Installing tools

1. Visual Studio 17.14.* or greater
2. dotnet sdk

Check that you have the latest SDK, currently 9.0.304

If not, Install sdk

3. Install Github CLI

For windows:

Note: This will also upgrade existing installations of the gh cli*.

You can also install using choco:

4. Remove older Aspire

See Upgrade your development environment for details.

Check for workloads:

Following these instructions

Use Windows Search to find the Visual Studio Installer. Choose Modify on the current version (which should now me the latest), then select Individual COmponents, and enter “aspire” in the search box. Just remove the checkmark for that, and start the install. It will then run for a minute or two, and the it will be removed. Check again that the dotnet workload list now are empty.

How to convert an existing Api to Aspire

For documentation on this see Add Aspire to Existing-App