Top Links
- Take full control of your floating windows in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- How to Give AI Coding Agents Better Direction (Matt Mattei)
- ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement (Daniel Roth)
- Avalonia 12 – Ready for What’s Next (Steven Kirk)
- Your Migration’s Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment (Jeffrey Fritz)
- Agentic development aspirations: build, run, observe — without more Markdown (Maddy Montaquila)
- MCP as Easy as 1-2-3: Introducing the Fluent API for MCP Apps (Lilian Kasem)
Web and Cloud Development
- AZD for Beginners: A Practical Introduction to Azure Developer CLI (Lee Stott)
- @node-projects/layout2vector – A converter for DOM to DXF, PDF, PNG & SVG & back to HTML (Jochen Kühner)
- Video Archiving with the Vonage Video API and React (Diana Pham & Misha Behei)
- ASP.NET Core: Why I Couldn’t Upgrade FluentValidation Past 11.4 in My Calzolari.Grpc.AspNetCore.Validation Package (and How I Finally Fixed It) (Anthony Giretti)
- 3 Ways to Get More from Azure SRE Agent (dchelupati)
- How to Mock APIs Locally During Development (Danny Dainton)
- ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement (Dan Roth)
- Microsoft Launches Windows 365 Connector Preview for Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps (Rabia Noureen)
- How to Build Responsive and Accessible UI Designs with React and Semantic HTML (Gopinath Karunanithi)
- Extending Duende IdentityServer Server-Side Sessions with Dynamic User Metadata (AL Rodriguez)
- Alternatives to the !important Keyword (Saleh Mubashar)
- New in WordPress Studio: Studio CLI on npm & phpMyAdmin Access (Alexa Peduzzi)
- Containerize an ASP.NET Core BFF and Angular frontend using Aspire (Tim Deschryver)
- How to Implement Cut, Copy, and Paste Support in React Spreadsheet (Parthasarathy Ranjan)
- Azure Local Disconnected Operations: Running Sovereign Cloud, Productivity, and AI in Air‑Gapped Environments (Thomas Maurer)
- Proposed Advancement of IMSC Text Profile 1.3 to W3C Recommendation (W3C)
Windows Development
- Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them? (Raymond Chen)
- Windows Package Manager 1.29.70-preview Release (hackean)
- The Official VB6 Apology Tour – 18 Years of Regret (and How to Finally Escape) (DeeDee Walsh)
.NET and Visual Studio
- TX Spell .NET 11.0 SP1 is Now Available: What’s New in the Latest Version and TX Text Control vs iText: Understanding Template-Based Document Generation in .NET (Bjoern Meyer)
- Marten, Polecat, and Wolverine Releases — One Shining Moment Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
AI
- Building a Real-Time Multi-Agent UI with AG-UI and Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows (Evan Mattson)
- When AI goes down a rabbit hole, use it to your advantage (Jon Hilton)
- Creating a Custom AI Agent with Telerik Tools 1: Configuring an LLM for Azure or Ollama (Peter Vogel)
- Running AI agents safely in a microVM using docker sandbox (Andrew Lock)
- Manage AI context with the Lola package manager (Daniele Martinoli, Igor Brandao & Katie Mulliken)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.8 Release and OpenClaw v2026.4.7 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- MCP Apps now available in Copilot chat (Deepak Pratinidhi)
- Workflows in the Age of AI: How Design & Development Workflows Changed in 2025—and What Comes Next (Kathryn Grayson Nanz)
- Claude Throttling and the Cloud (Steve Smith)
- AGUI to the Rescue (Lino Tadros)
- How and when to use subagents in Claude Code (Claude Team)
- Karpathy shares ‘LLM Knowledge Base’ architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI (Karl Franzen)
- Latest enhancements for Copilot security, management, and analytics (Sophie Ke)
- Specification-Driven Development: How to Stop Vibe Coding and Actually Ship Production-Ready AI-Generated Code (HK Lee)
- Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-powered study tool for students (Ivan Mehta)
- How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one (Tey Bannerman)
- Inside Microsoft’s Shift From “Copilot Everywhere” to Intentional AI Integration (Kieron Allen)
- Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1) (Victor Yocco)
- Microsoft Open-Sources Industry-Leading Embedding Model (Bing Team)
- Enabling agent-first process redesign (MIT Technology Review Insights)
- AI World Clocks (Brian Moore)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Distributed Computing & Docker (Jesse Liberty)
- Boss go bye-bye (Eric Brechner)
- Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (Caer Sanders)
- Enterprises struggle with the increased complexity of application change (Ian Barker)
- The World Needs More Software Engineers (Tim O’Reilly)
- The Building Block Economy (Mitchell Hashimoto)
Mobile and Game Development
- Flutter’s Material and Cupertino code freeze (Justin McCandless)
- Tired of Multiple Viewers? Build a Universal Document Viewer in .NET MAUI (Deepak G.)
