IHostEnvironment Interface

Definition

Provides information about the hosting environment an application is running in.

public interface IHostEnvironment
Derived

Properties

ApplicationName

Gets or sets the name of the application. This property is automatically set by the host to the assembly containing the application entry point.

ContentRootFileProvider

Gets or sets an IFileProvider pointing at ContentRootPath.

ContentRootPath

Gets or sets the absolute path to the directory that contains the application content files.

EnvironmentName

Gets or sets the name of the environment. The host automatically sets this property to the value of the "environment" key as specified in configuration.

Extension Methods

IsDevelopment(IHostEnvironment)

Checks if the current host environment name is Development.

IsEnvironment(IHostEnvironment, String)

Compares the current host environment name against the specified value.

IsProduction(IHostEnvironment)

Checks if the current host environment name is Production.

IsStaging(IHostEnvironment)

Checks if the current host environment name is Staging.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET 8 (package-provided), 9 (package-provided)
.NET Framework 4.7 (package-provided), 4.7.1 (package-provided), 4.7.2 (package-provided), 4.8 (package-provided)
.NET Standard 2.0 (package-provided), 2.1 (package-provided)