How to get “Manage User Secrets” in a .NET Core console-application?

Question

When I create a new ASP .NET Core Web-Application, I can right-click the project in Visual Studio, and I see a context-menu entry called \"Manage User Secre

Answer 1

How to get “Manage User Secrets” in a .NET Core console-application?

Using Visual Studio 2015 Community with update 3

1. File -> New-> Project
2. Select Console Application (.NET Core)
3. Press CTRL+ALT+L
4. Click on the project to get “Manage User Secrets” it will open up a file called secrets.json

and where you can manually enter user-secrets.

I was able to use command prompt to setup user secrets:

c:\Projects\ConsoleApp2\src\ConsoleApp2>dotnet user-secrets set BrainTree_sandbox:Merchant ID:9rv9mhnb5gh7nnyx