On June 8–10, 2026, I’m busy at the THRIVE Conference with three sessions and a full-day workshop – and this at a very special tech conference location: Rimske Terme, Slovenia.
THRIVE has become known for its strong focus on real-world engineering practices, practical sessions, and meaningful conversations—and I’m excited to contribute with three sessions and one full-day workshop covering modern .NET development, AI-assisted productivity, and pragmatic observability.
If you’re building, maintaining, or evolving .NET systems today (or preparing for what’s next), these sessions are designed for you.
👉 Conference details & registration: https://thriveconf.com
C# 14 and .NET 10 – What’s New?
The .NET ecosystem continues to move fast—and staying current now means more than just skimming release notes.
In this accelerated deep dive, we’ll explore what’s new in C# 14 and .NET 10, with a strong focus on why these changes matter in everyday development.
What you’ll learn:
- Language enhancements that further reduce boilerplate and increase expressiveness (including extension members and improvements for meta‑programming)
- Key runtime and SDK improvements that affect performance, diagnostics, and developer experience
- Library updates you can use immediately:
- OpenAPI 3.1 support
- Enhancements in Blazor
- Improvements across .NET runtime libraries
This session is ideal for developers and architects who want a clear mental model of modern C# and .NET—without hype, but with practical examples.
How Copilot Can Help Development with Visual Studio 2026
GitHub Copilot has evolved far beyond simple code completion. In Visual Studio 2026, it has become a serious productivity multiplier—if you know how to use it correctly.
This session shows how to integrate Copilot into professional development workflows without sacrificing code quality, security, or governance.
In 60 minutes, we’ll cover:
- Deeper inline completions and multi‑file refactoring suggestions
- AI-assisted test and benchmark generation
- Conversational explanations for fixes and refactorings
- Secure prompt context scoping and license filtering
- Pull request and diff annotations
- AI-assisted debugging:
- Exception trace summarization
- Log pattern extraction
We’ll also discuss prompt patterns for maintainable code, governance controls (policy, telemetry), and how Copilot integrates with existing CI quality gates.
If you’re responsible for code quality and team productivity, this session will help you adopt AI on your terms.
How Aspire Helps Developing All .NET Solutions (and More)
Whether your solution is small or already distributed, .Aspire provides a clear path toward better orchestration, diagnostics, and operational consistency.
This session starts simple—and scales naturally.
What you’ll see:
- Starting from a small ASP.NET Core application with a database
- Step‑by‑step conversion of an existing .NET application to Aspire
- Immediate benefits:
- Local orchestration
- Clear service dependencies
- Integrated diagnostics
- Using Aspire integrations for:
- Caching
- AI services
- External service access
- The Aspire Dashboard in action for monitoring and troubleshooting
This talk focuses on pragmatic adoption: no rewrites, no unnecessary complexity—just clear improvements.
Full-Day Workshop: Observability with Your Existing .NET Applications Using Aspire
The workshop is running on Monday, June 8, 2026, the day before the main conference!
For teams serious about production reliability and diagnosability, observability is no longer optional.
This full-day workshop takes a realistic approach—starting from a familiar, existing ASP.NET Core solution and incrementally introducing . Aspire to improve:
- Local orchestration
- Observability (logs, metrics, traces)
- Deployment consistency across environments
Workshop focus:
- What you add
- Why it helps
- How to keep risk low when introducing Aspire into existing systems
You’ll leave with a clear adoption strategy, hands-on experience, and patterns you can apply immediately in real projects.
Why THRIVE?
THRIVE combines:
- Deep technical content
- Practitioners sharing real experiences
- A relaxed environment that encourages real conversations
Add the unique setting of Rimske Terme and you get a conference where learning, networking, and inspiration happen naturally.
Join Me at THRIVE 2026
Whether you’re interested in:
- The future of C# and .NET
- AI-assisted development with Visual Studio
- Modernizing solutions with Aspire
- Practical observability for existing systems
You’ll find sessions designed to be useful on Monday morning—not just interesting on stage.
📅 June 8–10, 2026
📍 Rimske Terme, Slovenia
🔗 https://thriveconf.com
I’m looking forward to great discussions—see you at THRIVE!
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