dll not reading .config ?

[Søren M. Olesen]

Hi

I've created a Class library (myClasses.dll) , and added a settings.settin gs
to it using designer.

However when I use this class library, it doesn't seem to read the settings
myClasses.dll.c onfig file, instead I just get then initial values I used
when creating the settings.settin gs section.

What do I have to do to get the classlibrary to read the associated .config
file???

TIA

Søren

[Phill W.]

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However when I use this class library, it doesn't seem to read the
settings myClasses.dll.c onfig file, instead I just get then initial values
I used when creating the settings.settin gs section.

I've only ever seen these values read from an Application.EXE .config
which, annoyingly, means you have to ship these settings in every
application that uses your library.

Or, in a web application, (I think) these settings are read from the
web.config file.

HTH,
Phill W.

[Brian Gideon]

Phill,

I don't really see that as a problem in most situations. When you add
a reference to the assembly you should also add the appropriate
settings to the app.config at that time. In other words, you add them
at compile and not deployment time. Furthermore, even if the
configuration infrastructure supported the *.dll.config method you'd
still have to deploy that file to every machine, but now you have more
than one file to keep track of.

Brian

Phill W. wrote:

I've only ever seen these values read from an Application.EXE .config
which, annoyingly, means you have to ship these settings in every
application that uses your library.

Or, in a web application, (I think) these settings are read from the
web.config file.

HTH,
Phill W.

[Claes Bergefall]

I just recently needed this functionality so here's the class I made to
accomplish it:

Imports System.Collecti ons.Specialized
Imports System.Reflecti on.Assembly

Public Class AssemblyConfigu rationSettings
Public Shared ReadOnly Property AppSettings() As NameValueCollec tion
Get
Dim filename As String = GetCallingAssem bly.Location & ".config"
Dim settings As New NameValueCollec tion
If Not System.IO.File. Exists(filename ) Then
Return settings
End If

Try
Dim reader As New System.Xml.XmlT extReader(filen ame)
Dim doc As New System.Xml.XmlD ocument
doc.Load(reader )

Dim configurationNo de As System.Xml.XmlN ode =
doc.SelectSingl eNode("configur ation")
If configurationNo de Is Nothing Then
Return settings
End If

Dim appSettingsNode As System.Xml.XmlN ode =
configurationNo de.SelectSingle Node("appSettin gs")
If appSettingsNode Is Nothing Then
Return settings
End If

Dim nodes As System.Xml.XmlN odeList =
appSettingsNode .SelectNodes("a dd")
For Each node As System.Xml.XmlN ode In nodes
settings.Add(no de.Attributes(" key").Value,
node.Attributes ("value").Value )
Next
Catch ex As System.Xml.XmlE xception
End Try

Return settings
End Get
End Property
End Class

/claes

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"Søren M. Olesen" <sm******@hotma il.com> wrote in message
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However when I use this class library, it doesn't seem to read the
settings myClasses.dll.c onfig file, instead I just get then initial
values I used when creating the settings.settin gs section.

I've only ever seen these values read from an Application.EXE .config
which, annoyingly, means you have to ship these settings in every
application that uses your library.

Or, in a web application, (I think) these settings are read from the
web.config file.

HTH,
Phill W.