Top Links
- Azure MCP Server Now Built-In with Visual Studio 2026: A New Era for Agentic Workflows (Yun Jung Choi)
- Uno Platform. Now with AI | .NET Conf 2025 (Jérôme Laban)
- Unlocking the full power of Copilot code review: Master your instructions files (Ria Gopu)
- Aspire 13 Samples – A repo showing micro samples with aspire 13 (David Fowler)
- Community Toolkit Roundup | .NET Conf 2025 (Michael Hawker, Gerald Versluis & Sergio Pedri)
- Windows Edge Light – A lightweight WPF application that adds a customizable glowing edge light effect around your primary monitor (Scott Hanselman)
Web and Cloud Development
- Implement forgot your password using swiyu, ASP.NET Core Identity and Aspire (Damien Bowden)
- Postman acquires liblab to build the unified API lifecycle platform (Abhinav Asthana)
- CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers (Godstime Aburu)
- Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse (Ryan Trimble)
- ESLint v10.0.0-alpha.0 released (Milos Djermanovic)
- How to Build an AI-Powered Writing Assistant in Angular Using Google Gemini API (Part 1) (Ankit Sharma)
- OpenAPI.NET Delivers Its ‘Biggest Update Ever’ With Twin v2 and v3 Releases (David Ramel)
Windows Development
- I can use WM_COPYDATA to send a block of data to another window, but how does it send data back? (Raymond Chen)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2026 First Look: Evolution, Not Revolution (David Eastman)
- Developers Test Visual Studio 2026’s AI-Native Claims (Darryl K. Taft)
- Exploring C# File-based Apps in .NET 10 (Milan Jovanović)
- Validate Digital Signatures and the Integrity of PDF Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- How to Upgrade to .NET 10 LTS – Complete Guide for .NET Global Tools with Multi-Targeting (John Smith)
AI
- When it comes to LLMs, don’t tell me – SHOW me (Spencer Schneidenbach)
- What Are the Real Cost Savings From Using AI Agents and The Best AI Agent Platforms and Frameworks Developers Should Know (Mahesh Chand)
- Reverse Vibe Coding (Rob Miles)
- AI Code Doesn’t Survive in Production: Here’s Why (Animesh Koratana)
- Why the AI era demands better internships (Assmitha R.)
- Your Million-Dollar AI Advantage (for Leaders) (JD Meier)
- What’s new in Copilot Studio: October 2025 (Kendra Springer)
- Why Diffusion Models Could Change Developer Workflows in 2026 (Damian Bogunowicz)
- Investigating the Great AI Productivity Divide: Why Are Some Developers 5x Faster? (Simeon Ratliff)
- MCP Lets AI Actually Do Stuff Safely – But Only If You Watch It Like a Hawk (Marko Crnjanski)
- Anthropic Adds Sandboxing and Web Access to Claude Code for Safer AI-Powered Coding (Vinod Goje)
- Reducing AI context load using actions (Oren Eini)
- Semantic Intelligence: Part 1 – Simple Rules, Complex Behavior, Emergent Intelligence? and Part 2- Collective Intelligence – When Agents Communicate and Part 3 – Self-Optimization – Systems That Learn and Part 4 – The Emergence – When Optimization Becomes Intelligence and Part 5 – Evolution – From Optimization to Emergent Guilds and Part 6 – Directed Synthetic Evolution and Global Consensus (Scott Galloway)
- ChatGPT Group Chats are here … but not for everyone (yet) (Carl Franzen)
- Microsoft Agent Framework: Extending Agent Intelligence Using Function Tools (Jamie Maguire)
Python
- From Code to Cloud: Python-Driven Microsoft Fabric Deployments (Paulams732)
- I can’t test that, it uses STDOUT (Python) (Tim Ottinger)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Making the Most of Your Docker Hardened Images Trial – Part 1 (Docker Team)
- Speak So They Can Hear You (Jessica Kerr)
- Defensive Programming Rule #4: Safe and Efficient Type Casting (David McCarter)
- Empirical software prototyping (Mark Seemann)
Mobile and Game Development
- Rust in Android: More Memory Safety, Fewer Revisions, Fewer Rollbacks, Shorter Reviews (EditorDavid)
- How to force Visual Studio to update the debug device for a MAUI project (Chris Miller)
- NEW Valve Hardware! and Tips from making 2+ Games (Code Monkey)
- .NET 10 Improves MAUI Quality and Performance (Edin Kapić)
- Snapchat Open Sources Cross-Platform UI Framework (Loraine Lawson) – On GitHub here
- Building a Trusted Gaming Future: How Security Powers Fair Play (Joe Skrebels)
- Windows 11 25H2 quietly rolls out gaming boost, including for handheld performance (Abhijith M B)
- Debugging native crashes on Android just got easier with Crashlytics (Matthew Robertson)
Screencasts and Videos
- Adding Edge Lighting to Windows with GitHub Copilot CLI and VIBEs (Scott Hanselman)
- Tackling your tech debt with Copilot coding agent | GitHub Universe 2025 (Brittany Ellich)
- Random.Code() – Removing Reflection Code in CslaGeneratorSerialization, Part 2 (Jason Bock)
- Apps vs Models: Who Wins AI? and Anthropic’s Monster Projections: Profitable by 2028? (AIDailyBrief)
