About

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration is combined with a core configuration abstraction under Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions that allows for building different kinds of configuration providers to retrieve key/value pair configuration values from in the form of IConfiguration. There are a number of built-in configuration provider implementations to read from environment variables, in-memory collections, JSON, INI or XML files. Aside from the built-in variations, there are more shipped libraries shipped by community for integration with various configuration service and other data sources.

Key Features

• In-memory configuration provider
• Chained configuration provider for chaining multiple confiugration providers together.
• Base types that implement configuration abstraction interfaces that can be used when implementing other configuration providers.

How to Use

using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

var configurationBuilder = new ConfigurationBuilder();

configurationBuilder.AddInMemoryCollection(
    new Dictionary<string, string?>
    {
        ["Setting1"] = "value",
        ["MyOptions:Enabled"] = bool.TrueString,
    });

configurationBuilder.AddInMemoryCollection(
    new Dictionary<string, string?>
    {
        ["Setting2"] = "value2",
        ["MyOptions:Enabled"] = bool.FalseString,
    });

var config = configurationBuilder.Build();

// note case-insensitive
Console.WriteLine(config["setting1"]);
Console.WriteLine(config["setting2"]);

// note last in wins
Console.WriteLine(config["MyOptions:Enabled"]);

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilder
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationManager
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationRoot
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationSection

Additional Documentation

• Configuration in .NET
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration namespace

Related Packages

• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.CommandLine
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileExtensions
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Ini
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Xml

Feedback & Contributing

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration is released as open source under the MIT license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.