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vish1990
vish1990

Reputation: 384

App config in Window Service

I have written a window service and it is taking input from an xml file.That file is placed in the folder of .exe itself.But i want that window service to take input from App.config. I read that App config name gets changed to service.exe.config and every whereit is mentined how can we acces connection string from that.Can someone tell me a way to get app setting from app config in window service.

I have a googled a lot but could do that. Current code is :

 protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {

         current_directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
        XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
        try
        {
            string Xml_Path = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
            xml.Load(current_directory + "\\Data.xml");//suppose that myXmlString contains "<Names>...</Names>"


            XmlNodeList xnList = xml.SelectNodes("/Names/Name");
            foreach (XmlNode xn in xnList)
            {
                strDir = xn["Directory"].InnerText;
                fileMask = xn["FileMask"].InnerText;
                strBatfile = xn["Batch"].InnerText;
                strlog = xn["Log"].InnerText;


            }
            //strDir = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Directory"];
            //fileMask = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FileMask"];
            //strBatfile = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Batch"];
            //strlog = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Log"];


            m_Watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();


            m_Watcher.Filter = fileMask;
            m_Watcher.Path = strDir + "\\";
            m_Watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastAccess | NotifyFilters.LastWrite
                             | NotifyFilters.FileName | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName;




            m_Watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnCreated);

            m_Watcher.Deleted += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnDeleated);
            m_Watcher.Renamed += new RenamedEventHandler(OnRenamed);


            m_Watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            CustomException.Write(CustomException.CreateExceptionString(exception.ToString()));
        }

    }

but something like. //strDir = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Directory"]; //fileMask = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FileMask"]; //strBatfile = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Batch"]; //strlog = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Log"]; is not working..Also the xml is not available while release mode. Can someone give me way to access app config to pass input param to Window service.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3653

Answers (1)

dotnetstep
dotnetstep

Reputation: 17485

If your window service application produces a WindowService1.exe then your configuration file App.config will get changed to WindowService1.exe.config.

Now to read from the config file you can use 

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["key"]

If you are not able to get ConfigurationManager then you have to add a reference to the System.Configuration assembly.

Upvotes: 1

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