.NET Aspire Tutorials

Custom Tracing with .NET Aspire

You've built your first .NET Aspire application, but what else can you do beyond the default template? In this video, we'll talk about adding custom tracing to your application and how it appears on the .NET Aspire dashboard

Docker Compose for .NET Aspire? New Aspire Publisher Explained

In this video, I walk you through how to publish and deploy a .NET Aspire application using the new Aspire Docker Compose publisher.

Orchard CMS Dev-Time Orchestration with ASP.NET Aspire

This tutorial presents how to use Aspire to dev-orchestrate a web app based on Orchard CMS.

Using .NET Aspire With the Docker Publisher

A practical walkthrough of using .NET Aspire's Docker publisher to generate Docker Compose files from C# code. Learn how to set up an API with Postgres and Redis, publish to Docker Compose, and deploy to a VPS with minimal configuration.

I Replaced Docker Compose with .NET Aspire. Here’s What Happened

In this video, I’ll show you how to integrate .NET Aspire into an existing Clean Architecture application—no need to start from scratch. We’ll start with a .NET 9 solution that uses Docker Compose for Postgres, Redis, and Seq. Then, step-by-step, I’ll migrate everything to use .NET Aspire’s orchestrator and integrations.

Building next-level conversational AI apps with .NET and Aspire

It's 2025 and we're all adding AI features to our apps. But the tech moves so fast - what solid ground can you actually build on? This talk will focus on one of the best established patterns: building chat UIs that accept natural-language instructions.

Build Self-Healing Apps: Health Checks and Probes with .NET Aspire

Today, I’ll show you how to add health checks to your .NET app that stay secure and integrate seamlessly using .NET Aspire.

AspiriFridays - James Montemagno + Feedback Flow

David, Damian, and Maddy have nabbed a real celeb for this episode - fellow MSFTie and Aspire fan James Montemagno!! James has been building an app called Feedback Flow - and even though Fowler has been helping, it STILL isn't Aspirified enough. Join us for this exciting AspiriFriday to wrap up June

Master Local Async Lambda Development with .NET Aspire

Hi, I'm James. And in this video, you'll learn about how you can improve your local development of AWS Lambda functions using .NET Aspire. You'll learn how to emulate asynchronous event sources such as Amazon SQS, Amazon EventBridge, SNS, and Kinesis locally. The video introduces practical ways to test Lambda functions with event sources using Aspire's features.

Integration Testing with .NET Aspire: Unified Local and Test environments with SQS, Lambda, and Postgres

Our application is an ASP.NET Core API, Postage DB using Entity Framework, and SQS Lambda handler. The main idea is to configure an application using Aspire for local development, and the same configuration for integration testing.