Legacy Configuration

Legacy configuration (app.config, web.config) provider implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Usage example

App.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
<add name="AzureSqlDatabase" connectionString="[CONNECTION_STRING_HERE]" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="SampleAppSettingOne" value="Hello" />
    <add key="SampleAppSettingTwo" value="World" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

Some.cs file

IConfiguration configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .AddLegacyConfig("App.Config")
    .Build();

Console.WriteLine($"App Settings: {configuration["SampleAppSettingOne"]}, {configuration["SampleAppSettingTwo"]}");

Development setup

Make sure you have the following setup on your development machine:

• .NET Core 2.0.x
• .NET Framework 7.0
• Visual Studio 2017 or VS Code

Simply open the solution and build to get started.

Release History

• 0.0.2
  • Added support for multiple configuration files.
• 0.0.1
  • Initial release.

Meta

Haseeb Ahmed – @haseebahmed7 – hello@haseeb-ahmed.com

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/haseebahmed7/dotnetcore-legacy-configuration

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/haseebahmed7/dotnetcore-legacy-configuration)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b yourname/feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request.

Special Thanks

• Ben Foster, this project is based on his article.