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Kevin Driedger
Kevin Driedger

Reputation: 54202

How do I retrieve AppSettings from the assembly config file?

I would like to retrieve the AppSetting key from the assembly config file called: MyAssembly.dll.config. Here's a sample of the config file:

<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="MyKey" value="MyVal"/>
    </appSettings>
</configuration>

Here's the code to retrieve it:

var myKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MyKey"];

Upvotes: 18

Views: 21677

Answers (5)

David
David

Reputation: 31

Using System.Configuration
Public Shared Function AppDomainConfiguration() As Configuration
  Dim fileMap As New ExeConfigurationFileMap
  fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ConfigurationFile
  Return ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap,Configuration.ConfigurationUserLevel.None)
End Function

Upvotes: -1

Fx Mzt
Fx Mzt

Reputation: 401

var appSettings = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration((Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(MYASSEMBLY))).Location).AppSettings;

then you can do as above.

Upvotes: 7

Kevin Driedger
Kevin Driedger

Reputation: 54202

var uri = new Uri(Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase));
var fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap { ExeConfigFilename = Path.Combine(uri.LocalPath, "MyAssembly.dll.config") };
var assemblyConfig = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

Upvotes: 0

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 754518

Using the OpenMappedExeConfiguration gives you back a "Configuration" object which you can use to peek into the class library's config (and the settings that exist there will override the ones by the same name in the main app's config):

ExeConfigurationFileMap map = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
map.ExeConfigFilename = "ConfigLibrary.config";

Configuration libConfig = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(map, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

AppSettingsSection section = (libConfig.GetSection("appSettings") as AppSettingsSection);
value = section.Settings["Test"].Value;

But those settings that are unique to the main app's config and do not exist in the class library's own config are still accessible via the ConfigurationManager static class:

string serial = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Serial"];

That still works - the class library's config only hides those settings that are inside its config file; plus you need to use the "libConfig instance to get access to the class library's own config settings, too .

The two worlds (main app.config, classlibrary.config) can totally and very happily co-exist - not a problem there at all!

Marc

Upvotes: 23

Chuck Conway
Chuck Conway

Reputation: 16435

You can also open it up as an XmlDocument and navigate the document with Xpath. THen there is always LinqToXml

Upvotes: 0

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