Question

I recently started building a console version of a web application. I copied my custom sections from my web.config. to my app.config. When I go to get config information i get this error:

An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for x/y: Could not load type ‘x’ from assembly ‘System.Configuration

The line that it is not liking is:

return ConfigurationManager.GetSection(‘X/Y’) as Z;

Anyone run into something like this?

I was able to add

<add key='IsReadable' value='0'/>  

in the appSettings and read it.

Addition:

I do actually have this defined about the custom section:

  <configSections>     <sectionGroup name='x'>       <section name='y' type='zzzzz'/>     </sectionGroup>    </configSections> 

Answer 1

it sounds like your config-section handler is not defined

<configSection>     <section             name='YOUR_CLASS_NAME_HERE'             type='YOUR.NAMESPACE.CLASSNAME, YOUR.NAMESPACE, Version=1.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=PUBLIC_TOKEN_ID_FROM_ASSEMBLY'             allowLocation='true'             allowDefinition='Everywhere'           /> </configSection>