Alvin Ashcraft - Speaking Resources

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Resources from my speaking engagements:

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Upcoming events in 2027

• CodeMash Great Lakes 2027 - January 12 - 15

My current sessions

• Inside Microsoft Learn: Mastering the Open-Source Contribution Workflow
• Modern Windows Development: Choosing the Right UI Framework
• Build Native: The Developer’s Guide to WinUI
• Microsoft Learn: Building Docs at Scale with GitHub & AI
• WinUI 3: Build a Modern Windows App from Scratch (Workshop)
• Fast-Track Your AI App: Hands-on with the AI Dev Gallery
• Build Beautiful Cross-Platform Apps with Uno Platform
• Accelerate .NET MAUI Development with the Community Toolkits
• Local AI on Windows: Integrating Phi Silica and Foundry into .NET Apps
• PowerToys Tips & Tricks: A Lightning Tour
• Supercharge Your Agents: Custom Tools, MCP, and Microsoft Foundry
• The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Foundry: Models, Agents, and SDKs

Recent Speaking Engagements

• CodeMash 2026
  • January 15th (Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET MAUI and the MAUI Community Toolkit)
• AI Agents Conference 2026
  • April 26th (Explore Windows AI Dev Options with the AI Dev Gallery)
• DWX 2026
  • July 1 (Build Beautiful Cross-Platform Apps with Uno Platform)
• Nebraska.Code 2026
  • July 23 (Local AI on Windows: Integrating Phi Silica and Foundry into .NET Apps)
• .NET Day Switzerland 2026
  • August 25 (Supercharge Your Agents: Custom Tools, MCP, and Microsoft Foundry)
• VSLive! San Diego 2026
  • September 16 (Accelerate .NET MAUI Development with the Community Toolkits)
  • September 16 (Windows AI Development with AI Dev Gallery)
  • September 17 (Local AI on Windows: Integrating Phi Silica and Foundry into .NET Apps)

My books

• Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML, 2nd Edition
• Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# - Use it with .NET 9 too!
• Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development - The 1st edition
• Building Agentic Applications with MCP and .NET (co-author) - Coming soon