dotnet config_error ai_generated true

InvalidOperationException: Failed to convert configuration value

ID: dotnet/configuration-bind-error

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85%Fix Rate
88%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
8 active — — —

Root Cause

Configuration value cant bind to target type.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Ensure appsettings.json types match POCO properties
  2. 88% success Use IOptionsSnapshot<T> with validation: ValidateDataAnnotations()

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Use string for all config values and parse manually 72% fail

    Loses type safety

  2. Set default values ignoring config 78% fail

    Runs with wrong configuration