Question

Helo

Can anybody explain me how to get configuration element from .config file.
I know how to handle attributes but not elements. As example, I want to parse following:

<MySection enabled="true">

 <header><![CDATA[  <div> .... </div>  ]]></header>

 <title> .... </title>

</MySection>

My c# code looks like this so far:

 public class MyConfiguration : ConfigurationSection
    { 
        [ConfigurationProperty("enabled", DefaultValue = "true")]
        public bool Enabled
        {
            get { return this["enabled"].ToString().ToLower() == "true" ? true : false;   }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("header")]
        public string header
        {
                ???
        }
  }

It works with attributes, how do I do with elements (header property in above code) ?

Answer 1

I finally found one way to do it.

There is IConfigurationSectionHandler interface that allows for things I want. It requires the one to write the method

 public object Create(object parent, object configContext, XmlNode section)

After it, u parse section on your own so I was able to fetch XmlElement’s without a problem:

        header  = s["header"]  != null ? s["header"].InnerText   : String.Empty;
        title   = s["title"]   != null ? s["title"].InnerText    : String.Empty;

The down side of this is that interface is outdated but MSDN states that it will not be removed from future versions of the frameworks as it is used internally.