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  CASPartan

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  colon : in appsettings

  Apr 19, 2014 01:45 PM|CASPartan|LINK

  I was browsing the source code of MiniBlog with the goal of studying some of its techniques. 

  Theme = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("blog:theme");
  

  I noticed they're using a colon (:) in the appsettings.get.  Is there any special significance to this? Or is this just like any letter/character you can use? 
  
  

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  Re: colon : in appsettings

  Apr 19, 2014 03:36 PM|AidyF|LINK

  No, it's just a way of grouping settings, so any settings regarding "blog" will start with "blog:"  Other common conventions are using a ".", so "blog.theme" etc.  Such naming conventions also allow you to build your own config classes, like;

  BlogSettings.Get("theme")

  and all "Get" in "BlogSettings" does is add "blog:" to the start of the requested setting, so you could also have

  ProductSettings.Get("theme")

  and under the covers that will access the "product:theme" setting.

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  Re: colon : in appsettings

  Apr 19, 2014 06:32 PM|CASPartan|LINK

  So you can use dots and colons as valid characters for use in app setting names? They're not specially treated by asp.net in any way, it's just for user readability?
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  Re: colon : in appsettings

  Apr 20, 2014 07:46 AM|AidyF|LINK

  Yeah it's just for readability.

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