Practicing web.config and getting error

Question

I am practcing web.config file from here
when i copy and paste following code:

<configSections>
  <section name ="ProductSection" type ="<ProductSection" />
</configSections>

<ProductSection>
<gridSettings title ="Latest Products" count ="20"></gridSettings>
<color background="FFFFCC" foreground="FFFFFF"></color>
</ProductSection>

I got several errors like :

tag was not closed on second line.
</section> is missing.
the namespace 'section' can not include child element.

How to remove these errors and run it smoothly.

You should make self assesment before asking on stackoverflow, this is not good question, it can be solved by some googling and searching and understanding the problem. — Haider Ali Wajihi, Oct 30 '13 at 09:45

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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Instead of

<section name ="ProductSection" type ="<ProductSection" />

Try

<section name ="ProductSection" type ="&lt;ProductSection" />

See Which are the HTML, and XML, special characters?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Oct 30 '13 at 09:37

Rui Jarimba

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Thnx for help. It solved this issue but it says that " An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for ProductSection: Could not load type '
– Sohail Oct 30 '13 at 09:46
@Sohail: You may have other similar problems i.e. other characters that may need to be escaped. Check the link in my answer. – Rui Jarimba Oct 30 '13 at 09:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '13 at 09:37

You have this:

type ="<ProductSection"

This is invalid in XML, get rid of the "<" character:

<section name ="ProductSection" type ="ProductSection" />

If you actually have something with "<", you'll have to encode it like so:

<section name ="ProductSection" type ="&lt;ProductSection" />

However as the actual section is <ProductSection> it was probably just a typo on your side.

Practicing web.config and getting error

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