Get Started: Building Your Initial .NET Aspire App

Creating a .NET Aspire Starter Application for Efficient Cloud-Native Development

Cloud-native applications often necessitate connections to diverse services like databases, storage solutions, messaging platforms, or web services. .NET Aspire simplifies these connections and configurations, facilitating streamlined development processes. This quickstart tutorial demonstrates how to initiate a .NET Aspire Starter Application template solution.

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Objectives

Establish a fundamental .NET application configured to utilize .NET Aspire.

• Integrate and configure a .NET Aspire component to implement caching upon project creation.
• Develop an API and employ service discovery to establish connectivity.
• Coordinate communication between a front-end UI, a back-end API, and a local Redis cache.

Prerequisites

Before diving in, ensure the following prerequisites are met:

• .NET 8.0 installed locally.

.NET Aspire workload

• Install via Visual Studio installer.
• Use the dotnet workload install aspire command.