Top Links
- Bookmark Studio: evolving bookmarks in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
- Windows Weekly Episode #977 – Moonshine University – The Push for Building 100% Native Windows Apps (Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott & Richard Campbell)
- Azure.AI.Projects 2.0.0 Release for .NET and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI 2.0.0 Release for .NET and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents 2.0.0 Release for .NET (NuGet Gallery) – Build with Foundry nextgen Agents Service and tools in C#, now GA
- .NET Rocks! – ASP.NET Core in 2026 with Daniel Roth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- How Dart and Flutter are thinking about AI in 2026 (Mariam Hasnany)
- Azure DevOps: Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items (Dan Hellem)
- Run multiple agents at once with /fleet in Copilot CLI (Matt Nigh)
Web and Cloud Development
- Azure IaaS: Keep critical applications running with built-in resiliency at scale (Igal Figlin)
- New in ThemeBuilder: Typography and AI Theming Enhancements (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Multi-Tenancy in the Critter Stack (Jeremy D. Miller)
- General Availability: Social Identity Providers for Native Authentication via Browser‑Delegated Flows (web-view) in Microsoft Entra External ID (Sasha Mars)
- Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise (Microsoft Threat Intelligence & Defender Security Research Teams)
- Build Accessible Components with Angular Aria (Dany Paredes)
- Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
- Node.js 25.9.0 (Current) (Antoine du Hamel)
Windows Development
- The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover (Raymond Chen)
- What’s New in vcpkg (Feb 2026 – Mar 2026): Parallel file installation and more! (Augustin Popa)
.NET and Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2026 Version 18.4.3 Release Notes and Visual Studio Insiders Version 11626.173 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- Azure.AI.Projects v2.0.0 | Azure SDK for .NET and Azure.AI.Extensions.OpenAI v2.0.0 | Azure SDK for .NET and Azure.AI.Projects.Agents v2.0.0 | Azure SDK for .NET (Azure SDK Team)
- .NET Conf Most Popular Sessions Tool (Steve Smith)
- Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET v1.0.0 RC5 Release (westey-m)
- How to Convert Markdown to HTML in C# Using a .NET Word Library (Mathan Kumar Varadharaja)
- Using LLMs and MCP in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
- Observer Pattern Best Practices in C#: Code Organization and Maintainability (Nick Cosentino)
AI
- How Agentic AI Platforms Organize Their Hardware Infrastructure (Kevin Vu)
- Things I Think I Think… Preferring Local OSS LLMs (Ted Neward)
- AI DevOps: Use Cases, Agents & Safe Adoption (Flavius Dinu)
- How to integrate VS Code with Ollama for local AI assistance (Jack Wallen)
- Awesome GitHub Copilot just got awesommer (if that’s a word) (Bart Wullems)
- I, OpenClaw, Tackled Visual Studio 2026 and I Had My Human Do the Typing (OpenClaw AI)
- Inside Claude Code’s leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags (Janakiram MSV)
- Scaling AI with confidence: How leaders are using AI to drive enterprise transformation (Tracy Galloway)
- AI Can Clone Open-Source Software In Minutes (BeauHD)
- AI Tools for Developers (Beau Carnes)
- The Future of Tech Blogging in the Age of AI (Mark Heath)
- @prompty/core v2.0.0-alpha.1 and @prompty/foundry v2.0.0-alpha.1 and @prompty/anthropic v2.0.0-alpha.1 and @prompty/openai v2.0.0-alpha.1 (Seth Juarez)
- Practicing What We Preach: AI in Action (Devin Nori)
- Stop Using Elaborate Personas: Research Shows They Degrade Claude Code Output (Gentic News)
- ADeLe: Predicting and explaining AI performance across tasks (Lexin Zhou & Xing Xie)
- Your Framework Is Your AI’s Biggest Expense (Vince Canger)
- Microsoft Azure SDK For Projects » 2.0.0 Release for Java (Maven Repository)
- Holo3: Breaking the Computer Use Frontier (Ramzi De Coster, Pierre-Louis Cedoz, Tony Wu, Hamza Benchekroun, mandreux-hai, delfosse, Aurélien Lac, maxime, Axel Moyal, Antonio Loison, Kai Yuan & Ronan Riochet)
