ASP.NET Core Default debugging launch URL

Question

When using the ASP.NET Core Web API template, the default debugging start up URL is somehow set to api/values. Where is this default configured and how do I change it?

Answer 1

There was very little documentation that I could find regarding where this start up URL was declared. There is a brief mention of it in this blog post on MSDN. I eventually stumbled upon it in the launchSettings.json file under the Properties node of the project as shown below:

Here are the contents of this file:

{   "profiles": {     "IIS Express": {       "commandName" : "IISExpress",       "launchBrowser": true,       "launchUrl": "api/values",       "environmentVariables" : {         "ASPNET_ENV": "Development"       }     }   } } 

You can change the launchURL to your desired default route.