(Asked by @tomhollander on Twitter) What’s the most appropriate exception to throw if a required app/web.config configuration setting is not present?
(Asked by @tomhollander on Twitter) What’s the most appropriate exception to throw if a
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(Asked by @tomhollander on Twitter) What’s the most appropriate exception to throw if a required app/web.config configuration setting is not present?
ConfigurationException is obsolete. The docs say it’s been replaced by ConfigurationErrorsException, but this is designed to convey failures in the configuration system – I don’t believe it’s intended to show problems such as missing or malformed configuration values.