.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

.NET Aspire overview

Quickstart

Build your first .NET Aspire app

Concept

Distributed app host

Concept

.NET Aspire components

Concept

Service discovery

Deploy

Deploy a .NET Aspire app

Reference

.NET Aspire FAQ

What's new

What's new in .NET Aspire

Get Started

• .NET Aspire overview
• Build your first .NET Aspire app
• Build .NET Aspire app with Node.js
• .NET Aspire setup and tooling
• .NET Aspire service discovery
• .NET Aspire and launch profiles
• .NET Aspire service defaults
• .NET Aspire dashboard
• .NET Aspire local networking

Storage

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

Database

• Connect to SQL Server with EF Core
• PostgreSQL database
• PostgreSQL with EF Core
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Cosmos DB with EF Core
• SQL Database
• SQL Database with EF Core
• MySqlConnector Database
• MongoDB Database

Messaging

• Implement Messaging with .NET Aspire
• Azure Event Hubs
• Azure Service Bus
• RabbitMQ client .NET Aspire component
• Apache Kafka
• NATs

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 Aspire deployment manifest format

.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

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.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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