Some questions on configsections

[Andrea Moro]

In web.config file I do as follow:

<configsections>
<sectiongroup name="Database">
<section name="Access" type="....


Ok problem is there in type. According to the help is only needed
the class' name of the class that will access to the section, and class
must inherits from IconfigurationSectionHandler
So I specified System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler and anything
else.

Run and got error. I take a look to a sample app that use the same
mechanisms, and I see that after type is specified this

"System, Version=1.0.3300.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=....."

I copied and pasted this part, and app works.

Someone could help me to understand what that mean?

Thank y
Andrea

 

[Karl Seguin]

Andrea:
Because the class NameValueSectionHandler which you specified is located in
the GAC (global assembly cache) you must provide the fully quantified
assembly name....it's just one of those rules It actually makes a lot of
sence, since you might have the same class but different versions in the
GAC...

Unlike the /bin which is local to your project, the GAC is global to all
applications.

Hope this sheds some light.

Karl