- Xcode 26.5 Beta: What Developers Need to Know (ArshTechPro)
- Mighty projects for your 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 (Phil King)
- Hello Developer: April 2026 (Apple Developer Team)
- Error CompileAppManifest Task Failed Unexpectedly (Iris Classon)
Screencasts and Videos
- SQL on Azure Platform Options (ITOpsTalk)
- 6 Questions Shaping AI and The Calm Before the AGI Storm (AIDailyBrief)
- How to use MCP servers with GitHub Copilot CLI | Tutorial for beginners (GitHub Team)
- EPISODE 35 – Scott & Mark Learn To… Beyond the Vibes: How Models Learn and Stitch Panoramas (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)
- Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Courtney Yatteau (Isaac Levin)
- Streamlining AI Development: The Power of Agent Customizations (James Montemagno)
- Making the Map for Everyone! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter and Build Your First AI Search in .NET with Nuclia RAG | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
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Podcasts
- Developer Tea Podcast – Mourning the Loss of Coding, Senior Tooling Mindset, and Shaping Your Environment (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Future Knowledge Podcast Episode #26 – The Secret Life Of Data (Internet Archive & Authors Alliance)
- RunAs Radio Show #1031 – Securing AI Agents with Niall Merrigan (Richard Campbell)
- MacBreak Weekly Episode #1019 – Furious, Eloquent, and Unrestrained – The Earth: Shot on iPhone (Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell & Christina Warren)
- The Shift – What senses do agents need to act? (Ronak, Vinod & Linda from Microsoft Foundry)
- Getting Black Women Piad Podcast – Salary Negotiation, Executive Presence & Wealth Building for Working Moms (with Khiara Cureton) (‘Tine Zekis)
- When the Blame Game Between Product and Engineering Destroys Your Scrum Team From the Inside | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Nate Amidon)
- The Presentation Podcast Episode #243 – 100+ Hours for an Eight-Minute Presentation with John Chen (Troy Chollar)
- Continuous Delivery Office Hours Episode #3 – Branching strategies (Steve Fenton)
Community and Events
- MVP Champ Spotlight- Uros Babic (Brooke Lynn Weenig)
- CfPs Closing Soon (Dave Aronson)
Database
- SQL Server Table-Valued Parameter Join Issues in Stored Procedures (Mehdi Ghapanvari)
- Deeper Diagnostics and Actionable Dashboards (Pinal Dave)
- Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Tredence Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) | March 2026 (Manish Sharma)
- How Multi-Column Statistics Work (Brent Ozar)
- The Insert Benchmark vs MariaDB 10.2 to 13.0 on a 24-core server (Mark Callaghan)
Sharepoint, Teams and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft is changing how OneDrive handles file deletions (Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson)
PowerShell and Terminal
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.21 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
- Do other people not like colors? or: adventures with ANSI codes and grep (Rachel Kaufman)
Tools
- The Morning Dew – Apps on Google Play (Alvin Ashcraft)
General
- Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long (Tom Warren)
- “The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO (Ashley Belanger)
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- Daily Reading List – April 7, 2026 (#758) (Richard Seroter)
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