Need the equivalent of HttpContext.IsDebuggingEnabled

[davidfowl]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpcontext.isdebuggingenabled(v=vs.110).aspx

We used to have this in katana with the "host.AppMode" key in the environment dictionary. The default implementation in PipelineCore might map to the environment name "development" in https://github.com/aspnet/Hosting/blob/63f643e0c1d9be3485300a297a74b13c8ed8299e/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting/HostingContext.cs#L34.

/cc @lodejard and @Tratcher for comments

[lodejard]

How about adding string HttpContext.ApplicationEnvironment {get;} and three bool HttpContext.IsProduction {get;}, IsStaging, and IsDevelopment booleans as a convenience for the well-known environment names

[davidfowl]

Like

[Tratcher]

Days like this I wish we had extension properties... Can we get those?

[muratg]

Will aspnet/Hosting#100 solve this?

[davidfowl]

Closing this out

[imranbaloch]

@davidfowl The env.IsEnvironment("Development") returns true whether we select Debug or Release mode from VS. Is it not good to change the environment variable value if we select different configuration? The problem is that devs are used to select Release config in order to test how the application will work in production mode.