C# .net MVC, set path to Google Application Credentials JSON file

c# json credentials
Steven Wang picture Steven Wang · Jun 4, 2016 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I've just got this Google Sample Project to work on my VS2015,

However, after I published to "IIS" and host it, when I opened the link, the web page kept showing this message as the picture showed

Error Picture

I added the key to the web.config, but still doesn't work, just wondering if anyone had done this before, I really need help, thank you!

Edit: Here is my code

Web.Config

  <appSettings>
<!-- Set to your Google project id as shown on the Google Developers Console -->
<add key="GoogleCloudSamples:ProjectId" value="gdtest-1332" />
<add key="GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS" value="D:\ProjectCloud\gdtest-12323.json" />
<!--
Set to either mysql or datastore.
If using mysql, update the connectionString far below, and then run Update-Database in the
Package Manager Console.
-->
<add key="GoogleCloudSamples:BookStore" value="datastore" />
<!-- Set to your Google Cloud Storage bucket -->
<add key="GoogleCloudSamples:BucketName" value="cloudstoragetestbillez" />
<add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" />
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />

Answer

Danielle Cerisier picture Danielle Cerisier · Feb 7, 2017

Programmatically set an environment variable at runtime as such:

string credential_path = @"C:\..\key.json";
System.Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", credential_path);

I'm not an expert with IIS but it won't seem to pick up on environment variable set in your desktop environment.

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