Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 10: Introducing the Gen AI Visualizer ✨ Collate and summarize AI telemetry: 🗃️ Explore input and output messages 🚀 JSON/XML payloads highlighted and indented 🖼️ Preview Markdown and multimodal content (e.g. images)

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 9: Span details now show the destination of a span 📍 For database calls, HTTP requests, or RPC calls, Aspire matches the target address to a resource and displays it as a clickable link 🔗

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 8: Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨 This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 7: The console logs page now has an (All) option. As you’d expect, it lets you view logs from all resources at once.

Lots of people using Aspire ❤️ I also learned: 🐧 App host doesn't run on Linux (it does) 🔒 Aspire creates lock in (confidently stated after saying they haven't tried Aspire) 🐴 Not only has Aspire not left preview, it will never leave preview www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/com...

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 6: Traces pages now have a type filter 🔎 - a quick way to find traces and spans for the selected operation type. For example, choose Messaging 📬 to see only traces from your app that interact with RabbitMQ.

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 5: The dashboard selects the best duration unit based on its length: Long → seconds (s) Short → milliseconds (ms) Very short → microseconds (μs) In 9.5 you'll see seconds more often, with microseconds shown only to avoid 0.00ms.

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 4: The trace detail page adds new "Expand all" and "Collapse all" buttons.

Fun AI use: Updating the accent colors in the Aspire dashboard to be more Fluent design-ish. AI tasks: 🎨 Tweak the existing color scheme to follow Fluent 🌃 Output light are dark optimized colors 🌐 Generate HTML page to preview

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 3: Details controls for resources, logs, and spans got a facelift. Now with icons 🎨 and links 🔗 where they're useful.

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 2: Consistent text alignment comes to resource, log and span details 🤓 Screenshow below is what it looks like today... 🚨 OCD trigger warning 🚨

I released a new version of Newtonsoft.Json (13.0.4). It's mostly bug fixes and minor improvements. Notably trim/AOT incompatible APIs are annotated. You'll get a clear warning that serialize/deserialize isn't supported in trimmed/AOT published apps. github.com/JamesNK/Newt...

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 1: The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements: 🏷️ Span names are clearer, with resources split into their own column 🪵 Logs are now shown in the waterfall chart. Hover for a tooltip, or click for full details

Many new metrics are coming in #aspnetcore .NET 10.

The Aspire team is cooking up a new (All) option for the console logs page. Want everything at once? (All) gives you all resource logs in one view 🚀 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.4 is out. 🛠️ Aspire CLI is generally available 🖥️ Interaction service 📢 Parameter prompting 🔔 Automatic upgrade check notifications 🌐 External service modeling ✨ YARP routing API 🐳 Improved persistent containers And much much more: learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 8: The Aspire dashboard now supports .NET 10. The dashboard runs on whatever .NET version is installed on your machine, so it must stay backward (and forward) compatible with all Aspire targets: .NET 8, .NET 9, and now .NET 10 previews 🔥

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 7: A common bug with command-line arguments is passing a single argument with spaces when multiple are expected 💥 The dashboard now adds quotation marks around arguments containing spaces for clarity 📝

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 6: Resources with a connection string (databases 🗄️, caches 🧠, message brokers 📬, etc.) now display the connection string in the dashboard.

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 5: The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 4: The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements: 📊 The name column is wider to show more detail ℹ️ Header trace details now collapse to prevent wrapping

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 3: We've fixed many race conditions and thread safety bugs ⏱️💥 These issues were rare (1 in 1000 chance of modifying data or clicking a button at just the wrong time, etc), but the dashboard has a lot of users. They add up at scale.

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 2: The dashboard now shows an update notification when a newer version of Aspire is available 📢

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 1: The reconnect dialog got an upgrade: 🎨 Improved look in light and dark themes 🔄 More reliable, thanks to Blazor improvements More details here: learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/...

GitHub Copilot understood the screenshot in my comment, interpreted the emoji and made a good fix. Color me impressed.

Dependency injection is the worst way of architecting a large-scale code base, except for all the others. www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/com...

