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Andrew Lock
Configuration

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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.…
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  4. 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

  5. How to use machine-specific configuration with ASP.NET Core

    In this quick post I'll show how to easily setup machine-specific configuration in your ASP.NET Core applications. This allows you to use different settings depending on the name of the machine you are using. The tl;dr; version is to add a json file to your project containing your…
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  6. Access services inside ConfigureServices using IConfigureOptions in ASP.NET Core

    In a recent post I showed how you could populate an IOptions<T> object from the database for the purposes of caching the query result. It wasn't the most flexible solution or really recommended but it illustrated the point. However one of the issues I had with the…
    on ASP.NET Core Configuration Dependency Injection - Comments