config.json – Tarik Billa

How to properly read nested configuration values from config.json in ASP.NET5?

April 9, 2024 by Tarik

That’s the convention that we decided upon when we first created the configuration model. We started with json in mind and : is the delimiter there. Anyways, if you don’t want to worry about those conventions, I recommend using the ConfigurationBinder which binds a configuration to a model (a strong type object). Here are the … Read more

Why does Visual Studio tell me that the AddJsonFile() method is not defined?

January 1, 2023 by Tarik

You need to include the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json NuGet package if you want to call the .AddJsonFile() method. See: https://github.com/aspnet/Configuration/tree/dev/src/Microsoft.Framework.ConfigurationModel.Json For further reading, here’s a nice tutorial: ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: IConfiguration.