As CI/CD pipelines become foundational to modern software development, they also become high-value targets for attackers. From insecure 3rd-party dependencies to exposed secrets, the risks are real--and growing. At Visual Studio Live! this November, GitHub Staff DevOps Architect Ken Muse will deliver a practical, strategy-packed session focused on hardening your CI/CD processes against these threats.
Lino Tadros discusses how Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry enables developers to build and deploy intelligent, secure, and scalable AI agents for enterprise environments in this Q&A in advance of his Live! 360 Orlando workshop.
Microsoft PM Carlos Robles previews his Live! 360 Orlando session on how recent updates to the MSSQL extension—like GitHub Copilot integration, Schema Designer, and local SQL containers—are transforming SQL development inside Visual Studio Code. Designed for developers, not DBAs, the session showcases how VS Code can streamline database work and unify application and SQL workflows in one tool.
Learn how to work with streaming data using Microsoft Fabric, KQL, and Real-Time Intelligence in this full-day Live! 360 workshop led by Matt Gordon (Apps Associates) and Christopher Schmidt (Microsoft). The session focuses on building real-time, event-driven solutions that deliver business value fast.
Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same language, avoid common pitfalls, and boost performance with smarter, more intentional index design.
Learn what Project Orleans, an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building distributed, scalable, and high-availability applications using the virtual actor model.
In this session preview, Roy Cornelissen explains how messaging frameworks like NServiceBus, MassTransit, Dapr, and Wolverine can help .NET teams build scalable, event-driven applications — and how to choose the right one for your architecture.
At Live! 360 in Orlando this November, data & AI engineer Jean Joseph will demonstrate how to build AI-powered applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. His session covers vector search, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for real-world AI use cases, showing how PostgreSQL with Azure extensions can deliver semantic search, recommendations, and chatbots directly from within the database.
Learn how to build high-performance, secure APIs in .NET 9 with real-world guidance from architect Tony Champion, who will explore best practices for scalability, rate limiting, versioning, and more.
Learn how to scale Microsoft 365 Copilot responsibly with expert guidance on governance, adoption frameworks, change management, and metrics in this session led by Michelle Gilbert at Live! 360 coming to Orlando in November.
An exec's off-hand comments resulted in a revelation about technical debt that has guided senior systems architect Chad Green's thinking and even served as the impetus for his session at VSLive! San Diego 2025. In this Q&A, he shares that phrase, how it has shaped his approach to technical debt, and what attendees can expect to learn in his Sept. 9 session.
At Visual Studio Live! San Diego, Ginger Grant of Desert Isle Group will lead a practical, demo-driven session on how to build simple yet powerful chatbots using Microsoft Fabric lakehouses and warehouses. Attendees will learn how to use AI skills and grounding techniques to enable conversational data access -- quickly and cost-effectively. Ideal for developers ready to extend analytics with conversational interfaces.
Learn from expert trainer Randy Pagels how GitHub Advanced Security’s AI-powered autofix, secret scanning, and CodeQL analysis help developers secure code early -- without slowing down delivery.
Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI stack required.
Karen Lopez will explain the ethical guidance that underpins responsible AI development, with a special focus on large language models, at VSLive! San Diego in July.
Developer educator and .NET MVP Jeremy Clark talks concurrent programming ahead of an intermediate-level two-day training session next month.
Eric D. Boyd of responsiveX previews his VSLive! 2025 session at Microsoft HQ in August where he explains how Azure ML empowers teams to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models with ease and confidence.
Why outline when you can prompt? Vibe writing is the new vibe coding, and yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.
SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft's Drew Skwiers-Koballa will explain it all in a featured session at the VS Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference being held at the company's Redmond campus in August.
Microsoft reintroduced the AI Dev Gallery, a Windows application that serves as a comprehensive playground for AI development using .NET. It simplifies AI development with .NET through interactive samples, easy model downloads, and exportable source code.