//*********************************************************************
//
// GetSiteSettings Static Method
//
// The Configuration.GetSiteSettings Method returns a typed
// dataset of the all of the site configuration settings from the
// XML configuration file. This method is used in Global.asax to
// push the settings into the current HttpContext, so that all of the
// pages, content modules and classes throughout the rest of the request
// may access them.
//
// The SiteConfiguration object is cached using the ASP.NET Cache API,
// with a file-change dependency on the XML configuration file. Normallly,
// this method just returns a copy of the object in the cache. When the
// configuration is updated and changes are saved to the the XML file,
// the SiteConfiguration object is evicted from the cache. The next time
// this method runs, it will read from the XML file again and insert a
// fresh copy of the SiteConfiguration into the cache.
//
//*********************************************************************
public static SiteConfiguration GetSiteSettings()
{
SiteConfiguration siteSettings = (SiteConfiguration)HttpContext.Current.Cache["SiteSettings"];
// If the SiteConfiguration isn't cached, load it from the XML file and add it into the cache.
if (siteSettings == null)
{
// Create the dataset
siteSettings = new SiteConfiguration();
// Retrieve the location of the XML configuration file
string configFile = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["configFile"]);
// Set the AutoIncrement property to true for easier adding of rows
siteSettings.Tab.TabIdColumn.AutoIncrement = true;
siteSettings.Module.ModuleIdColumn.AutoIncrement = true;
siteSettings.ModuleDefinition.ModuleDefIdColumn.AutoIncrement = true;
// Load the XML data into the DataSet
siteSettings.ReadXml(configFile);
// Store the dataset in the cache
HttpContext.Current.Cache.Insert("SiteSettings", siteSettings, new CacheDependency(configFile));
}
return(siteSettings);
}
