In my previous post, I wrote my impressions about NDC Porto 2023 conference. And this time, we wanted to attend one of the most popular .NET conferences in Europe 👉 .NET Developer Days. I've been a .NET developer since .NET Framework 1.0, and we, as the core team members of the ABP Framework, have always been working on .NET technologies. And the .NET Developer Days conference is a pure .NET-focused conference and we couldn't stop ourselves from this amazing opportunity to meet .NET fellows there. Then we flew from Porto to Warsaw / Poland. This was a five day event. One day before the event and one day after the event, there were workshops. The actual talks were on 24 and 25 October.
The place was really huge. This is the first time I've been to such a big conference. The venue is called Expo XXI. It's the biggest tech conf in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated exclusively to the .NET platform. There was a variety of food, chill-out places and entertainment areas. And the session rooms were also big, you can see how big it's in the below picture.
.NET 8 is coming up
As you know, .NET 8 is coming up, and Microsoft is making announcements and promoting this new version. Therefore, the kick-off was made with Scott Hunter. His keynote speech topic was "Building and Scaling Cloud Native Intelligent Apps with .NET 8". He showed the new features in .NET 8, C# 12 and the new AI Copilot tooling. He mentioned how to use these new features to build Cloud Native microservices. You can see how packed the room was, and even some fellows were standing ☺️.
