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Visual Studio 2026 to Be Showcased at .NET Conf
Microsoft today invited developers to attend .NET Conf 2025, a free virtual event running Nov. 11-13, highlighting new capabilities coming to Visual Studio 2026. The company describes the conference as a chance to explore how the IDE is evolving to support performance optimization, AI integration, cross-platform development, and modern workflows.
The post encourages attendees to join sessions that will provide an early look at Visual Studio 2026's new tools and enhancements.
Visual Studio team members will lead several sessions focused on specific feature areas. Nik Karpinsky is showing how the new profiler agent can help developers identify performance issues in their apps and fix them, calling it a revolutionary feature designed to speed up applications quickly. Mika Dumont explains how new technology makes upgrading apps to .NET 10 easier than ever while improving the use of Azure cloud features. The post notes that this session will be especially relevant to developers maintaining older solutions. Harshada Hole takes attendees through new productivity features in the Visual Studio debugger, describing the session as a first step toward becoming a debugging rock star. Finally, Jui Hanamshet and Oscar Obeso will demo the latest innovations in Copilot for Visual Studio, showing how developers can benefit from having AI by their side.
According to the post, .NET Conf brings together Microsoft experts and community leaders for sessions covering a range of development topics, from web and mobile applications to cloud and AI projects. Attendees can expect practical examples and demonstrations of how Visual Studio 2026's improvements streamline development, increase performance, and enhance collaboration. The sessions are designed to help participants prepare for upcoming changes across the .NET ecosystem and understand how Visual Studio continues to align with new platform releases.
The Visual Studio 2026 sessions are among the key highlights of this year's agenda, offering developers insight into the IDE's direction and future capabilities. The post emphasizes that .NET Conf is entirely free and virtual, allowing anyone to join from anywhere. Developers can mark their calendars and register at dotnetconf.com to secure access to all Visual Studio-focused sessions. Microsoft encourages attendees not to miss these presentations, which it says will help them work smarter and build faster with the next generation of Visual Studio.
.NET Conf remains one of Microsoft's largest annual developer events, serving as a global venue for product teams to share updates directly with the developer community. The inclusion of Visual Studio 2026 sessions signals Microsoft's continued investment in improving developer productivity through integrated AI assistance, enhanced performance tools, and simplified upgrade experiences. While the post doesn't include release timing, it frames .NET Conf as the best opportunity to learn what's next for Visual Studio and .NET before the new versions arrive.
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