In this post, I demonstrate starting and stopping hosted services concurrently in .NET 8 using newly available HostOptions.

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Hosting library coming in.NET 8 (available since preview 4) affecting hosted services. The hosting library for.NET provides the capability to start a long-running console application. In the case of ASP.NET Core, the application starts the Kestrel webserver and runs until the process is shut down.

Concurrent Hosted Service Start and Stop in .NET 8