Question

With settings, I’ve always had some const variable in a file somewhere. Is it possible to create a new config file with all my settings for my website? IE:

CONST imagePrefixPath = "http://img.domain.com/"

Is the sort of thing I want to store and use all over my web code

Answer 1

Use the appSettings in the web.config instead:

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="imagePrefixPath" value="http://img.domain.com/" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

Then access it in code access the appSettings variables using OpenWebConfiguration

System.Configuration.Configuration config = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(null);
String imagePath = config.AppSettings.Settings["imagePrefixPath"] + "myimage.jpg";