Agenda

Scott Hanselman, McKenna Barlow, Chet Husk

Join Scott Hanselman and friends as he discusses the topic of modernizing your existing .NET applications. You'll learn about the processes, plans, tools available, and benefits of updating your applications to the latest release of .NET. We'll also discuss the experiences of other developers who have modernized their applications.

McKenna Barlow, Chet Husk

Streamline your .NET application modernization and offload tedious .NET porting tasks, such as code analysis, dependency mapping, and refactoring with the new AI-assisted modernization tooling. See how to simultaneously and consistently transform applications using a unified web experience for collaboration or within your IDE such as Visual Studio and VS Code. You will learn how generative AI agents can help you save time and effort to port hundreds of .NET applications to a modern platform.

Pablo Lopes

Enterprise web application patterns help developers migrate web apps to the cloud. Each pattern addresses common business goals and guides towards a more advanced web application. In this session, you will learn how Reliable Web App pattern aids in moving on-premises apps to the cloud with minimal code changes, ensuring a smooth transition.

Jerry Nixon

Data-driven line-of-business apps — single-tier, multi-tier, microservices, or anything in between — all face a difficult modernization story with big timelines and budgets, and political obstacles dwarfed only by technical challenges. Database interaction can be costly, inflating your codebase, unit tests, and DevOps pipeline. But what if there were an easier way to standardize and simplify with more features and technical capability, and less technical debt and complexity, all while maintaining secure, forward-looking API-oriented practices?

Taylor Southwick

Are you ready to take your ASP.NET apps to the next level? Join us to learn the latest techniques and best practices for modernizing your existing ASP.NET apps to take advantage of ASP.NET Core and the modern .NET platform. Discover the cutting-edge tools and techniques that will revolutionize your migration process. We'll explore tooling with the .NET Upgrade Assistant and runtime helpers like YARP, the System.Web Adapters, and Blazor components. No two migrations are the same, and we'll showcase a variety of approaches to help you modernize your .NET applications. Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform your development experience and stay ahead in the ever-evolving .NET ecosystem!

Michael Yen-Chi Ho

See how thousands of developers are using the free, first-party application and code assessment toolkit from Microsoft to save time and accelerate their migration to the cloud. Learn how the integrated GitHub Copilot Chat provides a natural language interface to interact with recommended code changes to apply a broad range of code transformations with different cases and code patterns. The .NET assessment is free and available as a Visual Studio extension and a .NET CLI tool.

Maddy Montaquila

Modernizing an app involves many paradigms like microservices, resiliency, serverless, AI, and cloud migration. Navigating these options and staying productive is challenging. You can't just 'hit F5' to debug a modern app; you need expertise in Dockerfiles, cloud provisioning, and networking. Learn how .NET Aspire helps app developers and how easy it is to get started with a set of tools, templates, and packages that simplify your development process from coding to deployment without replatforming, rewriting, or vendor lock-in.

Jordan Matthiesen, Jon Galloway

You've upgraded your application but now you want to start taking advantage of the new AI features that are available to .NET developers. What are your next steps? How do we get started? What features can we add to our application? In this session we'll get you started adding new features using large language models (LLM) and the Microsoft.Extensions.AI library

Santiago Arango

Got an older tech stack that’s about as fresh as last week’s leftovers? Fear not—modernizing your desktop apps is easier than you think! In this session, we’ll show you how to shift from WinForms to Blazor using .NET, land your apps in Azure for simpler, cloud-based maintenance, and even sprinkle in some AI magic to future-proof your solutions. We'll share practical tips, real-world examples, and a few cautionary tales—no stale code left behind! Join us for a lively exploration of how to bring your legacy applications roaring into the future.