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How to read configuration file of another application?

Posted Date: 12 Oct 2006 Resource Type: Articles Category: WCF/Webservices

Posted By: Tony John Member Level: Gold
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Developers often need to access the web.config file or the application configuration file of one application from another application. Upto Visual Studio 2003, there was no direct way to do this. Developers used to treat the config file as a xml file and parse the xml using the XML classes.

With Visual Studio 2005, it is very simple to load the config file of any application.

The below sample show how to read the web.config file located in the folder C:\SomeOtherApp. This folder can be any location and not required to be a folder of a web application.

Here is the sample code to read the config file from any location in your computer:



System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap map = new System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap();

map.ExeConfigFilename = "C:\\SomeOtherApp\\web.config";

System.Configuration.Configuration config = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(map, System.Configuration.ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

string name = config.AppSettings.Settings["KeyInOtherApp"].Value;

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