Live! 360 2-Day Hands-on Seminar AI-Powered .NET Development with Claude & Claude Code

AI is no longer a feature you add to an application. It is becoming a fundamental part of how software is conceived, built, tested, deployed, and maintained. This intensive two-day virtual seminar is designed for .NET and C# developers ready to move beyond consumer chat tools to become genuine AI builders and integrators. Day 1 covers the Claude Code track, where you will learn to use Anthropic's agentic coding tool directly in your terminal and IDE across every phase of a real project from codebase exploration and architecture design through feature implementation, refactoring, and debugging. Day 2 covers the Anthropic API track, where you will write C# code that calls Claude to build AI-native .NET applications using the official SDK, streaming chat endpoints, tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines backed by a vector database, and custom MCP servers that expose your own services as AI-accessible tools. Every example is idiomatic, modern .NET, no Python wrappers, no JavaScript bridges, no toy demos.

The gap between reading about AI capabilities and actually integrating them into production .NET applications is substantial. This training seminar provides the structured, instructor-guided path through that gap, using real codebases, real API calls, real vector stores, and real deployment pipelines. You will encounter, and learn to solve, the failure modes that documentation never mentions: prompt injection vulnerabilities in ASP.NET Core endpoints, token budget overruns that make AI features economically unviable, hallucination patterns specific to .NET code generation, and architectural pitfalls in naive RAG implementations. You will finish with working code, not just notes.

Immediately upon returning to your team, you will be able to deploy Claude Code across your development workflow and demonstrate measurable productivity gains. You will architect and implement AI features inside your existing ASP.NET Core applications with correct, production-quality patterns, and build custom MCP servers that transform your company's existing .NET services into AI-native tools. You will be the person on your team who knows not just that AI is powerful, but exactly how to wire it into the stack your organization already relies on safely, cost-effectively, and with the engineering discipline that sets professional software apart from prototypes.

What You Will Be Able to Do After This Training

• Install, configure, and operate Claude Code from the terminal, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs
• Use Claude Code to accelerate architecture design, code construction, refactoring, testing, and debugging
• Explain how large language models work and apply that understanding to practical integration decisions
• Integrate the official Anthropic C# SDK into ASP.NET Core applications with correct DI patterns
• Build streaming chat interfaces using Server-Sent Events in ASP.NET Core
• Implement the tool-calling agent loop pattern in C# for multi-step AI workflows
• Build RAG pipelines in .NET with chunking, embedding, vector storage, and retrieval
• Create custom MCP servers in C# to connect Claude to your own databases and internal services
• Use Claude Code in GitHub Actions for automated code review and release notes
• Apply responsible AI practices: prompt injection defense, token budgets, hallucination mitigation

Hands-On Experience
This is a hands-on training seminar. Every session includes lab exercises, and you must have a configured laptop to participate fully. A pre-seminar setup guide will be sent to registered attendees. Please complete the setup before the training begins. If you encounter issues during setup, a 30-minute virtual office hour will be available to assist with setup the evening before Day 1.

Required Software

Required Accounts

• Anthropic Console account at console.anthropic.com free to create, but API access requires a paid plan or Claude Pro/Max subscription. Billing details: API usage during the workshop will be light (estimated $5–10 total for both days).
• GitHub account required for MCP integration labs. A personal account is sufficient.
• Azure account required for the Day 2 deployment overview. A free-tier Azure account is sufficient. Create at azure.microsoft.com/free.

System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows 10/11 (64-bit), macOS 12 Monterey or later, or Ubuntu 20.04+ / Debian 10+. Windows users should install WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) before the workshop installation instructions will be in the pre-workshop guide.
• RAM: 16 GB minimum. 32 GB recommended if running Docker Desktop alongside the IDE.
• Disk Space: 20 GB free minimum for SDK, tooling, Docker images, and workshop repository.
• Administrator Access: You must have local administrator rights on your machine to install Claude Code, Docker, and other tooling.
• Internet Connection: A stable broadband connection is required throughout both days. All API calls, GitHub interactions, and lab exercises require internet access.

Pre-Workshop Setup

A GitHub repository containing all starter projects, lab assets, and setup scripts will be shared with registered attendees one week before the training. Clone the repository and run the provided setup verification script to confirm your environment is ready before Day 1. The script checks .NET version, Node.js, Git, Docker, and available disk space, and prints a pass/fail report.