Microsoft partners with Anthropic to create official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol.Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft with the release of Altair BASIC source code by Bill Gates..NET Conf Focus on Modernization scheduled for April 22-23.Web & Cloud Development highlights include Aspire platform, Vonage Video Reference App, and Blazor WebAssembly AOT Compilation.Updates on Svelte, AzUrlShortener migration, .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date Ticks, and Jetpack Account Protection.WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML articles cover WPF Excel XLSX Viewer, CodeRush for Roslyn, and IValueConverter usage.Visual Studio Hub launched, File Operations in C#, MassTransit v9 announcement, and AutoMapper and MediatR going commercial.AI-related topics include GitHub Copilot experiment, Azure DeepSeek-R1 app, and Adobe’s Premiere Pro AI video extender.Design, Methodology & Testing articles focus on Measuring Continuous Delivery, Isolator++ v5.1 release, and Design Systems.Mobile, IoT & Game Development update on Flutter 2025 roadmap.