Top Links
- Getting the most out of MCP in Visual Studio with Prompts, Resources, and Sampling (Allie Barry & Praveen Sethuraman)
 - Windows App SDK Version 1.7.4 (1.7.250909003) Stable Channel Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
 - What Android 16 KB Page Size Requirement Means for .NET Developers (Sam Basu)
 - Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad app updates begin rolling out to Windows Insiders (Dave Grochocki)
 - Prompt Files and Instructions Files Explained (Wendy Breiding)
 - Supercharge your workflow with real-time information from the Microsoft Learn MCP Server (Curtis Lee)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Using Visual Studio Code with Aspire and Blazor (Michael Washington)
 - Bandit-Driven Feature Flags in ASP.NET Core (with Azure ML) (Sudhir Mangla)
 - Top 10 Azure Mistakes and Pitfalls to Avoid (John Kilmister)
 - Windows 365 Cloud Apps are now in public preview (Serena Zheng)
 - Windows 365 brings resilient, AI-driven cloud productivity to more users (Stefan Kinnestrand)
 - Is it Time to Un-Sass? (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - Pure React Charts – High-Performance Native Charts for Large Datasets (Hemanathan Pandian)
 - Learning web development: Markdown (Axel Rauschmayer)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Visualize Your Music: Real-Time WPF Charts that Sync with Sound (Saiyath Ali Fathima M.)
 - WinUIEdit – Code editor control for UWP and WinUI 3 based on Scintilla (Breece Walker)
 - Windows App SDK 1.7.4 (1.7.250909003 ) (Roy MacLachlan)
 
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Morse Code Messages with C# (Bryan Hogan)
 - Presentation: Questioning Convention: C# as a Shortcut to Startup Velocity (Sam Cox)
 - .NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools (Almir Vuk)
 - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11012.119 Release Notes and Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14.15 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
 - Day 34: Genetic Algorithms vs. Other Optimization Techniques: A Developer’s Perspective (Chris Woodruff)
 - Phobos 2.10: Game-Changing Akka.NET Cluster Monitoring and Actor Performance Dashboards (Aaron Stannard)
 - .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 Builds on Early Promise Seen in Preview Releases (Jon Hilton)
 - How can I get my shell thumbnail extractors to run in the same process? (Raymond Chen)
 
AI
- Building AI Apps with the Foundry Local C# SDK (Sam Kemp)
 - Vibe Coding with an Agent and Twilio SMS (Amanda Lange)
 - AI Code Generation’s Unexpected Costs for Dev Teams (Vicki Walker)
 - Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering (Andrew Stellman)
 - How to Build Secure AI Coding Agents with Cerebras and Docker Compose (Oleg Selajev)
 - Public AI on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 (Joseph Low, Joshua Tan, Célina Hanouti, Julien Chaumond, Simon Brandeis & Lucain Pouget)
 - Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models (OpenAI Team)
 - Microsoft Copilot Studio Unleashed: Build Secure, Scalable AI Agents for Real Business Impact! (Jacques Guibert-DeBruet)
 - Build Multi‑Agent AI Systems with Microsoft (Lee Stott)
 - 3 Mega Trends Shaping How Developers Build AI Agents – Especially VoiceAI (Milena Radivojević)
 - A Prompt AI Experiment (Steve Jones)
 - Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives (Terrence O’Brien)
 - A Guide to AI Data Management (Tyler Mitchell)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Delivering Major Enhancements Without Writing Code: My Agentic DevOps Journey (AJ Bajada)
 - Migrating from XUnit v2 to v3–Troubleshooting (Bart Wullems)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 is Here (Matthew McCullough)
 - Raspberry Pi’s commitment to longevity: a sustainable advantage (Roger Thornton)
 - Android’s 16KB Page Size Explained: Flutter Migration Made Simple (Ravi Pai)
 - Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets (Emma Roth)
 - Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld (Tom Warren)
 - I regret to inform you Meta’s new smart glasses are the best I’ve ever tried (Victoria Song)
 
Screencasts & Videos
- Build Smarter Agents with Azure AI Search | Azure Essentials Show (Aaron Stark, Farzad Sunavala & Lana Teh)
 - Choosing the right Virtual Machine on Azure | Microsoft Mechanics (Matt McSpirit)
 - VS Code & Friends (Eleanor Berger)
 - Random.Code() – Fixing Bugs (Once More) in Rocks (Jason Bock)
 
Podcasts
- .NET Rocks! – Razor Tooling in Visual Studio 2026 with David Wengier (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Developer Tea – Forced and Unforced Errors (Jonathan Cutrell)
 - From AI Anxiety to AI Advantage: A Scrum Master’s Experimental Approach | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Shawn Dsouza)
 - The Changelog Podcast Episode #658 – Flowing with agents (Beyang Liu & Adam Stacoviak)
 - Yet Another Podcast – Scott Hunter (Jesse Liberty)
 - Grammar Girl Podcast – How algorithms are changing the meaning of words, with Adam Aleksic (Mignon Fogarty)
 - Syntax Podcast Episode #938 – Hot Takes + Bike Shedding (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
 - Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode #486 – Why Is Everyone Hiring A Social Media Person (Taylor Desseyn)
 
Community & Events
- Xbox Game Camp alumni share their stories (Athima Chansanchai)
 - Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements (Emma Roth)
 - Tech Moves: Read AI adds product VP; Microsoft legal chief steps down; Marchex CEO is out; Truveta CMO departs (Taylor Soper)
 
Database
- MySQL Basics: Into the Shell—Cracking Open Your Database Journey (Scott Stroz)
 - SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 (Attinder Pal Singh)
 - SQL Server 2025 RC1: faster DiskANN and FP16 support (Davide Mauri & Pooja Kamath)
 - Data Pipeline for IoT Data Ingestion to SQL Server 2025 (Hristo Hristov)
 - Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.3 (subhojitbasak)
 - MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Fabric Integration and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands (Public Preview) (Carlos Robles & Tauseef Siddique)
 - Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search (Artur Drozdz)
 - Event Enrichment in Marten Projections (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Introducing new update policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance (Mladen Andzic)
 - Lend your voice to the State of the Database Landscape survey (Tony Davis)
 
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files v4.0.11 (Files Team)
 - Stop struggling with Windows Search — try these 6 game‑changing alternatives (Mauro Huculak)
 - Firefox DNS privacy: Faster than ever, now on Android (Neha Kochar)
 - Apple’s future MacBook Pro might have a touchscreen (Jess Weatherbed)
 - Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels (msmash)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 17, 2025 (#629) (Richard Seroter)
 - The .NET News Daily Issue #286 (Jasen)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Blazor Web Development Cookbook: Tested recipes for advanced single-page application scenarios in .NET 9 (Pawel Bazyluk) – Referral Link

