VS Code Live - Modernizing Legacy .NET applications with GitHub Copilot Modernization in VS Code

Joel Norman and Jorge Balderas demonstrate using GitHub Copilot Modernization in Visual Studio Code to help modernize a legacy .NET application.

Full summary based on transcript

What the session is about

• A live walkthrough of modernizing an existing (legacy) .NET application using GitHub Copilot Modernization inside VS Code.
• The goal is to show what Copilot can do when you “let it loose” on a modernization effort, and where you still need to guide and validate changes.

Tools and resources referenced

• Modernize .NET landing page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/modernize
• Microsoft Learn guidance: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/developer/github-copilot-app-modernization/
• Modernization tooling repo: https://github.com/dotnet/modernize-dotnet
• Migration samples repo: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/dotnet-migration-copilot-samples

People featured

• Joel Norman
• Jorge Balderas
• Featuring: Olivia Guzzardo McVicker (linked in the description)