Generics in custom configuration sections

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Published on 2010-05-05T00:07:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 0:48 UTC
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I tried making a custom configuration class that went on like this:

WatcherServiceInfoSection<TWatcherServiceDetailElement>

where TWatcherServiceDetailElement is a ConfigurationElement inside it.

Now when I call the type in the ConfigSections area of AppConfig I get the error:

An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for WatcherServiceInfo: 
Could not load type 'Library.Common.Utilities.ConfigurationHandler.WatcherServiceInfoSection<ASNDPService.Configuration.WatcherServiceDetailElement>' from assembly

Is what I'm doing possible? Can I have generic types in the type attribute for a custom section element?

EDIT

Additionally, how about ConfigurationElementCollection objects? Like in the above example, how could I do a

[ConfigurationProperty("WatcherServiceDetails", IsRequired = true, 
IsDefaultCollection = true)]
[ConfigurationCollection(typeof(TWatcherServiceDetailElement), AddItemName = "WatcherServiceDetail")]
public WatcherServiceDetailCollection<TWatcherServiceDetailElement> WatcherServiceDetails

I'm aware that type parameters aren't allowed for attributes and that's what I want to know how to do.

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