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Raj
Raj

Reputation: 361

Create custom section in config file

I am trying to create custom section in app.config file 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="BlogSettings" type="ConsoleApplication1.BlogSettings,   
      ConsoleApplication1" />
  </configSections>
  <BlogSettings
    Price="10"
    title="BLACKswastik" />
</configuration>

C# code :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Configuration;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string title = BlogSettings.Settings.Title;

            Console.WriteLine(title);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }

    public class BlogSettings : ConfigurationSection
    {
        private static BlogSettings settings
          = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("BlogSettings") as BlogSettings;

        public static BlogSettings Settings
        {
            get
            {
                return settings;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Price"
          , DefaultValue = 20
          , IsRequired = false)]
        [IntegerValidator(MinValue = 1
          , MaxValue = 100)]
        public int Price
        {
            get { return (int)this["Price"]; }
            set { this["Price"] = value; }
        }


        [ConfigurationProperty("title"
          , IsRequired = true)]
        [StringValidator(InvalidCharacters = "  ~!@#$%^&*()[]{}/;’\"|\\"
          , MinLength = 1
          , MaxLength = 256)]
        public string Title
        {
            get { return (string)this["title"]; }
            set { this["title"] = value; }
        }
    }
}

but when I run this code I am getting this error:

The type initializer for 'ConsoleApplication1.BlogSettings' threw an exception.

Please suggest me whats wrong I am doing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2329

Answers (2)

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 754468

You should check out Jon Rista's three-part series on .NET 2.0 configuration up on CodeProject.

Highly recommended, well written and extremely helpful! This will give you a thorough understanding of the .NET configuration system.

Phil Haack also has a great blog post Three easy steps to a custom configuration section that will give you a quick head-start into building your own custom config sections.

To design your own custom section, there's also a handy tool (Visual Studio add-in) called Configuration Section Designer that will make it very easy and simple to create your own custom section and have it build up all the necessary code to handle that custom section.

Upvotes: 3

Hardrada
Hardrada

Reputation: 728

move this out of the config section

 <BlogSettings
    Price="10"
    title="BLACKswastik" />

You made a new config reference so it can be its own node now.

Upvotes: 0

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