.NET Aspire Blog Posts

Elastic observability and search in .NET Aspire

.NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications. In this post we'll look at working with Elasticsearch in .NET Aspire, but firstly - on the observability side - let's learn just how easy it is to instrument our app with OpenTelemetry and see logs, metrics and traces in Elastic.

.NET Aspire and Dapr: How These Tools Complement Each Other in Distributed Applications

I’ve explored various tools to simplify the development of distributed applications. Two notable tools that stand out are .NET Aspire and Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). In this article, I’ll delve into how these tools address common challenges in distributed systems, their similarities and differences, and how they can be used together to enhance your development workflow.

.NET Aspire, OpenTelemetry, Immersive APM

The discussion covers how Immersive APM complements the .NET Aspire framework and leverages the OpenTelemetry to provide a seamless observability solution, allowing developers to visualize and interact with their applications in a virtual environment. Key topics include the benefits of this approach, such as faster problem-solving, enhanced collaboration, and improved understanding of complex software systems.

Jeff Fritz: .NET 9 and Beyond - Episode 328 - Azure & DevOps Podcast

Jeff Fritz visits with Jeffrey Palermo and they discuss the latest updates for .NET, .NET Conf, and .NET Aspire

C# Advent 2024 - Making a List, Checking It Twice

He’s making a list Checking it twice Writing some code To track who’s naughty and nice Santa Claus is wri-ting… C# tldr; With .NET 9, you can now add custom action buttons to the .NET Aspire dashboard screen You ever wonder how Santa is able to keep track of the kids who are naughty and nice? Never fear, Santa, I got ya covered. Let me throw together a quick proof of concept (POC) and show you the future!

Every Reason You Should be Getting Started With .Net Aspire

.Net Aspire is a comprehensive set of tools, templates, and packages designed to simplify the development of cloud-native applications using .Net.

.NET Aspire with Anthony Simmon

Let's hear about .NET Aspire from a real-world practitioner! Anthony Simmon has been using .NET Aspire at as a Staff Software Developer at Workleap and he's been blogging his experiences and improvements! Let's talk to Anthony about what he likes and doesn't like about .NET Aspire and how it's making his multi-container development better on his local machines!

Aspire Multilanguage with .NET Aspire Community Toolkit

Not long ago, I posted about how to use .NET Aspire even when our distributed application involves different languages. In that article, I used the ability of .NET Aspire to support different languages natively or via containers to build a distributed calculator. In this article, I will show how this has improved thanks to the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit.

NET Aspire is a Game Changer

In this edition of #tech on ice, I am back from Prague and Update Conference, and I wanted to talk about .NET Aspire, one of the best things to happen to .NET developers in a long time. The productivity boost is just plain awesome!

Azure & DevOps Podcast: David Fowler: Architecture of .NET Aspire

David Fowler is a Distinguished Engineer and has been at Microsoft for over 16 years working on developer frameworks and tools in the .NET space. He’s one of the creators of several popular OSS frameworks and tools such as .NET Aspire, NuGet, SignalR, and Core.