Custom type application settings in ASP.NET

Question

Just now I came across ApplicationSettings in .NET WinForms that could handle complex types.
Currently I am using AppSettings in my ASP.NET WebForms which can handle onl

Answer 1

Here's a variation on the accepted answer, using the following user-defined class to represent a setting:

namespace MyApplication
{
    public class EndPoint
    {
        public string HostName { get; set; }
        public int Port { get; set; }
    }
}

The accepted answer proposes the use of a specialised collection class, EndPointCollection to hold settings. However, I don't think this is necessary; an array type (EndPoint[]) also seems to work.

However, typing the array type in the type browser doesn't work; you can instead specify the type directly in the .settings file (using a text editor):

Also, if the value editor shown in the accepted answer isn't available, you can instead type the values directly into the value field using XML:

    
        MyHostName
        12345
    
    
        MyHost1
        1212
    

Note that the XML namespace declarations that Visual Studio generates aren't necessary in the XML, as shown above.