2.0 System.Configuration (.dll)

15 Aug 2006 3:54 PM

sloan

Can the new version of System.Configuration in 2.0 .. use config files
besides
app.config or web.config ?

Aka, is there an overload/constructor somewhere that takes a fileName ?

I've searched the documentation, but there are some many new classes in
there, I haven't found it.

...

Thanks.
..................

15 Aug 2006 4:57 PM

Michael Nemtsev

Hello sloan,

Nada, but why? config is just XML files, use System.Xml namespace to work
with them

s> Can the new version of System.Configuration in 2.0 .. use config
s> files
s> besides
s> app.config or web.config ?
s> Aka, is there an overload/constructor somewhere that takes a fileName
s> ?
s>
s> I've searched the documentation, but there are some many new classes
s> in there, I haven't found it.
s>
s> ..
s>
s> Thanks.
s> .................
---
WBR,
Michael Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not
cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche

15 Aug 2006 7:24 PM

sloan

Yeah, that's what I have going on now with some 1.1 code. (some custom code
to handle non default .config files)

I was figuring out whether or not that code needed to be brought forward in
2.0.....

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"Michael Nemtsev" <nemt***@msn.com> wrote in message
news:9cc1c863a74bc8c88ec48c9b0d57@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello sloan,
>
> Nada, but why? config is just XML files, use System.Xml namespace to work
> with them
>
> s> Can the new version of System.Configuration in 2.0 .. use config
> s> files
> s> besides
> s> app.config or web.config ?
> s> Aka, is there an overload/constructor somewhere that takes a fileName
> s> ?
> s>
> s> I've searched the documentation, but there are some many new classes
> s> in there, I haven't found it.
> s>
> s> ..
> s>
> s> Thanks.
> s> .................
> ---
> WBR,
> Michael Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour
>
> "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do
not
> cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>

17 Aug 2006 10:51 PM

Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]

sloan,
In both 1.x & 2.0 you can start a new AppDomain to get .NET to read config
files other then app.config or web.config. A bit "heavy handed" but it
works.

System.Configuration in 2.0 can use the configSource attribute on any
section in the app.config or web.config to allow putting that section in a
second (or third) config file.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.sectioninformation.configsource.aspx

Using ConfigurationManager in .NET 2.0 has an OpenExeConfiguration method
that allows you to open "alternate" config sections. (by executable name).

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms224437.aspx

I'm looking at using OpenExeConfiguration to allow "config" applets to
modify a windows service's app.config file... (currently being down via
System.Xml).

--
Hope this helps
Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]
..NET Application Architect, Enthusiast, & Evangelist
T.S. Bradley - http://www.tsbradley.net

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