vasco Duarte)
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google – Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery (Abdel Sghiouar & Kaslin Fields)
- RunAs Radio Episode #978 – GitHub Copilot for SysAdmins with Jessica Deen (Richard Campbell)
- The AI Fix Episode #44 – AI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthrough (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #662 – Vlad Khononov on Balancing Coupling in Software Design (Jeff Doolittle)
Community & Events
- Meet the AWS News Blog team! (Channy Yun)
- What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (Brendan Burns)
- Apple starts accepting GitHub sponsorships for Swift (Paul Hudson)
- New Character Limit Now Available! (Bluesky Team)
- Discover new tools, skills, and best practices with Microsoft MVPs and Developer Influencers (Molly Kih)
- The return of Building 7 (Raymond Chen)
- Inside the Microsoft Archives: How the tech giant preserves, shares, and learns from its history (Todd Bishop)
- Vanishing Culture: Cultural Preservation and Queer History (Brooke Palmieri)
- 30 Surprising Facts About Microsoft (Dan Lewis) – I’ve heard that a few of these are myth or no longer true
- Explore how to secure AI by attending our Learn Live Series (Shirleyse Haley)
Database
- Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v 10.1 (Aravind)
- What’s New in SQL Server 2025 (Brent Ozar)
- An Experiment with Copilot: On Azure SQL DB Security (Karen Lopez)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Thousands of federal health workers are losing their jobs in the US (Justine Calma)
- In 2011, NPR executives “drafted a secret plan for the worst” (Laura Hazard Owen)
- Tip: Use Wintoys to Customize Windows 11 (Paul Thurrott)
- PowerToys v0.90.0 is here… and it’s a big release with a great new launcher module (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
- Trump advisor reportedly used personal Gmail for ‘sensitive’ military discussions (Wes Davis)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 1, 2025 (#524) (Richard Seroter)
- Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025 (Mike Loukides)
The Geek Shelf
Web Development with Blazor: A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 (Jimmy Engstrom) – Referral link
