Question

Inside my web.config file I’ve got code like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    ...
    <section name="UninstallSurveySettings" type="dashboard.UninstallSurveyConfig" />
  </configSections>
  ...
  <UninstallSurveySettings>
    <add key="fileLocation" value="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\output\" />
  </UninstallSurveySettings>
   ...
</configuration>

I need to be able to access this field from my custom control. The control can be dropped into any website and needs to check that site’s web.config for the fileLocation value in UninstallSurveySetting.

I’ve tried a couple different approaches with no luck. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I was able to solve this by creating a configuration class for it and placing this code in the web.config:

<section name="UninstallSurveyConfig" type="dashboard.UninstallSurveyConfig" />
..

<UninstallSurveyConfig dirFileLocation="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\build\output" webFileLocation="~/output" />