Top Links
- Claude 3.7 Now Available in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio (Rhea Patel)
- Leverage vision in Copilot Chat (Jessie Houghton)
- Windows Dev Chat (March 12th) – Get Started With the AI Dev Gallery (Nikola Metulev, Greg Woo & Gleb Khmyznikov)
- AI Toolkit for VS Code February Update (ronglums)
- Semantic Kernel: Hybrid Model Orchestration (Sergey Menshykh)
- Let’s Learn .NET: GitHub Copilot Event (James Montemagno)
Web & Cloud Development
- CSS Snapshot 2024 Published as W3C Group Note (W3C)
- From AI-assisted creation to smart test plans, I like all the recent updates to this cloud integration service (Richard Seroter)
- Angular Resource and rxResource (Hassan Djirdeh)
- AI-Powered Text-to-Flowchart: Convert Text into Diagrams Using OpenAI and Blazor (Sarathkumar V.)
- The Claim-Check Pattern: Optimizing Message Processing in Azure Applications (Sep Beheshti)
- Angular 19: Transforming HTTP API Calls with Signals and Resources (Balram Chavan)
- Knowledge Belongs to You: Introducing the New Okta Learning Experience (Sara Kazemi)
- Terraform Good Practices: Avoiding Chaos and Building with Confidence (Chris Woodruff)
- Testing types in TypeScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- League of Legends Client (OpenSilver) (Jaewung Lee)
Visual Studio & .NET
- How and Why to Create C# .NET Dashboard Reports in ActiveReports (Alec Gall)
- How to Parse and Extract HL7 Data in C# .NET (Greg Lutz)
- C++/WinRT implementation inheritance: Notes on winrt::implements, part 4 (Raymond Chen)
- Version 33.0 Preview: NuGet Packages Explained and Why we Minimize Dependencies (Bjoern Meyer)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 1.1 release notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Claude 3.7 Available for Visual Studio (Mark Downie)
- Handling Complex Query Scenarios with Entity Framework Core (Ali Hamza Ansari)
- Doing Some Cleanup in a BackgroundService (Bryan Hogan)
- Easier encapsulation with static types (Mark Seemann)
- Rider 2025.1 EAP 5: Roslyn Syntax Tree Visualizer, Unity Profiler Integration, and More (Sasha Ivanova)
- std::generator: Standard Library Coroutine Support (Sy Brand)
AI
- Compatibility of PostgreSQL Connector with AWS and GCP (Dmytro Struk)
- Satya Nadella admits Microsoft missed an opportunity as ChatGPT and Copilot gain popularity — even OpenAI’s Sam Altman “doesn’t do Google searches anymore” (Kevin Okemwa)
- DeepSeek-V3 Explained 1: Multi-head Latent Attention (Shirley Li)
- How I Automated My Podcast Transcript Production With Local AI (Den Delimarsky)
- Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Amazon Bedrock (Esra Kayabali)
- Start a rap battle between agents with AutoGen – AutoGen Studio (Matteo Pagani)
- GitHub Copilot– Reusable prompts files (Bart Wullems)
- Prompt Engineering: Challenges, Strengths, and Its Place in Software Development’s Future (Hien Luu)
- Couchbase and NVIDIA Team Up to Help Accelerate Agentic Application Development (Jeff Morris)
- GitLab Duo Workflow: Enterprise visibility and control for agentic AI (Pini Wietchner)
- Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model (Will Knight)
- What IDEs Copilot support? and What programming languages does Copilot support? (Mahesh Chand)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Redgate Flyway and Azure DevOps: The Power of Integration (Graeme Lilly)
- Engineering Culture, Trust, and Accountability (Emily Dresner)
- WiX Toolset vs. Inno Setup: Choosing the Right Application Packaging Tool (Renato Ivanescu)
- Fixing bugs without thinking, Recursive Self-Improvement, and the shift towards more complex tech comm tasks (Tom Johnson)
- GitHub Actions Adds Linux ARM64 Hosted Runners in Public Preview (Aditya Kulkarni)
- Tests – The Saviors Of Lost Knowledge (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Seeing People As Resources (Kin Lane)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Vonage: Introducing Our New Client Library for Android and iOS (Alvaro Navarro)
- Xcode Tip: spell checking (Jesse Squires)
- This floppy disk archiver runs on a Raspberry Pi (David Crookes)
Screencasts & Videos
- Building AI Apps in .NET Just Got 10x Easier – Microsoft.Extensions.AI (Milan Jovanović)
- Introducing Claude Code (Anthropic Team)
- Demo: Using Claude 3.7 Sonnet with GitHub Copilot (GitHub Team)
- Host a local AI server by deploying Ollama and Open WebUI on Windows Server | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Introducing Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID (Microsoft Mechanics)
