Join .NET Conf 2024 Online: Explore .NET 9 Features

November is set to be an exceptionally significant month for .NET developers globally, as a new version of .NET will be officially released during its annual event, .NET Conf. Similar to previous years, this year’s event will also be conducted virtually, allowing participation online. The highly anticipated .NET 9 is scheduled for release during this conference, which will take place over three days from Tue, Nov 12, 2024, to Thu, Nov 14, 2024. Please mark your calendars accordingly.

Quite like .NET 7, .NET 9 is also a short-term support (STS) release, which will be supported for 18 months till mid-May 2026. Even-numbered releases are LTS whereas odd-numbered are STS. More details on the release lifecycle are here. The support for .NET 6 (the previous LTS release) ends (more details here), with .NET 7 already out of support, and .NET 8, the current LTS release, has another 2 years of support till early Nov 2026.

Due to the underlying external dependencies, the support policy of .NET MAUI differs significantly from .NET, each major release will be supported only for 18 months. So, if you’re using .NET MAUI 8, support will cease by mid-May 2025 (in another 6 months). Hence, it’s necessary to plan for your app migration to .NET MAUI 9. An article has already been published detailing the comprehensive features of .NET MAUI 9.

Sessions are strategically organized across various streams, including AI, Web, Cloud, and Client. Similar to the MSBuild event earlier this year, AI and Copilot are prominently featured. Given our primary emphasis on C# and .NET MAUI, have listed the sessions pertinent to this cross-platform app framework to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of its capabilities. Here’s the link to the full agenda, if you’re interested in other topics.

Sessions on C# and .NET MAUI:

Click the link to get the session timings in your local/preferred time zone.

Now updated with YouTube links for viewing the recorded sessions. Please click on the Session title link to access the videos. The recorded videos of all the sessions of .NET Conf 2024 can be accessed from this playlist.

Now available to access

Date and Time	Stream	Session	Speaker(s)
Day 1: Tue, Nov 12, 2024
8:00 PST		.NET Conf 2024 Keynote: Welcome to .NET 9	Multiple
9:00 PST	Aspire	What’s New in .NET Aspire	Maddy Montaquila
09:45 PST	AI	AI Building Blocks – A new, unified AI layer	Steve Sanderson
10:30 PST	C#	What’s New in C# 13	Mads Torgersen and Dustin Campbell
11:15 PST	ASP.NET Core	What’s New for ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 9	Daniel Roth
12:00 PST	.NET MAUI	What’s New in .NET MAUI in .NET 9	David Ortinau and Rachel Kang
12:45 PST	General	What’s New in the .NET Runtime, Libraries, and SDK	Richard Lander and Immo Landwerth
13:30 PST	General	Performance Improvements in .NET 9	Stephen Toub
15:15 PST	.NET MAUI	Build Hybrid Apps with .NET MAUI	Beth Massi and Eilon Lipton
Day 2: Wed, Nov 13, 2024
10:30 PST	Aspire	.NET Aspire Roadmap, Vision, and Beyond	David Fowler
12:00 PST	C#	What’s New in C# Dev Kit for VS Code	Wendy Breiding and Leslie Richardson
12:30 PST	C#	C#’s Best features you might not be using	Bill Wagner
14:30 PST	.NET MAUI	Performance Optimizations with NativeAOT and Trimming	Jonathan Peppers
Day 3: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 (24-Hour Live Stream)
00:30 PST	.NET MAUI	From Figma to .NET MAUI: Transform Your Designs into XAML Code in Seconds	Héctor Uriel Pérez Rojas
06:00 PST	C#	Advanced Pattern Matching in C#	Oliver Sturm
11:00 PST	Toolkits	Community Toolkit Roundup	Gerald Versluis, Michael Hawker, and Adrian Hall
Day 4: Fri, Nov 15, 2024 (YouTube Premieres)
10:30 PST	.NET MAUI	How Fidelity uses .NET MAUI for Cross-platform desktop	David Ortinau
12:30 PST	Client Apps	MVVM Building Blocks for WinUI and WPF Development	Michael Hawker and Sergio Pedri

Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.