C# DLL config file

Question

Im trying to add an app.config file to my DLL, but all attempts have failed.

According to MusicGenesis in \'Putting configuration information in a DLL\' this should

Answer 1

I know this is late to the party, however I thought I would share the solution I use for DLL's.

I am more of the K.I.S.S. school of thinking, so when I have a .NET DLL that wants to store external data points that control how it works or where it goes, etc. I simply create a "config" class that has only public properties that store all the data points it needs and that I would like to be able to have controlled external to the DLL to prevent recompiling it to make the changes. Then I use .Net's XML Serializing to save and load the object representation of the class to a file.

There are a lot of ways then to handle reading it and accessing it, from a Singleton, a static utility class, to extension methods, etc. This depends on how your DLL is structured and what method will fit your DLL best.