.NET Aspire for Azure Functions Developers Prerequisite: Azure Functions for .NET Developers (Parts 1-9) Part 1: Getting Started with .NET Aspire for Azure Functions (you are here) Part 2: Azure Services as Aspire Resources: Service Bus, Storage, and Redis (coming) Part 3: Deploying .NET Aspire Apps to Azure: AZD, ACA, and What Aspire Generates (coming) A new developer joins, hits F5, and the Function fails on startup because their local.settings.json names the storage emulator differently from yours. The question isn't "what should they have typed" but "why is the configuration source of truth a per-machine JSON file in the first place." The .NET Aspire AppHost moves that source of truth into a project you check into source control, so the storage emulator, queues, and the Functions app itself all start from one dotnet run . The drift surface If you've ever helped a teammate get the ProjectOrganizationDemo sample running, you've seen the surface.…