The Crazy Future of .NET Revealed

A secret project from Microsoft.

Alex Maher
3 min readNov 23, 2023

So, have you heard about .NET Aspire?

It’s this new thing from Microsoft, and it’s pretty cool for anyone into building apps that work across different systems and devices. They’ve been working on it for around six months, keeping it under wraps until recently.

.NET 8 brought tons of new things, and some, were unexpected.

Lets’ dive in!

What Exactly Is .NET Aspire?

Okay, so imagine you’re making an app that needs to work smoothly over different networks and computers. It can be a headache, right? .NET Aspire is designed to make this way easier. It’s all about making apps that are ready for the cloud and easy to keep an eye on.

Let’s break it down

  • Cloud-Ready and Observability: It’s built for the cloud and makes your apps easy to observe and manage.
  • Microservice Friendly: Perfect for apps made of many small, connected parts.
  • Service Rich: Great for apps that use lots of services like databases and caching.
  • Orchestration Made Easy: It streamlines running and connecting multi-project apps and their dependencies.

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Alex Maher
Alex Maher

Written by Alex Maher

.NET C# dev with 10+ yrs exp, self-taught & passionate web developer. Sharing tips & experiences in C# and web dev.