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2026-08-03 csharp dotnet dotnet-11

How to validate options at startup with IValidateOptions<T> in .NET 11

Implement IValidateOptions<T>, register it in DI, and chain ValidateOnStart so a bad appsettings.json kills the process instead of the first request that touches it. Covers the .NET 11 Validate<TValidator>() overload, async validation through IAsyncValidateOptions<T>, and the three places ValidateOnStart silently does nothing.

2026-05-05 errors csharp dotnet

Fix: System.InvalidOperationException: No connection string named 'DefaultConnection' could be found

If GetConnectionString returns null in .NET 11, your appsettings.json is missing the key, not copied to the build output, or the wrong environment file is being selected. Three checks fix 95% of cases.