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Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

You're reading from   Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0 Turn the right screws in ASP.NET Core to get the most out of the framework

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Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077866
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing Logging 2. Chapter 2: Customizing App Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Customizing Dependency Injection 4. Chapter 4: Configuring and Customizing HTTPS with Kestrel 5. Chapter 5: Using IHostedService and BackgroundService 6. Chapter 6: Writing Custom Middleware 7. Chapter 7: Content Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatter 8. Chapter 8: Managing Inputs with Custom ModelBinders 9. Chapter 9: Creating a Custom ActionFilter 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom TagHelpers 11. Chapter 11: Configuring WebHostBuilder 12. Chapter 12: Using Different Hosting Models 13. Chapter 13: Working with Endpoint Routing 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuration using INI files

To also use INI files to configure the application, you will need to add the INI configuration inside the ConfigureAppConfiguration() method in Program.cs:

config.AddIniFile(
    "appsettings.ini", 
    optional: false, 
    reloadOnChange: true);
config.AddJsonFile(
    $"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.ini", 
    optional: true, 
    reloadOnChange: true);

This code loads the INI files the same way as the JSON configuration files. The first line is a required configuration, and the second line is an optional configuration depending on the current runtime environment.

The INI file could look like this:

[AppSettings]
Bar="FooBar"

As you can see, this file contains a section called AppSettings and a property called Bar.

Earlier, we said that the order of the configuration matters. If you add the two lines to configure via INI files after the configuration via JSON files, the INI files will override the settings from the JSON files. The Bar property gets overridden with "FooBar" and the Foo property stays the same, because it will not be overridden. Also, the values out of the INI file will be available via the typed configuration created previously.

Every other configuration provider will work the same way. Let's now see how a configuration provider will look.

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Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0
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