Is AppSettings cached

[Thomas]

Hi,

Is AppSettings cached? And is the cache updated when web.config changes?

- Thomas

 

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

If I remember correctly, appsettings is read each time you request it and it
aint cached - so you have to add it to the cache if you want to have it
cached.

As such it wont be updated when the config changes - but your application
will restart and flush the cache anyway. You will need to work out when to
readd it to the cache.

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[Rick Strahl [MVP]]

AppSettings is always up to date - if web.config is changed the entire app
restarts...

I'm not sure if AppSettings is cached. I'd be surprised if it wasn't...

But, FWIW, it's a good idea to build a wrapper around AppSettings anyway for
a number of reasons. First to get a properly typed interface to your
configuration values and second to deal with generic error handling if the
value is not there...


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