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Pre-Conference Workshop

12 November 2025


ADVANCED .NET Modernization

Update Conference Prague will be even better in 2025. We've decided to add an all-day workshop with the attractive topic of .NET Modernization, which will take place one day before the conference, on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. The workshop will take place in the Virgo hall on the conference floor of the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague. The capacity is limited to 60 attendees.

Tomáš Herceg is the CEO of RIGANTI, a Czech software development and consulting company. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2009 and was named a Microsoft Regional Director in 2015 and 2017. Tomáš is the author of DotVVM, an open-source .NET web framework, and regularly speaks at conferences about .NET, web development, and software architecture. He is also a co-founder of Update Conference Prague, the largest .NET event in the Czech Republic.

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Tomas Herceg
Tomáš Herceg
RIGANTI, Microsoft MVP

.NET Modernization: Bring Your Own App

Want to take your .NET applications to the next level? Come to Tomas Herceg's workshop focused on .NET Modernization! Bring your own project and get individual recommendations on how to optimize and modernize it, or work with ready-made samples. With Tomas's guidance, you will get practical tips tailored to your needs. Don't miss the opportunity to take your work to the next level!

Technologies

The demo applications support the folowing migration paths:

  • In-place migration: ASP.NET Web Forms & DotVVM
    This scenario shows how to migrate Web Forms applications to .NET 8 with minimum code changes using an open-source framework DotVVM.
  • Side-by-side migration: ASP.NET Web Forms app & Blazor
    This scenario shows how to migrate Web Forms applications to Blazor using .NET Upgrade Assistant and YARP-based side-by side approach.
  • ASP.NET Web API + Entity Framework 6 & ASP.NET Core + EF Core
    This scenario shows how to migrate classic ASP.NET Web API application using Entity Framework 6 to ASP.NET Core APIs with the latest version of EF Core.

How the Workshop will look like

Feel free to bring your own application. Use the hackathon to start migrating your real-world project. The trainer will be able to help you with:

  • ASP.NET-based framework
  • Windows Forms
  • WPF
  • Xamarin.Forms (unconfirmed)
  • Technical Requirements

Important Reminder

To enjoy the full experiance of the hackathon, we recommend all attendees to bring their own laptops with the following software installed:

  • Visual Studio 2022 (ASP.NET and web development and other relevant workloads based on the scenario you want to work with)
  • SQL Server Express, SQL Server LocalDB, or another SQL Server edition
  • SQL Server Management Studio or another tool you can use to work with the database
  • Git (we will need to create branches)
  • Any other software required to run "bring your project"

Herceg

Are you interested?

November 12, 2025
Clarion Congress Hotel Prague
Only 60 seats

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Schedule

9:30 – 11:30 AM – Intro to modernization – challenges, benefits and trade-offs

11:30 – 12:30 PM – Lunch break

12:30 – 3:00 PM – Hands-on part 1

3:30 – 6:00 PM – Hands-on part 2


The trainer will be present all day to give advice, ready to answer any questions or provide guidance with individual modernization steps.

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Got interested? Register right now!

There are two options of attending the .NET Modernization workshop. You can register separately from the conference ticket (if you've already registered to the conference before), or you can register for both workshop and for the conference together.

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Regular + Workshop through from 1 April Sold-out

Special bundle including Regular Ticket for personal participation in the conference and participation in a pre-conference workshop (12 November).

980 EUR VAT not included
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Workshop through from 13 November Sold-out

If you have already purchased a ticket for Update Conference Prague 2025 and would like to attend the workshop on 12 November, please include the order number of your conference ticket in the note when purchasing the workshop.

400 EUR VAT not included

For more information about tickets to workshop or conference see the Tickets section.

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Cancellation Policy.

Ticket can be transferred or canceled. In case of cancellation there is a following cancellation fee: