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• Building Your First MCP Server with .NET and Publishing to NuGet (Jon Douglas, Joel Verhagen & Jon Galloway)
• Copilot on Windows: Vision Desktop Share begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Microsoft Copilot Team)
• .NET Aspire 2: The Developer Dashboard (Dave Brock)
• The Day the Software Community Died: Let’s Stop Coding in Isolation and Start Creating Community—And Software—People Truly Love (David McCarter)
• .NET MAUI in .NET 10 Preview 6 (David Ortinau)
• Reachy Mini – The Open-Source Robot for Today’s and Tomorrow’s AI Builders (Thomas Wolf & Matthieu Lapeyre)
• .NET 10 Preview 6 is now available! (.NET Team)

Web & Cloud Development

• Understanding Parallel Programming in ASP.NET Core (Assis Zang)
• Bar vs. Pie Chart: How to Pick the Right One for Your Business Data (Sabari Anand S.)
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• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 6 (Dan Roth)
• The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module (Filippo Valsorda, Daniel McCarney & Roland Shoemaker)
• How To Render Large Datasets In React without Killing Performance (Prashant Yadav)
• Introducing the Fully Managed Couchbase Connector for Confluent Cloud (Yves Laurent)
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS Free Tier Account (Victoria Nduka)
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WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• How to Convert Excel XLSX to CSV Files in a WPF App using C# (Mackenzie Albitz)
• How to Build a Student Attendance App with .NET MAUI ListView and DataGrid (Jayaleshwari N.)
• Uno Platform vs Uno Platform Studio: What’s the Difference? (Nick Randolph)
• .NET MAUI 9.0.90 (Service Release 9) (David Ortinau)
• Centering a WPF TreeViewItem in the TreeView ScrollViewer (Rick Strahl)

Visual Studio, C++ & .NET

• .NET 10 Preview 6 (Jon Galloway)
• Adding QR Codes to PDF Documents in C# .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
• Updates to Warning Suppressions in Microsoft C++ Code Analysis (Carson Radtke)
• Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.9 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)

AI

• Generative AI Creates APIs Faster Than Teams Can Secure Them (Saqib Jan)
• Building the Hugging Face MCP Server (Shaun Smith, Julien Chaumond, Eliott Coyac & Abubakar Abid)
• Intellectual freedom by design (OpenAI Team)
• From chaos to clarity: Using GitHub Copilot agents to improve developer workflows (Chris Reddington)
• Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically (Graham Cluley & Mark Stockley)
• Trump announces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub (Jay Peters)
• Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve? (Tim O’Reilly)
• CollabLLM: Teaching LLMs to collaborate with users (Shirley Wu, Michel Galley, Baolin Peng, Swadheen Shukla & Jianfeng Gao)
• AI compliance: A core product competency you shouldn’t skip (Kayode Adeniyi)
• MCP: A Practical Security Blueprint for Developers (Mohith Shrivastava)
• Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People (msmash)
• Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model (Rebecca Bellan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (Jared Sulzdorf, Joseph Godlewski & Sam Horradarn)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• New tools to help drive success for one-time products (Laura Nechita & Rejane França)
• Xbox Insiders can stream owned console games on the Xbox PC app (Athima Chansanchai)
• Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini Robots for Human-Robot Interaction (Daniel Dominguez)
• Shake off your App’s problems (Exxeta Team)

Screencasts & Videos

• From Web to Hardware: Blazor’s Secret IoT Power | Coding After Work (Jimmy Engstrom)
• Build your first Blazor Hybrid mobile & desktop apps with Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
• Using agent mode to refactor and iterate on a project (Simona Liao)
• Custom Metrics with .NET Aspire | On .NET and Rewriting !hat | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
• Hybrid AI for Security at Microsoft, with Emmanuel Victorio, on Mr. Maeda’s Cozy AI Kitchen (John Maeda)

Podcasts

• RunAs Radio Episode #993 – Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag (Richard Campbell)
• Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #5 – Averting the Digital Dark Age (Ian Milligan, Brewster Kahle & Takara Small)
• Python Bytes Podcast Episode #440 – Can’t Register for VibeCon (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
• o11ycast Episode #84 – Maddy Montaquila on .NET Aspire (Ken Rimple & Martin Thwaites)
• Practical AI Podcast Episode #321 – Agentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming (Chris Benson & Daniel Whitenack)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode #677 – Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum on Testing ML Models for Enterprise Products (Kanchan Shringi)
• Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – They’re Counting on You Not Knowing This: 5 Bold Negotiation Strategies for Black Women at Work (‘Tine Zekis)

Community & Events

• Candy Crush-Maker King Lays Off 200 Staff, Replacing Many With AI Tools They Built (msmash)
• Microsoft Ignite Unplugged: Get a look at the latest speakers and topics! (Microsoft Ignite Team)
• The Sprinklr-Bluesky Integration in Detail I Sprinklr (Naveen Mahadevan)
• How we use GitLab to grow open source communities (Daniel Murphy)

Database

• RavenDB and Gen AI Security (Oren Eini)
• Stubborn NOT EXISTS Ordering (Erik Darling)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Mastering Agent Governance in Microsoft 365 (Chad Stout)
• Microsoft Stream and Microsoft Clipchamp: Brand unification update for Microsoft 365 video (Torin Didenko)

PowerShell

• Mastering PowerShell Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership (Michael Reinders)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Updated Static Analysis Requirement for Windows Driver Certification (Paul Eze)
• Trump claims deep state wrote fake documents about imaginary list that doesn’t exist (Ellsworth Toohey)
• Perhaps not a recommended usage for an emergency power outlet (Raymond Chen)
• DOGE staffer with access to Americans’ personal data leaked private xAI API key (Zack Whittaker)

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• Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – July 13 (Peter Ritchie)
• dotInsights | July 2025 (Rachel Appel)
• Daily Reading List – July 15, 2025 (#587) (Richard Seroter)
• The .NET News Daily Issue #240 (Jasen)

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