In a console application in .Net Core, you don’t have the appsettings.json file. In order to add this file, add a JSON file with the same name (or any name that you want) and make the following changes to the file in property:
Now, you should add some configuration to read this file as it’s a console application and it’s not configured by default:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
RegisterServices(args);
}
private static ServiceProvider RegisterServices(string[] args)
{
IConfiguration configuration = SetupConfiguration(args);
var serviceProvider = new ServiceCollection();
serviceProvider.AddSingleton(configuration);
return serviceProvider.BuildServiceProvider();
}
private static IConfiguration SetupConfiguration(string[] args)
{
return new ConfigurationBuilder()
.SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.Build();
}
}
Note that the SetBasePath() method lives in Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json library.