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David Fowler
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Distinguished Engineer @ Microsoft 🧐. Creator of NuGet, SignalR and ASP.NET Core, Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player.
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We hit 1000 members on the aspire discord

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#aspire
September 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This is real reality TV 😍
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Simple static file server via YARP in aspire coming in the next version.

#aspire @aspire.dev
September 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Early sneak peek of the dev tunnels resource in the next version of aspire! Proxy endpoints securely for your dev loop!

#aspire @aspire.dev
September 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Using the new interaction service coming in the next version of .NET Aspire, it's now trivial to build custom commands that prompt with custom UI. Here's an example of adding a command that can send a message to the service bus emulator.

#dotnet #aspire
July 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Sneak peak of the new parameter filling experience in the next version of .NET Aspire. Fully code driven and custom to your application.

#dotnet #aspire
July 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I gotta say it was a good day!

#wimbledon
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Finally got it working! A reusable deployment pipeline defined in C# that can take any aspire project and deploy it to a VM with ssh and docker.

#dotnet #aspire

github.com/davidfowl/As...
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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We gave aspire publish a little facelift

#dotnet #aspire
June 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Next version of the dotnet runfile supports publishing these .cs files to a native binary (via Native AOT learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...), no dependencies on the runtime, self-contained.

#dotnet #csharp
June 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Wrote my first MCP using the C# SDK github.com/modelcontext... and .NET 10!

#dotnet #mcp #vscode
May 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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We’re about to take C# to the next level!

#dotnet #csharp
A command line interface Some c# code
May 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Caught a snapshot of myself in a meeting reacting to something.
April 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Where are my CLI fans??

#dotnet #aspire
March 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Pretty soon
March 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Recompiled baby smash (www.babysmash.com) by @scott.hanselman.com to target .NET 9 for my 8 month old!
Baby playing baby smash
March 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Working on the next version of aspire. Thanks to @JamesNK and team, we now have a beautiful graph visualization powered by d3.

#dotnet #aspire
February 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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From the future

#dotnet
February 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Machine upgrade by @damianedwards.com 😍
February 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Did a talk this morning about my career and how to make an impact as an IC. Here's the last slide.
January 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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If you haven't used aspire yet, now's a great time to play with it

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

#dotnet #aspire
January 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Here's another example "tell me what the issue trends are"
January 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Here were a couple of issues anout dependency injection
January 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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These are the formulas it came up with after some. Now The formula on the right is way beyond my mathematical ability to come up with but I used ran it on various issues to see if it had the "expected outcome".
January 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I even tried trend analysis "Where are the big documentation gaps based on the common complains in the comments":
January 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM