.NET Aspire Tutorials

.NET Aspire: What, Why and How, with Mitch Denny

.NET Aspire is an opinionated stack for building apps and wrangling their dependencies. In this session you'll learn what .NET Aspire is, why Microsoft created it, and how you can get started using it yourself. If you are already using .NET Aspire this is a great time to ask any questions you have and get an answer from one of the members of the .NET Aspire core team.

Manage your SQL Server database lifecycle with .NET Aspire and the SQL Database Projects hosting extension

.NET Aspire provides tools, templates, and packages to help you build observable, production-ready apps. Delivered through NuGet packages, .NET Aspire simplifies common challenges in modern app development. Today's apps often rely on multiple services like databases, messaging, and caching, many supported by .NET Aspire Integrations, including community extensions in the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit.

Aspire to Azure

Converting .NET applications to Docker. Deploying them to Azure. Aspire does it all in just a few clicks.

End-to-end integration testing with .NET Aspire

.NET Aspire simplifies end-to-end integration testing for microservices by providing service orchestration, containerized environments, automatic service discovery, and real/ mock service swapping—all in a seamless test setup.

Better together net aspire and semantic kernel

okay, let's dive into a detailed tutorial on combining .net aspire, semantic kernel, and potentially other technologies to build a modern, distributed, and ai-powered application. this will be a lengthy and informative guide, so buckle up!

.NET Aspire Getting Started

In this quick talk, we will familiarize ourselves with .NET Aspire and add it to existing projects: an ASP.NET Core API with CRUD operation and an ASP.NET MVC application as a Client.

.NET Aspire: Cloud-Native Without the Chaos

Tired of “cloud-native” meaning “bloated code + 10 new tools”? .NET Aspire breaks the myth: cloud development can be simple, elegant, and even fun. Join this hands-on session for pragmatic developers ready to build cloud-first micro-services without burnout. Using real-world examples, you’ll design apps that are born scalable – with observability and auto-resilience baked in from the first commit.

Vibe Coding with .NET Aspire: What It Means to Be a Software Developer in 2025

In this talk, we'll explore how .NET Aspire combines opinionated patterns with infrastructure and app modeling to streamline modern .NET development. Using a real-world Pickleball App as a case study, we cover domain modeling with Azure Table Storage, REST APIs, frontend/backend design, automated testing, seed data, and AI-assisted development.

.NET Aspire 9.2 - Graph View

.NET Aspire 9.2 introduces a new way to view your application. A graphical view showing how the different pieces of your application fit together.

Aspire to Great Things

Microservices can mean dozens of projects running to make a single application. Aspire can keep everything under control.