.Net Foundation / .NET Conf 2018

The .NET Conf Attendee Party is a live party - on Twitter, Mixer, and Twitch where you can answer questions to win prizes and see all the new and upcoming announcements from Microsoft and partners! There's a live video feed on Mixer and Twitch – where you can ask questions, see demos and hang out with our hosts, Jeff Fritz and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks! Right at the dot of 5:00pm PDT (00:00 UTC), we'll be offering a free Xbox One X - PLUS tons of other cool prizes throughout the night. All you have to do is follow the hashtag #dotNETConf to participate. Tune in at mixer.com/visualstudio OR twitch.tv/visualstudio. Got questions? Follow @richcampbell now and he'll give you the lowdown.

docs.microsoft.com has completely changed how we do documentation at Microsoft. In this session, you'll learn about the journey to open source the .NET documentation, including its API reference. You'll explore docs.microsoft.com and get tips on how to find what you need quickly and efficiently. You'll understand how we're using docs to build an even stronger .NET community and find out how you can take part in that by helping us make the .NET documentation even better in English or in your native language! This session will be first presented in English and then in Brazilian Portuguese.

docs.microsoft.com mudou completamente como fazemos a documentação na Microsoft. Nesta sessão, você aprenderá sobre a jornada para transformar a documentação em software livre (open source), incluindo a documentação das APIs. Você irá explorar docs.microsoft.com e aprender como encontrar o que você precisa de uma maneira rápida e eficiente. Você entenderá como nós estamos usando a documentação para criar uma comunidade .NET ainda mais forte e aprenderá como você pode fazer parte disso nos ajudando a fazer a documentação .NET ainda melhor em inglês ou português! Essa sessão será apresentada primeiro em inglês e a parte final será em português.

The command-line is back in style and we've been building some cool tools to take advantage of the command-line on Windows, Mac, and Linux. In this session, we will talk about the technologies that can help .NET developers create applications to be used from the command line or to create textual user interfaces that run cross-platform.

The open source, cross-platform design of .NET Core opens up all kinds of new possibilities for .NET developers. This talk teaches the attendee how to install the .NET Core runtime on the ultimate IoT platform, Raspberry Pi and unlock the potential of IoT devices for .NET developers!

Want the productivity gains of a NoSQL approach with ACID compliance and the ability to fall back to SQL when needed? Interested in event sourcing but don't want all different infrastructure for that? Come check out Marten and Postgresql!

.NET Core CLI you work from the command line, outside Visual Studio. You might do this if you're developing on a Mac or Linux box, because you prefer it, or to automate processes. You'll learn how easy it is to use, check out the great documentation, and see how to get tab completion specific to the shell you're using. You can also extend the CLI by writing global tools or using global tools other people have written. See how fast it is to create a global tool and the road map for the future tool ecosystem for .NET Core.

Unity is a content-creation environment for making cross-platform games and experiences. With Visual Studio Tools for Unity, you'll be able to write code, debug, and leverage all the productivity features your familiar with. Join this session to get an introduction to developing with Unity and Visual Studio. We'll show you how to create C# scripts, edit a 3D scene, debug with Visual Studio and more. We'll also introduce you to PlayFab, the complete backend platform for live games.

Microsoft tools and environment are incredibly fantastic and so do the demos we have! It is time to talk about the real world, discussing how .NET, .NET Core, Visual Studio, VST, and Azure did make the difference in real cases. In this session, we will review some real-world use cases for these tools, the features that were implemented, and how they made a difference for our customers.

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Have you heard? F# 4.5 is out! This new version of F# brings some wonderful capabilities with Span T and lower-level programming, better stack traces for async programming, and much more. In this talk, you'll learn all about F# 4.5 and how you can use it today!

Are you interested in machine learning, but don't know where to start? Worry no more! You don't have to have a special education to integrate artificial intelligence in all kinds of applications fast and easy. I'll show you all the benefits of Cognitive Services. You'll feel like a real data scientist.

Mukul Sabharwal chats with Jon Galloway about the Bing.com’s move to .NET Core 2.1, including some huge performance and deployment agility gains.

