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Building a middleware pipeline with WebApplication
Exploring .NET 6 - Part 4
In this post I look at some of the code behind WebApplication, and focus on how the middleware and endpoints are configured…

Controlling IHostedService execution order in ASP.NET Core 3.x
In this post I show how to control whether your IHostedService runs before or after the GenericWebHostService starts the Kestrel HTTP server…

Extending the shutdown timeout setting to ensure graceful IHostedService shutdown
In this post I describe a problem where you get an exception when shutting down an app that used IHostedService, when the service takes too long to shut down.…

Introducing IHostLifetime and untangling the Generic Host startup interactions
Exploring ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Part 5
In this post I introduce the new IHostLifetime interface and look at the interactions involved in the ASP.NET Core generic host startup and shutdown processes…

Adding Serilog to the ASP.NET Core Generic Host
In this post I introduce the Serilog.Extensions.Hosting package, discuss why it's necessary, and describe how to use it to add Serilog to a generic host app…

The ASP.NET Core Generic Host: namespace clashes and extension methods
In this post I discuss the generic host introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.1, and how its different namespace can cause problems for existing code.…

