Alternatively, you may be able to use the RemotingConfiguration.Configure ()
method. It's in System.Runtime.Remoting, but you don't have to be using
remoting to use the method.
Details are hazy, but I remember (a long time ago) being able to use this to
load a .config file other than the default. The important thing is that you
need to call this method _before_ any part of your code asks for any
configuration settings. If the configuration settings are already loaded, I
think calls to this method are ignored.
This may all be out of date now - I think I did it with .NET 1.0, so I'm not
at all sure how 1.1 or 2.0 will behave. It's probably worth experimenting
with though.
Geoff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eddie Lascu
> Sent: 02 January 2007 12:42
> To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM
> Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Configuration file name as a start up
> parameter
>
> Why don't you rename your cMyConfigFile.config file as a first step of
> your
> application. The reason why you would need a different name (I presume)
> is
> to be able to switch from one config file to the other just by
> restarting
> your service with a different start-up parameter. You could have
>
> cMyConfigFile1.config
> cMyConfigFile2.config
> cMyConfigFile3.config
>
> and every time you restart your service, copy the config file that you
> passed in as a start-up parameter and create myapp.exe.config file
> (overwrite the existing file, if any). This way you will always have
> your
> different config files and your assemblies will not need any changes.
> Am I missing something?
>
> Regards,
> Eddie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Georg Jansen
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:51 AM
> To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM
> Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Configuration file name as a start up
> parameter
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an application where I need to provide the name of the
> configuration
> file as a start up parameter (for example myapp.exe -cMyConfigFile).
> The
> application is started as a windows service.
>
> The application uses other assemblies that use the "standard"
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MySetting"], to
> retrieve settings from the config file, and it would be best if I did
> not
> need to rewrite those assemblies.
>
> So what I need is some kind of method to specify a different
> application
> config file, and have the framework read from that file instead of the
> standard "myapp.exe.config".
>
> I have been struggling with this for a while, and any help would be
> appreciated!
>
>
> Best regards
> Georg
>
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