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Thyrador
Thyrador

Reputation: 121

Separate sub sections in external configuration files

Is it possible to store sub sections of my web.config into external config files?

Currently i simply got this:

<configuration>
    <archiveConfiguration>
        <company>
            <archives>
                <archive name="DocumentPool" type="JU">
                    <parameter key="ConnectionString" value"......" />
                    <parameter key="ArchiveName" value="DocPool" />
                    ....
                </archive>
                <archive name="Bills" type="SU">
                    <parameter key="ConnectionString" value"......" />
                    <parameter key="ArchiveName" value="Bills" />
                    ....
                </archive>
            </archives>
        </company>
    </archiveConfiguration>
</configuration>

Is there any way to just extract the following to an external config file?

<archives>
    <archive name="DocumentPool" type="JU">
        <parameter key="ConnectionString" value"......" />
        <parameter key="ArchiveName" value="DocPool" />
        ....
    </archive>
    <archive name="Bills" type="SU">
        <parameter key="ConnectionString" value"......" />
        <parameter key="ArchiveName" value="Bills" />
        ....
    </archive>
</archives>

How to reference the external config file to web.config so that the application successfully reads the archives section? I tried adding configSource to archives by referencing to archives.config, but i was completely ignored by the web application. Is there something I am missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 103

Answers (1)

myroman
myroman

Reputation: 562

Custom subsections support attribute configSource, so you can extract them into an external config, by setting to a custom section an attribute configSource, in your case this 'section' is element. Put this in Web.config:

<archives configSource="archives.config" />

And in the archives.config you'll have

<archives>
<archive name="DocumentPool" type="JU">
    <parameter key="ConnectionString" value"......" />
    <parameter key="ArchiveName" value="DocPool" />
    ....
</archive>
<archive name="Bills" type="SU">
    <parameter key="ConnectionString" value"......" />
    <parameter key="ArchiveName" value="Bills" />
    ....
</archive>

I assume that you've already created a subclass of ConfigurationSection and then added a custom section handler to Web.config as in this tutorial.

Upvotes: 1

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