Windows Service does not take settings from appsettings.json

I followed the pattern established in the article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/windows-service.

If I run my service from the command line it runs great, but if I run it as service it doesn’t seem to see the settings in appsettings.json. Would love some direction on this as there are several thing in the config that I don’t want to have to hard code.

Example of my my program.cs

var context = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                    .SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
    .AddJsonFile("hosting.json", optional: true)
    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true)
    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.Development.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true)
    .AddCommandLine(args)
    .AddEnvironmentVariables()
    .Build();

var key = context[Constants.CONFIG_KEY_APPLICATION_INSIGHTS];

IHost host = Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
    .UseWindowsService(options => options.ServiceName = Constants.SERVICE_NAME)
    .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(
        webBuilder =>
        {
            webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
            webBuilder.UseUrls(context[Constants.CONFIG_KEY_HUB_URL]);
        })
    .ConfigureServices(
        services =>
        {
            services.AddSignalR();
            services.AddHostedService<LprWindowsService>();

            services
        .AddDbContext<FlashvaletContext>(
            optionsBuilder => optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(
                    Constants.FLASHVALET_CONNECTIONSTRING,
                    sqlOptions =>
                    {
                        sqlOptions.CommandTimeout(120);
                        sqlOptions.EnableRetryOnFailure();
                    }),
            ServiceLifetime.Singleton);

            services.AddSingleton<IFileSystemService, FileSystemService>();
            services.AddSingleton<IGenericRepository, FlashValetRepository>();
            services.AddSingleton<IKioskService, KioskService>();
            services.AddSingleton<ILprStrategyFactory, LprStrategyFactory>();
            services.AddSingleton<IVerificationService, VerificationService>();
        })
    .ConfigureLogging(
        logging =>
        {
            logging.ClearProviders();
            logging.AddConfiguration(context.GetSection("Logging"));
            logging.AddConsole();
            //var key = context[Constants.CONFIG_KEY_APPLICATION_INSIGHTS];
            if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(key) == false)
                logging.AddApplicationInsights(key);

            if (EventLog.SourceExists(Constants.SERVICE_NAME) == false)
                EventLog.CreateEventSource(Constants.SERVICE_NAME, Constants.SERVICE_NAME);

            EventLogSettings eventLogSettings = new EventLogSettings
            {
                SourceName = Constants.SERVICE_NAME,
                LogName = Constants.SERVICE_NAME
            };

            logging.AddConsole();
            logging.AddDebug();
            logging.AddEventLog(eventLogSettings);
        })
    .Build();

await host.RunAsync();

[MariovanZeist]

@JasonDWilson when you run this as a service the Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() will probably return something like 'C:\Windows\System32\' and not the location of your service. So it will not find your configuration files

[JasonDWilson]

Sorry – yes its published as self contained.