more values in one section of app.config

[Patrick]

Hi

I want tu use an app.config like the example below. The problem is, that i
don't know how many Action-Tags there will be, because this can be changed
by the user. When using
System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("IncomingActions/action
") I can access the config file, but get only the values of the Last
Action-Tag.


Does someone know, how to implement that using the app.config file?

Thanks

Patrick





<configSections>

<sectionGroup name="IncomingActions">

<section name="action"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler" />

</sectionGroup>

</configSections>

<IncomingActions>

<action From="Value11" Message="value two1" Command="third value1"
Confirm="y" />

<action From="Value21" Message="value two2" Command="third value2"
Confirm="y" />

<action From="Value31" Message="value two3" Command="third value3"
Confirm="y" />

<action From="Value41" Message="value two4" Command="third value4"
Confirm="y" />

</IncomingActions>

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi Patrick,

I would suggest you put those config settings in another XML file, so you
can parse it and create a collection ( or maybe a Hashtable ) to contain
them.
You can create a class Config with a static constructor ( to be sure it will
be called before you use this class ) from where you load/parse the config.

Then you can have properties ( I suggest static too ) that you have access
to the settings.


Hope this help,

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Patrick,
In addition to Ignacio's suggestion of creating "another XML" file.

You can actually do this with a single XML file the app.config itself.

The trick is, instead of defining IncomingActions as a sectionGroup with a
nested SingleTagSectinoHandler. You define IncomingActions as a custom
Configuration Section Handler. You do this by implementing the
System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler interface, then using the
XML dom parse the XML Node.

I would have the IncomingActions handler return a collection of Action
objects.

I do not have a link to a handy sample right now. If you need one post and I
will try to find the links to the two or three I found earlier.

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Serge Calderara]

Hi

Instead of defining you section type as :
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler


use the following :
type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler

Then use the getCongig function that return a
NameValueColection an all value will be then retrive from
the section.

U can then browse the desired item of the collection and
process accordingly.

That works really fine, I am doing it like that for my app
config file whcih have different section group

regards
serge

 

[Patrick]

so there is no way to make this with the usual config stuff.... for the
other i have already my own xml-config reader, for complexer settings, but
okay, thanks for that hint