2026 .NET Conf Recap

I was invited to the 2026 .NET Conf Recap in Mumbai. The conference was about introducing the attendees to the .NET 10 framework, C# 14 features and a new cloud-ready stack called Aspire.

The session started in the afternoon at 2:45 pm. The presenter Augustine Correa started with what .NET is and what is this conference about. He then presented the features of .NET 10 and C# 14.

.NET 10 is now 93% faster in terms of memory as compared to .NET 8 which is a massive bump. C# 14 also comes with a ton of new features like Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T> for performance improvements. Partial classes for source generation and Extension members.

We then did a workshop on Aspire, a cloud-ready observability stack that can orchestrate, provide service discovery, observability and deployment all in one. It simulates production environment in local development set up which helps developers build more robust and performant applications.

Previously, aspire was only available for .NET but now the platform has expanded to support python and javascript. This has made it more appealing to developers who use python and javascript.

The workshop consisted of creating an aspire dashboard which controlled the entire application. It showed resources of the application like frontend, backend, database and cache. Aspire has a structured section which logs everything that in happening inside the applications along with errors that have occurred. The traces section in the dashboard is useful for tracing the start to finish flow of a particular endpoint. Where it originated from and how it ended is useful for debugging and optimizing performance. Metrics section displays performance indicators such as CPU usage, memory consumption, request rates, and other instrumented data.

The workshop was extremely useful for first time users for aspire like me. I have never used aspire before and it provided me an insight into build better software which is reliable and optimized before being deployed to production.

This was my first time attending such an event. Being able to visit Microsoft office in Mumbai was a excitement in itself. But the session was smooth, fun, interactive and informative. I learned a lot and will be attending more such sessions in the future. I hope I could do more networking next time as this session had less audience then I expected.

All in all, the 2026 .NET Conf Recap was a delight and I am grateful to Microsoft and Augustine Correa for inviting me to this conference. I will be attending more such events in the future!