For the last 5 years, I've run a little online data breach notification service known known as Have I Been Pwned. Well, it was little and then before I knew it there were 5 billion records in there and millions of people dropping by on a good day. So how do you run a pet project of that scale without blowing the budget? By pwning your cloud costs! In this talk, I'm going to share how I've managed to keep the cost of running a popular website with a heap of data down to a mere coffee budget number. I'll talk about the architecture I originally employed, where it worked, where it didn't and what I've done over the years to actually decrease the cost as its grown ever larger. It's a real world, hands on look at how to build for scale on a shoestring.

Visual Studio for Mac is the Microsoft IDE natively designed for the Mac. You get everything you need for mobile, web, game and cloud development using C#, with rich support for Xamarin, .NET Core, Unity and Azure development. In this session, I'll take you through tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio for Mac. This one's for beginners and experts alike!

Have you ever struggled to adopt continuous delivery for your infrastructure code so you can deliver changes faster and more reliably? Or wished your Dev & Ops teams had a standard way to continuously deliver both applications & infrastructure? Get started with DevOps on Azure in less than 5 mins.

Learn how features of the new .NET project system not only dramatically reduce the size of your proj and nuspec files, but it makes them simpler and easier to maintain.

Join me for a talk about how to create web applications by using Angular and ASP.NET Core. By the end of this session, you will be able to build web apps by mixing server and client-side development in ASP.NET Core.

Artificial Intelligence is changing everything from how we live to how we work and even how we think. As a developer, you should be part of it. And this is the right place where to start with a deep overview of what AI is, where it is going, and how you can be a part of it.

Unit testing is a starting point for continuous integration and ensuring software quality. Just how well are you unit testing? Coverlet is an open source project that measures how much of your code is covered by your test suites for your .NET Core projects. Join project lead Toni Solarin-Sodara for this session to learn more about Coverlet and testing your applications.

PHP and .NET make up over 90% of the entire internet. While PHP is ubiquitous and supremely popular, .NET is more robust, secure and performant. PeachPie compiler is a unique project that bridges the gap between the two platforms and allows developers to use the best of both worlds.

Do you want to know how can you do deployments to a k8s cluster within minutes using VSTS? We'll start by simulating a common scenario of creating an app locally and deploy it to k8s. We'll enable CI/CD using VSTS and we'll use the exact same scripts we used locally. We'll connect VSTS with AKS.

What does it take to connect a Google Home to the cloud? Surprisingly, not much! In this talk, we will create a Dialogflow app to get a Google Home device to talk to a container managed by Kubernetes/App Engine.

ASP.NET Core has many options to customize, to match all of your requirements. It's not only running on Linux, Mac and Windows, it also has many possibilities to modify the whole framework in an arbitrarily way. Juergen shows you 10 of the most important things to modify.

GitHub is the home for millions of developers to host and review code, manage projects and much more. In this demo heavy session, you'll learn how to build your .NET open source projects using a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline powered by Azure Pipelines using our cloud-hosted Windows, Linux and Mac build agents for any app type you're targeting.

Everyone use internet all day and all night long, so let's talk about clouds with Microsoft Azure and let's talk about all thing are all around us.

There's a lot of buzz around AI, ML and deep-learning across the industry, and for good reasons! But that's all for Data Scientists, right? Wrong! In this session you will learn how to extend your .NET and .NET Core applications with AI features. You will see the multiple ways you can implement AI features on .NET apps, starting from a the easiest implementations using Azure Cognitive Services to more custom and flexible scenarios based on the new Machine Learning .NET (ML.NET). Finally, you will see how you can use AI not just in ASP.NET Core web apps but also Bots using Bot Framework, language understanding, and edge/mobile offline scenarios. The demos of this session will be based on several ML.NET samples plus a new end-to-end app, currently being implemented by forking/extending eShopOnContainers (end-to-end cloud-native/microservices reference app) into a new derived sample app named eShopOnContainersAI which adds AI/ML features based on the latest Microsoft AI technologies available for .NET.

Azure is a powerful platform with many amazing services, but it can also be hard to know which ones you need to know about when you're first getting started with cloud development. What can you do when you are looking to modernize an existing ASP.NET app? What data services are the most applicable to .NET development? How can I get started with serverless? In this talk we'll cover how to get started with cloud development in Azure using five common services that most .NET applications running in the cloud will benefit from using.

