Many organizations still rely on Microsoft Access applications built years, or even decades, ago. While these systems often remain critical to daily operations, they can be difficult to maintain, scale, and integrate with modern platforms.

In this session, we will explore a practical strategy for converting legacy applications, like Microsoft Access databases and applications, into modern web solutions using Blazor and GitHub Copilot. Rather than rewriting everything from scratch, you'll learn how AI-assisted development can accelerate the migration of Access tables, queries, forms, and business logic into a scalable .NET architecture.

We will walk through a real-world modernization workflow that includes extracting database structures, translating Access logic into C# and Blazor components, and leveraging GitHub Copilot to generate much of the boilerplate and repetitive code. Along the way, we’ll discuss architectural decisions, data migration strategies, and common challenges developers encounter when moving from a desktop database platform to a modern web application.

Whether you're maintaining legacy solutions, like Microsoft Access, or helping organizations modernize their internal systems, this presentation will show how AI-assisted development can dramatically reduce the effort required to move from Access to Blazor.

Learn how to modernize legacy Microsoft Access databases and applications by converting them into scalable Blazor web applications using AI-assisted development with GitHub Copilot.