How can I share Configuration Settings across multiple projects in Visual Studio?
- by Muneeb
Ok I know this may be a design issue, so I would love to have remarks on that as well.
I have a Visual Studio web application solution. I have three projects as UserInterface, BusinessLogic and DataAccess.
I had to store some user defined settings and I created configSections in the config file.
I access these configSections through classes which inherit from .NET's ConfigurationSection base class.
So in short for every project I had a separate configSection and for that corresponding configSection I had a class in that project inheriting from ConfigurationSection to access the config section settings.
This works all sweet. But the problem arises if there is any setting which I need to use across multiple projects. So If I need to use a setting defined in UserInterface project configSection in, let say, BusinessLogic project I have to actually make a copy of that setting in the BusinessLogic's configSection. This ends up having the same setting copied across multiple configSections.
Isn't this a bit too redundant?
