Aspire 13.0 marks a major milestone, not just for the product, but for the vibrant community that helped shape it. This release includes meaningful contributions from community members across features, integrations, tooling, and documentation. We wanted to highlight some standout PRs from this release as a way to say thanks, and hopefully inspire more of you to join us!<\/p>\n
Your contributions helps shape the future of Aspire and benefit the entire community. Here are a few community-led PRs that made a real difference in Aspire 13.0:<\/p>\n
Enhancing App Service support improves deployment, runtime reliability, scalability, observability, and monitoring for hosted applications.<\/p>\n
Author: @ShilpiRach<\/p>\n
Add support to enable automatic scaling for App Service Environment<\/a><\/strong> Added support for Aspire dashboard in App Service<\/a><\/strong> Added check for single exposed port and handle startup command and target port in app service<\/a><\/strong> Added support for enabling Application Insights for App Service<\/a><\/strong> Streamlining workflows lets developers focus on building features instead of managing infrastructure.<\/p>\n Author: @MattKotsenas<\/p>\n Update default Kusto emulator db creation script to be persistent<\/a><\/strong> Update retry in Kusto emulator actions to handle any non-permanent error<\/a><\/strong> Remove memory limit from Kusto emulator<\/a><\/strong> Move all Kusto types into Aspire.Hosting.Azure namespace<\/a><\/strong> Author: @WeihanLi<\/p>\n A huge thank you to everyone contributing for the first time! Your work, bug fixes, feature enhancements, or documentation, made this release better.<\/p>\n @jomaxso<\/strong> \u2014 Add WithChildRelationship methods for parent-child relationships<\/a> @yreynhout<\/strong> \u2014 Support for .fsproj, .vbproj project files next to .csproj<\/a> @foxminchan<\/strong> \u2014 Update Qdrant logo image to a new version<\/a> @jguadagno<\/strong> \u2014 Queue document update<\/a> Thank you to all contributors<\/strong> who helped make Aspire 13.0 a reality. From integrations and dashboards to templates, samples, and bug fixes, your work is helping developers build, observe, and deploy modern cloud apps faster and more reliably. Explore more community contributions<\/a>.<\/p>\n We would love to see more community-led sessions at our next conference \u2014 if you present Aspire at an event, let us know!<\/strong> Special thanks to the real-world Aspire community users who had the opportunity to demonstrate how Aspire helps .NET developers during .NET Conf.<\/p>\n You can browse other .NET conf community sessions on the dotnet YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ready to contribute? Get started here:<\/p>\n Even small contributions \u2014 filing issues, documentation tweaks, writing blogs, or fixing a bug \u2014 help us build a stronger, more inclusive Aspire community. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celebrates Aspire 13.0 community contributions, highlighting key PRs that improved App Service, Kusto workflows, dashboards, and cross-language support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68130,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[18,11],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspire-category","category-integrations","tag-contributors","tag-integrations"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Celebrates Aspire 13.0 community contributions, highlighting key PRs that improved App Service, Kusto workflows, dashboards, and cross-language support.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdds a WithAutomaticScaling<\/code> extension method for Azure App Service Environments, allowing developers to configure elastic scaling of app service plans and reduce cold-start issues.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nEnables Aspire dashboard metrics and status for applications deployed to Azure App Service.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nIntroduces a WithClientConnectionStringSecret<\/code> method to automatically register client connection strings as secret parameters, improving security and simplifying configuration.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nTurns on Application Insights by default for Azure App Service scenarios, ensuring telemetry and monitoring for hosted Aspire applications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nKusto Improvements for Faster, More Reliable Workflows<\/h4>\n
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\nMakes the Kusto emulator database persistent, fixing cursor tracker errors, adding streaming ingestion, resilience retries, and internal helpers for database creation and control.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nRefactors the Kusto database resilience pipeline, handling exceptions with shorter timeouts, more retries, and exponential backoff for improved reliability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nRemoves the default memory limit to prevent errors on large queries or ingestion, adding tests to cover default emulator settings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nAligns Kusto types with Azure package conventions by moving them to the Aspire.Hosting.Azure<\/code> namespace.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCustom Claims & Dashboard Enhancements<\/h4>\n
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\nAdds support for configuring additional claim actions in the OpenID Connect pipeline, enabling developers to map custom claims via new DashboardOptions<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nShout-Out to NEW Community Contributors \ud83c\udf89<\/h3>\n
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\nAdds WithChildRelationship<\/code> overloads to define parent-child resource relationships from the parent, improving API clarity and consistency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nExpands cross-language support in Aspire, handling .fsproj and .vbproj files alongside .csproj, enabling teams using F# or VB.NET to benefit fully.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nUpdates the Qdrant logo in Aspire to match new branding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nImproves documentation for clarity and correctness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nShowcasing Aspire at .NET Conf<\/h3>\n
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How to Get Involved<\/h3>\n
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