Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades

Andrew Lock

  2. Converting web.config files to appsettings.json with a .NET Core global tool

    In this post I describe how and why I created a .NET Core global tool to easily convert configuration stored in web.config files to the JSON format more commonly used for configuration in ASP.NET Core. tl;dr; You can install the tool by running dotnet tool install --global…
    on .NET Core ASP.NET Core .NET CLI Configuration - Comments

  3. Adding validation to strongly typed configuration objects in ASP.NET Core

    In this post I describe an approach you can use to ensure your strongly typed configuration objects have been correctly bound to your configuration when your app starts up. By using an IStartupFilter, you can validate that your configuration objects have expected values early, instead of at some point later…
    on ASP.NET Core Configuration - Comments

  4. Building .NET Framework ASP.NET Core apps on Linux using Mono and the .NET CLI

    I've been hitting Docker hard (as regulars will notice from the topic of recent posts!), and thanks to .NET Core, it's all been pretty smooth sailing. However, I had a requirement for building a library that multi-tartgets both full .NET framework and .NET Standard, to try to avoid some of…
    on DevOps .NET Core Mono - Comments

  5. Building ASP.NET Core apps on both Windows and Linux using AppVeyor

    Nearly two years ago I wrote a post about using AppVeyor to build and publish your first .NET Core NuGet package. A lot has changed with ASP.NET Core since then, but by-and-large the process is still the same. I've largely moved to using Cake to build my apps, but…
    on ASP.NET Core DevOps NuGet .NET Core - Comments

  6. Writing logs to Elasticsearch with Fluentd using Serilog in ASP.NET Core

    For apps running in Kubernetes, it's particularly important to be storing log messages in a central location. I'd argue that this is important for all apps, whether or not you're using Kubernetes or docker, but the ephemeral nature of pods and containers make the latter cases particularly important. If you're…
    on ASP.NET Core DevOps Logging Docker - Comments

  7. Suppressing the startup and shutdown messages in ASP.NET Core

    In this post, I show how you can disable the startup message shown in the console when you run an ASP.NET Core application. This extra text can mess up your logs if you're using a collector that reads from the console, so it can be useful to disable in…
    on ASP.NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 1.1 Logging Docker HostBuilder - Comments