Set up your environment

Whether you want to contribute to Aspire, or just use the latest build of Aspire, these are the common pieces you need to install.

(Windows) Install Visual Studio

On Windows, Visual Studio contains special tooling support for .NET Aspire that you will want to have.

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 or later

When you install, ensure that both:

ASP.NET and web development Workload is checked.
.NET Aspire SDK component in Individual components is checked.

Install the latest .NET 8 SDK

Install a supported container runtime

Docker Desktop

Podman