What is Configuration

Who is the course for and prerequisites

Introduction

Welcome

Why configuration is important

Configuration sources & providers

What will you learn in this course

Section Recap

Configuration in .NET

First Configuration NuGet package

Introduction (2)

Explore the IConfiguration and related APIs

What’s a ConfigurationManager

Standalone vs. Host

Running the Worker Service with template behavior

Exploring the Worker Service default configuration

Learning the JSON configuration provider capabilities

Configuring and manually parsing custom values

Environment specific configuration

Benefiting from the Binder package

INI configuration provider

XML configuration provider

Discussing the empty application builder sample app

User Secrets configuration provider

Section Recap (2)

Base File Providers

Introduction to Configuration Providers

Managing user secrets

JSON configuration provider

Environment Variables configuration provider

Command-line configuration provider

Key-per file configuration provider

Section Recap (3)

Azure Key Vault configuration provider

Review and Finalize implementation details

Create the implementation class library

Azure App Configuration provider with Key Vault secrets

Implement the IConfigurationSource

Section Recap (4)

Implementing the YAML parser

Consuming YAML configuration with custom provider

Implement the IConfigurationProvider

Introduction to the Options Pattern

Extend IConfigurationBuilder and expose AddYamlFile APIs

Modeling the Logging Options

Bind Logging Options to Configuration

Introduction to Implementing a Custom Configuration Provider

Consuming Logging Options through DI

Adding another options-modeled object

Resolving named-options by name

Configuring and editing named-options

Verifying configuration bindings and DI hydration

Considering alternative APIs for registering options

Overriding configurations with post configure APIs

Overriding all config-bound instances

Section Recap (5)

Avoid implementing IOptions

Enabling source-generated configuration binding

Understanding reflection-based binding

Introduction to Validating Options

Implementing the IValidateOptions interface

Handling validation errors

Expressing simple delegate-based validation with fluent APIs

Controlling when validation errors occur

Registering options with validation

Using data-annotations for declarative validation

Compile-time validation with source-generators

Introduction to Options Monitoring

Visualizing an Alerting App Scenario

Section Recap (6)

Differentiating Options interfaces

Introduction to Consumer-Centric (Empathy-based) Authoring

Section Recap (7)

Post Code-walk Options and Settings

Exploring the Alerting Implementation

Changing Config Data & Monitoring Alerts

Being Mindful of Monitoring Limitations

Debating namespace Naming IServiceCollection Extensions

Confirming new consumer experiences

Defining Strongly-typed WidgetOptions

Consuming the Add with IConfigurationSection

Improving consumer experiences through meaningful error messages

Exploring an Add with IConfigurationSection API

Section Recap (8)

Exposing an Action API

Using the configureOptions delegate-based API

The Importance of Consistent APIs

Consuming the Add with Options-type API

Conclusion

Considerations when accepting Option-types as Add API parameters