config-files

How to specify a collection in a custom configSection

I would like to have an xml config file as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections> <section name="plugins" type="MyApp.PluginsConfiguration, MyApp"/> </configSections> <plugins> <use assembly="MyApp.Plugin1.dll" /> <use assembly="MyApp.Plugin2.dll" /> </plugins> </configuration> H...

Config file format

Hello, does anyone knows a file format for configuration files easy to read by humans? I want to have something like tag = value where value may be: String Number(int or float) Boolean(true/false) Array(of String values, Number values, Boolean values) Another structure(it will be more clear what I mean in the fallowing example) Now I...

Which Language Uses '@' Encapsulated Variables

I'm trying to figure out how a rather large Java project works by stepping through it in the debugger on my Windows machine, but for it to get past its initialization routines all the values in multiple .properties files must be correct. Many of these .properties files include lines like: program.root=file://@program.root.dir@ It woul...