Question

<configuration>
  <configSections>
  <sectionGroup name="loggingConfigs">


    <section name="LoggingParameters"
          type="Framework.Logging.LoggingParameters, Framework.Logging" />

  </sectionGroup>
    </configSections>

  <loggingConfigs>

    <LoggingParameters

        myconfig="C:mydir\mypath1\mypath2\log4net.config" 

      />


  </loggingConfigs>
</configuration>   




public class LoggingParameters : ConfigurationSection
{

    [ConfigurationProperty("myconfig", IsRequired = true)]
    private string ConfigFileLoc
    {
        get { return (string)this["myconfig"]; }
    }


    public FileInfo MyConfigFile
    {
        get
        {
            string s = ConfigFileLoc;  <--- getting empty string here..don't know why
            return new FileInfo(s);
        }

    }
}

When I make the following call else where in my application,

FileInfo f = new Framework.Logging.LoggingParameters().MyConfigFile;

the ConfigFileLoc always comes back as blank. I can not figure out why its blank.. why the string is empty.. please help.

Answer 1

I had to remove the SectionGroup (don’t know if that is a requirement for you)

  <configSections>    
      <section name="LoggingParameters"
            type="Framework.Logging.LoggingParameters, Framework.Logging" />      
  </configSections>
  <LoggingParameters myconfig="C:mydir\mypath1\mypath2\log4net.config" />

And got the FileInfo with this code (path is not empty anymore)

LoggingParameters config = (LoggingParameters)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("LoggingParameters");
FileInfo fInfo = config.MyConfigFile;

This post by Scott Mitchell may help you