Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting 8.0.1

About

Contains the .NET Generic Host HostBuilder which layers on the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions package.

Key Features

Contains the .NET Generic Host HostBuilder.

How to Use

For a console app project:

    using (IHost host = new HostBuilder().Build())
    {
        var lifetime = host.Services.GetRequiredService<IHostApplicationLifetime>();
    
        lifetime.ApplicationStarted.Register(() =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Started");
        });
        lifetime.ApplicationStopping.Register(() =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Stopping firing");
            Console.WriteLine("Stopping end");
        });
        lifetime.ApplicationStopped.Register(() =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Stopped firing");
            Console.WriteLine("Stopped end");
        });
    
        host.Start();
    
        // Listens for Ctrl+C.
        host.WaitForShutdown();
    }

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

Microsoft.Extensions.Host.
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostApplicationBuilder
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostBuilder
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.IHostedService
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.IHostedLifecycleService

Additional Documentation

Generic host
API documentation

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
Microsoft.Extensions.Options

Feedback & Contributing

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

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Microsoft.Orleans.Reminders.AzureStorage Microsoft Orleans reminders provider backed by Azure Table Storage	4
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.WindowsServices .NET hosting infrastructure for Windows Services.	4
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App Microsoft.AspNetCore.App	3
Aspire.Hosting.Testing Testing support for the .NET Aspire application model.	3
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App Provides a default set of APIs for building an ASP.NET Core application. This package requires the ASP.NET Core runtime. This runtime is installed by the .NET Core SDK, or can be acquired separately using installers available at https://aka.ms/dotnet-download.	3
Microsoft.Identity.Web This package enables ASP.NET Core web apps and web APIs to use the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0). This package is specifically used for web applications, which sign-in users, and protected web APIs, which optionally call downstream web APIs.	3
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All Provides a default set of APIs for building an ASP.NET Core application, and also includes API for third-party integrations with ASP.NET Core. This package requires the ASP.NET Core runtime. This runtime is installed by the .NET Core SDK, or can be acquired separately using installers available at https://aka.ms/dotnet-download.	3
Aspire.Hosting.Python Python support for .NET Aspire.	3
Microsoft.ServiceFabric.AspNetCore.Abstractions This package provides abstractions for creating AspNetCore Service Fabric microservices.	3
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.WindowsServices .NET hosting infrastructure for Windows Services.	3
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App Provides a default set of APIs for building an ASP.NET Core application. This package requires the ASP.NET Core runtime. This runtime is installed by the .NET Core SDK, or can be acquired separately using installers available at https://aka.ms/dotnet-download.	2
Microsoft.Orleans.Streaming.AzureStorage Microsoft Orleans streaming provider backed by Azure Queue Storage	2
Microsoft.Orleans.Persistence.AzureStorage Microsoft Orleans persistence providers backed by Azure Storage	2
Microsoft.Orleans.Core Core library of Microsoft Orleans used both on the client and server.	2
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All Provides a default set of APIs for building an ASP.NET Core application, and also includes API for third-party integrations with ASP.NET Core. This package requires the ASP.NET Core runtime. This runtime is installed by the .NET Core SDK, or can be acquired separately using installers available at https://aka.ms/dotnet-download.	2

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Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting 8.0.1

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About

Key Features

How to Use

Main Types

Additional Documentation

Related Packages

Feedback & Contributing

Used By

Release Notes

Dependencies

.NET Framework 4.6.2

.NET Standard 2.0

.NET 8.0

.NET Standard 2.1

.NET 7.0

.NET 6.0

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