Shared config across multiple projects within same solution

[kspearrin]

Using beta-4 I can add a config file to my project like so:

var configuration = new Configuration()
    .AddJsonFile("config.json");

If I have multiple projects within a solution that share the same config settings, I have to create a config.json for each project with the same settings in it.

What if I want to share settings in a single "global" config file across multiple projects within the same solution?

My solution directory structure looks like this:

/my_solution
  /prj1
    prj1.xproj
    config.json
  /prj2
    prj2.xproj
    config.json
  my_solution.sln

Could I move config.json out to the solution level and still add it somehow?

/my_solution
  /prj1
    prj1.xproj
  /prj2
    prj2.xproj
  my_solution.sln
  config.json

or maybe even

/my_solution
  /prj1
    prj1.xproj
    config.json
  /prj2
    prj2.xproj
    config.json
  my_solution.sln
  global_config.json

It looks to me like paths are always resolved starting at the application base.

How would I do this? Does this make sense to do?

[dougbu]

@kspearrin you have at least two options: Include "../" in the relative path you pass to AddJsonFile() or pass the absolute path to that method.

Quick reminder the APIs here have changed in Beta 5 and more recent dev builds (if you are on the bleeding edge): See aspnet/Announcements#13, aspnet/Announcements#14, and aspnet/Announcements#25 for more information.

[kspearrin]

Wonderful! Thanks.