- The Future of AI Agents: Build, Test & Deploy with Postman and Recreating Deep Research in Postman Flows (Postman Team)
Podcasts
- Hear more about AI “thinking models” in our latest podcast | The Keyword (Google)
- InfoQ Podcast: Facilitating Software Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law (Andrew Harmel-Law)
- Directions on Microsoft Podcast – How to Save Money with Azure Reservations (Mary Jo Foley)
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How A Product Cancellation Tests a New Scrum Master’s Growth | Season Hughes (Vasco Duarte)
- Practical AI Podcast #304 – GenAI hot takes and bad use cases (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
- The Changelog News Podcast #133 – AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #212 – Securing the Cloud at Scale: Modern Bank CISO on Metrics, Challenges, and SecOps (Anton A Chuvakin)
- Meta Cast – The Art of Inclusive Yet Decisive Leadership (Bob Galen & Josh Anderson)
- Azure Cloud Talk 25/2/24 – Conference Season Is Coming Up Quick! (Brian Gorman & Alec Harrison)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Writing tests with AI, but not LLMs (Eira May)
- Fragmented, A Software Podcast #256 – Rapid prototyping with Kotlin (Kaushik Gopal)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast #209 – How to Land Your Dream Job Without Blindly Applying Online (Max Ahumada)
- Talk Python to Me #495 – OSMnx: Python and OpenStreetMap (Michael Kennedy)
- Python Bytes Podcast #421 – 22 years old (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why Americans write ‘canceled’ but still write ‘cancellation.’ How printing history gave us ‘fine print.’ Fluff. (Mignon Fogarty & Glenn Fleishman)
- Syntax Podcast #879 – Fullstack Cloudflare (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast – Trader Joe’s Wine Club: Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand (Trader Joe’s Team)
Community & Events
- What to expect from Amazon’s big Alexa event this week (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy)
- .NET Data Community Standup (March 19th) – Stop using Entity Framework as a DTO provider! (Jiri Cincura & Chris Klug)
- As Meta gets rid of fact-checkers, misinformation is going viral (Amanda Silberling)
- US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people (Carly Page)
- Slack: The Master Plan (Johnny Rodgers)
- Starbucks to lay off 1,100 corporate workers, updates remote work policy (Taylor Soper)
- Things to Do for Women’s History Month in Greater Philadelphia 2025 (Visit Philly)
Database
- SQL Server JSON Functions JSON_OBJECTAGG and JSON_ARRAYAGG (Koen Verbeeck)
- New Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns Video Series – Learn, Implement, and Contribute! (Jay Gordon)
- Quickly Comment Out Code Using Win + / or Cmd + / (Josephine Bush)
- Some Thoughts On The Future Of Query Optimization (Erik Darling)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Introducing enterprise news reader in Viva connections (DC Padur)
- Microsoft is testing free Office for Windows apps with ads (Tom Warren)
Miscellaneous
- How to Work with JSON in Python: A Beginner’s Guide (Alvaro Navarro)
- Vladimir Putin Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Bragging About Ukraine (Edith Olmsted)
- Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama (Tom Phillips)
- What Elon Musk’s war on federal workers owes to Gamergate (Amanda Marcotte)
- Trump orders database on federal police misconduct to close (Russell Contreras)
- Microsoft Trims More CPUs From Windows 11 Compatibility List and All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation (BeauHD)
- Apple responds to tariff threat with a $500 billion US investment (Dominic Preston)
- Trump is now mocking federal workers with memes threatening their jobs (Jason Weisberger)
- Text Grab 4.8: Improvements all around (Joseph Finney)
More Link Collections
- Sands of MAUI: Issue #176 (Sam Basu)
- Interesting links of the week 2025-09 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – February 24, 2025 (#498) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Cloud Club Captain Applications, Formula 1®, Amazon Nova Prompt Engineering, and more (Feb 24, 2025) (Elizabeth Fuentes)
The Geek Shelf
Learn WinUI 3, Second Edition: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML (Alvin Ashcraft)
