.NET Conf 2018
as the organisers put it
Join the .NET Conf 2026 free virtual event November 10 - 12 2026 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Scott Hunter, Mads Torgersen, Miguel De Icaza | 01h 14m |
Overview of concrete updates and demos: .NET Core 2.1 ships with claimed benchmark gains — plain text +15%, JSON +18%, data access +147% — and >500k daily Core… | ||
| Welcome to ! | Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway | 29m |
Community update lists concrete resources and actions: an aggregator DiscoverDotnet and a gallery BuiltWith.NET for submitting projects, a new open‑source .NET… | ||
| What's Coming to C#? | Mads Torgersen | 57m |
C# ships point releases 7.1–7.3 with concrete low-level features: ref/in/ref returns/readonly refs for zero-copy structs, and the runtime-and-library-backed… | ||
| What's New in ASP.NET Core? | Daniel Roth | 01h 00m |
ASP.NET Core 2.2 preview adds concrete tools and behaviors: Kestrel gains HTTP/2 support (no server push yet), IIS gets a new in-process IIS hosting model that… | ||
| Latest Productivity Updates in Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8 | kendra havens | 53m |
Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8 ships concrete speed and tooling gains: solution load is ~25% faster vs 2015, source-based test discovery finds 10,000 tests in… | ||
| Build great libraries using .NET Standard | Tara Jobs | 46m |
Recommends start with .NET Standard 2.0 as the best tradeoff for reach and API richness, shows converting a .NET Framework library to .NET Standard, using the… | ||
| Complete Awesomeness for Mobile .NET Developers | James Montemagno | 57m |
Demos building a Xamarin.Forms app called Monkey Finder 6000 that fetches monkeys.json, deserializes it with QuickType-generated C# models, and runs an HTTP… | ||
| Entity Framework Core 2.2 and beyond: what's cooking? | Diego Vega, Smit Patel | 50m |
Shows what's actually added in EF Core 2.2 preview: relational owns many support for collections of owned types (creates separate table; owned reference still… | ||
| What's New in Xamarin Forms? | David Orton | 55m |
Xamarin.Forms hits concrete milestones: stable 3.1 and 3.2 pre-release with compiled XAML and compiled bindings for compile‑time checking and speed, Android… | ||
| Virtual Attendee Party | Jeff Fritz, Richard Campbell | 01h 36m |
A live social party that runs on Twitter, Mixer and Twitch where hosts run timed trivia, randomly pick winners and hand out hardware like an Xbox One X… | ||
| Machine Learning in .NET (ML.NET) | Agatha Stena | 59m |
ML.NET demos show concrete results: a GitHub issue classifier built with text transforms, key encoding and a pipeline that saves a model to disk; a movie… | ||
| AI + Machine Learning for .NET Developers | Cesar De la Torre Llorente | 41m |
Shows concrete, working integrations: uses Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision then swaps to Custom Vision offline by loading a exported model.pb so the… | ||
| 5 Azure Services Every .NET Developer Needs to Know | Andrew Hall, Paul Yuknewicz | 01h 01m |
Shows migrating a .NET photo gallery to Azure by standing up an App Service Web Apps host and an Azure SQL Database, swapping local file storage for Blob… | ||
| Azure Durable Functions for serverless .NET orchestration | Jeff Hollan | 56m |
Durable orchestration runs on Azure Durable Functions as an open-source Azure Functions extension that uses event sourcing and an execution history in Azure… | ||
| .NET Core Microservice Development Made Easy with Azure Dev Spaces | Lisa Guthrie | 31m |
Azure Dev Spaces runs development services in a shared AKS cluster so only the service under development needs local code, with Visual Studio/VS Code or CLI… | ||
| Azure DevOps for .NET Teams | Martin Woodward | 56m |
Demo creates an ASP.NET Core app with an SQL database and an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline that builds, runs three unit tests, and deploys to an Azure Web App… | ||
| Blazor: Modern Web development with .NET and WebAssembly | Daniel Roth | 01h 01m |
Blazor runs real .NET in the browser by shipping a mono.wasm runtime plus your compiled DLLs and boots via a tiny JavaScript shim; a simple sample downloads… | ||
| Microservices with .NET on Service Fabric | Sudhanva Huruli, Vaclav Turecek | 01h 01m |
Builds a voting app with .NET Core on Azure Service Fabric, using reliable collections for transactional state, Visual Studio/VS Code locally and Azure DevOps… | ||
| Visual Studio for Mac Tips & Tricks | Amy Burns, Dominic Nahous | 47m |
Visual Studio for Mac is a native macOS IDE that actually supports Xamarin, Unity, .NET Core 2.1 and F#, offers Roslyn-powered IntelliSense and built-in… | ||
| How I Pwned My Cloud Costs | Troy Hunt | 47m |
A public breach-check service handling billions of records stays on a coffee-budget by replacing autoscaling app-service instances with Azure Functions (67k… | ||
| Modular Web Applications with ASP.NET Core | Thien Nguyen | 45m |
Although there are many challenges, applying modular architecture can bring us huge benefits. This talk will show you how we applied this architecture in… | ||
| Get started with DevOps on Azure in under 5 mins… | Divya Vaishnavi | 51m |
