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
