Read .NET configuration from database

Question

The .NET 2.0 and up configuration system is quite powerful and extensible - as long as you don\'t want to change the fact it all comes from XML files in the filesystem.

Answer 1

There's an article here that talks about doing what you are talking about:

http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/Redirecting-Configuration-with-a-Custom-Provider.id-291932.html

In summary what they do is create a derived version of ProtectedConfigurationProvider, which is typically used to encrypt .config files. In the Decrypt method, instead of decrypting the configuration information, it's retrieved from a database.