Top Level Statements

I spent some time attempting to find a way to execute unit tests on the Main and other methods within a console application using top-level statements, purely for the fun of it. It took longer than I had expected.

There are times when you will want to use something from the service collection within Program.cs, in this post shows how to do that when using top-level statements.

I have been a fan of Entity Framework for many years, and have relied on using the context within the Configure(..) method in Startup.cs, but that is not available when using top-level statements. This post shows how to use the context within Program.cs.

All dotnet new... commands take switches that let you tweak the generated project and code. In this example, you will see how to reduce by half the boilerplate code in Program.cs for Web API applications.