.NET Aspire Blog Posts

Setting generated project name in .NET Aspire

In this article, we'll look at specifying the name of the .NET projects available in the AppHost project. .NET Aspire generates a collection of project objects from its .NET solution that you can reference in the AppHost project, and you might have a collision when you reference multiple projects with the same name. Let's learn how to override the default names of the projects in .NET Aspire

Understanding .NET Aspire Orchestration

This article aims to provide an easy-to-understand introduction to orchestration in .NET Aspire, focusing on its benefits and capabilities. Let’s dive in and discover how .NET Aspire contributes to advancements in our day-by-day development.

Aspirational .NET: What Is .NET Aspire?

Shawn describes the Aspire framework as something the ASP.NET Core team created to simplify the set-up of multiple smaller projects

JetBrains Rider and the .NET Aspire Plugin

Khalid and Rival on the JetBrains blog cover what .NET Aspire is, who it is for, and what JetBrains is doing to support this new approach to developing distributed applications on the .NET platform. Also, for all you internals geeks, we have a few details about the inner workings of our JetBrains Rider plugin.

Why .NET's Most Ambitious Feature Might Fail

Nick addresses some of the feedback of .NET Aspire. It's been 2 months since the release of the first preview, and Microsoft has been hard at work, so let's see where Aspire is going and if it has a bright future ahead of it.

.NET Aspire: How it works behind the scenes?

In this video Saaed talks about how it .NET Aspire works and checking different parts of it.

Entity Framework in .NET Aspire

If you want to utilize Entity Framework in a basic .NET Aspire application, adding a project to contain the entity models, context, and Entity Framework references and supporting a database engine container is a recommended place to get started. I suspect this guidance may be refined as .NET Aspire evolves.

Why I think .NET Aspire is Overhyped

.NET Aspire is a way to define your distributed system, and then IaC & Deployment tooling have to pick up the slack getting your definition out there, is this a good thing?