Kestrel shutdown function in Startup.cs in ASP.NET Core

Question

Is there a shutdown function when using Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel? ASP.NET Core (formerly ASP.NET vNext) clearly has a Startup s

Answer 1

In addition to the original answer, I had an error while trying to wire the IApplicationLifetime within the constructor.

I solved this by doing:

public class Startup 
{
    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app) 
    {
        var applicationLifetime = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService();
        applicationLifetime.ApplicationStopping.Register(OnShutdown);
    }

    private void OnShutdown()
    {
         // Do your cleanup here
    }
}