Build Better Apps with .NET Aspire - Complete Beginner's Guide & Tutorial

[@jcarman]

This is easily the best video of watched on Aspire yet, awesome job, as usual, James! Can't wait to see MSFT develop this more as time goes on, hoping to see even more additions at .NET Conf in a couple weeks. This really could be one of the single most significant developer productivity gains under the .NET ecosystem.

[@AkarumeiAkashi]

This sir is the bridge between "Omg what's that? So scary" to "Wow, why I haven't used it earlier? So cool". Thanks!

[@jeanhibbert]

Great video. Thanks James!

[@alexmadnix]

James I applaud your Aspire and passion for .Net every day. 👏👏👏

[@MuhammadAssadNazar]

Adding Authentication & Authorization would have been a big plus

[@Eamo-21]

loved your old xamarin vids and great to see you doing some stuff with aspire!

[@paireepinart]

Hey James, thanks for all your awesome material over the years! I’ve seen your talks at VS Live and Build and it’s always great to see what you’re up to. I heard you mention a user group in Portland, which one was that? I’m in the PDX area and would love to go to some more groups!

[@Coburah]

11:37 just a quick tip! If you're currently debugging a project and want to start another simultaneously, you can right click any project, go to debug, and then click "start debugging" (or smth like that, can't remember exactly off the top of my head... 😅)

[@billymartin6497]

Another amazing video. Crazy good! Got one problem that maybe a lot of people haven't run into yet, James. I add the same CDN api in different solutions, and when I added aspire to my second solution that contained the CDN I got conflicts because the CDN added dependencies for both of the solution's ServiceDefaults and couldn't figure it out, so I had to take the CDN out of one of the solutions until I figure out what to do. Hope you have an answer!

[@MarcJennings]

Thanks for this great overview. I've been meaning to look into it for the team but it's always seemed too intimidating. This video puts that myth to bed.

[@nerdintech]

The aspire works with Azure Function in a Container? Thank you for the video!!

[@moatasemkremed5395]

hi james, please if you have a time for this, we need a vid explain how to use In App Purchase plugin brother

[@10Totti]

Best tutorial!

[@ItsAlienMoose]

Maybe an odd question, but can Aspire be used to orchestrate a collection of .net apps running directly on Windows, WITHOUT a container runtime platform like docker? If not, are there any libraries available to help with this kind if thing?

[@JamesMontemagno]

It isn’t needed if you aren’t using anything that requires a container such as redis for example. Easier with it but can be used without

[@ItsAlienMoose]

@@JamesMontemagno Great, thanks! Upon further reading it does appear that Aspire orchestration is not intended for production which seems a shame for people wanting to leverage Aspire for apps running directly on the OS (albeit a rare scenario today).

[@macmcmillen6282]

James, where I work we use an Azure SQL Server database during development, so no local db. Is Aspire setup to handle a remote db instead of using a local db? If so, how would you do that? Thanks! Your video was excellent!

[@JamesMontemagno]

Sure can just configure connection strings to your live db learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/database/sql-server-integration?tabs=dotnet-cli

[@macmcmillen6282]

@@JamesMontemagnothanks James!

[@MrSikesben]

Thanks James for the video, however, I would like to know how you can add credentials or secure the aspire dashboard if I have deployed it in production

[@JamesMontemagno]

It does it automatically in ACA with managed identity. Else if deploying yourself read documentation

[@andreasvanbergen9696]

Just WOW!

[@HoltBuzzing]

Does Aspire support multiple solutions (i.e. one solution for UI and one solution for API)? Or does Aspire require all of the projects to be within one solution?

[@JamesMontemagno]

You can add them in by reference location: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/reference/aspire-faq#how-can-i-add-other-projects-to-my--net-aspire-solution-

[@vijai851]

Subscribed!

[@JamesMontemagno]

Thank you so much!

[@BrennanHitchcock]

I'd love to know what it costs by default to host the aspire app as you deployed it, bonus points if you add a database as well.

[@JamesMontemagno]

Depends what your app is and where you are deploying to. Just normal database stuff

[@oliverharvey7561]

I don’t get it - microservices are a dubious idea from the start aren’t they? (Dev with 30 years experience)

[@JamesMontemagno]

It's not all about microservices. Even just your normal API or website there is value

[@brekhof1]

so basically deployment has to be to Azure?

[@JamesMontemagno]

Nope. Anywhere you want. It is literally just your app. Put it on aws, put it on gcp, put it on prem. Yes there are integrations to easily deploy to azure

[@richaaa_.m]

How to store the open telemetry data with aspire?

[@JamesMontemagno]

Connect to azure monitor or anything else that injests open telemetry

[@swildermuth]

Where'd your hair go?

[@JamesMontemagno]

Been gone for almost a year!!!!