Claims a full DevOps workflow spins up in under five minutes and actually provisions an Azure DevOps project that creates a repo, an Azure Web App plus… | ||
| Building applications with Angular and ASP.NET Core | Damir Beylkhanov | 54m |
Builds a working Angular 6 front end and ASP.NET Core 2.1 backend, using Angular CLI or Angular Console to scaffold the client and the .NET SPA template to… | ||
| Put your C#, VB and F# projects and packaging on a diet | David Gardiner | 44m |
Shows how to convert old csproj and packages.config to the SDK-style project system using the dotnet CLI, Visual Studio and VS Code, reducing a real project… | ||
| Enhancing WPF/WinForms applications with UWP features | Atanas Popatanasov | 44m |
You are building a WPF/WinForms application, but want to make it cool and feature rich? Learn how to modernize your desktop applications by integrating UWP… | ||
| AI for Every Developer | Gian Paolo Santopaolo | 01h 00m |
Claims that AI is now accessible to every developer and demonstrates concrete paths: using cloud Cognitive Services and custom vision, exporting and running… | ||
| Cross-Platform Unit Testing and Code Coverage with Coverlet | Toni Solarin-Sodara | 52m |
Coverlet is a cross‑platform code coverage tool for .NET Core that injects instrumentation into test dependencies, runs tests, writes temporary hit files… | ||
| dvanced C#/PHP interoperability with PeachPie | Jakub Míšek | 55m |
PeachPie compiles PHP to .NET DLLs using Roslyn and a PHP runtime so projects debug as .NET with DLL and PDB output and can call into or extend C# libraries… | ||
| Creating a CI/CD Pipeline for Kubernetes Using Azure DevOps | Christian Meléndez | 51m |
Creates a CI/CD pipeline that builds a Docker image, pushes it to a registry, and deploys to an AKS cluster using Azure DevOps pipelines and the Kubernetes… | ||
| Google Home meets .NET containers on Google Cloud | Mete Atamel | 56m |
A Dialogflow app routes Google Assistant requests to an HTTP webhook that runs an ASP.NET Core on App Engine container (also deployable to GKE), mapping intent… | ||
| Customizing ASP.NET Core | Jürgen Gutsch | 59m |
Shows ten concrete customizations and demos: builds a custom console logger (colored output, then plugs NLog via NuGet), replaces the default DI with Autofac… | ||
| Building your Open Source projects with Azure Pipelines and Azure | Edward Thomson | 51m |
Azure Pipelines builds open source .NET projects using cloud-hosted Windows Linux and Mac build agents, with unlimited build minutes for OSS and 10 pipelines… | ||
| Internet of everything: let's talk about IoT and Azure | Angelo Gino Varrati | 45m |
Overview of an IoT stack that pairs Windows 10 IOT devices with Microsoft Azure backends: device connectivity options (direct, field gateway, custom gateway)… | ||
| Demos are cool, but it is time to talk about the real world! | Gabriel Lara Baptista | 53m |
A 2008 Windows service with 195,000 lines is ported to a .NET Core console running on Linux and reuses 98% code, finishing in weeks instead of months; main… | ||
| What's new with F# 4.5 | Phillip Carter | 49m |
F# 4.5 adds concrete low‑level features: production and consumption of byref returns, Span T support with byref‑like structs and safety rules, a void pointer… | ||
| Cognitive Services in Xamarin Applications | Veronika Kolesnikova | 51m |
Demonstrates integrating Microsoft Cognitive Services into Xamarin apps by exporting a Custom Vision model and running it locally in a Xamarin.Android app… | ||
| A Lap Around docs.microsoft.com / An Overview of docs.microsoft.com | Beth masse, I'm Ira wins | 01h 01m |
An overview of docs.microsoft.com covering Microsoft’s move to open-source the .NET documentation, including the API reference. It demonstrates how to navigate… | ||
| Retro Computing with .NET | Miguel De Icaza | 01h 04m |
A practical toolkit for console apps: a command-line parser (mono options) that handles short/long flags, subcommands and generated help; a line editor with… | ||
| Have Your Pi and Eat It Too: .NET Core 2.1 on Raspberry Pi | Cam Soper | 54m |
Shows how to run .NET Core 2.1 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B by producing a self-contained Linux-arm publish (about 355 files, ~93 MB), copying it to the Pi, and… | ||
| Marten: Postgresql backed Document Db and Event Store for .NET Development | Jeremy Miller | 01h 00m |
Marten is a .NET NuGet library that makes PostgreSQL act as a document database and event store, with a production track record since 2016 and ~80… | ||
| .NET Core CLI and Global Tools | Kathleen Dollard, Beth masse | 52m |
Explains that global.json pins which SDK runs by major.minor but still rolls forward on patch updates, shows dotnet commands used: dotnet --info, dotnet new… | ||
| Make Games with .NET using Visual Studio, Unity, and PlayFab | some JB | 49m |
Shows building a simple Unity scene with a rotating saucer and a fuller "Unicorn Battle" sample using C# scripts edited and debugged via VSTU (attach debugger… | ||
| Bing runs on .NET Core 2.1 | Mukul Sabharwal, Jon Galloway | 08m |
Bing.com migrates its millions-of-lines C# codebase to .NET Core 2.1 and measures a 34% improvement in end-to-end performance while serving thousands of… | ||
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