Sam Basu!
Developer Advocate
Bio!
Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP and a Developer Advocacy Manager at Progress Software. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern development platforms & tools on Microsoft/Telerik technology stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast cars, cricket and culinary adventures. You can find him on the internet.
Session!
Packing Light with VS Code 🧳
You want modern consistent development experience across Windows/macOS/Linux? You want an AI-powered code editor where you get to pick your tools & workloads? You want to code anywhere like in browser/Codespaces/DevBox and carry your developer settings?
Visual Studio Code does all that & more. VS Code is uber popular for a reason – a lightweight code editor solution with multi-language support and a rich Extensions ecosystem. With plentiful Extensions for C#/JavaScript developers, VS Code is more than capable of checking all the boxes for developers building modern experiences for web, mobile, desktop, cloud native & more. GitHub Copilot brings all the AI-powered productivity to VS Code – with Agentic workflows, your beloved pair programmer is fast becoming a peer programmer. Developers can also bring deeply contextual RAG-powered intelligence to VS Code with GitHub Copilot Extensibility. And with MCP Server/Clients, the AI ecosystem is your oyster. With infinite configurability and a thriving ecosystem, VS Code is all about developer productivity – packing light makes you go places. Come see how!
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