Top Links
- Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions (Lily Ma)
- .NET Rocks! – Agentic RAG with Ed Charbeneau (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI (Mark Russinovich & Scott Hanselman)
- Aspire v13.2.2 Servicing Release (github-actions[bot])
- Docs are Dead. Long Live the Docs. (Sam Basu)
- Introducing SQL MCP Server (Jerry Nixon)
Web and Cloud Development
- What’s new for the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor library 5.0 RC2 (Vincent Baaij)
- Adding an MCP Server to the WordPress Core Development Environment (Weston Ruter)
- First Public Working Draft: CSS Image Animation Module Level 1 and First Public Working Draft: Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.1 (W3C)
- Why Identity Is Infrastructure, Not a Feature (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Build and Host MCP Apps on Azure App Service (Jordan Selig)
- BFF and SPAs: Best Friends Forever (David Ramel)
- The WebCodecs Handbook: Native Video Processing in the Browser (Sam Bhattacharyya)
- Mastering ASP.NET Core Rate Limiting: From Basic Throttling to Distributed Token Buckets (Sudhir Mangla)
- From 10 Failed Stacks to Production: How a Data Scientist Built a Job Board with Wasp, a Full-stack Framework for the Agentic Era (Matija Sosic)
- How WordPress 7.0 Is Building the Foundation for AI-Powered Sites (WordPress.com Staff)
- How to Integrate React Gantt Chart in Framer (Lokesh Arjunan)
- Introducing Bun as a Runtime for Pulumi (Julien Poissonnier)
- Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available (Davis Goodin)
Windows Development
.NET and Visual Studio
- Testing C# Source Generators: A Practical Guide (Nick Cosentino)
- 🚀 Bing Open-Sources New Embedding Models — Now Available in C# with LocalEmbeddings.Harrierđź“ť Convert Anything to Markdown in .NET — Meet ElBruno.MarkItDotNet (Bruno Capuano)
- How to Delete and Update Millions of Rows in EF Core Without Loading a Single Entity (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- What’s new in Foundry Labs – April 2026 (Vaidyas)
- AI Tools: MCP Server and Agent Skills (Jonathan Maron)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.9 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- Grok 4.2 is now available in Microsoft Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects (Jay Peters)
- Meta’s new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools (Simon Willison)
- Bugbot now self-improves with learned rules (Cursor Team)
- Build Your AI Agent in 5 Minutes with AI Toolkit for VS Code (Isha Sahni)
- Beyond the App: Using Vibe Coding to Ship Decks, Dashboards, and Launch Assets (Replit Team)
- Progress Telerik Agentic UI Generator vs. Syncfusion Agentic UI Builder (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Best LLM APIs in 2026: Comparing OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral & DeepSeek (Arunachalam Kandasamy Raja)
- Claude Managed Agents: get to production 10x faster (Claude Team)
- How to Serve a Vision AI Model Locally with vLLM and Reka Edge (Frank Boucher)
- ngrok free plan users can now purchase AI Gateway credits (Nijiko Yonskai)
- AI-Infused Development Needs More Than Prompts (Markus Eisele)
- As an Engineering Manager, I couldn’t ignore AI if my teams are to survive (Kristina Valjak)
- Stop Wasting Hours Writing Unit Tests: Use GitHub Copilot to Explode Code Coverage Fast (Chris Pietschmann)
- What We’ve Learned Designing Dev Tools in the Age of AI (Alyssa Nicoll)
- GitHub Copilot–Format your code using hooks (Bart Wullems)
- When AI delivers real value, not just potential (Microsoft in Business Team)
- Using ACP + Deep Agents to Demystify Modern Software Engineering (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- ALTK‑Evolve: On‑the‑Job Learning for AI Agents (Vatche Isahagian, Vinod Muthusamy, Jayaram Radhakrishnan, Gaodan Fang, Punleuk Oum & G. Thomas)
- AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why (Mustafa Suleyman)
- Posthuman: We All Built Agents. Nobody Built HR. (Tyler Akidau)
