Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades

Andrew Lock
Configuration

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Sharing appsettings.json configuration files between projects in ASP.NET Core

    A pattern that's common for some apps is the need to share settings across multiple projects. For example, imagine you have both an ASP.NET Core RazorPages app and an ASP.NET Core Web API app in the same solution: Each of the apps will have its own distinct configuration…
    on ASP.NET Core 2.0 Configuration ASP.NET Core - Comments

  4. Exploring Program.cs, Startup.cs and CreateDefaultBuilder in ASP.NET Core 2 preview 1

    One of the goals in ASP.NET Core 2.0 has been to clean up the basic templates, simplify the basic use-cases, and make it easier to get started with new projects. This is evident in the new Program and Startup classes, which, on the face of it, are much…
    on ASP.NET Core .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 Configuration Getting Started - Comments

  5. Reloading strongly typed options in ASP.NET Core 1.1.0

    Back in June, when ASP.NET Core was still in RC2, I wrote a post about reloading strongly typed Options when the underlying configuration sources (e.g. a JSON) file changes. As I noted in that post, this functionality was removed prior to the release of ASP.NET Core 1.…
    on ASP.NET Core Configuration - Comments

  6. Accessing services when configuring MvcOptions in ASP.NET Core

    This post is a follow on to an article by Steve Gordon I read the other day on how to HTML encode deserialized JSON content from a request body. It's an interesting post, but it spurred me thinking about a tangential issue - using injected services when configuring MvcOptions. The…
    on ASP.NET Core Configuration Dependency Injection - Comments