Merged new #aspnetcore features today 🎈🎉🎂 📊 Identity metrics: track counts of logins, new users, password changes, etc. github.com/dotnet/aspne... ⚠️ Configuration to suppress exception handler diagnostics (e.g. logging) when the exception is handled. github.com/dotnet/aspne...

#ASPNET Community Standup happens TODAY at 4PM PT. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look with James Newton-King on how the .NET Aspire team builds the .NET Aspire Developer Dashboard with .NET, AI, and Blazor. Drop in LIVE here ➡️ https://msft.it/63329SI1o3#ASPNET#dotNETAspire

When you live in Singapore and you see HMS Prince of Wales is visiting: 😬 www.youtube.com/shorts/tvM9D...

Hold on to your butts, Aspire vNext has some 🔥 new features.

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Dashboard reconnect dialog improvements coming in Aspire vNext: ⚡️ New reconnect dialog introduced in Blazor .NET 9 🎨 Light & dark mode support 🌍 Fully localized dialog #dotnet #aspire

Some ASP.NET & gRPC features for .NET 10: 📊 Add metrics to identity github.com/dotnet/aspne... 🪵 UseExceptionHandler option to suppress exception logging github.com/dotnet/aspne... 🌏 Refactor gRPC support for ServerServiceDefinition github.com/grpc/grpc-do...

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 7: It's release day and there's a surprise dashboard feature. GitHub Copilot is your new AI debugging assistant 🚀 📒 Review hundreds of log messages in one click 🚨 Find root causes of errors faster 🧠 Explain error codes using AI's vast knowledge base

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 6: The console logs page URL now uses a friendly resource name (e.g., frontend) instead of an internal ID. This means you can bookmark the page and it’ll work across dashboard launches 🔖 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 5: Minor tweak: the top-right dashboard menu now features larger icons for easier clicking 🐭 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 4: Calls to resources that don’t record their own telemetry — like databases or caches — are now visible in the Traces page UI 🔥 You can also filter for them directly using the resource selector 🧙‍♂️ #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 3: Pausing telemetry on the metrics page now shows a warning ⚠️ If metrics aren't updating, we want it to be clear it's because you paused them — not because your app or the dashboard is broken! 😇 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 2: The resource page now remembers your filters. You can filter resources by type, state, or health — and your selections will persist when you return to the page 🧐 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.3 new dashboard features, day 1: The resource graph adds a context menu. Right click on a resource to view telemetry, run commands or navigate to endpoints. #dotnet #aspire

Implementing a high-perf HTTP server. Family reaction: "I'm happy for you." 👍 Combining three photos in Photoshop to make a perfect extended family portrait. Family reaction: "Hallelujah, tech Jesus walks among us! Lay your hands upon my laptop to cure its wickedness." 😱🙏

New feature coming in Aspire vNext: Calls to outgoing resources, such as a database or cache, are visible on the traces page UI 🔥 And you can filter to them directly using the resources selector 🧙‍♂️ github.com/dotnet/aspir... #dotnet #aspire

It's wild that GPT-4.1 (and maybe AI models in general) prefers XML data to JSON: cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt...

The new #aspire graph is super cool 🤩🤩 even with my super simple application

Honey wake up, new .NET meme template just dropped.

The resources graph adds a context menu in Aspire vNext:

.NET Aspire 9.2 is out. 🧩 Dashboard resource graph 🎨 Resource icons ⏯️ Pause and resume telemetry 🌐 HTTP-based resource commands 🤝 Integrations updates 🚀 Deployment improvements 🆕 Aspire CLI (Preview) learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...

Aspire 9.2 new dashboard features, day 14: Aspire 9.2 release day is here! 🎉 We saved the best for last: the resource graph. Visualize your app's resources and relationships with with this interactive tool. Select, zoom, pan, drag, filter, explore, and build cool apps 💪 #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.2 new dashboard features, day 13: Pausing telemetry is coming in 9.2! Now you can pause and resume the collection of console logs, structured logs, traces, and metrics directly from the dashboard ⏯️ #dotnet #aspire

Aspire 9.2 new dashboard features, day 12: Resource command buttons are now disabled while running. No more errors from accidentally double-clicking a command 🖱️ #dotnet #aspire