I'll be back in person at Microsoft Build again this year. I hope to see some of my old friends again even though this year's conference is more "intimate" and only 2 days long.

his morning I can only read new O365 mail from my work account on my iPhone and not on my Windows PC. Mail worked great. Outlook (new) and Outlook (pwa) not so much. Why, Microsoft, why?

Conversion of big solution's data access to Dapper done except for final testing. Thanks, Gemini, for the help!

Visual Studio's Copilot auto-completion is more accurate today. Does that mean I'm writing more boring code that usual?

I built a web app with the GitHub Copilot SDK to make analyzing log files easier. It'll summarize them, provide a root cause analysis, and also link any GitHub issues they could be related to ✨ Check out the GitHub Copilot SDK here: github.com/github/copil...

@larsklint ‘s farm in country Victoria was hit by the recent bushfires. There’s a Gofundme to help him and the family get back on their feet: https://gofund.me/e40fc8d09

As a very long-time techie myself, I'm really enjoying @karaswisher.bsky.social's "tech love story" Burn Book. It's on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/s?k=kara+swi...

Either I got dumber over the holidays, or Visual Studio Copilot got smarter while I was away.

Re-upping one of my favorite product design resolutions this year: Don't add features nobody asked for as default behavior or as hard to disable no matter how hard marketing tries to bully me about this.

So are we wagging the dog again now?

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me 🦙🍐🎄 A Llama in a #FluentUI #XAML Tree… 🦙🍐🎄 Happy Holidays! We're back for a classic twist to preview the upcoming 2026 #XAMLStudio v2 w/ #12DaysOfXAML! Now with a new Fluent coat 🧥! #WindowsDev 🦙🍐🎄

At the Microsoft MVP summit, @kclemson.bsky.social, Raymond Chen and I did a talk consisting of stories from the past 40 or so years of Microsoft history. Unfortunately ir wasn't recorded. This fall, we recreated it on video to be shared, and I'm so happy we did.

Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

More like fog of character

Still not loving Outlook (new)

Same!

My son learned to read by playing Zork. It’s great to see Zork live on.

6 million patient interaction summaries were generated by AI by Epic medical software last year. In the demo simulation, a mobile device (phone?) recorded the patient conversation and transmitted it to the Epic app for summarization and suggested tasks.

I'm not sure my customers want to be "frontier firms", which have to "holistically reimagine their whole businesses". Even Copilot agrees!

Continuing Windows evolution as a secure open platform for AI and Agents blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

If you want your WinUI app to launch to the tray, and optionally add a context menu to the tray, it is now SUPER simple with WinUIEx!

It's faster and more accessible. What's not to like?

post quantum cryptography support! (that's what I'm most excited about)

Who uses .NET anyway? Over 7 million of us!

Announcing .NET 10 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou... #dotnet

Visual Studio 2026 is an impressive upgrade: faster, more capable, but still backward compatible. Check it out!

Coming up at the top of the hour. See you there!

Downloading .NET 10.

INotifyPodcastChanged Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey and hosts Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme buff.ly/DBE92af #podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz

Happy Halloween @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @sbisson.com ! Those were fun times.

The .NETConf agenda is now live with many of your favorite presenters: www.dotnetconf.net/agenda

Do you want to talk to your PC? Do you want everybody in your office to do that?

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11111.16 Release Notes | Microsoft Learn buff.ly/4RSwVQf #visualstudio #vs2026 #dotnet #githubcopilot #productivity #developers

Fortunately, all the apps I support have been off .NET Framework for years now, but if you're not so lucky check out this video on modernizing .NET apps using GitHub Copilot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKg...

Results from a little WinUIEx experiment this weekend. Simple API to create regions and set them: window.SetRegion( Region.CreateRectangle(window.GetBounds()) - Region(rectangle.GetBounds()); Can also be used to clip the outside of the window to a custom shape. #WinUI

Happy 11th Birthday to Windows Insiders! I can't even remember that last time a fresh Canary build gave me real issues.

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.