What is the correct way to pick up the list of "pages" via a class that inherits from System.Configuration.Section if I used a app.config like this?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="XrbSettings" type="Xrb.UI.XrbSettings,Xrb.UI" />
</configSections>
<XrbSettings>
<pages>
<add title="Google" url="http://www.google.com" />
<add title="Yahoo" url="http://www.yahoo.com" />
</pages>
</XrbSettings>
</configuration>
First you add a property in the class that extends Section:
[ConfigurationProperty("pages", IsDefaultCollection = false)]
[ConfigurationCollection(typeof(PageCollection), AddItemName = "add")]
public PageCollection Pages {
get {
return (PageCollection) this["pages"];
}
}
Then you need to make a PageCollection class. All the examples I've seen are pretty much identical so just copy this one and rename "NamedService" to "Page".
Finally add a class that extends ObjectConfigurationElement:
public class PageElement : ObjectConfigurationElement {
[ConfigurationProperty("title", IsRequired = true)]
public string Title {
get {
return (string) this["title"];
}
set {
this["title"] = value;
}
}
[ConfigurationProperty("url", IsRequired = true)]
public string Url {
get {
return (string) this["url"];
}
set {
this["url"] = value;
}
}
}
Here are some files from a sample implementation: