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.NET Aspire Articles, Tutorials & News
.NET Aspire articles, tutorials, and news from the DotNetNews archive.
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.NET Aspire work shows up across many DotNetNews issues because teams keep hitting the same implementation questions. .NET Aspire shows up when .NET code leaves the laptop and has to run under cloud, container, or CI constraints.
Recurring subtopics in recent issues include Aspire orchestration, cloud-native .NET Aspire, aspire, and net aspire. When a subtopic never appears in the archive titles or excerpts, it is left out of this introduction.
Expect publisher tutorials, release notes, architecture write-ups, and field notes linked from DotNetNews issues. Start here is a short editorial shortlist for .NET Aspire; the archive list is chronological and larger. Secondary angles such as .NET Aspire and .NET Aspire tutorials appear when the archive actually covered them. Cross-links to Docker for ASP.NET Core and OpenTelemetry for .NET help when the problem spans more than one tag.
Each card points at the original publisher URL and the DotNetNews issue that carried it, so you can read the article in context or jump straight to the source.
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Editor picks for .NET Aspire
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Building AI-Powered Background Workers and Scheduled Agents with .NET Aspire
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #503
Aspire plus background workers is a sensible combination, and adding AI tasks makes the operational story more interesting.
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Getting Started with .NET Aspire for Microservices Development
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #492
A decent entry point for Aspire if you're just starting to explore the .NET opinionated microservices toolchain.
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Getting Started With Dapr for Building Cloud-Native Microservices in .NET
antondevtips.com Issue #474
Dapr's sidecar model abstracts cloud-native concerns; pair it with Aspire for local dev.
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Aspire for .NET Developers - Deep Dive into Cloud-Ready .NET Apps
codewithmukesh.com Issue #336
Aspire and the MCP piece stand out if you’re thinking about cloud-native app structure and where AI hooks into real systems.
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Modernizing .NET Applications for the Cloud
youtube.com Issue #331
Modernizing for the cloud ties Aspire 13 and .NET 10 into a useful platform update.
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What's New in ASP.NET Core
youtube.com Issue #330
Join us to see how ASP.NET Core continues to be the best framework for building cloud-native web applications with .NET.
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Building Generative AI Applications With GitHub Models and .NET Aspire
milanjovanovic.tech Issue #267
Aspire plus GitHub Models is a very modern combo: orchestration, AI, and a practical workflow in one example.
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Converting a docker-compose file to .NET Aspire
andrewlock.net Issue #209
A practical path from docker-compose to Aspire, which is increasingly useful for local orchestration.
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Building AI-Powered Background Workers and Scheduled Agents with .NET Aspire
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #503
Build intelligent AI background workers & scheduled agents with .NET Aspire for reliable, cloud-native distributed applications.
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Hosting AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET Ep - 14, Part 2
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #499
Learn how to host AI agents using Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET. This session explains agent hosting architecture, dependency injection, service registration, runtime configuration, deployment str...
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Getting Started with .NET Aspire for Microservices Development
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #492
.NET Aspire simplifies microservices development with built-in service discovery, observability, and orchestration for cloud-native apps.
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Building a Self-Healing Background Job System with .NET Aspire
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #490
Build resilient, self-healing background job systems with .NET Aspire. Learn to implement retries, health checks, and observability for reliable applications.
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.NET AI Community Standup: Multi-Agent Apps with Aspire + MAF
youtube.com Issue #488
After some techinical difficulties last week, we're excited to restream this content in its entirety! Join Bruno and Tommaso for a look at building distributed multi-agent systems with Aspire and MAF ...
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Local Aspire Development with Azure Cosmos DB and the Preview Emulator | BEN ABT
medium.com Issue #488
Distributed applications tend to feel straightforward until a real cloud dependency enters the picture. Azure Cosmos DB is a good example…
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Aspire in VS Code: the 13.4 developer loop
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #487
Visual Studio Code consistently ranks as the most popular IDE for developers, and its flexibility and extension marketplace make it possible for developers using any technology or language to build an...
