How to get external appSettings file name?

Question

I have ASP.NET server app which has in web.config :

<appSettings file="config\another.config">

so the settings are different for each dev and stored separately in svn. is there a way to get the file name programmatically (I dont want to parse the web.config raw text just for that) ?

Is this what you want ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6341906/read-custom-configuration-file-in-c-sharp-framework-4-0 — Nour, Oct 16 '12 at 10:38

Steve Kennaird · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-16T11:22:54.280

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This should do the trick:

Configuration config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
AppSettingsSection appSettingSection = (AppSettingsSection)config.GetSection("appSettings");
String externalFilename = appSettingSection.File;

You will need to reference System.Web.Configuration for this.

edited Oct 16 '12 at 11:22

answered Oct 16 '12 at 11:02

Steve Kennaird

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How to get external appSettings file name?

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