Can a web.config read from an external xml file?

Question

I have to duplicate some settings (like connection string) between a web.config file that a WCF host uses and a web.config file that a web client uses.

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Answer 1

Yes, any configuration section can be "externalized" - this includes things like , and many more.

You'd have something like this in your web.config:

The externalized config's would just contain that one subsection in them:

httphandlers.config:

Note you cannot externalize the entire part, since that is a configuration section group - not a configuration section - but you can externalize most of the sub-sections contained in system.web.