- Hello, World – Welcome to the Copilot Studio Blog! (David Abu)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Layoff Thinking (Ted Neward)
- Why “Clean Code” is Killing Your Velocity (Derek Comartin)
- You See a Spec, I See a Common Language, and a Common Understanding (Kin Lane)
- GitHub Actions Custom Runner Images Reach General Availability (Claudio Masolo)
- Reclaim Developer Hours through Smarter Vulnerability Prioritization with Docker and Mend.io (Dan Berezin Stelzer)
- Feedback Flywheel (Martin Fowler)
Mobile and Game Development
- Expanding Swift’s IDE Support (Tracy Miranda)
- Swift 6.3 officially brings Android support (ProMobile.Dev)
- Available for Xbox Insiders: New Improvements to Achievements (Jon)
Screencasts and Videos
- Overview of migrating SQL Workloads to Azure (ITOpsTalk)
- Should We Be Scared of Anthropic’s Mythos? (AIDailyBrief)
- Beyond Copilot: AI Agents That Build, Debug and Govern Power Automate Flows | The Low Code Revolution (John Liu, Catherine Han & Elaiza Benitez)
- Unveiling Claude Mythos: The 244-Page Odyssey That Could Change AI (Frank La Vigne)
- Claude + GPT | Multi-model intelligence in Copilot | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)
- Official Xbox Podcast: Forza Horizon 6 Dev Discussion (Joe Skrebels)
Dometrain Course
Podcasts
- Smooth Scaling Podcast Episode #23 – Autoscaling in Production: When It Works and When It Doesn’t with Zaigham Sarfaraz and Šimon BuÄŤko (José Quaresma)
- The Amp Hour #721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #715 – Sahaj Garg on Designing for Ambiguity in Human Input (Amey Ambade)
- Windows Weekly Episode #978 – Pre-Peated – “Copilot Is for Entertainment Purposes Only” (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- The Cloud Pod Episode #349 – Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx | Cloud Computing & AI News (Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas & Matt Kohn)
- Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #994 – AI Sucks At CSS (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Losing clients to AI, and how to gain them back, with Suzanne Bowness (Mignon Fogarty)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #203 – Neurosymbolic AI: Combining GenAI with Mathematical Proof (Danilo Poccia)
- The Hidden Cost of Distributed Agile Teams — When Time Zones and Misaligned Incentives Silently Kill Value Delivery | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
Community and Events
- You’re invited. Windows Insiders meetups are back (Stephen Lines)
- GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage (Rachel Cohen)
- Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns (Tom Warren)
- Microsoft Moves: Longtime exec Julia Liuson to retire; new accessibility chief; and other changes (Lisa Stiffler)
- Introducing the 2026 Imagine Cup World Finalists (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
Database
- Create a SQL Server Baseline (M A A Mehedi Hasan)
- Microsoft ODBC Driver 18.6.2 for SQL (David Levy)
- Publish SQL Database Projects as Container Images with MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj (Erik EJ)
- The Insert Benchmark vs MariaDB 10.2 to 13.0 on a 32-core server (Mark Callaghan)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring Memory Graphs (Erik Darling)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Unable to use database view option in Access – Microsoft 365 (NsdHill21steph)
- Introducing the new Windows 365 monitoring and reporting platform — now in Public Preview (Doug Coombs)
PowerShell and Terminal
- Junie CLI Now Connects to Your JetBrains IDE (Dmitry Savelev)
Writing
- How To Write An Irresistible Book Blurb In 5 Easy Steps (Writers Write)
General
- Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates (Joseph Cox)
- Dark Matter May Exist in Two States, Explaining Missing Signals in Dwarf Galaxies (Anastasia Scott)
- 18 new features coming to Windows 11 in 2026, confirmed by Microsoft (Abhijith M B)
More Link Collections
- dotInsights | April 2026 (Rachel Appel)
- Daily Reading List – April 8, 2026 (#759) (Richard Seroter)
