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2. The dangers and gotchas of using scoped services in IConfigureOptions

   In this post I look at the problems you can hit with strongly-typed settings when you inject Scoped services into IConfigureOptions, and how to avoid them…

   October 23, 2018 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 ASP.NET Core 2.1 Configuration Dependency Injection
3. Using multiple instances of strongly-typed settings with named options in .NET Core 2.x

   In this post I describe how you can register multiple instances of a strongly-typed settings object in the ASP.NET Core DI container using named options.…

   October 16, 2018 in ASP.NET Core .NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.0 ASP.NET Core 2.1 Configuration
4. Adding Serilog to the ASP.NET Core Generic Host

   In this post I introduce the Serilog.Extensions.Hosting package, discuss why it's necessary, and describe how to use it to add Serilog to a generic host app…

   August 07, 2018 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.1 Logging Generic Host
5. The ASP.NET Core Generic Host: namespace clashes and extension methods

   In this post I discuss the generic host introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.1, and how its different namespace can cause problems for existing code.…

   July 31, 2018 in ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.1 Generic Host
6. Suppressing the startup and shutdown messages in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I show how to disable the startup messages shown in the console when you run an ASP.NET Core application using WebHostBuilder or HostBuilder.…

   June 12, 2018 in ASP.NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 1.1 HostBuilder Logging Docker
7. Exploring the .NET Core 2.1 Docker files (updated): dotnet:runtime vs aspnetcore-runtime vs sdk

   In this post, I look at the various Docker base images available for .NET Core 2.1 development, how they differ, and when you should use each of them.…

   June 05, 2018 in Docker Docker Hub DevOps ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.1 .NET Core