how to configure and read a object from webconfig c#

Question

i'm having a few throubles resolving an issue. I have to read data from webconfig file

<AmountsList>
  <Amount>
    <Id>1</Id>
    <Value>20</Value>
    <Operator>Vodafone</Operator>
  </Amount>
  <Amount>
    <Id>2</Id>
    <Value>30</Value>
    <Operator>Vodafone</Operator>
  </Amount>
</AmountList>

I've already look up for a solution but i coulnd't find anything that work as requested, and i'm still a noob in webservices.

My Problem is in setting up webconfig file with the data. I know that in a normal situation this shouldn't be in this file, but this is a request.

As you pointed out, the web.config file should store settings which control how your website works. Therefore you could create a XML-file and store it in The App_Data folder. Please see this post on how to retrieve data in the XML-format: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7119806/c-sharp-reading-data-from-xml — Philip, Sep 22 '15 at 16:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '15 at 16:36

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Check out custom configuration sections - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2tw134k3.aspx

You can then add a custom section to the app config, which you can then read / write to accordingly.

answered Sep 22 '15 at 16:36

DotNetHitMan

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i had already tried it, but was unsuccessful. i solve it adding a string and decoding it to my object. thanks anyway – alexandre-dasilva Sep 23 '15 at 15:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '15 at 21:44

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Another option is to load the web.config file as a pure XML file and get required information from there. You can use XDocument or XmlDocument classes for this task.

XDocument config = XDocument.Load("web.config");

answered Sep 22 '15 at 21:44

Vova

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Thanks, i've already solve it using a string to setup de data and decoding throught it, but this was also a workaround – alexandre-dasilva Sep 23 '15 at 14:59

how to configure and read a object from webconfig c#

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