I often find myself searching the internet for the same four lines of C# all over again, because of my inability to remember anything and the complexity of my filesystem structure... That's why I decided to start putting together quick snippets of Frequently Used Code (FUC).

This one is about ASP.NET Core.

It's a living document, I keep updating it.

.NET Core CLI - change UI language to English

set DOTNET_CLI_UI_LANGUAGE=en

Merge array of strings into a single string

So simple that I'm ahsamed that I'm searching for it all over again...

var arr = new string[] { "A", "B", "C" }
string.Concat(arr);
> ABC
string.Join(',', arr);
> A,B,C
string.Join(", ", arr);
> A, B, C

Add appsettings.json configuration to console app

NuGets:

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileExtensions
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json

Code:

var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true);

IConfigurationRoot configuration = builder.Build();

Config:

• appsettings.json: Copy to output = Copy if newer