James Newton-King ♔
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Principal Software Engineer ASP.NET. Author of Newtonsoft.Json.
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 5:
The interaction service just got a major upgrade ⚡
💫 Dropdowns can now accept text — in other words, ComboBox inputs.
🔄 Supports dynamic data loading for cascading dropdowns.
See it in action in the Azure provisioning dialog 🚀
The interaction service just got a major upgrade ⚡
💫 Dropdowns can now accept text — in other words, ComboBox inputs.
🔄 Supports dynamic data loading for cascading dropdowns.
See it in action in the Azure provisioning dialog 🚀
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 5:
The interaction service just got a major upgrade ⚡
💫 Dropdowns can now accept text — in other words, ComboBox inputs.
🔄 Supports dynamic data loading for cascading dropdowns.
See it in action in the Azure provisioning dialog 🚀
The interaction service just got a major upgrade ⚡
💫 Dropdowns can now accept text — in other words, ComboBox inputs.
🔄 Supports dynamic data loading for cascading dropdowns.
See it in action in the Azure provisioning dialog 🚀
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 4:
Aspire is going polyglot with strong support for JavaScript ☕ and Python 🐍 apps. The dashboard features new programming language resource icons.
Aspire is going polyglot with strong support for JavaScript ☕ and Python 🐍 apps. The dashboard features new programming language resource icons.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 4:
Aspire is going polyglot with strong support for JavaScript ☕ and Python 🐍 apps. The dashboard features new programming language resource icons.
Aspire is going polyglot with strong support for JavaScript ☕ and Python 🐍 apps. The dashboard features new programming language resource icons.
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 2:
New dashboard accent colors. 🎨 They're now more FluentUI-ish (saturation++) with custom tweaks for light and dark themes.
Dark blue is no longer almost invisible on a dark background 🤓
New dashboard accent colors. 🎨 They're now more FluentUI-ish (saturation++) with custom tweaks for light and dark themes.
Dark blue is no longer almost invisible on a dark background 🤓
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 2:
New dashboard accent colors. 🎨 They're now more FluentUI-ish (saturation++) with custom tweaks for light and dark themes.
Dark blue is no longer almost invisible on a dark background 🤓
New dashboard accent colors. 🎨 They're now more FluentUI-ish (saturation++) with custom tweaks for light and dark themes.
Dark blue is no longer almost invisible on a dark background 🤓
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 1:
The log entry tooltip now adjusts its size dynamically! It stays compact for short messages and expands to show multiple lines when the message is longer. 💬✨
The log entry tooltip now adjusts its size dynamically! It stays compact for short messages and expands to show multiple lines when the message is longer. 💬✨
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Aspire 13 new dashboard features, day 1:
The log entry tooltip now adjusts its size dynamically! It stays compact for short messages and expands to show multiple lines when the message is longer. 💬✨
The log entry tooltip now adjusts its size dynamically! It stays compact for short messages and expands to show multiple lines when the message is longer. 💬✨
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 10:
Introducing the Gen AI Visualizer ✨
Collate and summarize AI telemetry:
🗃️ Explore input and output messages
🚀 JSON/XML payloads highlighted and indented
🖼️ Preview Markdown and multimodal content (e.g. images)
Introducing the Gen AI Visualizer ✨
Collate and summarize AI telemetry:
🗃️ Explore input and output messages
🚀 JSON/XML payloads highlighted and indented
🖼️ Preview Markdown and multimodal content (e.g. images)
September 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 10:
Introducing the Gen AI Visualizer ✨
Collate and summarize AI telemetry:
🗃️ Explore input and output messages
🚀 JSON/XML payloads highlighted and indented
🖼️ Preview Markdown and multimodal content (e.g. images)
Introducing the Gen AI Visualizer ✨
Collate and summarize AI telemetry:
🗃️ Explore input and output messages
🚀 JSON/XML payloads highlighted and indented
🖼️ Preview Markdown and multimodal content (e.g. images)
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 9:
Span details now show the destination of a span 📍
For database calls, HTTP requests, or RPC calls, Aspire matches the target address to a resource and displays it as a clickable link 🔗
Span details now show the destination of a span 📍
For database calls, HTTP requests, or RPC calls, Aspire matches the target address to a resource and displays it as a clickable link 🔗
September 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 9:
Span details now show the destination of a span 📍
For database calls, HTTP requests, or RPC calls, Aspire matches the target address to a resource and displays it as a clickable link 🔗
Span details now show the destination of a span 📍
For database calls, HTTP requests, or RPC calls, Aspire matches the target address to a resource and displays it as a clickable link 🔗
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 8:
Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨
This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.
Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨
This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 8:
Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨
This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.
Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨
This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 7:
The console logs page now has an (All) option. As you’d expect, it lets you view logs from all resources at once.
The console logs page now has an (All) option. As you’d expect, it lets you view logs from all resources at once.
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 7:
The console logs page now has an (All) option. As you’d expect, it lets you view logs from all resources at once.
The console logs page now has an (All) option. As you’d expect, it lets you view logs from all resources at once.
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 6:
Traces pages now have a type filter 🔎 - a quick way to find traces and spans for the selected operation type.
For example, choose Messaging 📬 to see only traces from your app that interact with RabbitMQ.
Traces pages now have a type filter 🔎 - a quick way to find traces and spans for the selected operation type.
For example, choose Messaging 📬 to see only traces from your app that interact with RabbitMQ.
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 6:
Traces pages now have a type filter 🔎 - a quick way to find traces and spans for the selected operation type.
For example, choose Messaging 📬 to see only traces from your app that interact with RabbitMQ.
Traces pages now have a type filter 🔎 - a quick way to find traces and spans for the selected operation type.
For example, choose Messaging 📬 to see only traces from your app that interact with RabbitMQ.
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 4:
The trace detail page adds new "Expand all" and "Collapse all" buttons.
The trace detail page adds new "Expand all" and "Collapse all" buttons.
September 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 4:
The trace detail page adds new "Expand all" and "Collapse all" buttons.
The trace detail page adds new "Expand all" and "Collapse all" buttons.
Fun AI use: Updating the accent colors in the Aspire dashboard to be more Fluent design-ish.
AI tasks:
🎨 Tweak the existing color scheme to follow Fluent
🌃 Output light are dark optimized colors
🌐 Generate HTML page to preview
AI tasks:
🎨 Tweak the existing color scheme to follow Fluent
🌃 Output light are dark optimized colors
🌐 Generate HTML page to preview
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Fun AI use: Updating the accent colors in the Aspire dashboard to be more Fluent design-ish.
AI tasks:
🎨 Tweak the existing color scheme to follow Fluent
🌃 Output light are dark optimized colors
🌐 Generate HTML page to preview
AI tasks:
🎨 Tweak the existing color scheme to follow Fluent
🌃 Output light are dark optimized colors
🌐 Generate HTML page to preview
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 3:
Details controls for resources, logs, and spans got a facelift. Now with icons 🎨 and links 🔗 where they're useful.
Details controls for resources, logs, and spans got a facelift. Now with icons 🎨 and links 🔗 where they're useful.
September 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 3:
Details controls for resources, logs, and spans got a facelift. Now with icons 🎨 and links 🔗 where they're useful.
Details controls for resources, logs, and spans got a facelift. Now with icons 🎨 and links 🔗 where they're useful.
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 2:
Consistent text alignment comes to resource, log and span details 🤓
Screenshow below is what it looks like today...
🚨 OCD trigger warning 🚨
Consistent text alignment comes to resource, log and span details 🤓
Screenshow below is what it looks like today...
🚨 OCD trigger warning 🚨
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 2:
Consistent text alignment comes to resource, log and span details 🤓
Screenshow below is what it looks like today...
🚨 OCD trigger warning 🚨
Consistent text alignment comes to resource, log and span details 🤓
Screenshow below is what it looks like today...
🚨 OCD trigger warning 🚨
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 1:
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
🏷️ Span names are clearer, with resources split into their own column
🪵 Logs are now shown in the waterfall chart. Hover for a tooltip, or click for full details
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
🏷️ Span names are clearer, with resources split into their own column
🪵 Logs are now shown in the waterfall chart. Hover for a tooltip, or click for full details
September 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 1:
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
🏷️ Span names are clearer, with resources split into their own column
🪵 Logs are now shown in the waterfall chart. Hover for a tooltip, or click for full details
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
🏷️ Span names are clearer, with resources split into their own column
🪵 Logs are now shown in the waterfall chart. Hover for a tooltip, or click for full details
Many new metrics are coming in #aspnetcore .NET 10.
