A blog to (be) inspire(d) (by) others

In my previous post, I described how I regained focus on my blogging. This time, let us focus on how we can configure our settings in the DotNet "core" world.

It's not uncommon to come across projects with poorly managed configurations. When I first started building .NET Framework applications, the configuration process seems easy. However, over time, the <appsettings> section became more chaotic. There is a possibility to cut this up into multiple sections, but that was writing a lot of boilerplate. Storing secrets in your configuration was not safe at all. While there is a way to encrypt your settings, I do not know a lot of people of embracing this way of working. Developing microservices and managing all settings in multiple web.config ensures losing the will to live.

The .NET Core configuration is the new cool kid around the block. It provides a more flexible, efficient, and extensible way of handling application configuration.

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