In App.config: you need to set up a configSections /
sectionGroup sections, then you can add your custom sections below appSettings:
xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="EpicSettings">
<section name="EpicVersions" type="System.Configuration.DictionarySectionHandler"/>
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
<appSettings>
<add key="rootLevel" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic"/>
<add key="drFltr" value="Interconnect-*"/>
<add key="DevVersion" value="Interconnect-DEV"/>
<add key="CmdBldr" value="CommandBuilder.exe"/>
<add key="CnfgEdt" value="ConfigEditor.exe"/>
<add key="TrcVw" value="TraceViewer.exe"/>
<add key="GnrlCnfg" value="\Web\App_Data\Config\General.config"/>
<add key="WbSvPxyBldrSubDir" value="\Tools\"/>
<add key="WbSvPxyBldr" value="WebServiceProxyBuilder.exe"/>
<add key="PhsGenSvcSubDir" value="\Web\bin\"/>
</appSettings>
<EpicSettings>
<EpicVersions>
<add key="v7.9" value="Epic 2012"/>
<add key="v8.1" value="Epic 2014"/>
</EpicVersions>
</EpicSettings>
</configuration>
In code: Here is one
way to access your custom section in the code:
Here we’re trying to determine the Epic Version based on if the
directory path contains a string matching one of the config keys.
private string getEpicVersion(string vrsnpth)
{
string ret = string.Empty;
var epicVersions = (ConfigurationManager.GetSection("EpicSettings/EpicVersions") as System.Collections.Hashtable)
.Cast()
.ToDictionary(n => n.Key.ToString(), n => n.Value.ToString());
foreach (System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<string, string> vrsn in epicVersions)
{
if (vrsnpth.ToLower().Contains(vrsn.Key.ToLower()))
{
ret = vrsn.Value;
break;
}
}
return ret;
}
