ImageTagHelper in .NET Core–add data URI scheme

The ImageTagHelper in ASP.NET Core MVC (https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc) is lacking one attribute that I find somehow useful: a data uri to embed the image as base64 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme )

I was curious about how fast it will be to make such a modification on my PC.

So the process was:

1. Downloading branch rel/1.1.1 from https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc as a zip file
2. Unlock the file, unpack, run  MVC.sln with VS2015
3. Compile the entire project.
4. See tests  ( also run dotnet test in the Mvc-rel-1.1.1\test\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers.Test to figure what was missing)
5. Started modifying the file ImageTagHelper( adding
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   1	public bool RenderBase64

   and creating FileBase64ContentProvider.cs with the (approximately) same content as FileVersionProvider

6. Adding tests to  mvc-rel-1.1.1\test\microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.taghelpers.test\imagetaghelpertest.cs  ( also modifying mocker –
   for my purposes, to read the file, I need file length
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   mockFile                 .Setup(m => m.CreateReadStream())                                .Returns(() => new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello World!"))); mockFile.SetupGet(f => f.Length).Returns(12);

7. Modifying HtmlTargetElement attribute from ImageTagHelper
8. Adding “Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles”: “1.1.0”, and app.UseStaticFiles();  to HtmlGenerationWebSite and going to http://localhost:5551/HtmlGeneration_Home/image

And that was all. Now I will see how to fork and submit changes

Later Edit: Submit a bug, fork, pull request. Approved.
https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc/issues/5694