Training Seminar -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

In-Depth Training for Developers

Looking for intense developer training to help you take your dev career to a new level? VSLive! Training Seminars and workshops take our world-class education to you in an intimate virtual setting with an industry expert as your guide. Keep up-to-date on some of the hottest trends in the developer world to drive your career forward. These engaging and high-impact training workshops provide in-depth education and knowledge-share, networking with fellow peers, and one-on-one interaction with a skilled instructor to take what you have learned back to your office.

Who Should Attend?

This VSLive! hands-on workshop is open to everyone who develops software using .NET/C# stack and wants to start bringing context to AI integrations. While no prior experience is needed, broader knowledge of .NET developer tooling and AI coding assistance will be helpful.

4-Hour Hands-On Workshop:
MCP Demystified

June 30, 2025

9:00AM – 1:00PM Central

It is the age of AI - there is a huge boost to developer productivity and an opportunity to infuse apps with solutions powered by generative AI. The challenges with modern AI, however, are providing context to AI models and taking actions on deeply contextual tasks across disparate systems.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) can help - an open protocol to enable integration between LLM applications and external tools/data sources — essentially a way to provide more context to AI models. Developers can think of MCP as a common standardized language for information exchange between AI Agents/systems - MCP is growing in popularity and has seen rapid adoption in the AI community. Beyond the hype, let’s understand the promise of MCP and explore tooling to easily create MCP Servers/Clients. With official SDKs, it is a breeze to work with MCP and boost AI Model responses or surface tools to extend AI Agents. Developers could bring their own data, APIs, services and more through MCP - and have it surfaced through Agents in GitHub Copilot/Claude Code/Cursor. MCP provides a standardized protocol for bringing contextual expertise to the AI world and light up unique workflows for integrations – upwards and onwards.

Learning objectives:

Understand the promise of MCP
Explore developer tools to create MCP Servers/Clients
Surface MCP context/tools through AI Agents
We start from scratch, build MCP servers, pull custom data & integrate with AI Agents

Pre-Requisites:

Visual Studio/VS Code on Windows/macOS
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot/Claude/Cursor
Some sample API/Data from EF/SQL
Beverage of choice

Attendee Workstation Requirements:

You must provide your own computer (Windows or Mac) for this workshop with a camera, Internet connection, speakers, and a microphone.

Meet Our Speaker

Sam Basu
Developer Advocate, Progress

Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget-lover and Progress Developer Advocate for Telerik products. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern web/mobile/cloud development platforms on Microsoft/Telerik technology stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast cars, cricket and culinary adventures with the family. You can find him on the internet.

Top Reasons to Join Us!

In-Depth Training

If you are a developer, architect, or senior software engineer looking for training, this VSLive! Training Workshop provides focused in-depth training with one of the top experts in the field. Attend virtually and learn about Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the tools needed to easily create MCP Servers/Clients.

Networking

With small classes and an expert instructor, the intimate virtual setting of these training courses allows for networking with your peers to learn from their experiences, problem-solve, and bring solutions back to your office.

Get the Most Out of Your Time

If you don’t have time for a full 2, 4, 5, or 6-day conference, look no further. VSLive! Virtual Training Workshops provide in-depth, actionable training in a quick 4-hour format to fit in with your busy schedule.

Looking For More? If you are interested in more developer training offerings, check out vslive.com and live360events.com to explore the events, sessions, workshops and hands-on training options we offer.

Countdown to Savings

Seminar Pricing

Packages

Early Bird Registration through June 13th

Standard Registration through June 30th

4-Hour Workshop(Price per attendee)

$199

$299

DISCOUNTS are available for groups. For more information, contact us at [email protected], or 949.296.9840.

Questions?
Contact Our Conference Registrar
Sara Ross
Call: 949.296.9840
Email: [email protected]

REFUND AND CANCELLATION
You may substitute one person in your place by contacting [email protected] at least five business days prior to the event. If you must cancel all or part of your registration, your refund request must be sent no later than 20 business days prior. Your fee will be returned, less a $50 cancellation fee. No refunds will be issued within 20 days of the event.

Why VSLIVE!?

Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!™) conferences and training seminars offer intense developer training and knowledge-share to software developers, programmers, architects, designers and more that are looking for training they can put to use immediately back in the office. Join our unique brand of training on .NET, the Microsoft Platform, open-source technologies and more.

Visit us at vslive.com.