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I'm not able to access values in configuration file. Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None); var clientsFilePath = config.AppSettings.Settings["...
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It might sound too trival to ask and I do the same thing as suggested in articles, yet it doesn't work as expected. Hope someone can point me to the right direction. I would like to save the ...
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I have added multiple app.config (each with a differet name) files to a project, and set them to copy to the output directory on each build. I try and access the contents of each file using this: ...
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I'm writing a test WinForms / C# / .NET 3.5 application for the system we're developing and we fell in the need to switch between .config files at runtime, but this is turning out to be a nightmare. ...
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I'm trying to unit test a custom ConfigurationSection I've written, and I'd like to load some arbitrary configuration XML into a System.Configuration.Configuration for each test (rather than put the ...
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I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a Java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time ...
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In a VS2005 C# project I have added a reference to System.configuration. In the object browser, I can see the System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager. In Intellisense System.Configuration only has ...
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I have a console application which has its own App.config. I need to change some values in section time to time. My problem is, when I execute the exe within the bin/debug folder it gets the ...
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I'm wondering how the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Key] works. Does it read from the physical file each time I need a key? If so, should I be reading all the app settings of my web.config in a ...
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I am trying to retrieve values from my App.config file which is stored in my working directory, however when I run the program it returns null. I am very confused why this is so, and have looked over ...
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Here in my project I have two application configuration files called app.config and accessLevel.config. Now using the OpenExeConfiguration I was able to access the app.config.exe file but not the ...
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I have a program A, it also have an app.config file where I have added some keys like server address, username and password for connecting to a server. It is a console application. Now I want to make ...
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I've used these two configuration files many times before, but I've never taken the time to fully understand how they really work. As most people do, I understand the basics in how to call ...
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I've got a reference to System.Configuration - and ConfigurationSettings is found no problem - but the type or namespace 'ConfigurationManager' could not be found!? I've read around - and it looks ...
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I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite. The "Configuration Manager" menu item is missing for me. I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to the Configuration Manager, but it doesn't ...
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I have an Web.Api application that uses functions from a different assembly. For this assembly I have created a .config file where I store some strings. I am using the following code which should ...
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I had some trouble on a test server with an ASP.NET website. I goofed, and had the home directory of the Default Web Site pointed to the wrong place. When I tried: ConfigurationManager....
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Background: I have some data thats stored in the web.config files of about 100 web applications. This data is getting moved to a database gradually. The webpages will show the web.config data until ...
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Where is the SQL Server Configuration Manager in SQL Server 2016? It is not under the menu group for SQL Server 2016. (I have the Developer Edition installed)
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gleanings from a variety of sources (including stackOverlflow), however when I come to use it, I get the following error message "The Configuration property 'deviceconfig' may not be derived from ...
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I have included the following statement in my Visual C# Console Application (Visual Studio 2005 .NET 2.0 Framework) using System.Configuration; and I am using the following statement in my ...
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My question is about working with standard .NET configuration objects and custom configuration elements as well, (which one can define by extending the System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection class)....
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I have a small ASP.NET web application hosted in an integration test (executing within NUnit). My product code can usually find configuration data from the web.config or app.config file, but for some ...
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I'm using C# .NET 2.0 Windows Application. and I'm using app.config for my Application Settings. but change in AppSettings doesn't reflected runtime, it Needs Application to be restarted. How can I ...
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I am using Visual Studio 2013 with .NET Framework 4.5. I have included the System.Configuration as a reference in the project. I have also included a using statement in the class as such: using ...
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