Questions tagged [configurationelement]
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Custom Configuration, ConfigurationElements, and ConfigurationProperties
I've been scouring the net for the last 3 days, and can't find any reference to this question. I've created a custom configuration class to be used with my app.config. Everything works fine. The problem comes in when a configuration property (of a…

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How to revert an HttpError ConfigurationElement back to "Inherited" using IIS 7 API
Suppose I have the following collection in a web.config:
Yep, nice 'n empty.
And in IIS 7, my HTTP errors page looks like this:
Beautiful! (I've highlighted 404 simply because that's the example I'll use in…

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Loading a ConfigurationSection with a required child ConfigurationElement with .Net configuration framework
I have a console application that is trying to load a CustomConfigurationSection from a web.config file.
The custom configuration section has a custom configuration element that is required. This means that when I load the config section, I expect…

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How do I use .NET custom ConfigurationElement properties on descendent elements?
How can I get and use an attribute set in the parent ConfigurationSection in the descendent CustomSetting element? I need this attribute when the CustomSetting element is returning the Value property.
I want to format the App.config like…

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Getting config element from ConfigurationElementCollection
I have (hopefully) setup ConfigurationElementCollection of my own design with emails as keys. Now what? Hard to find actually on the web. How do I:
iterate through it?
See if a specific element exists?
get a specific element?
...given:
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.NET base type cannot be serialized by WCF
I'm writing a WCF service and want to expose some custom configuration elements (e.g. Custom ConfigurationSection and ConnectionStringSettings) so that I can modify the service's configuration.
One of my custom configuration elements inherits from…

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DateTime property in a ConfigurationElement
I'm wanting to put a DateTime in to the config file, however, I want the DateTime expressed in a specific way. I've seen examples of using a DateTime in a ConfigurationElement (like the example below). The examples I've seen all have the date…

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ConfigurationSection multiple enum values
Is there a way to set multiple enum values in a configuration section?
Like you do in .net object.Filter = Filter.Update | Filter.Create;
Is something like that supported?

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Unable to read in my custom .config section
NOTE: this is very very similar to this SO question, but I need some more help.
i'm trying to make the following section in my .config file, but i get an exception when trying to access this section.
.config file

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.NET config: Read a value in the specified Type
I have the following node in my web.config
which is read into the following ConfigurationProperty
public class ParameterElement : ConfigurationElement
{
[ConfigurationProperty("type",…

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.NET ConfigurationElementCollection.Add method does not add item to collection
I have a custom configuration section running under ASP.NET 4.0 that I would like to save changes to. The classes involved are:
QueueConfiguration: a ConfigurationElement
QueueCollection Queues // a list of queues to be…

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How better to map configuration elements to application objects?
I have a .NET application which has a custom configuration to re-construct some classes on startup. That's not a plain (de)serialization, that's more complex and mixed.
class FooElement : ConfigurationElement
{
static ConfigurationProperty…

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Is it possible to create a ConfigurationElement from xml text?
We have a custom class that inherits from ConfigurationElement called SignalConfigurationElement and defines a bunch of properties using the ConfigurationProperty attribute.
The SignalConfigurationElement class is part of a much larger hierarchy of…

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ConfigurationElement—Combination of Attributes?
Say I have defined a custom AdapterElement : ConfigurationElement with properties Type, Name and Version. Since Name and Version uniquelly identifies the Type property, I would like to enforce the configuration file to have one of the following…

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Can't set DefaultValue for ConfigurationProperty of Custom ConfigurationElement type
I have a small problem with DefaultValue for ConfigurationProperty.
Here is the part of my XML config :
UNC
To process this config, I've created "StorageElement : ConfigurationElement" :
public…

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