configurationbuilder-addjsonfile

ConfigurationBuilder SetBasePath() / AddJsonFile() are missing

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If you’re trying to use ConfigurationBuilder to read from appsettings.json, you probably have the following code snippet and are running into compiler errors: This has three different errors, but the compiler only shows you one error at a time. This is due to the way this is designed – ConfigurationBuilder is in one library and … Read more

How to add User Secrets in a .NET Core console app

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The User Secrets feature in .NET is a safe, simple way to override values in appsettings.json. The overridden values only exist in a file sitting in your own dev environment, so you don’t accidently commit them to your source control repository. This feature is enabled in ASP.NET by default, and the framework does most of … Read more