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shree_ars

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.config split into multiple config file

Jul 04, 2012 09:24 AM|LINK

Is it possible to create child .config file in .net

my need is right now i have dumped all configurations such as (connectionstring, exception....etc) are in single .config file

i need to split into seperate one.. such as

one main .config

and 2 or 3 sub config which are also interconnected with main.config and also 2 and 3 also get interconnected.

any solution for this..

thanks in advance

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Re: .config split into multiple config file

Jul 04, 2012 09:28 AM|LINK
You can define configsource attribute in web.config for external config files.
```
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings configSource="connections.config"/>
</configuration>
```
Check following:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20817/Manage-Web-config-from-XML-File-by-using-configSou

You can use file attribute also:

http://trycatchfail.com/blog/post/Webconfig-magic-configSource-and-file-attributes.aspx
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- Edited by urenjoy on Jul 04, 2012 09:30 AM
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ramanselva

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Re: .config split into multiple config file

Jul 04, 2012 09:30 AM|LINK

Hi,

using ConfigSource attribute we can split the configuration into more than one file.

Please have a look

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/428573/managing-complex-web-config-files-between-deployment-environments

http://www.davidturvey.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/how-to-split-the-web-config-into-mutliple-files/

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shree_ars

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Re: .config split into multiple config file

Jul 04, 2012 09:59 AM|LINK

Hi guys..thanks for the reply..

see all samples are relates to Connectionstring...which is direct approach by using ConfigSource..

but my need is

i have

1) connection string

2) Exceptionhandling

3) UnityContainer (which uses both connectionstring and exceptionhandling)

so if we placed all three parts as seperate .config..how we communicate between three... ?

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Re: .config split into multiple config file

Jul 06, 2012 06:56 PM|LINK

Many (most?) elements in web.config support the configSource attribute. For example, connectionStrings, appSettings, customErrors, authorization...

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- Edited by Dino He - MSFT on Jul 16, 2012 02:37 AM
- Edited by shree_ars on Jul 16, 2012 06:36 AM
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Re: .config split into multiple config file

Jul 16, 2012 06:37 AM|LINK

In my config file i have unity part configuration.

now i need to seperate this unity configuration to seperate config file and map this new config file to main config

how to do it....any solution or possible way of do this?

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Re: .config split into multiple config file

Jul 17, 2012 04:12 AM|LINK

yes i got the solution.

For each config section that we add in main configuration file(web.config or app.config) we can make sub configuration file.

while creating sub config file these need to be taken care

1) sub config file should not contain configuration node(i.e its parent node)

2) only one config section should be defined in single sub config file

In order to map the sub sonfig file in main config

just add "configSource" to the corresponding section node..this will map the sub configuration values.

for connection string we already have "configSource" property, but for others we can add manually.

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- Marked as answer by shree_ars on Jul 17, 2012 04:22 AM