One thing I realized when I upgraded my application from .NET Framework to .NET 8 using the Visual Studio Upgrade Assistance was that it did not migrate App.config to appsettings.json. In fact, it just added a reference to System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager and the old way of using App.config and Setting.settings just worked. This is great if all […]
A common approach in the old days (.NET framework days) to create a windows service that run on a schedule is to use Topshelf as a hosting framework and use Quartz to schedule the job. Moving forward some time, Microsoft has introduced Worker service back in .NET Core 3, which basically replaced Topshelf. Today, I […]
Since .NET 8, the template of Worker Services has changed from using IHostBuilder to HostApplicationBuilder. .NET 7 .NET 8 As a result, the way to implement Application Insights and Serilog in Worker Service has changed a bit and I am going to go through it. NuGet packages These are the packages you need. You may […]
