// PortableSettingsProvider code obtained from http://stackoverflow.com/a/2579399 (Accessed 02-01-2014 @ 17:04).
private static void MakeSettingsPortable(System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase settings)
{
var portableSettingsProvider = new PortableSettingsProvider(settings.GetType().Name + ".settings");
settings.Providers.Add(portableSettingsProvider);
foreach (System.Configuration.SettingsProperty prop in settings.Properties)
{
prop.Provider = portableSettingsProvider;
}
settings.Reload();
}
public void ApplyAppSettingMetadataDictionary(System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase _SettingsCollection)
{
PropertyOverridingTypeDescriptor ctd = new PropertyOverridingTypeDescriptor(TypeDescriptor.GetProvider(_SettingsCollection).GetTypeDescriptor(_SettingsCollection));
// iterate through properies in the supplied object/type
foreach (PropertyDescriptor pd in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(_SettingsCollection))
{
// for every property that complies to our criteria
AppSettingMetadata asmd;
bool found = this.TryGetValue(pd.Name, out asmd);
if (found)
{
// we first construct the custom PropertyDescriptor with the TypeDescriptor's
// built-in capabilities
Attribute[] attribute_list = new Attribute[2];
attribute_list[0] = new CategoryAttribute(asmd.SettingCategory);
attribute_list[1] = new DescriptionAttribute(asmd.SettingDescription);
PropertyDescriptor pd2 =
TypeDescriptor.CreateProperty(
_SettingsCollection.GetType(), // or just _settings, if it's already a type
pd, // base property descriptor to which we want to add attributes
// The PropertyDescriptor which we'll get will just wrap that
// base one returning attributes we need.
attribute_list
//new CategoryAttribute(asmd.SettingCategory)
// this method really can take as many attributes as you like,
// not just one
);
//PropertyDescriptor pd3 =
// TypeDescriptor.CreateProperty(
// _SettingsCollection.GetType(), // or just _settings, if it's already a type
// pd, // base property descriptor to which we want to add attributes
// // The PropertyDescriptor which we'll get will just wrap that
// // base one returning attributes we need.
// new DescriptionAttribute(asmd.SettingDescription)
// // this method really can take as many attributes as you like,
// // not just one
// );
// and then we tell our new PropertyOverridingTypeDescriptor to override that property
ctd.OverrideProperty(pd2);
//ctd.OverrideProperty(pd3);
}
}
// then we add new descriptor provider that will return our descriptor instead of default
TypeDescriptor.AddProvider(new TypeDescriptorOverridingProvider(ctd), _SettingsCollection);
}