- Practical AI Applications for a Better UX | .NET Conf 2025 (Ed Charbeneau)
- Old API, New Tricks: Add MCP to Existing .NET REST Endpoints | .NET Conf 2025 (Jonathan “J.” Tower)
- Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 10 | .NET Conf 2025 (Steve Smith)
- State of the .NET Foundation and .NET Open Source | .NET Conf 2025 (Kevin Griffin)
- TUIs Are Back (Although They Never Left): Creating Modern CLI Apps in .NET | .NET Conf 2025 (Andres Pineda)
- Let’s create an MCP Server from our .NET tool – and improve our SQL scripts with Copilot | .NET Conf 2025 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- Retro Meets Modern: Commodore 64 live coding with C# and .NET 9+ | .NET Conf 2025 (Alexandre Mutel)
- Migrating from Xamarin.Forms to NET. MAUI: The Hard Parts | .NET Conf 2025 (Iris Classon)
- Lessons learned: From Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json in Large Codebases | .NET Conf 2025 (Tomáš Herceg)
- What security bug type keeps you awake? | One Dev Question (Michael Howard)
- Build better apps faster with Firebase Studio and MongoDB (James O’Reilly)
- GPT-5.1, 5.1-Codex, and 5.1-Codex-Mini! Let it Cook with James & Pierce (James Montemagno & Pierce Boggan)
- Animated Splash Screen with Uno, Hot Design and Lottie (Uno Platform Team)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Merge Conflict Episode #489 – .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026 (James Montemagno & Frank Kreuger)
- Engineer in the Loop Podcast – From 11 Nested For-Loops to AI-Driven Engineering — A Conversation with Zure CEO Sakari Nahi (Alec Harrison)
- Lenny’s Podcast – The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Lenny Rachitsky)
- Ignore All Previous Instructions Podcast – The Evolution of Educational Technology (Pam Selle & Sarah Withee)
- BONUS: Flawless Execution — Translating Fighter Pilot Precision to Business Results | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Christian “Boo” Boucousis)
- Changelog & Friends Podcast Episode #117 – Retreat to attack (Jerod Santo & Adam Stacoviak)
- Batteries Included Podcast Episode #118 – Toyota’s New Hilux Pickup Is Electric; Tesla Execs Quit, Powerwall Recall (Batteries Included Team)
- The Truth About AI in Everyday JavaScript Development – JavaScript Jabber Episode #696 (Charles Max Wood)
- Hard Fork Podcast – Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton)
- The Real Python Podcast Episode #274 – Preparing Data Science Projects for Production (Christopher Bailey & Khuyen Tran)
- When Product Owners Facilitate Vision Instead of Owning It | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Alidad Hamidi)
- A Geek Leader #443 – Product Driven with Matt Watson (John Rouda)
- Meta Tech Podcast Episode #80 – Open Source Is Good for the Environment (Pascal Hartig, Dharmesh J. & Lisa R.)
- React Native Radio Episode #347 – Skylight: Smart Displays Powered by React Native (Alex Lanclos & Mazen Chami)
Community and Events
- Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft (Rebecca Bellan)
- Call For Papers Listings for 11/14 (Leon Adato)
- Can it ever be the way it was? (Stephanie Stimac)
- Go’s Sweet 16 (Austin Clements)
- Help game developers build trusted communities (Athima Chansanchai)
- Apple Speeds Planning for Replacing CEO Tim Cook Next Year (EditorDavid)
- JetBrains Is Heading to VSLive! Orlando (Mehul Harry)
Database
- From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later (Amit Verma)
- Erik cries when SSMS lies (Joe Obbish)
- Lost In Costs: Part 3 (Erik Darling)
- Github Copilot in SSMS can include data in its memory, simple prompt injections ahead (Ed Elliott)
- Storing JSON and XML in SQL Databases: An Essential Guide (Luca Liu)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- SharePoint Embedded guide for software companies: Use cases make it real for customers (spucelik)
- Microsoft offers in-country data processing to 15 countries to strengthen sovereign controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Paul Lorimer)
PowerShell and Terminal
Writing
- How Your Writing Tool Shapes Your Text (Writers Write)
Tools
- Microsoft Edge is removing Sidebar app list as Copilot takeover continues on Windows 11 (Mayank Parmar)
- How Windows Recall Works—and Whether You Should Switch It On (David Nield)
General
- Unlock Windows 11 25H2’s hidden features, including new Start menu, battery percentage, AI actions and more (Abhishek Mishra)
- Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash — “We know we have a lot of work to do” (Zac Bowden)
More Link Collections
- Links For You (11/16/25) (Raymond Camden)
- Azure Weekly #540 – 16th November 2025 (The Editor)
- Daily Reading List – November 14, 2025 (#666) (Richard Seroter)
- F# Weekly #46, 2025 – #FsAdvent & .NET Conf 2025 (Sergey Tihon)
- Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 9, 2025 (GeekWire Team)
