Thanks for your response. The problem with using machine.config has to do with permissions. Administrators will not typically allow someone to add/update appsettings in that file.
I can certainly pass a file name as part of the constructor string but I will need to build the scaffolding code around that to parse the file, define schema etc. The point I am trying to make is that why cannot dllhost.exe not provide a scheme where it looks for a configuration file that corresponds to each COM+ package. A la "deployment descriptor" xml file. aspnet_wp.exe the other well CLR host seems to do it. Thanks, You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
