Complex app.config setting

[wuji]

Hi !

I understand that dotNet offers app.config to store application
configuration as below:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="MySettingValue1" />
<add key="MySettingKey2" value="MySettingValue2" />
</appSetting>
</configuration>

But this type of configuration is too flat. I want to have something
like this:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="MySettingValue1" />
<subElement1>A</subElement1>
<subElement2>B</subElement2>
</add>
</appSetting>
</configuration>

How could this read this using ConfigurationSetting class ?

Thanks

Bob

[Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP]

Create as key value pairs and parse. Under 2.0 you have other options, but
today it is done like so:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="key=X;Sub1=Y;Sub2=Z" />
</appSetting>
</configuration>

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"wuji" wrote:

Hi !

I understand that dotNet offers app.config to store application
configuration as below:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="MySettingValue1" />
<add key="MySettingKey2" value="MySettingValue2" />
</appSetting>
</configuration>

But this type of configuration is too flat. I want to have something
like this:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="MySettingValue1" />
<subElement1>A</subElement1>
<subElement2>B</subElement2>
</add>
</appSetting>
</configuration>

How could this read this using ConfigurationSetting class ?

Thanks

Bob

[Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP]

Create as key value pairs and parse. Under 2.0 you have other options, but
today it is done like so:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="key=X;Sub1=Y;Sub2=Z" />
</appSetting>
</configuration>

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

***************************
Think Outside the Box!
***************************
"wuji" wrote:

Hi !

I understand that dotNet offers app.config to store application
configuration as below:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="MySettingValue1" />
<add key="MySettingKey2" value="MySettingValue2" />
</appSetting>
</configuration>

But this type of configuration is too flat. I want to have something
like this:

<configuration>
<appSetting>
<add key="MySettingKey1" value="MySettingValue1" />
<subElement1>A</subElement1>
<subElement2>B</subElement2>
</add>
</appSetting>
</configuration>

How could this read this using ConfigurationSetting class ?

Thanks

Bob

[Chris Dunaway]

As an alternative, what I have done is to create a class that models my
settings structure and then just serialize and deserialize the class to
an xml file.

[Chris Dunaway]

As an alternative, what I have done is to create a class that models my
settings structure and then just serialize and deserialize the class to
an xml file.

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

"Chris Dunaway" <du******@gmail.com> wrote in news:1119045470.454569.12900
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

As an alternative, what I have done is to create a class that models my
settings structure and then just serialize and deserialize the class to
an xml file.

You may find this even easier:
http://tinyurl.com/97nzb
--
Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/
"Programming is an art form that fights back"

Make your ASP.NET applications run faster
http://www.atozed.com/IntraWeb/

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

"Chris Dunaway" <du******@gmail.com> wrote in news:1119045470.454569.12900
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

As an alternative, what I have done is to create a class that models my
settings structure and then just serialize and deserialize the class to
an xml file.

You may find this even easier:
http://tinyurl.com/97nzb
--
Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/
"Programming is an art form that fights back"

Make your ASP.NET applications run faster
http://www.atozed.com/IntraWeb/