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Leslie Richardson

Senior Product Manager, .NET/C# Team, Microsoft

Leslie is a product manager on the .NET Developer Tools team and the host of the VS Toolbox show on YouTube and Twitch. She is currently focused on improving productivity while writing MCP servers and agentic applications across VS and VS Code and has also helped to improve tooling experiences for Aspire and Razor. Leslie also worked on the Visual Studio team developing and enhancing extensibility and debugging features.

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IDEs in the Age of AI

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AI is making it easier than ever to write code end-to-end without ever looking at the code. This begs the question: where do IDEs fit in? In this keynote, we'll explore how Visual Studio and VS Code are evolving to meet the new needs and challenges of .NET development, the unique features that continue to set them apart from a CLI, and the value that IDEs continue to bring in the age of AI.