How to read connection string info from app.config file using .net api? Platform is .net 3.5 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <connectionStrings> <add connectionString="" providerName="" name=""/> </connectionStrings> </configuration> ...
I have a console application which gets the connectionstring as a parameter. I would have to set a ConnectionString in app.config with name 'ConnectionString' and the given parameter as the sql connectionstring. Thx to answers. With help of the links I got to this: var config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(Configurati...
After application start up ,if i change some value in app.config ,is it reflected in cache object through which i access appconfig properties. string currentValue = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[currentKey]; If it is not so what is possible way to do so? ...
Is it possible to relocate the whole App.Config file to a custom path? It seems a bit odd that the config file resides in the same folder as the exe, with Windows' new approcah of saving all program settings in c:\ProgramData and all. An additional requirement we have is to programatically specify where to find the app.config file. The...
What's the best way to allow team members to customize their own app.config, but keep an authoritative version in version control? Is it best to exclude all *.config files from source control, and use an app.config.template file in version control? ...
Could anybody supply a sample code, showing how to integrate the app.config file with an application written in VB.NET. Specifically I need to extract database connect strings from the app.config file. ...
Hi all, I'm using Apple iPhone Configuration Utility to configure in-company mobile phones. I'd like to add to home screen an icon for a in-house web application we have developed. Using the Web Clip section, it's easy to add the webclip to home screen, however, and here are the main issues: - The webclip doesn't show up the png icon d...
Is there a way to set the location of the properties file withough specifying a JVM param such as -Djava.util.logging.config.file=log.properties ? ...
I have a WPF application using service references to a WCF service. When doing updates on the service I need to update the service reference, so I right click it and hit "Update Service Reference". Doing this results in duplicate entries in the App.config file of the client project. It duplicates a binding under wsHttpBinding - addi...
I've written a custom MSBuild task to generate model code from MSSQL stored procedures. I want to use the same configuration for my task to connect to the database as the application does. I've created a config section that looks like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections> <section name="Core...
I've put mail settings in app.config and can successfully pull them into a mailSettingsSectionGroup object. However, I'm not sure how to send a message using these settings. This is what I have so far: System.Configuration.Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None); MailSettingsS...
I am using an app.config file to store the dynamic parameters of my application. The problem is, when I change a value in app.config file, and start the application, it doesn't load the new value from config file. Seems like the values in app.config file are being read and embedded in exe file only at compile time! This is how I read t...
In a C# solution, I have multiple class libraries for the domain model, services, and repositories. I configured Unity in web.config of the main website project so that it knows what concrete objects to map to the services and repositories. For quick testing, though, I'd like to use PowerShell to load the assemblies and manipulate classe...
Is there a way to override a ConnectionString in an app.config. Our buildsystem runs also on a server of a customer, but there the connectionString needs to be different. Because the app.config is in svn, everytime I change something in the app.config and commit it, I need to go to the server of the customer to change the connectionStrin...
If I run the Custom Tool on the tt templates with a linked app.config (from another project), then I get this error: Error 208 Running transformation: System.ArgumentException: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0. at System.Data.Common.DbConnectionOptions.GetKeyValueP...
An advantage of an IoC container is that you can swap in a mock service at the bottom of your object graph. However this seems much harder to do in Spring.Net than in other IoC Containers. Here's some code that does it in Unity and has Spring.Net code; namespace IocSpringDemo { using Microsoft.Practices.Unity; using NUnit.Framew...
I'm trying to work on a Rails site here in it's development environment, where I want to test email delivery, and I can't work out why properties declared in the main environment.rb aren't being overwritten by the more specific development.rb file that I presume would be loaded when booting a rails app. My understanding here is that val...
I have a C# class library A which has some configuration settings in its App.config I access them with Method1() { string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConnectionString"]; } But when I call Method 1() from my ASP Web project B, it cannot find the configurations settings in the Class library A Any idea what is ...
How to load application settings to NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration object by using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager from App.config? ...
I'm writing a test winforms / C# / .NET 3.5 application for the system we're developing and we fell in the need to switch between .config files at runtime, but this is turning out to be a nightmare. Here's the scene: the Winforms application is aimed at testing a WebApp, divided into 5 subsystems. The test proccess works with messages b...