So I wanted to be able to choose my environment when running dotnet
(an .net core mvc-project) from the terminal. I found this post and thought the second highest answer was a neat way of solving it, in short:
Replacing the Program class body with the following:
private static readonly Dictionary<string, string> defaults =
new Dictionary<string, string> {
{ WebHostDefaults.EnvironmentKey, "development" }
};
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var configuration =
new ConfigurationBuilder()
.AddInMemoryCollection(defaults)
.AddEnvironmentVariables("ASPNETCORE_")
.AddCommandLine(args)
.Build();
var host = new WebHostBuilder()
.UseKestrel()
.UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
.UseIISIntegration()
.UseStartup<Startup>()
.Build();
host.Run();
}
Then running:
dotnet run environment=development
dotnet run environment=staging
So I pasted it, and it said I need to add a using statment
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
Still got this error message:
'IConfigurationBuilder' does not contain a definition for
'AddCommandLine' and no extension method 'AddCommandLine'
accepting a first argument of type 'IConfigurationBuilder'
could be found (are you missing a using directive or an
assembly reference?)
I'm a bit at loss for what could be the problem. I mean, here's the definition of AddCommandLine(IConfigurationBuilder, String[])
with namespace Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
?
Although the namespace is Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
, the extension is in the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.CommandLine
assembly, which is in the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.CommandLine
package. You need to add a dependency on that package.
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