Durable Functions is a new open-source extension to Azure Functions that enables long running orchestrations and stateful processes to execute as serverless functions. Learn how to write a durable functions, and patterns and best practices to write simple or complex stateful orchestrations.

Distributed architecture allows your applications to scale, but how do you build it? It can be difficult or impossible to run a large microservice-based application on your dev workstation, but using mocks for pieces of the application can introduce problems when you go to integrate your code. Azure Dev Spaces can help! In this session, we'll look at using .NET Core with Dev Spaces to make your development and testing experience better.

DevOps is about people, process, and products. Getting it all right requires effort, but the benefits to your organization and customers can be huge. It's also important to know that you don't have to get everything right straight away, DevOps is about continually getting better in delivering value to your customers. Microsoft has a fantastic set of products that can help you get the most out of the cloud and help in deploying .NET to any platform. In this demo-heavy session, Martin shows you how to go from "zero to DevOps" and help you see how to begin the transformation of your team.

Client-side web development has long been the sole domain of JavaScript. WebAssembly is poised to change that by opening up the web to the full ecosystem of languages, frameworks, and tools. Blazor is an experimental project to bring .NET to the Web via WebAssembly. In this session you'll see how Blazor enables full stack web apps using C# with no code transpilation or plugins – just open web standards.

Learn how to build and deploy resilient containers and microservices at scale with .NET Core and Framework on Azure Service Fabric. We will walk you through development tools (VS, VS Code) & debugging, CICD integration, diagnostics & monitoring in production. We'll also share tips and techniques for creating and managing your microservices on Azure Service Fabric.

Get the latest scoop from the people who build .NET! See what's new with .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin, C#, Azure, AI/ML and where we're taking .NET into the future!

Join Scott Hanselman, Community Director for the .NET Team and Jon Galloway, Executive Director of the .NET Foundation as they give us an update on the .NET community, open source and details on the new format of this year's conference!

Over the last year we shipped point releases of C#, full of small but useful language features. Mads will recap some some of these, before turning to the big things we have in store for the future: Nullable reference types, recursive patterns, asynchronous streams and more.

Let's dive into what's new in ASP.NET Core! In this session we'll take a look at the new features in the latest ASP.NET Core preview, including improved support for building descriptive Web APIs, HTTP/2, a new in-process IIS hosting, support for health checks, and much more!

Tune in to learn how to increase your productivity using the latest features in Visual Studio 2017! New .NET language features and refactorings will make your C# coding and debugging more effective than ever. We'll cover new Intellicode features, code cleanup, multi-caret support, keyboard profiles, performance improvements and much more! We'll even add a sneak peek of features that will be coming in Visual Studio 2019!

Join James Montemagno, Microsoft Program Manager for Mobile Developers tools, as he takes you through a journey of super rad and awesome libraries, tools, and IDE features that are available for mobile .NET developers build iOS, Android, and UWP applications with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. He will show off the latest and greatest libraries that developers can take advantage of to share more code than ever, tweaks and optimizations that you can make to your apps for super charge them, and tons of tips and tricks from James' and his 7 years of mobile development with Xamarin.

Want to create great .NET class libraries? Confused about .NET Standard, .NET Core, and .NET Framework? Watch this talk to learn how you can easily support multiple platforms with .NET Standard and no compromises, thanks to via multi-targeting. We'll also cover the other aspects, such as versioning, strong naming, and binding redirects.

As we keep improving Entity Framework Core, we love to show you what we are working on to get early feedback and improve our designs. We have a number of great things coming, like the Cosmos DB provider (no longer just a prototype!) and spatial support. We will spend 45 minutes showing demos!

Xamarin.Forms has long been the best way for .NET developers to build cross-platform applications for Android, iOS, and Windows, and in 2018 it's gotten even better with the introduction of great new capabilities like CSS, FlexLayout, Visual State Manager, and much more. Come learn what's new!

Ankit and Gal will share some of the latest features in ML.NET, the machine learning library for .NET.