From day one we knew we wanted to make the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio open source. From day one we also knew that we were building an extension for a product that was itself still under…

With Octokit.NET you have the power of the GitHub API at your fingertips in .NET form and fashion. You can use GitHub's API to make nearly anything with .NET. Let's see how it works by taking a look…

You have likely already produced an Azure Mobile Apps backend and Xamarin client that implements a basic task list. In this session, we will take you beyond the basics, implementing enterprise…

Enabling existing .NET (and other Win32) desktop applications to become part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) ecosystem is a key part of the Windows 10 vision. This session will cover in detail…

In this session you will learn how to build NuGet packages for Mobile and Server Workloads and the best practices for consuming these in your enterprise or publishing them to your own private package…

Kick off Day 2 with Miguel de Icaza as he sets the stage for the day and walks us through .NET innovations for mobile and desktop developers including Xamarin and the Universal Windows Platform.

Xamarin.Forms offers a way to quickly build iOS, Android, and Windows apps that look and feel native while reusing large amounts of code. Forms makes it easy to get your first app up and running, but…

As the mobile landscape continues to expand and evolve managing multiple code bases in different programming languages and development tools can become a nightmare fast. In this session you will…

Now that you've released your app out to the world, do you know how it's performing in the hands of real users? How long are they waiting for screens to load, or are they using that new feature you're…

Ever wanted to get started with game development but didn't know how? This talk is for you! We'll take a look at some of the concepts behind creating a game using C# and Unity. Developers can expect…

Much has been made of the open-source approach to developing the latest version of the .NET framework and tools. What does that mean for me and my organization? Can I really use these tools without…

Come make a difference and learn some new tech. AllReady is an open source project built on ASP.NET Core and running on Azure. It is made available to charitable organizations to help organize…

Back-end systems of record are often too complex to expose directly to the web. They are stable, hardened and dependable but they are often based on legacy technologies and not always easy to expose…

Join Scott Hanselman as he explores some statistics, lovely charts and graphs, trying to answer the question... How is .NET doing? Are we healthy? Where can we do better?

HockeyApp helps developers to deliver and maintain successful UWP apps. While in the development phase, you can use HockeyApp to beta distribute your UWP apps to testers. Then, you can take advantage…

With the rapid growth of Windows 10, the wide variety of device targets, the open source .NET Core framework, and the powerful tools in Visual Studio, your .NET development skills have never been more…

Tune in to this demo-driven session where we'll learn how to supercharge your debugging to find bugs and performance issues faster. We'll tour the debugger and built in performance tools, throwing in…

F# is a powerful language capable of saving you time in the long run with less syntax, a powerful type system, and a core library suited for modern workloads. But how does it fit in with an existing…

Two years ago we open sourced the C# and Visual Basic compilers and exposed their functionality through APIs as the Roslyn project. The Roslyn analyzer API empowers the developer community to be more…

In this all demo session we'll cover the container workflow, from the developer's inner loop, CI/CD, to deployment in a container orchestration solution. We'll cover Visual Studio as an in-container…

ASP.NET Core is a modern Web framework for building both Web UI and Web APIs. In this talk I'll show you how you can easily build secure Web APIs for rich browser applications and for native mobile…

Are you still working on the same ASP.NET application from 2005? Are you using the same controls, C# structures, and HTML in your application that you started with 10 years ago? In this demo-filled…

Publishing is a critical step in the life of an ASP.NET application. ASP.NET Core projects have a new publish model which makes automating the publish process much more straight forward. Also, the…

In this session we'll go through some of the things you will need to know when building a real application with ASP.NET Core framework. We'll start off by reviewing the structure of an ASP.NET Core…

Kick off the event with Scott Hunter who will discuss innovations happening across all of .NET and how you can take advantage of them to build any app for any device on any platform. Understand the…