.NET Aspire Blog Posts

.NET Aspire 9.4: CLI Goes GA, Dashboard Gets Interactive -- Visual Studio Magazine

The update aims to streamline development with a native AOT-compiled CLI for application scaffolding, running, and configuration.

Reviewing Aspire.JS: Current state of Aspire for JavaScript

A review of Aspire for JavaScript, an orchestration framework for polyglot applications, including current state, personal experiences, and future aspirations.

Aspire: A Modern DevOps Toolchain

When we first launched Aspire, we knew we were trying to change how developers build distributed applications. But over time, something interesting happened: Aspire started showing up everywhere.

ASPIRE – The Secret Weapon for .NET Cloud-Native Developers

Building distributed applications doesn't have to be a nightmare. Here&'s how .NET Aspire transforms your development experience. What is .NET Aspire?

Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026)

We’ve had so much fun building, learning, and Aspirifying with you over the last year. As many of you have noticed, there are lots of exciting things in the works, and we figured it was time to write the broader vision out in one place.

Taking .NET Aspire for a spin

The latest release of Microsoft’s cloud-native development tool simplifies necessary platform work so you can quickly stand up a development environment. It’s well worth trying out.

.NET Aspire 2: The Developer Dashboard

Today, we’ll focus on my favorite feature: the developer dashboard. The dashboard allows you to track your app in real-time through a single user interface.

Maddy Montaquila on .NET Aspire

In episode 84 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Martin Thwaites welcome Maddy Montaquila, lead PM for .NET Aspire at Microsoft. This episode dives into the "magic" of Aspire

S03E07: .NET Aspire - featuring Maddy Montaquila

In this episode, host Jonathan “J.” Tower talks with Maddy Montaquila from Microsoft’s .NET team about .NET Aspire—a tool aimed at simplifying modern cloud app development. They discuss how Aspire helps orchestrate services across languages and platforms, improves the local development experience, and introduces powerful diagnostics through OpenTelemetry and AI-powered log analysis.

Building Modern, Observable .NET

In this article, I’ll walk you through how we’ve integrated OpenTelemetry, Scalar, and OpenAPI technologies into our .NET 9 solution to create a comprehensive observability and documentation strategy that scales with our microservices architecture.