If you are looking for a no BS setup guide for Serilog with seq and Application Insights sink in .NET 8 worker services, you have came to the right place. Let’s get started! Sample project I have created a sample project in GitHub: samtc-lau/SerilogWorkerServicesSample: A sample .NET 8 Worker service application with Serilog (github.com). You […]
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 […]
Azure App Configuration is an Azure service that manage application settings and feature flags. Today, I am going to go through how to set up a .NET 8 application to retrieve settings from Azure App Configuration, reference Azure Key Vault for secrets and dynamically update settings. The sample I am using is a .NET 8 […]
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 […]
