Question

I have WCF Client initialized like this

  MyServiceClient client = new MyServiceClient();

so it uses the app.config to read the endPoints.
I would like to dynamically change the default config file to a file I define.
I know I can open a configuration file like this:

Configuration myConfig = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration

but how can I set myConfig to replace the default configuration?

Answer 1

Check out this article here: Read WCF Configuration from a Custom Location.

It basically involves creating a custom ServiceHost that will read the configuration from a different file which you can specify, rather than from web.config or app.config.

Here’s another excellent article on using custom config files for WCF services hosted in IIS:
http://blogs.msdn.com/dotnetinterop/archive/2008/09/22/custom-service-config-file-for-a-wcf-service-hosted-in-iis.aspx

Marc