ConfigurationBinder provides ability for model to receive the IConfiguration.

[czema]

Regarding ConfigurationBinder.cs, it would be nice if the IConfiguration object was provided to the model. Then we would be able to access data even if we didn't add a property for it. I propose, if the model has a IConfiguration property named "Configuration", then it's setter is invoked. The following would go after line 173 and line 198.

addMethod.Invoke(collection, new[] { item });

// If the model has a property named Configuration of type IConfiguration, pass the current configuration focus to the model.
var configProp = itemType.GetTypeInfo().GetDeclaredProperty("Configuration");
if (configProp != null && configProp.SetMethod != null && configProp.PropertyType == typeof(Microsoft.Framework.Configuration.IConfiguration)) {
    configProp.SetMethod.Invoke(item, new object[] { configurationSection.Value });
}

[divega]

@czema it would be interesting to know why you would want to do this and it doesn't seem to be a top priority given everything else that we need to do to ship, but we are not completely against it so we would consider a PR.

One detail to consider if you are planning to send a PR is that to be much more more consistent with how ConfigurationBinder works for other types,a property called "A" of type IConfiguration it should bind to configuration.GetSection("A"). Not sure if a property called "Configuration" should then be special cased as it is possible to have a section called "Configuration".

[HaoK]

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