Load parts of App.Config from another file

Question

I like to split my app.config into a user specific part and an application specific part. Is it possible to store a part of the app.config in anoth

Answer 1

You can use the configSource attribute to tell the framework to load a particular section from another file.

For example, if you had a config file with a section like this:

You could replace it with:

...and create a file ConnectionStrings.config with the contents of the original section (including the node - exactly the same as my first code section above).