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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 16d

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The GenAI visualizer a UI that specializes in displaying detailed AI telemetry from apps. It’s useful if you’re working on apps that use AI

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 17d

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)

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 19d

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 🔗

Trace detail page showing destination resource in details.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 20d

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.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 21d

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.

Screenshot of the console logs page with (All) selected.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 22d

Lots of people using Aspire ❤️

I also learned:
🐧 App host doesn't run on Linux (it does)
🔒 Aspire creates lock in (confidently stated after saying they haven't tried Aspire)
🐴 Not only has Aspire not left preview, it will never leave preview

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Explore this post and more from the dotnet community

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 22d

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.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 23d

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 5:

The dashboard selects the best duration unit based on its length:

Long → seconds (s)
Short → milliseconds (ms)
Very short → microseconds (μs)

In 9.5 you'll see seconds more often, with microseconds shown only to avoid 0.00ms.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 24d

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 4:

The trace detail page adds new "Expand all" and "Collapse all" buttons.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 24d

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

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 25d

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.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 26d

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 🚨

Screenshot of old text alignment in details view

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 26d

I released a new version of Newtonsoft.Json (13.0.4). It's mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.

Notably trim/AOT incompatible APIs are annotated. You'll get a clear warning that serialize/deserialize isn't supported in trimmed/AOT published apps.

github.com/JamesNK/Newt...

Release 13.0.4 · JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json

New feature - Annotated for trim/AOT (in)compatibility New feature - Added support for using Index with JArray Change - Avoid LINQ expression trees in .NET 6+ reflection Fix - Fixed handling of emp...

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · 27d

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

Screenshot of trace detail page showing new resource column and log entries UI.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Aug 28

KPI driven development

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Aug 21

Many new metrics are coming in #aspnetcore .NET 10.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Aug 19

The Aspire team is cooking up a new (All) option for the console logs page.

Want everything at once? (All) gives you all resource logs in one view 🚀

#dotnet #aspire

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 29

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...

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 28

Less features. More memes.

Message received 🤝

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 28

"But my .NET 10 apps already worked with Aspire."

Yes, they did. But this change affects what .NET version the dashboard runs on.

Previously, you needed the .NET 8 or 9 runtime installed. Now, the dashboard runs with just .NET 10 on your machine 🤓

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 28

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 8:

The Aspire dashboard now supports .NET 10.

The dashboard runs on whatever .NET version is installed on your machine, so it must stay backward (and forward) compatible with all Aspire targets: .NET 8, .NET 9, and now .NET 10 previews 🔥

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 27

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 📝

Screenshot of resources page showing an argument with spaces.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 26

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.

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 25

Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 5:

The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵

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James Newton-King ♔ @james.newtonking.com · Jul 24

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

Screenshot of trace detail showing improvements.

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