Background:
I have some data thats stored in the web.config files of about 100 web applications. This data is getting moved to a database gradually. The webpages will show the web.config data until somebody clicks on an "edit" link in which case they'll be redirected to a webpage which will allow them to update this data where it will be saved in a database instead.
Problem:
Not all of the data will be changed on this page that will save it to the database. When somebody clicks the "edit" link I want the form to populate with the data from the web.config file and when they click "save" have it save to the database. However, using the configurationmanager I can only get it to pull data from the web.config file on current application.
Questions:
../{dynamic_app_id}/web.config
?You can read any config file with ease. Please see my sample code where I read application settings from external app.config file:
System.Configuration.KeyValueConfigurationCollection settings;
System.Configuration.Configuration config;
System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap configFile = new System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap();
configFile.ExeConfigFilename = "my_file.config";
config = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(configFile, System.Configuration.ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
settings = config.AppSettings.Settings;
Happy coding and best regards!