Name: Aspire for .NET Developers
Price: 127 USD
Rating: 5.0 (10 reviews)

Sound Familiar?
'F5 Doesn't Just Work'

Building a real .NET system means juggling a database, storage, identity, and a frontend. Every one of them fights you before you write a line of business logic.

Hit F5 and only one project starts. The rest you launch by hand

Hours lost wiring connection strings across projects

No idea why a request is slow. No traces, no logs

Setting up every Azure environment by hand in the portal

Deployments that work locally but break in the cloud

Here's how the pros avoid all these daily nightmares from day 1...

Aspire dashboard showing every service running after one F5

Hit F5 and Your Whole System Boots

Clone, F5, ready: one keystroke boots every service, database, and frontend in dependency order. The clone, crash, fix, crash, fix morning is gone.
One stack, every machine: your whole system is declared once in C# and checked into git, so every teammate and every laptop runs exactly what you run.
No setup scripts: no docker-compose.yml, no shell scripts, no "run these 7 commands first" README. The application model is the setup.

Define Your Entire System in C#

One model, every dependency: declare your databases, caches, queues, identity, and your own services in a single C# AppHost project.
Add a dependency in 1 line: drop in Postgres, Redis, Key Vault, or Azure Storage, and Aspire owns the lifecycle, wiring, and connection strings.
No connection-string plumbing: .WithReference injects the config into each service, and .WaitFor holds startup until it's healthy.

Production-Ready Defaults, Not Boilerplate

Skip ~40 lines per service: one AddServiceDefaults() call wires resilience (retries, timeouts, circuit breakers), service discovery, and health endpoints.
Health and traces on first F5: a built-in dashboard shows distributed traces, logs, metrics, and the health of every service. No Jaeger, Prometheus, or Grafana to set up.
Find the slow call in seconds: follow one request across your API, database, and external services with real timing.

Same Model, Dev to Production

Deploy with one command: azd up provisions the resource group, pushes your images, and stands up an Azure Container App per service.
Dev, QA, and prod match: every environment is generated from the same C# model in git, so what you tested is what ships.
Go beyond the defaults with Bicep: drop down to Bicep for any Azure resource or setting Aspire doesn't cover, referenced straight from the AppHost.

Two Frontend Stacks Included

Make your backend API shine by integrating it with the included Blazor and React frontends, so you can see how your API works in a real-world scenario.

Blazor

Static Server-Side Rendered (SSR) Application

React

Vite Single Page Application (SPA)

Two frontend stacks, same user experience

What You Get With Your Purchase

Signature Online Video Training

Professionally recorded high-quality video training that you can take at your own pace, anywhere and from any device.

Beautifully Illustrated Handouts

Includes all diagrams from every slide deck presented across the course, so you can reference them at any time.

Full Source Code

Full source code linked to every coding lesson so you can easily compare and troubleshoot.

Full English captions

In case you need them, English captions can be turned on quickly for any of the lessons.

Course Certificate

Get a certificate of completion when you finish the course to show off on your LinkedIn profile.

Course Curriculum

Welcome to the course! 4min

Course introduction
What this course covers
What you need to know first
Software prerequisites

Getting started with Aspire 29min

What is Aspire?
Running the startup project
Adding the Aspire AppHost project
Running an Aspire application
Adding the .NET API to the AppHost

Defining your architecture 51min

Adding the PostgreSQL hosting integration
Connecting the API to the PostgreSQL resource
Using persistent containers
Adding the Storage hosting integration
Adding the Keycloak hosting integration
Testing the Aspire hosted .NET app

Using production ready defaults 38min

Adding resiliency to PostgreSQL connections
Using default PostgreSQL health checks
Adding Storage resiliency and health check defaults
Adding a ServiceDefaults project
A few more cleanups
Diagnosing issues across dependencies

Azure deployment with Aspire 1hr 2min

What is Infrastructure As Code?
Adding Azure Postgres Flexible Server support
Customizing Azure Storage Infrastructure
Customizing Azure Container Apps Infrastructure
Adding deployment parameters
Excluding resources not needed in the cloud
Deploying via the Azure Developer CLI (AZD)
Exploring deployed resources
Testing the deployed API

Using Bicep & Aspire together 39min

What is Bicep?
Getting started with Bicep
Declaring a Front Door resource with Bicep
Using Bicep resources in AppHost
Deploying Bicep provisioned Front Door
Generating Bicep from the Aspire App Model

Deploying the front-end with Aspire 51min

Running the Blazor front-end in .NET Aspire
Deploying the Blazor front-end to Azure
Running the React front-end in .NET Aspire
Deploying the React front-end to Azure
Fixing CORS issues

Course Includes

7 Modules, 41 Lessons
5 Hours of Video
Full source code
Illustrated handouts
Course Certificate

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Who Is This Course For?

.NET developers tired of babysitting databases, storage, and identity by hand who want their whole system to start with a single F5.
Backend developers who want built-in observability (dashboards, traces, and health) without adding extra infrastructure.
Engineers ready to deploy to Azure with one command using Infrastructure as Code in C# and Bicep, instead of clicking through the portal.

What Students Say About Julio's Courses

Meet Your Instructor

My name is Julio Casal. I'm a passionate software engineer with a wealth of experience building all sorts of applications and systems based on the .NET platform.

Throughout my 10+ years working at Microsoft, I had the opportunity to work on real-world projects, building and refining backend services that handle millions of requests every month.

I believe reducing complex concepts into simple step by step instructions is incredibly valuable and helps to make coding accessible and fun for everyone.

Start your path to a high-paying job

FAQs

When does the course start and finish?

Aspire for .NET Developers is a completely self-paced online course. You decide when you start and when you finish.

What version of .NET is used in this course?

.NET 10.

Do you offer a certification on course completion?

Yes, you will get a certificate at no additional cost after completing all the course lessons.

How long will I have access to the content?

Your enrollment includes unlimited lifetime access.

I have more questions!

Happy to help! Send me an email: [email protected]

Sound Familiar? 'F5 Doesn't Just Work'

From Code to Cloud 5X Faster

An F5 That Just Works

System Architecture

Production-Ready Defaults

Repeatable Cloud Environments