Mostly just a link to this article containing best practices. There’s some useful extension methods available from Microsoft.Extensions.Azure to make for easier dependency injection of the various Azure services. There’s also some good examples available here.
In the v3 version of Azure Functions DI is better supported and there’s now some offical documentation demonstrating how it’s done. It’s pretty similar to how it was done previously, below is updated code from my previous v2 example. Startup.cs The IFunctionsHostBuilder instance is created by the Azure functions host Read more…
Dependency Injection (DI) has been available in .NET Core Web Applications for a while and now seems to have finally made it’s way to Azure Functions as well and is available in the current Azure Functions Runtime 2.0.12382. The GitHub issue tracking DI implementation in Azure Functions is here. I’ve Read more…
Adding logging to a .NET Core console application In .NET Core projects logging is managed via dependency injection. Whilst this works fine for ASP.NET projects where this is all automatically created upon starting a new project in Startup.cs, in console applications it takes a bit of configuration to get it up and 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…