Using Configuration and Options in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Apps

Course Overview
(Music playing) Hi everyone, my name is Steve Gordon, and welcome to my course, Using Configuration and Options in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Applications. I'm a Microsoft MVP, a senior developer, and a passionate member of the .NET community. Fun fact, configuration is a fundamental concept to all but the most basic .NET Core and ASP.NET Core applications. This course will get you fully up-to-speed on configuration and afterwards you'll be able to apply these skills to build powerful .NET Core and ASP.NET Core applications. Some of the major topics that we'll cover include understanding where to use configuration and how to define it with JSON files, learning how to access configuration at runtime to control the behavior of your applications, learning about the options pattern, which supports strongly typed access to your configuration across your application via dependency injection, and learning about the other numerous configuration providers, which are supported, and which help you to secure your application secrets and sensitive configuration keys. By the end of this course, you will have a complete understanding of the capabilities of the Microsoft configuration and options libraries. You'll be able to apply this knowledge in your .NET Core and ASP.NET Core applications to take full advantage of secure and reliable configuration. From here, continue your learning journey by diving into .NET Core fundamentals with courses on dependency injection, logging, and authorization. Before beginning the course, you should be broadly familiar with general .NET Core and ASP.NET Core concepts and have some experience in building ASP.NET applications. I really hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about these important concepts with the Using Configuration and Options in .NET and ASP.NET Core Applications course at Pluralsight.