.NET Aspire: What, Why and How, with Mitch Denny

.NET Aspire is an opinionated stack for building apps and wrangling their dependencies. In this session you'll learn what .NET Aspire is, why Microsoft created it, and how you can get started using it yourself. If you are already using .NET Aspire this is a great time to ask any questions you have and get an answer from one of the members of the .NET Aspire core team.

Hands-On Workshop
Important: Bring your laptop! You'll need your laptop (and your own Internet connection) because after the presentation we've set aside time for you to go through a self-paced introductory tutorial on .NET Aspire.

Check out this video of Mitch introducing his talk - https://youtu.be/ZU6iRs5vuwA

Post-Meetup drinks
Join us at the West Oak Hotel afterwards to keep the conversations flowing.

Agenda
5:30pm - Arrival, Networking and Pizza
6:00pm - Introductions + News
6:05pm - Event
7:30pm - Post event catch up at West Oak Hotel (across the road)

Car Parking
The easiest car parking is only a 2 minute walk to the venue - Wilson car park on Clarendon Street. All evening is $5 max if pre-booked online, otherwise $8 drive-up after 4pm. There are normally plenty of spaces available.

Note: Seats strictly limited for this in-person only event.

Workshop preparation

If you're planning to take part in the workshop after Mitch's presentation please follow these steps to maximise your enjoyment and minimise time spent waiting for downloads to complete!

Hardware

• Your laptop

• Your own Internet access. eg. hotspot on your phone. (Unfortunately we can't provide guest WiFi access)

Software to install

• .NET 9 SDK - https://get.dot.net/9

• Visual Studio OR Visual Studio Code

• (Windows only) Visual Studio 2022 17.12 or newer - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/

• (Windows, Mac, Linux) Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/Download, PLUS the C# Dev Kit - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/csharp/get-started

• Docker Desktop or Podman

• Docker - https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

• Podman - https://podman.io/getting-started/installation

Docker images (replace 'docker' with 'podman' if you're using the latter)

• docker pull docker.io/library/redis:7.4

• docker pull docker.io/redis/redisinsight:2.66

• docker pull docker.io/library/postgres:17.2