Does anybody else have HAL9000 flashbacks looking at the new camera icon in iOS 26?

Finally, with Visual Studio Insiders and SSMS 22 Preview 1 I was able to set up a complete development environment for my work on the Arm PC! Best of all, both preview products include substantial improvements in usability and performance. You don't even need an Arm PC to enjoy the upgrades. 😉

Here's all the new APIs in the WindowsDesktop pack for .NET 10 compared to .NET 9. Lots of little Windows Forms things. The opposite can be said for WPF (with a disappointing total of 0 new APIs): omds.xaml.dev/desktop_net9...

Check out the new Visual Studio 2026 preview. It's fast and pretty! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Shared: Windows File Explorer is fine, actually, and these 6 PowerToys add-ons make it even better ift.tt/HSmVDpb #WinObsWiKi

📢Uno Platform 6.2 is out! ▪️Skia WASM: DPI fix + browser zoom ▪️SKCanvasElement: unified API across platforms ▪️WebView2 aligned with WinUI ▪️ListView + RequestedTheme reliability ▪️RatingControl updated to latest WinUI ▪️Hot Design: template editing, TemplateSelector, Color previews Full release blog🔗👇

Maybe all the recent noise about some AI bubble is related to something I've noticed: GitHub Copilot has gotten so much better lately that I find myself annoyed that it isn't even better!

What's new with PowerToys? | One Dev Question with Kayla Cinnamon. buff.ly/ZerchgP #powertoys #windows #commandpalette #poweruser #windows10 #windows11

Both are great books

I'm finally watching some Microsoft Build sessions I'd missed and found this gem: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio... They had me at "vibe coding is for throw-away things". 😊

Fixed it.

If you know what you're doing, you can probably do it faster than an AI can "help" you to do it. At least for now.

The time saved on things like active coding was overwhelmed by the time needed to prompt, wait on, and review AI outputs, according to the study.

It's always a thrill to be appreciated! Thank you to all my followers who help me help you and Microsoft.

Now all I need is hotdogs and watermelon

Thanks Bing chat! That’s just what I wanted to know.

Upgrading Your .NET Applications: Exploring .NET Upgrade Assistants at Microsoft Build. buff.ly/wwbSsPV #dotnet #modernization #msbuild #dotnetcore #visualstudio #vscode

I've been waiting to put this one out! How to run SSMS 21 on Windows 11 Arm64 sinclairinat0r.com/2025/05/29/h... #MVPBuzz

🎉 We’re back! Recorded live at #MSBuild, we sat down with @maddymontaquila.net to talk .NET Aspire, dev tools, AI, PM life, and what’s next for developers. We’ve missed this. Listen now at buff.ly/IMOPFTt or wherever you get your podcasts. #MVPBuzz

Shared: Windows Update Isn’t Just for System Updates Anymore ift.tt/R8rzwbS #WinObsWiKi

Windows MCP: like COM got a glow-up for the cloud/AI era—registries, proxies, interfaces… and this time, security isn’t optional. Just flip 8 bits: COM → MCP. Maybe that's MSFT's new formula—"Eight bits better than COM!" #MSBuild #Windows #Microsoft #COM #MCP www.linkedin.com/pulse/mcp-wi...

WPF or WinUI? Why not both!

What are agents? LLMs with extra goodness.

.NET is all-in on AI. Also the rest of Microsoft as far as I can tell.

Following along with Dian and Tucker's presentation on-demand: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

AI and Vector Data Extensions are now Generally Available (GA)

Basic to understanding GitHub Copilot is knowing what LLMs can and importantly can’t do.

It takes a team of professionals to make me presentable for my interview at #msbuild. Thanks, team!

ChatGPT on Azure uses Azure Cosmos DB for scalable storage.

Modern data centers require liquid cooling. Reminds me of the first computers I worked with!

It wouldn’t be #msbuild without Scott Guthrie, and there wouldn’t be modern AI without the data centers that do the work. He’s explaining how his team tried to make them as low impact on the environment as they can.

Getting Started with Foundry Local learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

The new Power Apps are intended to be agent first. Step aside, yesterday’s vibe coders!

This Copilot demo involves CSX trains carrying hazmat stuff. Now that’s real world! (I do garbage in, garbage out if you didn’t know )

Security, performance, maintainability are just some of the advantages to updating to the current version of .NET.

My customers don’t have reliable internet access everywhere all the time. That’s why Foundry Local is particularly interesting to me.

Nice work, Build security. I came here to learn about leveraging AI for my customers.

Foundry Principal PM @sethjuarez.com says all the Foundry demos are live. I believe him. 😉

The cameraman and I are learning about security for AI agents using Foundry.

These (and the other presenters at #msbuild) aren’t just running PowerPoints. They’re showing live code in many cases.

Bliss lives at #msbuild keynote.

Pro tip from the new Core AI team at Microsoft: assign the boring tasks to Copilot.

Really like how this solves the problem of getting the right model loaded and running on your device without having to deal with drivers, or getting gpu,npu or cpu versions. It was really the hardest part of getting started with local AI #msbuild

The Windows AI Pirate predicting what the second #msbuild keynote will cover. Full source here: github.com/dotMorten/AI...

Great view from my seat for today’s #MSBuild keynote. Let the awesome begin!

Microsoft Discovery is sort of GitHub for scientists.

Nice! If you make the following change to your WinUI app, replacing the meta pacakge with just the WinUI and Packages package, you'll significantly reduce the size of your WinUI app!

Get the docs for Windows Advanced settings here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Happy to see Elon left his chainsaw at home for this conference.

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