InvoiceGenerator.WebApi

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User Secrets

In order to hide the connection string from config (as this is an open source repo), the connection string has been hidden in a User Secret. All user secrets are loaded in AFTER appsettings.json files, so this works brilliantly for local development.

To add the connection string to a user secret:

• Open a terminal in the InvoiceGenerator.WebApi directory
• Run dotnet user-secrets init
  • You should be told "The MSBuild project 'InvoiceGenerator.WebApi.csproj' has already been initialized with a UserSecretsId."
  • This is good
• Run dotnet user-secrets set "ConnectionStrings:invoiceConnectionString" "YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE"
  • Replacing "YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE" with the actual connection string
  • This will place the connection string in a user secret
  • Only someone running this application, when logged into your machine as you will get the connection string
  • The connection string will be injected at application boot time

To check that the connection string was added correctly:

• Open a terminal in the InvoiceGenerator.WebApi directory
• Run dotnet user-secrets list
• The output should be ConnectionStrings:invoiceConnectionString = YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE
  • Where YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE is the connection string you provided when setting the user secret

To remove the connection string secret:

• Open a terminal in the InvoiceGenerator.WebApi directory
• Run dotnet user-secrets remove "ConnectionStrings:invoiceConnectionString"
• This will remove the connection string from your user secrets
  • You will either have to replace this or set it in the appsettings.json file