How to read values from config.json in Console Application

Question

I just installed ASP.NET 5 and created a Console Application in Visual Studio. I\'ve added a file, config.json, to the root folder of the project.

It looks like this:

Answer 1

Have a type like the following:

public class FolderSettings
{
    public Dictionary TargetFolderLocations { get; set; }
}

You can then use the ConfigurationBinder to automatically bind configuration sections to types like above. Example:

var folderSettings = ConfigurationBinder.Bind(config.GetConfigurationSection("Data"));
var path = folderSettings.TargetFolderLocations["TestFolder1"];