- OpenClaw v2026.4.1 Release (Peter Steinberger)
- The Model You Love Is Probably Just the One You Use (Tim O’Brien)
- Many Engineering Leaders Are Getting AI Adoption Wrong (Marko Crnjanski)
- Developer’s Guide to Building ADK Agents with Skills (Lavi Nigam & Shubham Saboo)
Python
- Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% (Michael Kennedy)
Design, DevOps and Methodology
- Playwright v1.59.1 Release (yury-s)
- Advanced Installer 23.6 Release (Advanced Installer Team)
- Securing the open source supply chain across GitHub (Zachary Steindler)
- Introducing Updater Cloud Add-On | Build, Host & Publish Updates Directly From Your Installer Project (Alexandra Stoienescu)
- A Practical Guide To Design Principles (Vitaly Friedman)
- Say the Thing You Want (Matheus Lima)
Mobile and Game Development
- Get your Wear OS apps ready for the 64-bit requirement (Michael Stillwell & Dimitris Kosmidis)
- Flutter Cyclomatic Complexity Guide (Majid Hajian)
- Teach your AI to write Swift the Hacking with Swift way (Paul Hudson)
- Highlights from Astro Pi 2025–2026 community events (Fergus Kirkpatrick)
Screencasts and Videos
- The Ultimate AI Catch-Up Guide (AIDailyBrief)
- Making Unstructured Data AI-Ready: A Fireside Chat with Microsoft & Komprise | ITOpsTalk (Aung Oo & Krishna Subramanian)
- .NET MAUI Community Standup | Introducing maui-labs (Gerald Versluis & David Ortinau) – Live on April 2nd @ 3pm EDT
- How to Turn SQL Database changes into Real-Time Intelligence with Fabric Eventstreams | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Arindam Chatterjee)
- Unveiling the Claude Code Leak: A Glimpse into the Future of AI Assistants (Frank La Vigne)
Dometrain Course
From Zero to Hero: REST APIs in .NET: Learn how to create robust, scalable REST APIs in ASP.NET Core. This course covers essential principles, real-world techniques, and advanced features for modern API development. (Nick Chapsas) – Referral Link
Podcasts
- Software Engineering Radio Episode #714 – Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming (Brijesh Ammanath)
- Talk Python to Me Episode #543 – Deep Agents: LangChain’s SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate (Michael Kennedy)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #201 – The Hard Lessons of Cloud Migration: inDrive’s Path from Monolith to Microservices (Alexander Lisachenko & Artem Gab)
- Big Technology Podcast – OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute (Alex Kantrowitz)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #992 – Migrating Legacy Code Just Got Easier (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- De-Scaling an Agile Organization — Removing Bureaucracy Without Losing Consistency | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Bhavin Shukla)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Podcast Episode #512 – AI Resumes, Ghost Jobs, & The State of the Market w/ Sr. Recruiter Steven Evans (Taylor Desseyn)
Community and Events
- On Apple’s 50th, recalling the time a Microsoft engineer drove Steve Jobs so crazy he invented the iPad (Todd Bishop)
- Imagine Cup 2026 Semifinalist: Builder Series Judges (Microsoft Student Developer Team)
Database
- SQL Server Integration Services Projects 2022+ GA (Chunhua)
- The Polyglot tax – Part 3 (Aditya Badramraju)
- Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring: Dashboard Overview: Server Health, Query Plans, and More! (Erik Darling)
- SQL Server 2025 CU4 Adds Automatic Updates (Brent Ozar)
PowerShell and Terminal
- PowerShell 7.6 release postmortem and investments (Jason Helmick)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.15 Release (copilot-cli-release-app[bot])
Tools
- WSL v2.8.0 Release (OneBlue)
General
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – April 1, 2026 (#754) (Richard Seroter)
The Geek Shelf
Microsoft Copilot for Power Apps (Rezwanur Rahman) – Referral Link
Transforming App Development with AI Assistance (Inside Copilot).