create your own settings in xml

Question

I\'m in a ASP.NET project where I need to give several parameters to the administrator that is going to install the website, like:

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Answer 1

I usually use Settings - available via the project properties - Settings. These can be edited and saved in code, and I write a form / web page to edit them.

If you want to use the XML configuration, there's an attribute called file that reads external files. You could have a web.config file and a someothername.config file. The someothername.config would have settings like:

And the web.config would have

See DevX for the example I stole.