On June 8–10, 2026, I’m busy on the THRIVE Convention with three classes and a full-day workshop – and this at a really particular tech convention location: Rimske Terme, Slovenia.
THRIVE has turn into recognized for its sturdy deal with real-world engineering practices, sensible classes, and significant conversations—and I’m excited to contribute with three classes and one full-day workshop masking trendy .NET improvement, AI-assisted productiveness, and pragmatic observability.
When you’re constructing, sustaining, or evolving .NET methods at the moment (or getting ready for what’s subsequent), these classes are designed for you.
👉 Convention particulars & registration: https://thriveconf.com
C# 14 and .NET 10 – What’s New?
The .NET ecosystem continues to maneuver quick—and staying present now means extra than simply skimming launch notes.
On this accelerated deep dive, we’ll discover what’s new in C# 14 and .NET 10, with a robust deal with why these adjustments matter in on a regular basis improvement.
What you’ll study:
- Language enhancements that additional scale back boilerplate and enhance expressiveness (together with extension members and enhancements for meta‑programming)
- Key runtime and SDK enhancements that have an effect on efficiency, diagnostics, and developer expertise
- Library updates you should use instantly:
- OpenAPI 3.1 help
- Enhancements in Blazor
- Enhancements throughout .NET runtime libraries
This session is right for builders and designers who desire a clear psychological mannequin of recent C# and .NET—with out hype, however with sensible examples.
How Copilot Can Assist Growth with Visible Studio 2026
GitHub Copilot has developed far past easy code completion. In Visible Studio 2026, it has turn into a severe productiveness multiplier—if you understand how to make use of it appropriately.
This session exhibits combine Copilot into skilled improvement workflows with out sacrificing code high quality, safety, or governance.
In 60 minutes, we’ll cowl:
- Deeper inline completions and multi‑file refactoring options
- AI-assisted take a look at and benchmark era
- Conversational explanations for fixes and refactorings
- Safe immediate context scoping and license filtering
- Pull request and diff annotations
- AI-assisted debugging:
- Exception hint summarization
- Log sample extraction
We’ll additionally focus on immediate patterns for maintainable code, governance controls (coverage, telemetry), and the way Copilot integrates with current CI high quality gates.
When you’re liable for code high quality and crew productiveness, this session will assist you undertake AI in your phrases.
How Aspire Helps Growing All .NET Options (and Extra)
Whether or not your answer is small or already distributed, .Aspire offers a transparent path towards higher orchestration, diagnostics, and operational consistency.
This session begins easy—and scales naturally.
What you’ll see:
- Ranging from a small ASP.NET Core software with a database
- Step‑by‑step conversion of an current .NET software to Aspire
- Speedy advantages:
- Native orchestration
- Clear service dependencies
- Built-in diagnostics
- Utilizing Aspire integrations for:
- Caching
- AI providers
- Exterior service entry
- The Aspire Dashboard in motion for monitoring and troubleshooting
This speak focuses on pragmatic adoption: no rewrites, no pointless complexity—simply clear enhancements.
Full-Day Workshop: Observability with Your Present .NET Purposes Utilizing Aspire
The workshop is working on Monday, June 8, 2026, the day earlier than the principle convention!
For groups severe about manufacturing reliability and diagnosability, observability is now not non-obligatory.
This full-day workshop takes a practical strategy—ranging from a well-recognized, current ASP.NET Core answer and incrementally introducing . Aspire to enhance:
- Native orchestration
- Observability (logs, metrics, traces)
- Deployment consistency throughout environments
Workshop focus:
- What you add
- Why it helps
- Learn how to maintain danger low when introducing Aspire into current methods
You’ll go away with a clear adoption technique, hands-on expertise, and patterns you possibly can apply instantly in actual initiatives.
Why THRIVE?
THRIVE combines:
- Deep technical content material
- Practitioners sharing actual experiences
- A relaxed setting that encourages actual conversations
Add the distinctive setting of Rimske Terme and also you get a convention the place studying, networking, and inspiration occur naturally.
Be a part of Me at THRIVE 2026
Whether or not you’re desirous about:
- The way forward for C# and .NET
- AI-assisted improvement with Visible Studio
- Modernizing options with Aspire
- Sensible observability for current methods
You’ll discover classes designed to be helpful on Monday morning—not simply fascinating on stage.
📅 June 8–10, 2026
📍 Rimske Terme, Slovenia
🔗 https://thriveconf.com
I’m wanting ahead to nice discussions—see you at THRIVE!
