Access to a web.config from another project

[skneife]

I have a Solution that contains a website and its web.config and
another project named testWebSite.
I need to access to the web.*config located in the website project
from testWebSite like this:
string dbCs =
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["myConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
This code failed and generates an exception because (it seems) that
the web.config is available only in the folder where it is.

So what is the solution for Access to a web.config from another
project ?

Sam

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extract the setting u need to access to separate config file and refer to
this file from both web.configs

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"sk*****@gmail.com" wrote:

I have a Solution that contains a website and its web.config and
another project named testWebSite.
I need to access to the web.*config located in the website project
from testWebSite like this:
string dbCs =
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["myConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
This code failed and generates an exception because (it seems) that
the web.config is available only in the folder where it is.

So what is the solution for Access to a web.config from another
project ?

Sam

[skneife]

I need to add some precision:
The second project is not a webSite but a Library (dll) for testing).

Sam

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In that case you'd do the following 3 lines:

string pathToConfigFile = "c:\mydllprojectfolder\mydll.config";

system.configuration.configuration oConfig =
system.configuration.configurationManager.OpenExeC onfiguration(pathToConfigFile) as system.configuration.configuration;

string dbCs =
oConfig.connectionStrings.connectionStrings.item["myConnectionString"].connectionString;

Again I'd like to urge you to reconsider the reason you're having to do
this. If you're doing this to get a dev database connection string or other
dev environment information you're doing too much work for something that
could be done within the website's config file in much less effort.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks,

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Mohamad Elarabi
Lead Developer. MCTS, MCPD.
"sk*****@gmail.com" wrote:

I need to add some precision:
The second project is not a webSite but a Library (dll) for testing).

Sam