Library for simple configuration management
Source code: git://github.com/ExM/NConfiguration.git
In your web.config or app.config make sure you have a custom section:
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="ExtConfigure" type="NConfiguration.PlainXmlSection, NConfiguration"/>
</configSections>
<ExtConfigure>
<Include>
<XmlFile Path="etc\externalConfig.xml" Search="All" Include="All" Required="true"/>
<XmlFile Path="etc\machineSpecific.xml" Search="All" Include="All" Required="true"/>
</Include>
</ExtConfigure>
</configuration>Find and download all of the files in the parent directory. Tracking changed included files.
public IAppSettings LoadSettings()
{
var strConv = new StringConverter();
var deserializer = new GenericDeserializer();
var xmlFileLoader = new XmlFileSettingsLoader(deserializer, strConv);
var loader = new SettingsLoader(xmlFileLoader);
loader.LoadSettings(new XmlSystemSettings("ExtConfigure", strConv, deserializer));
var result = loader.Settings;
result.Changed += SettingsChanged;
return result;
}
private void SettingsChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//TODO: reload settings or application
}Deserialization section with the name of all downloaded files.
var configs = settings.LoadCollection<ConfigClass>("MyConfig")