How to get “Manage User Secrets” in a .NET Core console-application?

Question

When I create a new ASP .NET Core Web-Application, I can right-click the project in Visual Studio, and I see a context-menu entry called \"Manage User Secre

Answer 1

There is already an open closed issue related to this on GitHub.

What you can do until they solve it, is to use the command line approach as described on Visual Studio Code or Command Line: Installing the Secret Manager tool. This doesn't mean that you get your context menu item but it works nevertheless.

One note, the documentation is referring to while version 2.0.0 is already out and can be used.