ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Creating Custom Configuration Sections

You can add custom configuration sections to a web configuration file. You can use a custom configuration section to store whatever information you want.

For example, if you need to manage a large number of database connection strings, you might want to create a custom database connection string configuration section. Or if you want to follow the Provider Model and implement a custom provider, you need to create a custom configuration section for your provider.

You create a custom configuration section by inheriting a new class from the base ConfigurationSection class. For example, the class in Listing 34.18 represents a simple custom configuration section.

Listing 34.18. App_Code\DesignSection.cs