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Ashish Gupta
Ashish Gupta

Reputation: 15139

ASP.NET - Have settings in the Web.config (and access them using ConfigurationSection) or in a separate XML file

I have few settings which I could place in a separate XML file and have them accessed in the Web app. Then I thought (thinking of one additional file to deploy), why not have them in the web.config itself. However, just because I need to have custom nodes, I can not have the settings under . So, I am thinking of creating a custom config handler following this. Would that be better than having a separate XML file? Is It going to be an overkill or performance wise? Is there a better way to go?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 132

Answers (1)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038760

From performance standpoint putting custom settings in web.config and creating a configuration handler will be OK because the config values are cached and read only once when the application starts. Putting the values in a separate XML file you will need to handle the caching your self if you want to avoid parsing it every time you need to access those values.

Upvotes: 4

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