10-Day .Net Aspire Challenge: Day 2- Add MSSQL Component

Introduction

.Net Aspire framework is used to develop cloud and production-ready distributed applications. It consists of components to handle cloud-native concerns such as Redis, Postgres etc.

Prerequisites

• Install .Net 8
• Install Visual Studio 2022 version 17 or higher
• .Net Aspire Workload
• Container runtime such as Docker Desktop

Objectives

Learn how to create a starter project using .Net Aspire with MSSQL EF Core component.

Github Sample: The solution structure is divided into the following projects

• DotnetAspireChallenge.ApiService
• DotnetAspireChallenge.AppHost
• DotnetAspireChallenge.ServiceDefaults
• DotnetAspireChallenge.Web

Getting Started

Step 1: Install the following NuGet package

Install the following Nuget package into the subsequent project "DotnetAspireChallenge.AppHost"

dotnet add package Aspire.Hosting.SqlServer

In the above project, register a SQL server database and costume the SQL connection using following code.

Step 2: Install another NuGet package

Install the following Nuget package into the subsequent project “DotnetAspireChallenge.ApiService”

dotnet add package Aspire.Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

then register the context into the Program.cs file as follows

builder.AddSqlServerDbContext<MssqlDbContext>("sqldata");

Step 3: Create a “Customer” class

Step 4: Create an extension class

Create an extension class and register a minimal API get method to demonstrate the MSSQL context usage in the API Service

and finally, register in the Program.cs file

app.MapMssqlAspireEndpoint();

Step 5: Hit the GET endpoint

Finally, navigate to the GET URL shown below in your browser. It will insert the specified customer into the MSSQL database, retrieve the most recently inserted row, and display it as a response.

Add additional connection string properties using the JSON syntax

Github Sample

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