.NET Aspire Videos

What’s New in .NET: AI, Aspire & Azure for Cloud-Native Devs

Explore what's new in the .NET ecosystem with a focus on AI integration, .NET Aspire, and Azure-native development.

.NET Aspire - Adding Custom Commands to the Dashboard

Do you have scripts and tools that you use to configure your development environment? Do you re-run them and share them with your project teammates? In this video, Fritz will show you how you can write .NET Aspire custom commands that allow you to perform those tasks directly from the .NET Aspire dashboard

.NET Aspire - Project Names and Constants

You've started adding more projects to your .NET Aspire system, and there's a lot of these 'magic strings' floating around with the names of projects and services. How can we take advantage of a centralized naming of these services by introducing a set of constants and reference them in our .NET Aspire managed system? In this video, we're going to customize how we name our projects and reference them throughout our .NET Aspire system.

Custom Metrics with .NET Aspire

You've built your first .NET Aspire application, but what's next? In this video, we'll explore adding custom metrics to your application to measure the performance of a feature. We'll then see how this metric is surfaced on the .NET Aspire dashboard

Technical Deep Dive into .NET Aspire

In this in-depth session, Glenn pulls back the curtain on .NET Aspire, exploring what makes it tick and why it’s such a powerful and extensible platform for cloud-native .NET apps. From a high-level overview of what an Aspire app looks like, to the under-the-hood mechanics of how Aspire runs your application host, you’ll gain a complete understanding of the core concepts, architecture, and techniques behind the platform.

Write Elegant Integration Tests Correctly in .NET

In this video, Gui will show you how you can get started with integration testing in .NET with .NET Aspire. From the launch of Aspire I have been saying that it will be a perfect tool for integration and acceptance testing and we finally have all the tools to investigate this claim.

Custom Tracing with .NET Aspire

You've built your first .NET Aspire application, but what else can you do beyond the default template? In this video, we'll talk about adding custom tracing to your application and how it appears on the .NET Aspire dashboard

Docker Compose for .NET Aspire? New Aspire Publisher Explained

In this video, I walk you through how to publish and deploy a .NET Aspire application using the new Aspire Docker Compose publisher.

I Replaced Docker Compose with .NET Aspire. Here’s What Happened

In this video, I’ll show you how to integrate .NET Aspire into an existing Clean Architecture application—no need to start from scratch. We’ll start with a .NET 9 solution that uses Docker Compose for Postgres, Redis, and Seq. Then, step-by-step, I’ll migrate everything to use .NET Aspire’s orchestrator and integrations.

Building next-level conversational AI apps with .NET and Aspire

It's 2025 and we're all adding AI features to our apps. But the tech moves so fast - what solid ground can you actually build on? This talk will focus on one of the best established patterns: building chat UIs that accept natural-language instructions.