configurationelement

.NET base type cannot be serialized by WCF

I'm writing a WCF service and want to expose some custom configuration elements (e.g. Custom ConfigurationSection and ConnectionStringSettings) so that I can modify the service's configuration. One of my custom configuration elements inherits from System.Configuration.ConfigurationElementCollection. When I try to start my WCF service I g...

Custom Configuration, ConfigurationElements, and ConfigurationProperties

I've been scouring the net for the last 3 days, and can't find any reference to this question. I've created a custom configuration class to be used with my app.config. Everything works fine. The problem comes in when a configuration property (of a configuration element) is not required, and is not defined in the app.config. It seems t...

DateTime property in a ConfigurationElement

I'm wanting to put a DateTime in to the config file, however, I want the DateTime expressed in a specific way. I've seen examples of using a DateTime in a ConfigurationElement (like the example below). The examples I've seen all have the date expressed in American format. I want to ensure that date is understandable by all regardless of ...

Unable to read in my custom .config section

Hi folks, NOTE: this is very very similar to this SO question, but I need some more help. i'm trying to make the following section in my .config file, but i get an exception when trying to access this section. .config file <configSections> <section name="foos" type="Ackbar.Mvc.Models.Foo.FooCollection, Ackbar.Mvc" requirePermissi...

Loading a ConfigurationSection with a required child ConfigurationElement with .Net configuration framework

I have a console application that is trying to load a CustomConfigurationSection from a web.config file. The custom configuration section has a custom configuration element that is required. This means that when I load the config section, I expect to see an exception if that config element is not present in the config. The problem is t...

Getting config element from ConfigurationElementCollection

I have (hopefully) setup ConfigurationElementCollection of my own design with emails as keys. Now what? Hard to find actually on the web. How do I: iterate through it? See if a specific element exists? get a specific element? ...given: YourConfigElement config = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("YourSectionName") as YourConfi...