Reading\writing to external app.config files

Question

I need to read the keys from several external applications .config files, is it possible to specify the file for AppSettingsReader?

Answer 1

I'm fairly sure that's not possible, but they're just XML files so it's fairly easy to do using the standard XML classes.

If you've not used the XML classes before, here's a sample to get you started: Read a .NET .Config file as an XML document to get the application's Runtime Version