When creating a console application I normally mimic ASP.NET core apps and keep my configuration settings in an appsettings.json file. When publishing the application in Visual Studio the appsettings.json file needs to have it’s properties updated to ensure it’s copied to the publish folder like so. Doing this updates the Read more…
I’ve been using the SendGrid API for a project and I was trying to be lazy and read multiple email addresses to send to from a single parameter in appsettings.json with the email addresses separated by a semicolon. Strangely this only sends to the first email in the string so Read more…
UPDATE: It appears that there’s now a “Worker Service” template available (thanks Hobby Developer) which scaffolds Dependency Injection, configuration and logging for you. If you wnat a long running service then that’s probably the best option but if you want an intermitantly triggered executable that does a defined task and Read more…
There’s a variety of different ways to access configuration settings from an appsettings.json file in a project, these are all well documented here so this post is mostly intended to serve as a reminder for the methods I most frequently use. Dependency injection (DI) is a technique for achieving loose Read more…