.NET Aspire Blog Posts

Simplifying Cloud-Native .NET Development: .NET Aspire vs. Docker

Tired of wrestling with the complexities of cloud-native .NET development? You’re not alone. Two prominent contenders are vying to simplify your life. But which one is right for your next project?

Building .NET Aspire extensions

I looked into .NET Aspire a few weeks back and noticed it supports extensions! Join me for this stream, and let's figure out how to build an extension for .NET Aspire.

The .NET on AWS Show, featuring David Fowler and Norm Johanson!

In this episode, we are joined by Distinguished Engineer @ Microsoft, David Fowler, and Principle Engineer @ AWS, Norm Johanson, to discuss the recent AWS updates to .NET Aspire!

.NET Rocks - Building Cloud Native in Azure with Scott Hunter

Carl & Richard talk to Scott Hunter about how Microsoft tooling is evolving to develop cloud-native applications. Scott talks about how development tools focus on individual applications and how dealing with multiple applications, including cloud apps, can be challenging. Cloud apps need telemetry, resiliency, and service discovery - which brings the conversation to tooling like .NET Aspire, designed to lead developers down the path to cloud-native applications with all these features and more.

Disabling .NET Aspire authentication to skip the login page

Do you find the login page of the .NET Aspire dashboard unnecessary for local development? Use of of these two methods to disable it.

Exploring .NET Aspire: Building Cloud-Native Apps with Ease

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native application development, building scalable, observable, and production-ready distributed systems can be a challenging task. This is where .NET Aspire comes into play. .NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud-ready stack designed to simplify the development of cloud-native applications by providing a collection of NuGet packages that handle specific cloud-native concerns.

Marten, PostgreSQL, and .NET Aspire walk into a bar…

This is somewhat a follow up from yesterday’s post on Marten, Metrics, and Open Telemetry Support. I was very hopeful about the defunct Project Tye, and have been curious about .NET Aspire as a more ambitious offering since it was announced. As part of the massive Marten V7 release, we took some steps to ensure that Marten could use PostgreSQL databases controlled by .NET Aspire.

Day of .NET Aspire

Ready to Learn Aspire? Shawn Wildermuth is holding a 1 day, online workshop to get up to speed with Aspire on June 12th.

Is .NET Aspire only useful when building distributed, cloud-ready applications?

Can you gain something from introducing the .NET Aspire tools into your workflow? Read along and find out how my team is using it both for local development and when executing integration and end-to-end tests.

Accelerating Project Success with .NET Aspire

.NET Aspire revolutionizes corporate app development by seamlessly integrating with Microsoft's suite of services, particularly Azure Cloud, laying a robust foundation for software creation.