How to create a custom app.config with just one extra entry

Question

I want my app.config file to be something like

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

<RegCompany>
<Company name="Tata Motors" code="Tata"/>
<SomethingElse url="someuri"/>
</RegCompany>

Any idea how to do this? I want to get the values defined here through my code.

Incomplete question. Can you please elaborate what are you trying to do. You can just use AppSettings in your current App.config or Web.config for extra config values — HaBo, Jan 04 '17 at 10:22
I dont want to use appsettings in my code. I want to add a customConfig Section in app.config file so that the developers using my application can easily set these values. — Vasudha Gupta, Jan 04 '17 at 10:25
what is wrong in the current code which you have put it here? any exception/error you're getting while debugging? — Rahul Hendawe, Jan 04 '17 at 10:27
@Rahul I cant figure out the actual classes ill have to write to extract these values from app.config. — Vasudha Gupta, Jan 04 '17 at 10:29
Googled the words you wrote `"customConfig Section in app.config file"` and the first result links to [How to: Create Custom Configuration Sections Using ConfigurationSection](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2tw134k3.aspx) — Renatas M., Jan 04 '17 at 10:29
Also your custom config section looks identical to this duplicated question (with the answer!!): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1316058/how-to-create-custom-config-section-in-app-config Please add just a minute of your time to find similar questions. — Renatas M., Jan 04 '17 at 10:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '17 at 10:44

For simple values like this, there is an easier solution than the one in the duplicate questions.

Config:

<configSections>
    <section name="RegCompany" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler"/>
</configSections>

<RegCompany>
     <add key="CompanyName" value="Tata Motors" />
     <add key="CompanyCode" value="Tata" />
     <add key="CompanyUrl" value="example.com" />
</RegCompany>

Code:

var section = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("RegCompany") as NameValueCollection;
if (section == null) {
    throw new InvalidOperationException("Unknown company");
}

var company = section["CompanyName"];
var code = section["CompanyCode"];
var url = section["CompanyUrl"];

How to create a custom app.config with just one extra entry

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