.NET Aspire Blog Posts

How the Copilot team leverages .NET Aspire

By now, you’ve probably heard of Microsoft Copilot, the innovative tool designed to enhance productivity by providing intelligent assistance across various Microsoft applications. This team was one of the first internal Microsoft customers to use .NET Aspire. Since then, .NET Aspire has become an integral part of their onboarding and local dev experience.

Using YARP as BFF within .NET Aspire: Integrating YARP into .NET Aspire

This blog post is the first in a series of posts in which a YARP project is integrated within a .NET Aspire project, acting as a secure Backend for Frontend (BFF) for an Angular application.

Microsoft .NET Aspire adds resource graph, publishers

Publishers, now in preview, are a new type of integration that help developers package and deploy .NET Aspire apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, and other destinations.

.NET Aspire and Databases with Jerry Nixon

Jerry Nixon is a Principal Program Manager on the SQL Server team focused on the Data API builder. He’s also a fanatic for #CSharp, #StarTrek, and Etymology. He also serves as a professor at Colorado Christian University.

Service Orchestration in .NET Aspire

Learn how to streamline microservices communication using Service Orchestration in .NET Aspire. This guide covers key concepts, practical implementation steps, and best practices to build scalable, maintainable distributed systems with Microsoft's latest cloud-native .NET stack.

.NET Aspire and Azure Functions integration preview - Visual Studio Blog

Discover the latest Visual Studio 2022 feature that integrates .NET Aspire with Azure Functions, simplifying setup, enhancing existing projects, and offering real-time monitoring.

AWS Lambda and .NET Aspire | Serverless Office Hours - aws on Twitch

Norm Johanson joins AWS Office Hours on Twitch to discuss using .NET Aspire with AWS

Modeling Your Environment with Aspire

When I talk about modeling in Aspire, I’m talking about describing your application and its environment in a way that a tool can understand — not just a human.

The Aspire Compiler

At the heart of Aspire is a resource model. It defines the shape of your application — its services, dependencies, configuration, and how everything connects. But this model doesn’t just describe intent...

Aspire: A Platform for Reusable Infrastructure

In software engineering, we know how to build reusable systems.