.NET Aspire documentation (Preview)

Learn about .NET Aspire, an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications. Browse API reference, sample code, tutorials, quickstarts, conceptual articles and more.

Overview

What is .NET Aspire?

Quickstart

Build your first .NET Aspire app

Concept

Distributed app host

Concept

.NET Aspire components

Concept

Service discovery

How-To Guide

Service defaults

Deploy

Deploy a .NET Aspire app

Reference

.NET Aspire FAQ

Get Started

• .NET Aspire overview
• Build your first .NET Aspire app
• .NET Aspire setup and tooling
• .NET Aspire service discovery
• .NET Aspire service defaults
• .NET Aspire dashboard

Storage

• Connect to storage with .NET Aspire
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Storage Queues
• Azure Table Storage

Database

• PostgreSQL database
• PostgreSQL with Entity Framework Core
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Cosmos DB with Entity Framework Core
• SQL Database
• SQL Database with Entity Framework Core

Messaging

• Implement Messaging with .NET Aspire
• Azure Service Bus
• RabbitMQ client .NET Aspire component

Caching

• Improve app caching with .NET Aspire
• Redis caching
• Redis output caching
• Redis distributed caching

Deployment

• Overview
• Deploy to Azure Container Apps
• Deploy using the Azure Developer CLI
• Integrate with Application Insights

.NET extensions

Fundamentals

• Logging
• Dependency injection
• Configuration
• Make HTTP requests

Telemetry

• .NET observability with OpenTelemetry
• Networking telemetry
• .NET SDK telemetry

Resiliency

• Introduction to resilient app dev
• Build resilient HTTP apps
• Implement resiliency in a cloud-native ASP.NET Core microservice

Observability

• .NET app health checks in C#
• App health checks in ASP.NET Core
• Diagnostic tools in .NET
• Diagnostic resource monitoring in .NET

.NET community resources

.NET

• .NET documentation
• ASP.NET documentation
• Azure documentation
• C# documentation

Webcasts and shows

• Azure Friday
• The Cloud Native Show
• On .NET
• On .NET Live
• .NET Community Standup

Open source

• .NET Aspire
• .NET Aspire samples
• .NET samples
• .NET Platform
• .NET Runtime
• ASP.NET Core

Community

• Follow @dotnet on 𝕏
• Follow @dotnet on Mastodon
• .NET Foundation
• We Are .NET

API and language reference

Search the .NET API and language reference documentation.

.NET Aspire API reference

API reference documentation for .NET Aspire

.NET Platform Extensions API reference

API reference documentation for .NET Platform Extensions

.NET API reference

API reference documentation for .NET

ASP.NET Core API reference

API reference documentation for ASP.NET Core

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