welcome

If you are new to .NET Aspire, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. I started playing with .NET Aspire as soon as it was released alongside .NET 8, and it left a lasting impression on me. I have never seen anything like it. While I have been developing cloud-hosted distributed applications for years, I have never seen anything like. There isn’t any other framework I know of where you don’t have to go through a lengthy setup step to make your cloud application work locally. With .NET Aspire, all you need to do is just install your standard .NET development tools and it just works. Your entire distributed application can be launched with a click of a button and all its services will be attached to the same debugger.

This is why .NET Aspire is gaining in popularity. We use it in my project at Microsoft to build a large-scale system for a scientific government organization in the UK. The system consists of many moving parts and is capable of continuously handling petabytes of data. Once we migrated our codebase to .NET Aspire, things became so much easier. There is now also much less documentations to read for the new joiners since there are now significantly fewer steps needed to set up the development environment.