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Microsoft Invites Developers to VSLive! with Visual Studio Subscriber Discounts
- By David Ramel
- June 10, 2025
Microsoft is offering a discount to Visual Studio subscribers interested in attending the upcoming VSLive! developer conference, which will be held August 4–8 at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
A June 5 tweet from the official Visual Studio account announced:
"Exciting news! Join us at VSLive! from August 4-8 at Microsoft HQ! Visual Studio subscribers get an exclusive discount at http://my.visualstudio.com. Use it for yourself and your team. Meet the developers behind your favorite features!"
Hosting the event at Microsoft headquarters provides attendees with direct access to the company’s developer advocates and technical experts. The agenda features numerous Microsoft engineers and product leads.
Through exclusive access as part of the VSLive! series—presented by the parent company of this publication—we have published a series of interviews with speakers and Microsoft insiders who will be presenting at the conference. Highlights include:
Leonard Lobel discusses how developers can implement AI-driven semantic search in existing applications using vector search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). He covers embedding generation, performance optimization, and implementation strategies using SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB.
Eric D. Boyd explores building predictive applications on Azure Machine Learning. The session focuses on AutoML, deployment, monitoring, and security while offering practical guidance for developers with limited data science experience.
Drew Skwiers-Koballa introduces the next-generation SDK for SQL project workflows. He explains how it supports version control, enhances CI/CD integration, and simplifies deployment pipelines by treating database schema changes as code.
Michael Washington walks through building business apps with Blazor. The session includes data binding, routing, JavaScript interop, and secure authentication with Microsoft Entra and Azure B2C, with a focus on performance and offline support via WebAssembly.
Rockford Lhotka covers securing Blazor apps across server-side, WebAssembly, and .NET MAUI Hybrid environments. The presentation covers identity, claims-based authorization, and guidance for modernizing legacy applications with secure, cross-platform authentication.
More information about the August VSLive! conference at Microsoft HQ is available here.
About the Author
David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.