Name: Is Your Local Dev Environment a Mess? How .NET Aspire Can Help [Take 2]
Start: 2025-11-20T17:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-20T19:30:00-06:00
Location: 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100

UPDATE: welp, our October meetup got abruptly cancelled mid-talk due to building management deciding to run a prolonged fire alarm test beginning at 6pm. So, we've scheduled for November!

T﻿his is a great opportunity to create community, relationships, and learn about new technology!

**S﻿CHEDULE**

5﻿:30pm - Arrival/Registration + Food/Drinks + Networking

6﻿:00pm - Speaker/Presentation

7:15pm - Food/Drinks + Networking

8﻿:00pm - End

**FOOD/DRINKS**

Food and drinks will be provided! Please contact us if you have any dietary restrictions/food allergies.

**DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INSTRUCTIONS**

Meeting will be held in the offices of SmartDraw Software, 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100 on the 11th floor.

Enter through the main doors of the building and take the elevator to the 11th floor; the door to SmartDraw's suite is in the elevator lobby on the 11th floor.

If you arrive at 1780 Hughes Landing after 6pm, a member of the SmartDraw team will help you enter the building then travel up to the 11th floor.

*Parking*:

Park in the garage directly opposite. You'll need to take a ticket to enter but there is no fee to leave - parking is free.

**Speaker & Talk**

**Aaron Stannard**

Aaron will be discussing the following:

***Is Your Local Dev Environment a Mess? How .NET Aspire Can Help***

If you follow any of Microsoft’s big personalities on social media you might get the impression that .NET Aspire was curing cancer, proving P=NP, and on the verge of delivering sustainable nuclear fusion power.
It’s not, not even close.

But it *is* a tremendous improvement in developer productivity for local development, integration testing… and maybe one day in the future, deployments.

In this talk we’re going to use .NET Aspire to:

1. **Streamline local development**: wire up your applications along with all of its real dependencies, so `F5` ”just works” and launches a full, ready-to-debug instance of your app without any shared databases or other resources.
2. **Integration test without mocks**: why use fake testing utilities when you can just run your real application and really test against it using Aspire.Hosting.Testing?
3. Experiment with local deployments: the `aspire` CLI and the deployment model are the most experimental parts of Aspire, but we’re going to look at them and see what the future holds.

.NET Aspire can help get rid of the awful rats’ nest of shared databases, missing functionality, and configuration hell that most production code bases settle for - and instead deliver a `git clone > dotnet run` experience out of the box.

**P.S. We're looking for speakers for 2025!**

Do you have insights, projects, or expertise you'd like to share with the NHDNUG community? Whether you're an experienced speaker or presenting for the first time, we'd love to feature you in one of our upcoming meetups!

If you're interested in speaking at one of our 2025 meetups (held the 3rd Thursday of each month), email us at hi@petabridge.com to discuss your topic ideas, or complete this form: https://forms.gle/aVzeVpvVhAkdfWLy7

Thank you!

Aaron Stannard

North Houston .Net Users Group

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Hi! I’m [Aaron Stannard](https://aaronstannard.com/), and I’m the CEO and founder of [Petabridge](https://petabridge.com/ "Petabridge - Production-level training and support for Akka.NET"), where I’m making [Akka.NET](https://getakka.net/ "Akka.NET - Distributed Actor Model for C# and F#") to help the world’s most important companies build amazing applications with .NET.

I’ve been [working on Akka.NET for over 10 years](https://petabridge.com/blog/10-years-of-akkadotnet/) and I haven’t gotten tired of it yet!

Prior to Petabridge I founded MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers. Prior to that I worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

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