Can .NET load and parse a properties file equivalent to Java Properties class?
- by Tai Squared
Is there an easy way in C# to read a properties file that has each property on a separate line followed by an equals sign and the value, such as the following:
ServerName=prod-srv1
Port=8888
CustomProperty=Any value
In Java, the Properties class handles this parsing easily:
Properties myProperties=new Properties();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream (new File("CustomProps.properties"));
myProperties.load(fis);
System.out.println(myProperties.getProperty("ServerName"));
System.out.println(myProperties.getProperty("CustomProperty"));
I can easily load the file in C# and parse each line, but is there a built in way to easily get a property without having to parse out the key name and equals sign myself? The C# information I have found seems to always favor XML, but this is an existing file that I don't control and I would prefer to keep it in the existing format as it will require more time to get another team to change it to XML than parsing the existing file.
