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loadClientConfig(httpClient: HttpClient): Promise<any> {

    {
      provide: APP_INITIALIZER,
      useFactory: (config: AppConfigService, httpClient: HttpClient) => () => config.loadClientConfig(httpClient),
      deps: [AppConfigService, HttpClient],
      multi: true
    },

One of my favorite aspects of ASP.NET Core is that it is truly cross platform. And this extends to the developer experience as well. This videos discusses and demonstrates getting started with testing ASP.NET Core MVC applications using the cross-platform tools with the .NET Core SDK,  

 >npm install ng2-file-upload --save

 >ng g c UploadFile/ng2-file-upload-test

import { FileUploadModule } from "ng2-file-upload";

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    FileUploadModule
  ]

import { FileUploader, FileUploaderOptions } from "ng2-file-upload";
import { Ticket } from "./../ticket";

export class Ng2FileUploadTestComponent implements OnInit {
  fileUploader: FileUploader;
  model = new Ticket();

    this.fileUploader = new FileUploader(
      <FileUploaderOptions>{
        url: "api/SimpleUpload/SaveTicket",
        headers: [
          { name: "X-XSRF-TOKEN", value: this.getCookie("XSRF-TOKEN") },
          { name: "Accept", value: "application/json" }
        ],
        isHTML5: true,
        // allowedMimeType: ["image/jpeg", "image/png", "application/pdf", "application/msword", "application/zip"]
        allowedFileType: [
          "application",
          "image",
          "video",
          "audio",
          "pdf",
          "compress",
          "doc",
          "xls",
          "ppt"
        ],
        removeAfterUpload: true,
        autoUpload: false,
        maxFileSize: 10 * 1024 * 1024
      }
    );

  getCookie(name: string): string {
    const value = "; " + document.cookie;
    const parts = value.split("; " + name + "=");
    if (parts.length === 2) {
      return decodeURIComponent(parts.pop().split(";").shift());
    }
  }

    this.fileUploader.onBuildItemForm = (fileItem, form) => {
      for (const key in this.model) {
        if (this.model.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          form.append(key, this.model[key]);
        }
      }
    };

    this.fileUploader.onCompleteAll = () => {
      // clear the form
      // this.model = new Ticket();
    };

    this.fileUploader.onWhenAddingFileFailed = (item, filter, options) => {
      // msg: `You can't select ${item.name} file because of the ${filter.name} filter.`
    };

    this.fileUploader.onErrorItem = (fileItem, response, status, headers) => {
       //
    };

    this.fileUploader.onSuccessItem = (item, response, status, headers) => {
      if (response) {
        const ticket = JSON.parse(response);
        console.log(`ticket:`, ticket);
      }
    };

  submitForm(form: NgForm) {
    this.fileUploader.uploadAll();

    // NOTE: Upload multiple files in one request -> https://github.com/valor-software/ng2-file-upload/issues/671
  }

<div class="container">
  <h3>Support Form(ng2-file-upload)</h3>
  <form #form="ngForm" (submit)="submitForm(form)" novalidate>
    <div class="form-group" [class.has-error]="description.invalid && description.touched">
      <label class="control-label">Description</label>
      <input #description="ngModel" required type="text" class="form-control"
        name="description" [(ngModel)]="model.description">
      <div *ngIf="description.invalid && description.touched">
        <div class="alert alert-danger"  *ngIf="description.errors.required">
          description is required.
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
      <label class="control-label">Screenshot(s)</label>
      <input required type="file" multiple ng2FileSelect [uploader]="fileUploader"
        class="form-control" name="screenshot">
    </div>

    <div style="margin-bottom: 10px" *ngIf="fileUploader.queue.length">
      <h3>Upload queue</h3>
      <p>Queue length: {{ fileUploader?.queue?.length }}</p>
      <table class="table">
        <thead>
          <tr>
            <th width="50%">Name</th>
            <th>Size</th>
            <th>Progress</th>
            <th>Status</th>
            <th>Actions</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr *ngFor="let item of fileUploader.queue">
            <td><strong>{{ item?.file?.name }}</strong></td>
            <td nowrap>{{ item?.file?.size/1024/1024 | number:'.2' }} MB</td>
            <td>
              <div class="progress" style="margin-bottom: 0;">
                <div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar" [ngStyle]="{ 'width': item.progress + '%' }"></div>
              </div>
            </td>
            <td class="text-center">
              <span *ngIf="item.isError"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove"></i></span>
            </td>
            <td nowrap>
              <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger btn-xs" (click)="item.remove()">
                <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash"></span> Remove
              </button>
            </td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

      <div>
        <div>
          Queue progress:
          <div class="progress">
            <div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar" [ngStyle]="{ 'width': fileUploader.progress + '%' }"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger btn-s" (click)="fileUploader.clearQueue()"
          [disabled]="!fileUploader.queue.length">
          <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash"></span> Remove all
        </button>
      </div>
    </div>

              <div class="progress" style="margin-bottom: 0;">
                <div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar" [ngStyle]="{ 'width': item.progress + '%' }"></div>
              </div>

    <button class="btn btn-primary" [disabled]="form.invalid || !fileUploader.queue.length"
      type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>