Custom Configurations:

Allows the application to simplify the use of configuration settings.  For example if the app has multiple clients settings to be recorded a section for each can be defined and the values seperated out.  The config class allows easy access to a clients configuration and deals with the configuration hooking up in the background for you.

At this point it is not possible to save back to the configuration file.  I have tried to get this to work across the board but failed misserably, will try to tackle this again at a later stage, (there are a few commented out sections and tests aimed at this in the committed code).

Here is an example configuration file:

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="testsection2" type="CustomConfigurations.ConfigurationSectionLoader, CustomConfigurations" />
    <sectionGroup name="myCustomGroup">
      <section name="mysection" type="CustomConfigurations.ConfigurationSectionLoader, CustomConfigurations" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>

  <myCustomGroup>
    <mysection>
      <Configs>
      <ConfigurationGroup name="client1">
        <ValueItems>
          <ValueItem key="key2" value="value2" />
          <ValueItem key="key3" value="value3" />
          <ValueItem key="key4" value="value4" />
          <ValueItem key="key5" value="7" />
          <ValueItem key="key6" value="0.6" />        
      </ConfigurationGroup>
	  <ConfigurationGroup name="client2">
          <ValueItems>
            <ValueItem key="keya" value="abc" />
            <ValueItem key="key2" value="123" />
          </ValueItems>
        </ConfigurationGroup>
      </Configs>
    </mysection>
  </myCustomGroup>

  <testsection2>
    <Configs>
      <ConfigurationGroup name="clienta">
        <ValueItems>
          <ValueItem key="key2" value="valueabc" />          
        </ValueItems>       
      </ConfigurationGroup>
    </Configs>
  </testsection2>
</configuration>

If the app wanted to read "client2"'s configuration it could do the following:

CustomConfigurations.Config Configloader = new CustomConfigurations.Config("client2");

To access a value it would use the index of the key:

string myVal = Configloader["keya"];

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The console application "ExampleApp" shows the different ways the customConfiguration application can be used.

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N.B. all config sections are case sensitive, be careful how you write the xml and using the selectors.