MS Enterprise Library Configuration Application Block removed from 4.1 stack ?

Question

Not sure why the config app block is removed from the latest stack.

Is there a preferred configuration framework out there? I am looking forward to a solution to read/write xml configuration information from C#.

Edit#1 : Is it true that this functionality is now moved to System.Configuration ? Can we use this to read\write on a custom xml file ( other that web.config or app.config file)

Edit#2 : Can we use System.Configuration to read/write configuration data in custom config file ( i.e not the application config file or web.config file) ?

Answer 1

Is it true that this functionality is now moved to System.Configuration?

Yes, Configuration Application Block from era of .NET 1.1 was moved into System.Configuration as is part of framework from 2.0 version.

Answer 2

I guess it is back in Ent Lib 5.1, with more features: http://vaideeswaranr.blogspot.com/2010/08/enterprise-library-50-configuration.html