Top Links
- Make Sense of Your Output Window with Copilot (Jessie Houghton)
- Blazor Forms Made Easy: Advanced DataForm Layouts, Smart Validation & UX Tips (Prince Oliver)
- Is A Shell All You Need? (Den Delimarsky)
- Getting Started with the Blazor AI Prompt Component (Héctor Pérez)
- The First Set of Updates and Fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2025.2 Is Out! (Sasha Ivanova)
- On .NET Live – Hanselman, Unscripted (Scott Hanselman) – Coming up on Monday!
Web & Cloud Development
- Using a Lock in a Web API Action Method (Bryan Hogan)
- jQuery 4.0.0 Close To Release (Ian Elliot)
- Fine-Grained Authorization in ASP.NET Core with Auth0 FGA (Andrea Chiarelli)
- A CSS only time progress bar to use in markdown / GitHub Pages (Chris Heilmann)
- Build Fast Angular Apps with SSG (Dany Paredes)
- New Rust-Based Tool Installs Ruby in Seconds (Loraine Lawson)
- Azure Native 3.8: Unified Credentials and Private Clouds (Eron Wright)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Windowing overview for WinUI and Windows App SDK (Microsoft Learn)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- dotnet actions: C# scripting to the rescue (Daniel Cazzulino)
- From DOCX to Long-Term Archiving: Generating PDF/A from Office Documents in .NET C# (Bjoern Meyer)
- What’s New in vcpkg (August 2025) (Augustin Popa)
- How to Export Excel Chart to Image in C#: PNG & JPEG Formats (Mohan Chandran)
- How can I write a C++/WinRT IAsyncOperation where T is not a Windows Runtime type?, part 2 (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Hybrid AI Isn’t the Future — It’s Here (and It Runs in Docker) (Ignasi Lopez Luna)
- Agentic AI: The Next Leap in Intelligent Systems (Sagar Lad)
- Welcome EmbeddingGemma, Google’s new efficient embedding model (Tom Aarsen, Joshua, Alvaro Bartolome, Aritra Roy Gasthipaty, Pedro Cuenca & Sergio Paniego)
- Expanding economic opportunity with AI (OpenAI Team)
- Introducing EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings (Min Choi, Sahil Dua & Alice Lisak)
- Replit expands Google Cloud Collaboration with new Google Cloud Marketplace Listing (Replit Team)
- How to Fine-Tune Large Language Models (Beau Carnes)
- Focus on your end users when creating AI workloads (Bob Walker)
- Build Custom Engine Agents in AI Foundry for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Chris Arendt)
- Building smarter interactions with MCP elicitation: From clunky tool calls to seamless user experiences (Chris Reddington)
- Using AI with .NET 10 Scripts: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons Learned (Frank Boucher)
- DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan (Ivan Mehta)
- The Future of AI: Creating a Web Application with Vibe Coding (Krishna Doss)
- Don’t vibe code your backend: The hidden dangers of BaaS (Peter Aideloje)
- Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses (Tom Warren)
- From Zero to MCP: Simplifying AI Integrations with xmcp (Valentina Bearzotti)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- New Test Run Hub in Azure Test Plans (Panagiotis Liaros)
- Why rational humans make irrational decisions (Bart Wullems)
- Some Best Practices for Writing Readable Automation Tests (Charlie Freestone)
- Composing Data from Multiple Services (Derek Comartin)
- 5 Ways Static Code Analysis Can Improve Developer Experience (Kerry Beetge)
- Prioritizing your backlog (Mark Downie)
- A developer’s guide to building secure retail apps with GitLab (Rebeca Fenoy-Anthony)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Best practices for migrating users to passkeys with Credential Manager (Niharika Arora & Vinisha Athwani)
- Improved Annotation Handling in Kotlin 2.2: Less Boilerplate, Fewer Surprises (Teodor Irkhin)
Screencasts & Videos
- .NET MAUI Community Standup – Talking RC1, iPhone, and more (David Ortinau & Gerald Versluis)
- dotnet run .cs, much better than writing scripts (Isaac Levin)
- Everything Wrong With Developer Productivity Metrics with Adam Berry | Hangar DX Podcast (The Hangar)
- Configure Windows Admin Center in the Azure Portal | ITOpsTalk (Orin Thomas)
- Let’s build some web apps! | Fritz’s Tech Tips and Chatter (Jeff Fritz)
- Context engineering for AI agents | AI Agents for Beginners (Korey Stegared-Pace)
- SQL database in Fabric – What’s new and improved in public preview? | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Idris Motiwala)
Podcasts
- The Pixel Watch 4: From Design to Wear Made by Google Podcast S8E3 (Rachid Finge)
- InfoQ Podcast: The Evolution of Code Review: From Bug-Finding to Team Building (Greg Foster)
- The Hanselminutes Podcast – The Ultimate Home Arcade with Polycade’s Tyler Bushnell (Scott Hanselman)
- Fear-Free Teams—Creating Psychological Safety for High Performance | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Mariano Gontcher)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Kotlin is more than just the Android house language (Phoebe Sajor)
- The AWS Developers Podcast Episode #180 – Gaming Development Demystified (Matheus Guimaraes)
- AGL 433: Pam Buchanan (John Rouda)
- Generative AI in the Real World: Luke Wroblewski on When Databases Talk Agent-Speak (Ben Lorica & Luke Wroblewski)
- Software Defined Talk Episode #536 – My search engine couldn’t help me (Brandon Whichard, Coté & Matt Ray)
Community & Events
- JetBrains JavaScript Day 2025 Registration Is Now Open (Aleksandra Aganezova)
- Submit your ideas for Interop 2026 (Jen Simmons)
- Microsoft and PASS Summit are going on tour! (Govanna)
- Igniting Leadership Fire: Heartfelt Lessons from our Kenya Leaders (Jaclyn Vidusic)
- Calling for Interop 2026 proposals (Patrick Brosset)
Database
- Announcing the Oracle Database Vector Store Connector for Semantic Kernel (Alex Keh)
- Coming Soon: More SSMS 21 Updates and SSMS 22 Preview! (M. Barickman)
- August 2025 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Gauri Kasar)
- Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates – September 2025 (James Hemson)
- Learn T-SQL With Erik: Writing Bad Data With NOLOCK Hints (Erik Darling)
- August 2025 Recap: Azure Database for MySQL (Vandhana Mehta)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- New Diagnostic: Copilot Agent Functionality in Microsoft Teams. (mofazil88)
- End of support for Access 2016 and Access 2019 nears (lindalu)
- Copilot can now help Microsoft 365 subscribers get more out of their OneDrive files on Windows (Greg Socha)
Miscellaneous
- New White House commitments empower teachers, students, and job seekers through AI skilling and learning (Brad Smith & Ryan Roslansky)
- The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired (David Pierce)
- Here is Lego’s $1,000 Death Star, the most expensive Lego set ever (Sean Hollister)
- PowerToys Command Palette utility (Microsoft Learn)
- Linux Mint 22.2 Zara arrives as a long term support release backed until 2029 (Wayne Williams)
More Link Collections
- Daily Reading List – September 4, 2025 (#621) (Richard Seroter)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #277 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Toolkit eBook Humble Bundle (Packt Publishing) – Referral Link
