Generic Host is an awesome way to host all sort of long running tasks and applications, e.g. messaging, background tasks, etc.

• Configure Logging

  Configure logging for your Generic Host. This technique will be used in the subsequent samples.

• Hello World

  This is the hello world equivalent of a Generic Host service.

• Hello World using Console Lifetime

  Use UseConsoleLifetime implicitly.

• Startup and Shutdown order

  Demonstrates the startup and shutdown order of hosted services.

• Start and stop the host

  Demonstrates starting and stopping the host programmatically.

• A service with timed execution

  Demonstrate processing a task on a regular interval using Task.Delay.

• Configure Host using Dictionary

  Demonstrate the way to inject configuration values to the host using Dictionary.

• Configure Environment

  Set your environment using EnvironmentName.Development or EnvironmentName.Production or EnvironmentName.Staging.

• Listen to IHostApplicationLifetime events

  Inject IHostApplicationLifetime and listen to ApplicationStarted, ApplicationStopping and ApplicationStopped events. This is important to allow services to be shutdown gracefully. The shutdown process blocks until ApplicatinStopping and ApplicationStopped events complete.

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