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Beyond Chatbots: Building AI Agent Applications in .NET
medium.com Issue #486
Large Language Models have made it incredibly easy to build chat-based applications. A few API calls, a prompt, and a UI are often enough…
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Stop Rewriting. Start with Aspire.
youtube.com Issue #485
Skip the weekend of YAML and hand-rolled OTel. We'll tour the Aspire onboarding flow — aspire init and the new Aspireify agent skill — and let it modernize an existing .NET app live. The legendary MVC...
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Improve your AI coding agent with runtime context from Aspire MCP
timdeschryver.dev Issue #479
The power of giving an AI agent access to OpenTelemetry data through Aspire MCP is simple: it gives the agent better input to analyze. Instead of reasoning only from source code, the agent can inspect...
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Aspire Azure SQL deployment bug
damienbod.com Issue #478
This week, I was updating my Aspire applications after the latest release and I ran into a deployment bug for my test deployments. I could no longer deploy the database to Azure SQL. I got the followi...
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Keyed Services in .NET 10: The DI Feature Almost Nobody Uses
serkanozbeykurucu.medium.com Issue #475
.NET 10 is the current long-term support release. It will be patched until late 2028. And buried in the DI container is a feature that…
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Getting Started With Dapr for Building Cloud-Native Microservices in .NET
antondevtips.com Issue #474
Learn what Dapr is, how the sidecar architecture works, understand building blocks and components, and set up Dapr with .NET Aspire for your .NET microservices. Code examples in .NET to publish event
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GraphQL vs REST APIs: Choosing the Right Approach for Modern Applications
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #473
Compare GraphQL vs REST APIs. Learn the key differences, advantages, disadvantages, performance considerations, and when to choose each approach.
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Aspire Multi-repo Rollout at Scale with Agentic AI
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #472
In our previous post, Aspire Multi-Repo Microservices - Windows 365 Integration Journey, we explored how we extended Aspire to unlock multi-repo microservice development, enabling teams to independent...
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Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka and .NET
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #472
Learn Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka and .NET. Build scalable microservices using Kafka producers, consumers, topics, and real-time event processing.
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Implementing Clean Architecture in .NET 10 - Step-by-Step Guide
codewithmukesh.com Issue #471
A complete, junior-friendly guide to Clean Architecture in .NET 10. Build a movie API across Domain, Application, Infrastructure, and API layers with EF Core and Aspire.
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.NET Aspire Explained: Building Cloud-Native Applications in .NET
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #471
Learn .NET Aspire and discover how it simplifies building cloud-native applications with service discovery, observability, health checks, and distributed application support.
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Implementing Clean Architecture in .NET 10 - Step-by-Step Guide
codewithmukesh.com Issue #466
A complete, junior-friendly guide to Clean Architecture in .NET 10. Build a movie API across Domain, Application, Infrastructure, and API layers with EF Core and Aspire.
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Tracing Agent Sessions with OpenTelemetry & Aspire
youtube.com Issue #463
In this video Maddy Montaquila demos what's going on behind the scenes with Agent Sessions with OpenTelemetry and Aspire in VS Code. https://aspire.dev/dashboard
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Containerize an ASP.NET Core BFF and Angular frontend using Aspire
timdeschryver.dev Issue #436
Using Damien Bowden's secure ASP.NET Core and Angular BFF template as a starting point, this post shows how to integrate Aspire to improve local development and prepare the application for containeriz...
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Getting Started With PgVector in .NET for Simple Vector Search
milanjovanovic.tech Issue #423
Vector search doesn't require a dedicated vector database. PostgreSQL with pgvector gives you similarity search right next to your relational data. Here's how to set it up in .NET with Aspire, Dapper,...
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Announcing Aspire 13.2
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #422
Aspire 13.2 is here — and this one's a big deal. TypeScript AppHost authoring. An AI-agent-native CLI. New and improved integrations. A smarter dashboard. We've been building toward some of these for ...
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Explore C# 14, .NET 10, Aspire and GitHub Copilot at THRIVE 2026!
csharp.christiannagel.com Issue #418
The THRIVE Conference will take place from June 8–10, 2026, at Rimske Terme, Slovenia. The event emphasizes practical engineering with sessions covering modern .NET development, AI productivity in Vis...
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What do you find exciting about Aspire 13?
youtube.com Issue #401
Dear Copilot, can you help me with SQL?