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Asked: 2026-05-14T14:55:47+00:00

I have in the app.config file a section as <OurType> <sometype typename = type1

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I have in the app.config file a section as

<OurType>
 <sometype typename = "type1" Iscolor="true"/>
 <sometype typename = "type2" Iscolor="false"/>
</Ourtype>

What I need to do is to polulate this values into my domain object which is as under

Class OurType
{

  public string TypeName{get;set;}
  public string IsColor{get;set;}
}

I want to do something like

list<OurType> obj = ConfigurationManager.GetCollection(Something) which will read the configuration section of that portion and then populate the List.

How to do it using custom configuration?

Thanks

I am using C#3.0 and dot net framework 3.5

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  1. Editorial Team

    The easiest way? Check out the Configuration Section Designer add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 up on Codeplex. It gives you a nice UI to work with, and generates all those thorny configuration classes and a XML schema to enable Visual Studio intellisense in your config sections for you – all very neatly and easily.

    Check it out!

    If you want to do it “by hand”, make sure to check out Jon Rista’s three-part series on .NET 2.0 configuration up on CodeProject.

    Highly recommended, well written and extremely helpful!

    Marc

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