.NET Conf (dotnetconf or dotNetConf) is a long-running virtual conference hosted each November with the release of a new version of .NET. Its sessions are published to YouTube each year. What have been the top sessions each year? I wrote a tool to pull the stats year by year (since 2021) to see.

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Steve Smith (Ardalis) built a CLI tool using .NET 10's new `dnx` feature to pull and display the most popular .NET Conf sessions from YouTube by view count for each year since 2021. The tool is distributed via NuGet and runnable with `dnx ardalis dotnetconf-stats`. The post also shares the top 10 session rankings for 2021–2025, noting that Clean Architecture sessions have consistently ranked in the top 3 every year. It explains why the author keeps presenting on Clean Architecture (sustained high demand) and introduces `dnx` as a convenient way to distribute and run .NET CLI utilities directly from NuGet without local installation.

.NET Conf Most Popular Sessions Tool

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