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Load agent without code change
See original GitHub issueBy implementing IHostingStartup and using the following two environment variables we could load the agent into an ASP.NET Core app without any code change or even recompilation:
DOTNET_ADDITIONAL_DEPSASPNETCORE_HOSTINGSTARTUPASSEMBLIES
I blogged about this feature here.
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Another question about this in discuss: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/instrument-any-net-core-application/207680
As discussed on discuss, in order to support ASP.NET Core 2.1 we’ll probably need
IHostingStartup.Implemented in #828.