A fast-paced, insight-rich recap of .NET Conf 2025, spotlighting how AI is reshaping the .NET ecosystem: from developer tooling to intelligent apps. This session distills the most impactful announcements and demos, with a pragmatic lens for community builders, educators, and enterprise developers.

🔍 What We’ll Cover

1. .NET 10 and the AI-Ready Runtime
- Performance and security upgrades for AI workloads
- New primitives for integrating AI agents and context-aware services
- Enhanced support for model hosting and inference pipelines

2. Visual Studio 2026: Your AI Pair Programmer
- Deep GitHub Copilot integration for Razor, Hot Reload, and diagnostics
- AI-assisted testing, upgrade paths, and refactoring
- FluentUI redesign for faster, more intuitive workflows

3. Aspire: Cloud-Native AI Workloads Made Simple
- How Aspire simplifies microservice orchestration for AI-first apps
- Built-in support for MCP agents, vector stores, and model endpoints
- Developer-first diagnostics and service composition

4. Visage-Powered Demos: AI in Action
- Live walkthrough using Visage to visualize Aspire service maps
- Real-time tracing of MCP agent interactions across services
- How Visage helps debug, demo, and teach AI-native architectures

5. MCP and Agent Frameworks in .NET
- How .NET is embracing Model Context Protocols (MCP)
- Building intelligent assistants with .NET and OSS tools
- Use cases for education, research, and enterprise automation