About us
The Wisconsin .NET User Group was founded on February 12, 2002 at the launch of Visual Studio.NET. Our mission from inception has been to develop a peer group of developers, architects, and managers who are interested in learning, sharing and growing their Microsoft .NET knowledge and capabilities. The group's vision is to provide members with a forum to hear top industry experts speak, learn and teach others who are interested in the same technologies as you and are facing the same challenges.
The Wisconsin .NET User Group covers the entire spectrum of .NET technologies, including the Windows Server System, XML web services, application development with Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework (including web, mobile, and desktop applications.) We are proud to now have over 3,000 members and we have continued to grow stronger each month due to the well-known .NET expert speakers we bring each month, the support of our growing list of sponsors, and the input and interest of each of our members.
The Wisconsin .NET User Group's sole purpose is to bring technology and business people together who are interested in .NET technologies. In the pursuit of this purpose, we strive to bring interesting speakers to talk on interesting topics in a monthly meeting format. We also highly encourage interaction between members, so we can all share our experiences and learn from each other. It is this community orientation that brings us together to develop and deliver the best applications to our respective employers, customers, and ourselves.
Monthly Meetings the 2nd Tuesday of the Month
(No Meeting in December due to the holidays.)
Monthly Meeting Details:
• Food is provided for in person meetings.
• A 90 minute technical presentation starting.
• After the presentation there is an opportunity to network.
• 95% of attendees of the meetings are .NET developers.
Upcoming events
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From Code to Couch Tables: Engineering Physical Objects with AI
Concurrency, Inc., 13600 Bishops Ct Suite 250, Brookfield, WI, USFrom Code to Couch Tables: Engineering Physical Objects
For decades, the idea of speaking something into existence has been solidly in the realm of science fiction. Whether it was magic spells, JARVIS, or the Star Trek replicator, turning an abstract thought directly into a physical object was completely out of reach. Now, with the power of AI Coding Assistants and agent harnesses, the gap between thoughts and reality is rapidly closing.
In this talk, we'll explore how to harness AI to bridge the physical and digital worlds. I'll share my journey of using AI to design saleable products, wood + 3D printed furniture, and tools. You'll walk away with practical workflows you can take to your own makerspace, traps to avoid, and tips for compiling your own thoughts into atoms.Speaker: Dustin Ewers
Location Sponsor: Concurrency
Food Sponsor:10 attendees
Build, Trace, Test: Production-Grade AI Agents
Concurrency, Inc., 13600 Bishops Ct Suite 250, Brookfield, WI, USBuild, Trace, Test: Production-Grade AI Agents with .NET Microsoft Agent Framework
Building an AI agent that works in a demo is surprisingly easy. Building one that you can change, debug, evaluate, and trust is a much more interesting engineering problem.
In this session, we'll build a real agent in C# using Microsoft Agent Framework and connect it to organizational context from Microsoft 365 using Work IQ. Then we'll go beyond the happy-path demo and treat the agent like production software.
We'll instrument agent execution with OpenTelemetry to see model calls, tool execution, latency, token usage, and failures. We'll create an evaluation harness that turns expected agent behavior into repeatable tests, combining deterministic checks with model-based evaluation. Finally, we'll intentionally change the agent and use our telemetry and evaluations to determine whether we actually made it better—or quietly introduced a regression.Along the way, we'll explore the evolving Microsoft agent development stack, including Agent Framework, Work IQ, A2A, OpenTelemetry, and Microsoft.Extensions.AI evaluation.
If you're a .NET developer trying to understand what engineering AI agents looks like after the first successful prompt, this session is for you.Speaker: Brian Haydin
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