.NET Aspire docs: What's new for April 2025

Welcome to what's new in the .NET Aspire docs for April 2025. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.

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Updated articles

• Orchestrate Python apps in .NET Aspire
  • Initial draft of diagnostic redesign
  • Fix the Python article
• Quickstart: Build your first .NET Aspire solution - Split content
• Tutorial: Add .NET Aspire to an existing .NET app - Update the add aspire to existing tutorial

Fundamentals

New articles

• Orchestrate resources in .NET Aspire

Updated articles

• .NET Aspire and launch profiles - Rename configs-replace prefix
• .NET Aspire orchestration overview - Split content
• .NET Aspire service defaults - Update service defaults and add filtering details
• .NET Aspire setup and tooling - Rename configs-replace prefix
• .NET Aspire templates - Add dev-cert details to templates content
• Custom HTTP commands in .NET Aspire - Split content
• Dashboard configuration - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Enable browser telemetry - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Explore the .NET Aspire dashboard - Update the Explore the .NET Aspire Dashboard article for v9.2.0
• External parameters - #3063 - Rename parameter name to not be 'value'
• Orchestrate resources in .NET Aspire
  • Initial draft of diagnostic redesign
  • Split content
• Persist .NET Aspire project data using volumes or bind mounts - Update the "Persist .NET Aspire project data using volumes" article
• Security considerations for running the .NET Aspire dashboard - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Standalone .NET Aspire dashboard - Rename configs-replace prefix

Database

Updated articles

• .NET Aspire Milvus database integration - Split content
• .NET Aspire MongoDB database integration - Split content
• .NET Aspire Oracle Entity Framework Core integration - Split content
• .NET Aspire Qdrant integration - Split content
• Tutorial: Deploy a .NET Aspire project with a SQL Server Database to Azure - Update the Tutorial: Deploy a .NET Aspire project with a SQL Server Database to Azure

Messaging

Updated articles

• .NET Aspire Apache Kafka integration - Split content
• .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration - Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion
• .NET Aspire Azure Service Bus integration
  • Split content
  • Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion
• .NET Aspire Azure Web PubSub integration - Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion
• .NET Aspire NATS integration - Split content
• .NET Aspire RabbitMQ integration
  • Split content
  • Clarify how to set credentials for the RabbitMQ management plugin

Caching

Updated articles

• .NET Aspire Redis® distributed caching integration - Correct keyed IDistributedCache registration and usage

Security

Updated articles

• .NET Aspire Azure Key Vault integration - Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion

Deployment

Updated articles

• Deploy a .NET Aspire project to Azure Container Apps using the Azure Developer CLI (in-depth guide) - Terminate inline azd code snippet

Community contributors

The following people contributed to the .NET Aspire docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.

• alistairmatthews - Alistair Matthews
• a510 - Ahmad Ibrahim
• dracan - Dan Clarke
• gabynevada - Elvis Nieves
• mip1983 - Matthew Paul
• paulomorgado - Paulo Morgado
• ryanspain - Ryan Spain