VS2022 template "ASP.NET Core Worker Service template" missing

Question

The article
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/host/hosted-services?source=recommendations&view=aspnetcore-7.0&tabs=visual-studio
mentions a template named "ASP.NET Core Worker Service template".

I assume this is ment to be a template accesible by VS2022, but I cannot find it.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hi @EuroEager2008 ,

I didn't find a template to run worker service in asp.net core app/API project officially. But there are some clues to do this. Although the article uses Ihost to build service project. You can still register the service class directly to asp.net core project which host by webapplicationbuilder like below.

builder.Services.AddHostedService<TimedHostedService>();
builder.Services.AddHostedService<Worker>();

(Note that the 'worker' is copy from the default worker service template," TimedHostedService" is the code from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/host/hosted-services?source=recommendations&view=aspnetcore-7.0&tabs=visual-studio#timed-background-tasks ).

They will work the same as in a Ihostbuilder project.

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