Reading config file other than web.config

[M Irfan]

Hello all,

Recently I have started working in .NET 2.0. I am developing a web
service application that references a DLL component written in C# 2.0.
The component has its own config file which contains settings related
to business logic coded in that component. I can reference and load
the component but unable to read load the custom config file of that
component. I know that the same thing is possible if my host
application is any Exe application and using
"ExeConfigurationFileMap", "OpenMappedExeConfiguration" I can read
configuration file other than app.config but the same is not possible
if I use "WebConfigurationFileMap" and "OpenMappedWebConfiguration".
Using both these we can only define the mappings b/w virtual and
physical directories but can't read config file other than
web.config.

string dummyVirtualPath = "/test_web_2005";
string physicalPath = @"C:\Inetpub\wwwroot
\test_web_2005\Bin";
string configFileName =
System.IO.Path.GetFileName(assembly.CodeBase) + ".config";
WebConfigurationFileMap map = new WebConfigurationFileMap();
map.VirtualDirectories.Add(dummyVirtualPath, new
VirtualDirectoryMapping(physicalPath, true));
Configuration config =
WebConfigurationManager.OpenMappedWebConfiguration(map,
dummyVirtualPath);

Is there any other idea to implement the same. Thanks in advance.

Regards
Irfan

 

[Guest]

I'd consider migrating the settings in the component's config file into your
web.config, from which the componext can gain access to its settings. Any
class library that is referenced in an ASP.NET web application has access to
the settings in the main web.config settings file. All it needs is a
reference to System.Configuration.
Peter