Getting config element from ConfigurationElementCollection

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Published on 2010-05-06T19:47:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 9:48 UTC
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I have (hopefully) setup ConfigurationElementCollection of my own design with emails as keys. Now what? Hard to find actually on the web. How do I:

iterate through it?
See if a specific element exists?
get a specific element?

...given:

    YourConfigElement config = 
   ConfigurationManager.GetSection("YourSectionName") as YourConfigElement ;

Partial answer

Does this work? no, sadly.

foreach (X x in config.XCollection.AsQueryable()) ...

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