Consider changing WebApplication* to WebHost*

[davidfowl]

We have IWebApplicationBuilder, WebApplicationBuilder, IWebApplication, and IApplicationBuilder.

IApplicationBuilder looks related to IWebApplicationBuilder but they are not.

Today:

var app = new WebApplicationBuilder()
                        .UseServer("Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel")
                        .UseUrls("http://localhost:5001")
                        .UseStartup<Startup>()
                        .Build();

app.Run();

Potentially changed to:

var host = new WebHostBuilder()
                        .UseServer("Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel")
                        .UseUrls("http://localhost:5001")
                        .UseStartup<Startup>()
                        .Build();

host.Run();

IWebHostBuilder builds the IWebHost

/cc @lodejard @Tratcher @JunTaoLuo @DamianEdwards Thoughts? I'm not 100% on the naming though and I also don't think this matters that much but think about it a little 😄

This is the hosting repository and we are hosting ASP.NET so it sorta makes sense.

[Tratcher]

I do agree there's ambiguity between IWebApplicationBuilder and IApplicationBuilder.

[davidfowl]

Shall we go with host instead of application then?

[Tratcher]

You're with @DamianEdwards right? Did he have anything to say on the subject?

I think host is fine, but I don't envy @JunTaoLuo having to touch all the repos again.

[davidfowl]

Yes, we spoke about this today and concluded that it looks like WebApplication was wrong.

[mikes-gh]

Would that mean also changing WebApplicationConfiguration to WebHostConfiguration?

Personally I prefer WebHosting prefix but WebHost is also fine.

[davidfowl]

@mikes-gh yes re: WebHostConfiguration

[mikes-gh]

@davidfowl

WebHostBuilder
WebHostConfiguration

vs

WebHostingBuilder
WebHostingConfiguration

The later seems slightly more abstracted to me

[davidfowl]

I dunno what you mean by more abstracted. I prefer:

I prefer a WebHostBuilder that builds a WebHost using WebHostConfiguration

[mikes-gh]

WebHost is fine.

[davidfowl]

PS: @JunTaoLuo I'm sorry dude, that's a lot of repos to update 😞

[mikes-gh]

WebHostConfiguration would read hosting.json seems a mismatch
WebHostingConfiguration would seem a more logically. match..

[davidfowl]

But we're going to call it WebHostConfiguration so it matches the other names. We're splitting hairs and naming is hard but that's what we're calling it.