Moving Settings to another config file

Question

Is it possible to move applicationSettings to another config file as it is possible with connectionStrings or appSettings?

When I create Settings for my web applica

Answer 1

Yes of course it's possible! Any ConfigurationSection in any of your config files can be "externalized" by means of the configSource="otherConfigFile.config" attribute.

It would be even better if I could force Settings class to use appSettings not applicationSettings.

In order to do that, you need to get away from using the nice visual "Settings" classes in .NET and use the ConfigurationManager directly. That way, you can put your settings into and read them in using ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["keyname"].

Marc