how to include in web.config an external mydll.config file and read its values?
- by firepol
Hi,
I found this answer about external configuration files. I'm trying to do a similar thing. I have a small webapplication called StatsGen I want to include in other projects, and for convenience I'd like to have the settings inside the bin folder, in a config file with an appropriate name, in my case: StatsGen.config. So I've put these line in the web.config (as explained in the answer I mentioned above):
<configSections>
<section name="StatsGenSettings" restartOnExternalChanges="true" type="System.Configuration.NameValueFileSectionHandler" />
<!--sectionGroups-->
</configSections>
<StatsGenSettings configSource="StatsGen.config"></StatsGenSettings>
<!--and here comes the rest... appSettings etc.-->
Inside the bin folder, I created a StatsGen.xml file, then renamed it to StatsGen.config. It looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<StatsGenSettings>
<add key="Password" value="myStatsPass" />
<add key="ConnectionString" value="Server=mydbsrv;Database=myDB;User ID=myUser;Password=myPass" />
</StatsGenSettings>
I created an Helper class, as suggested in the answer.
In the Page_Load of my default.aspx.cs file, I've put: goodPassword = StatsGenSettings.Instance["Password"];
When I load my page, I get this error:
The type initializer for
'StatsGen.Helpers.StatsGenSettings'
threw an exception.
I've tried to exlude the helper and just to get access to the key, like this:
NameValueCollection _settings = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("StatsGenSettings") as NameValueCollection;
And I get this error:
Unable to open configSource file
'StatsGen.config'.
(C:\Users\pbo\Documents\Visual Studio
2010\Projects\StatsGen\StatsGen\web.config
line 21)
At line 21 I just have this, as explained above:
<StatsGenSettings configSource="StatsGen.config"></StatsGenSettings>
So now I'm wondering, what's wrong? Some detailed help would be cool... like: where exactly should I declare the StatsGenSettings element inside the web.config? It was not specified in the answer I've found... or what else am I doing wrong?
Thanks for letting me know...
