Configure ASP.NET Core with a .ENV file!

Use a .env file to load environment variables into your .NET Core or ASP.NET Core app during development really easily with this library! This works with any .NET Standard project, and is great if you’re used to frameworks like NestJS or Laravel

DotNetEnv on GitHub:

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[RazaQureshiSNC]

Nice, short and to the point video, thanks a lot!

[rafaelmendonca]

Vi 1min de video e ja resolveu meu problema obrigado <3

[VladTriesCoding]

Awesome way to keep your app's secrets secret! :)

[eirikmangseth]

Great video. Short and to the point. Using a .env file should play rather nicely with Docker and/or kubernetes too.

[troom]

Thanks, work like a charm ;)
in my case I had to use

[gerardojao]

I´d like to know how to protect my connection string with .env

[giaco]

great, thanks, could you also do a video on how the default way with the appsettings.json file would be?

[ruberfloresdelacruz]

I am using windows. Debugging returns null variables; I also used TraversePath() and nothing. What would be the error?, thanks

[revathyg]

Hey Rob, can i able to pass the login credentials via .env file in C#

[nhlanhlajuniormalaza]

How would I do this on windows 2016 server?

[miguelrodriguez]

How do you add this to a new .NetCore 6.

[adeoke]

I do not belive that this works on a mac, variables are not seen and always blank