Hello from a long time lurker, first time poster.
I am working on a C# app with a custom config section to save ftp account information. When I come out with a new revision, all the information saved in the previous release is gone.
I've tried using Properties.Settings.Default.Upgrade(), but that only updates usersettings and not custo...
I've recently wrote a rather large custom configuration group. I'm curious if it is possible to move this configuration to a separate file via the following:
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="MyCustomGroup">
<section name="MyCustomSection"/>
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<MyCustomGroup ...
The entry 'MyCustomElement' has already been added.
C:\Projects\Sandbox\Sandbox.Console\bin\Debug\Sandbox.Console.vshost.exe.config line 52
I'm a bit stumped on this one. This console app has had quite a few custom config sections added over the past few weeks with no issue. We've run the app for some time and just recently(within the...
This is regarding a web.config file
Here's the ConfigSection
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="HttpExceptionHandler">
<section name="errorLog" type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="errorMail" type="System.Configuration.S...
When creating my application's or library's configuration, I generally prefer using a custom configuration section over the <appSettings> section for the following reasons.
Framework serialization to a user-defined configuration object; each config value has an appropriate type
Configuration values may be validated against type and val...