Aspire.Hosting.AppHost library

Provides the core APIs and MSBuild logic for .NET Aspire AppHost projects.

Getting started

Install the package

In your project, install the .NET Aspire AppHost library with NuGet:

dotnet add package Aspire.Hosting.AppHost

Usage example

Then, in the AppHost.cs file of AppHost, add project, container, and executable resources:

var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

// The Projects.MyApp type is generated by custom MSBuild targets added
// by the Aspire.Hosting.AppHost package when the MyApp project is added
// as a project reference.
var app = builder.AddProject<Projects.MyApp>("myapp");

builder.Build().Run();

Additional documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/

Feedback & contributing

https://github.com/dotnet/aspire

Showing the top 20 packages that depend on Aspire.Hosting.AppHost.

Packages	Downloads
Aspire.Hosting.Testing Testing support for the .NET Aspire application model.	2
Aspire.Hosting.Testing Testing support for the .NET Aspire application model.	1

.NET 8.0

Aspire.Hosting (>= 9.3.1)
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder (>= 8.0.2)
Google.Protobuf (>= 3.30.2)
Grpc.AspNetCore (>= 2.71.0)
Grpc.Net.ClientFactory (>= 2.71.0)
Grpc.Tools (>= 2.72.0)
Humanizer.Core (>= 2.14.1)
JsonPatch.Net (>= 3.3.0)
KubernetesClient (>= 16.0.7)
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions (>= 8.0.0)
System.IO.Hashing (>= 9.0.4)
AspNetCore.HealthChecks.Uris (>= 9.0.0)
Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions (>= 8.0.2)
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting (>= 8.0.1)
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions (>= 8.0.1)
Microsoft.Extensions.Http (>= 8.0.1)
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions (>= 8.0.3)
Microsoft.Extensions.Options (>= 8.0.2)
Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives (>= 8.0.0)
Newtonsoft.Json (>= 13.0.3)
Polly.Core (>= 8.5.2)
StreamJsonRpc (>= 2.21.69)
Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (>= 8.0.15)

.NET 9.0

Grpc.AspNetCore (>= 2.71.0)
Grpc.Net.ClientFactory (>= 2.71.0)
Grpc.Tools (>= 2.72.0)
Humanizer.Core (>= 2.14.1)
JsonPatch.Net (>= 3.3.0)
KubernetesClient (>= 16.0.7)
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions (>= 9.0.4)
Google.Protobuf (>= 3.30.2)
Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Http (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Options (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives (>= 9.0.4)
Newtonsoft.Json (>= 13.0.3)
Polly.Core (>= 8.5.2)
StreamJsonRpc (>= 2.21.69)
System.IO.Hashing (>= 9.0.4)
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting (>= 9.0.4)
Aspire.Hosting (>= 9.3.1)
AspNetCore.HealthChecks.Uris (>= 9.0.0)

Version	Downloads	Last updated
9.3.1	1	6/14/2025
9.3.0	0	5/19/2025
9.2.1	1	6/15/2025
9.2.0	1	6/15/2025
9.1.0	1	6/15/2025
9.0.0	1	6/15/2025
9.0.0-rc.1.24511.1	1	6/15/2025
8.2.2	1	6/15/2025
8.2.1	1	6/15/2025
8.2.0	1	6/15/2025
8.1.0	1	6/15/2025
8.0.2	1	6/15/2025
8.0.1	1	6/15/2025
8.0.0	1	6/15/2025
8.0.0-preview.7.24251.11	2	6/9/2025
8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1	1	6/15/2025
8.0.0-preview.5.24201.12	1	6/15/2025

Aspire.Hosting.AppHost 9.3.1

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