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Frosty840
Frosty840

Reputation: 8335

Referencing My.Settings across projects?

I've been poking around in some projects written by one of our contractors, and he seems to be storing a lot of settings in the main "app.config" file for the application, using, for example:

<add key="SomeClass/SomeValue" value="False"/>

And then referencing the key value in the "SomeClass" class in "SomeProjectLibrary" using

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("SomeClass/SomeValue")

While this works, I guess, it also pretty much sucks. I was wondering if anyone knew of some more elegant way of creating variables in the "app.config" file, which could then be used across various applications within a Solution?

Hopefully I'm just missing something blindingly obvious.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 549

Answers (1)

Edwin de Koning
Edwin de Koning

Reputation: 14387

Well you could make a utility class that you will us for reading your config file. If you put this class in a separate project (say, a utilities project) then you could reference this project from all your other projects. For example:

Public NotInheritable Class ConfigReader
    Private Shared reader As New AppSettingsReader()

    Public Shared ReadOnly Property SomeValue() As String
        Get
            Return reader.GetValue("SomeClass/SomeValue", GetType(String)).ToString()
        End Get
    End Property

//etc..

Usage:

string someValue = ConfigReader.SomeValue

Upvotes: 1

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