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Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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Learning the options interfaces

There are four main interfaces to use settings:

  • IOptionsMonitor<TOptions>
  • IOptionsFactory<TOptions>
  • IOptionsSnapshot<TOptions>
  • IOptions<TOptions>

We must inject one of those interfaces into a class to use the available settings. TOptions is the type that represents the settings that we want to access.

The framework returns an empty instance of your options class if you don’t configure it. We learn how to configure options properly in the next subsection; meanwhile, remember that using property initializers inside your options class can also be a great way to ensure certain defaults are used. You can also use constants to centralize those defaults somewhere in your codebase (making them easier to maintain). Proper configuration and validation are always preferred, but both combined can add a safety net.

Don’t use initializers or constants for default values that change...

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Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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