James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for the Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict mergeconflict.fm.

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] Jeffrey introduces the concept of .NET Aspire and highlights its integration with Azure DevOps and .NET ecosystem tools.

[2:51] The evolution of .NET mobile and desktop development since 2005.

[4:45] An overview of .NET Aspire and its focus on simplifying app development and infrastructure orchestration.

[11:45] How .NET Aspire supports both local development and cloud deployment.

[16:24] Integrating DevOps automation for Azure deployments using bicep templates and Azure Developer CLI (azd).

[25:30] Generating infrastructure manifests and deploying them with Azure Developer CLI.

[32:51] Configuring Azure resources like Redis Cache for development and deployment scenarios.

[35:11] Simplifying cloud deployment for developers using Azure Container Apps.

[39:37] Polyglot support in .NET Aspire projects, allowing integration with Python, JavaScript, and more.

[44:50] Plans to integrate development tunnels to streamline mobile app testing.

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