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:

AllowUserToChangePanelLayo         


        

Answer 1

just to let you guys know that I did what configurator recommended but with a twist.

instead of asking all the time (that I need) for

System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["myKey"];

I just created a static class that would pull this values with what we call by Strongly typed values (so you don't need to remember all the values)

the mySettings class

public static class mySettings
{
    public enum SettingsType
    { UserPermitions, WebService, Alerts }
    public enum SectionType
    { AllowChangeLayout, AllowUserDelete, MaximumReturnsFromSearch, MaximumOnBatch, SendTo }

    public static String GetSettings(SettingsType type, SectionType section)
    {
        return
            ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[
                String.Format("{0}_{1}",
                    Enum.Parse(typeof(SettingsType), type.ToString()).ToString(),
                    Enum.Parse(typeof(SectionType), section.ToString()).ToString())
            ];
    }
}

the web.config appSettings part

the entire myApp.config file

So, now I call like this:

p.value = mySettings.GetSettings(
             mySettings.SettingsType.WebService, 
             mySettings.SectionType.MaximumReturnsFromSearch);

Hope that helps someone with the same problem :)