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Having automated test coverage for our software apps is very important. Although manual tests sometimes have their place, automated tests allow us to verify the validity of our application logic much more efficiently than any manual tests would. Automated tests also allow us to check if a change in one part of the codebase hasn’t […]

As well as being able to orchestrate .NET projects, Aspire can also orchestrate the so-called Aspire components. These components are special libraries that add popular packages to our distributed application, which include the following: Today, we will talk about Aspire components, why they are useful, and how to add them to our applications. But first, let

When we look at the Resources tab of the .NET Aspire dashboard, we find the State column in the table displayed there. This column shows the current status of each service managed by the .NET Aspire. Ideally, we want each of these services to be shown as Running with the green tick next to it, as the following screenshot demonstrates: We

Today, we will talk about the process of monitoring applications orchestrated by .NET Aspire. But before we do it, let’s remind ourselves why monitoring is something we absolutely must have in our applications. Monitoring applications is crucial for several reasons: Let’s now look at the different types of monitoring available to us. Components of monitoring

.NET Aspire is an orchestration technology introduced in November 2022 alongside the .NET 8 release. And since it was released, it took the .NET community by storm. This technology allows developers to easily build and debug distributed applications locally, which was traditionally hard to do. With .NET Aspire, you don’t have to install many external

As the author of NetCoreAudio, a .NET library that is designed to play audio on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, I need to have all three operating systems available for testing. The simplest and cheapest way to set up multiple operating systems is to use virtual machines (VMs). My main PC is running Windows, which,

This is the third and final part of the tutorial on building a platform-independent audio app on .NET. In the first part of this tutorial, we talked about setting up the general project structure and enabling audio playback capabilities on Windows. The second part of the tutorial spoke about adding the ability to play audio on Linux, while also

This is the second part of our series of tutorials on building audio capabilities into .NET, which the platform doesn’t have out of the box. In the first tutorial of this series, we set up a basic project structure and added a class that enabled us to play audio on Windows. However, .NET Core (which then evolved