August 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Many new metrics are coming in #aspnetcore .NET 10.
Aspire 9.4 is out.
🛠️ Aspire CLI is generally available
🖥️ Interaction service
📢 Parameter prompting
🔔 Automatic upgrade check notifications
🌐 External service modeling
✨ YARP routing API
🐳 Improved persistent containers
And much much more: learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...
🛠️ Aspire CLI is generally available
🖥️ Interaction service
📢 Parameter prompting
🔔 Automatic upgrade check notifications
🌐 External service modeling
✨ YARP routing API
🐳 Improved persistent containers
And much much more: learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...
July 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Aspire 9.4 is out.
🛠️ Aspire CLI is generally available
🖥️ Interaction service
📢 Parameter prompting
🔔 Automatic upgrade check notifications
🌐 External service modeling
✨ YARP routing API
🐳 Improved persistent containers
And much much more: learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...
🛠️ Aspire CLI is generally available
🖥️ Interaction service
📢 Parameter prompting
🔔 Automatic upgrade check notifications
🌐 External service modeling
✨ YARP routing API
🐳 Improved persistent containers
And much much more: learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspir...
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 7:
A common bug with command-line arguments is passing a single argument with spaces when multiple are expected 💥
The dashboard now adds quotation marks around arguments containing spaces for clarity 📝
A common bug with command-line arguments is passing a single argument with spaces when multiple are expected 💥
The dashboard now adds quotation marks around arguments containing spaces for clarity 📝
July 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 7:
A common bug with command-line arguments is passing a single argument with spaces when multiple are expected 💥
The dashboard now adds quotation marks around arguments containing spaces for clarity 📝
A common bug with command-line arguments is passing a single argument with spaces when multiple are expected 💥
The dashboard now adds quotation marks around arguments containing spaces for clarity 📝
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 6:
Resources with a connection string (databases 🗄️, caches 🧠, message brokers 📬, etc.) now display the connection string in the dashboard.
Resources with a connection string (databases 🗄️, caches 🧠, message brokers 📬, etc.) now display the connection string in the dashboard.
July 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 6:
Resources with a connection string (databases 🗄️, caches 🧠, message brokers 📬, etc.) now display the connection string in the dashboard.
Resources with a connection string (databases 🗄️, caches 🧠, message brokers 📬, etc.) now display the connection string in the dashboard.
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 5:
The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵
The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵
July 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 5:
The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵
The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 4:
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
📊 The name column is wider to show more detail
ℹ️ Header trace details now collapse to prevent wrapping
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
📊 The name column is wider to show more detail
ℹ️ Header trace details now collapse to prevent wrapping
July 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 4:
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
📊 The name column is wider to show more detail
ℹ️ Header trace details now collapse to prevent wrapping
The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements:
📊 The name column is wider to show more detail
ℹ️ Header trace details now collapse to prevent wrapping
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 2:
The dashboard now shows an update notification when a newer version of Aspire is available 📢
The dashboard now shows an update notification when a newer version of Aspire is available 📢
July 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 2:
The dashboard now shows an update notification when a newer version of Aspire is available 📢
The dashboard now shows an update notification when a newer version of Aspire is available 📢
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 1:
The reconnect dialog got an upgrade:
🎨 Improved look in light and dark themes
🔄 More reliable, thanks to Blazor improvements
More details here: learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/...
The reconnect dialog got an upgrade:
🎨 Improved look in light and dark themes
🔄 More reliable, thanks to Blazor improvements
More details here: learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/...
July 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 1:
The reconnect dialog got an upgrade:
🎨 Improved look in light and dark themes
🔄 More reliable, thanks to Blazor improvements
More details here: learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/...
The reconnect dialog got an upgrade:
🎨 Improved look in light and dark themes
🔄 More reliable, thanks to Blazor improvements
More details here: learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/...
GitHub Copilot understood the screenshot in my comment, interpreted the emoji and made a good fix. Color me impressed.
July 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
GitHub Copilot understood the screenshot in my comment, interpreted the emoji and made a good fix. Color me impressed.
Hold on to your butts, Aspire vNext has some 🔥 new features.
June 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hold on to your butts, Aspire vNext has some 🔥 new features.