Is it possible to switch application configuration file at runtime for .NET application?

Question

By default, .NET application\'s configuration file is named after \"exe file name\".config. I\'m wondering whether it is possible to have one application\'s configuration sp

Answer 1

Gotten from How to use Configuration.GetSection() and ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration()

ExeConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = @"C:\Inetpub\Test\Config\Dev.config";
Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
AppSettingsSection section = (AppSettingsSection)config.GetSection("appSettings");
string ConfigVersion = section.Settings["ConfigVersion"].Value;