Sharing Config settings between Web App and Console App

Question

I'd like to share my VS2010 3.5 Web Apps settings with my Console App's (2 projects in the same solution).

eg connection string, smtp, log4net settings

This looked close:

http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2008/04/15/how-to-share-configuration-files-between-projects.aspx

Answer 1

The big difference is step 1 (save your special settings in external .config files)

1. Put your shared .config into external files (attribute on element: configSource="mySpecialConfig.config")
2. Add the files in a common folder in your solution
3. Add the files as linked items to each project