How do I retrieve ApplicationSettings from a loaded App.config file?

Question

Is it possible to access the values from the applicationSettings section of a loaded app.config file?

I have found an example How do I

Answer 1

You could load the config file into XmlDocument and retrive the applicationSettings from the dom object . Here is example I found to load the config file into dom object :

//retrive the current assembly directory
private static string AssemblyDirectory()
{
        string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
        UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
        string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
}



//return the value from aplicationSetting according to the given key
//appSettingSection is the your configuration section as declare in your web.config
public static string GetApplicationSettingValue(string appSettingSection,string key)
{
   //get web.config path
   string configPath  = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(AssemblyDirectory()).Parent.FullName + "\\web.config";

    System.IO.FileInfo FileInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo(configPath);
    if (!FileInfo.Exists)
    {
        throw new Exception("Missing config file");
    }

    //load config file into xml document
    var XmlConfig = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
    XmlConfig.Load(FileInfo.FullName);


     //override xml document and return the value of the key under applicationSettings
     foreach (System.Xml.XmlNode node in XmlConfig["configuration"]  ["applicationSettings"]appSettingSection])
     {
                    if (node.Name == "setting")
                    {
                        if (node.Attributes.GetNamedItem("name").Value == key)
                        {
                            return node.FirstChild.InnerXml.ToString();
                        }
                   }
     }
   return "";
}