2-Day Hands-On Training Seminar:
Hands-On with .NET Web Development in 2025
October 7-8, 2025
9:00AM – 5:00PM Central
Level: Introductory / Intermediate
The web development landscape within the Microsoft ecosystem has grown rapidly in recent years, offering more tools, technologies, and flexibility than ever before. While this opens the door to powerful solutions, it also brings complexity—raising questions around what you can do, what you should do, and how to do it right.
In this immersive 2-day hands-on workshop, veteran Microsoft developer Chris Klug—boasting over 20 years of experience and 14 MVP awards—will guide you through the process of building scalable, modern business applications using ASP.NET Core. You’ll not only learn from Chris’s real-world insights and fast-paced walkthroughs, but also get your hands dirty through practical labs designed to reinforce key concepts.
What You’ll Learn
Throughout the workshop, we’ll tackle both foundational and advanced topics, including:
- Authentication & Authorization (authN & authZ) setup
- Service communication and reverse proxying with tools like gRPC and YARP
- Exploring Project Orleans and FastEndpoints to modernize your architecture
- Running multi-service environments locally using Docker and .NET Aspire
- Strategies for automated testing to ensure your solution performs reliably in production
Technologies in Focus
You’ll build a real-world multi-service application using tools and frameworks such as:
- ASP.NET Core MVC & Minimal APIs
- gRPC & YARP
- Entity Framework Core
- Duende Identity Server
- Azure
- FastEndpoints
- Project Orleans
- Docker
- .NET Aspire
- And more!
Whether you're looking to modernize legacy systems or start a new cloud-native project, this workshop will equip you with the skills and confidence to build scalable, production-ready applications using the best of the Microsoft stack.
Ready to level up your ASP.NET Core skills? Join us for two packed days of learning, building, and hands-on coding!
Attendee Pre-requisites:
To get the most out of this workshop, attendees should have a solid understanding of ASP.NET Core and C#. Ideally, you’ve worked with ASP.NET Core long enough to feel confident with its fundamentals.
While this is not a deep dive into ASP.NET Core itself, the workshop focuses on the surrounding frameworks and technologies that complement it. As such, a strong comfort level with general ASP.NET Core development is essential.
Attendee Workstation Requirements:
You must provide your own computer (Windows or Mac) for this hands-on lab workshop with a camera, reliable Internet connection, speakers, and a microphone with the following technologies installed:
- .NET 9 must be installed on your machine
- Visual Studio (Community edition is free) or VS Code is required, as some of the technologies have specific tooling for these editors
- Docker Desktop is also required, as some of the code needs to run off Docker images. Podman should work, but Docker Desktop is preferred (and tested)
- Administrator privileges on the computer are highly recommended, as it makes it easier to solve potential problems, but you should be able to run the labs without it