Azure & DevOps Podcast Maddy Montaquila: .NET Update - Episode 386
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Jan 26, 2026 Maddy Montaquila, Senior Product Manager who’s worked on .NET MAUI, Xamarin, and developer tooling since 2018. She discusses .NET 10 and AI-focused features. She explains rebranding Aspire and its vision as a VS Code–like AI-assisted dev tool. She also covers onboarding with standardized environments, Aspire deployments and pipeline customization, and how coding agents integrate into workflows.
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Aspire Rebrand Enables Multi‑Language Dev Tool
- Aspire was rebranded from ".NET Aspire" to "Aspire" and decoupled from the dotnet CLI to attract multi-language users.
- The team built a native AOT .NET CLI and single-file app hosts to use modern .NET features for a cross-language dev platform.
Model Apps Around One Orchestrating App Host
- Treat Aspire as the developer tool of the future that orchestrates apps across languages and environments from one app host file.
- Use the same CLI, app host, and tooling to run, deploy, and iterate without tying the app to a single language.
Make Clone‑And‑Run The Default Onboarding
- Use Aspire to make cloning and running repositories reproducible so new developers can start working immediately.
- Define dependencies in source and rely on the app host to orchestrate local environments to reduce onboarding time.