Best Approach For Configuring Multiple .Net Applications

Question

We have a suite of interlinked .Net 3.5 applications. Some are web sites, some are web services, and some are windows applications. Each app currently has its own configurat

Answer 1

You can split App.config into multiple configuration files. You just specify the name of the file that contains the config section.

Change app.config:

Into app.config and SomeSetting.xml:

Where SomeSetting.xml contains:

Now you can compose your app.config from different section files with some sort of build or deploy script. E.g.:

if debug copy SomeSettingDebug.xml deploydir/SomeSetting.xml
if MySql copy OtherSectionMySql.xml deploydir/OtherSetting.xml