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 so it’s probably a better idea to use that than adding in the fuctionality manually as done below. This is something that strangely doesn’t seem to be that well Read more…
ASP.NET Core Settings Dependency Injection 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 Read more…