protected internal virtual object GetRuntimeObject() { if (SectionHandler != null) { ConfigurationSection parentSection = sectionInformation != null?sectionInformation.GetParentSection() : null; object parent = parentSection != null?parentSection.GetRuntimeObject() : null; if (RawXml == null) { return(parent); } try { // This code requires some re-thinking... XmlReader reader = new ConfigXmlTextReader( new StringReader(RawXml), Configuration.FilePath); DoDeserializeSection(reader); if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(SectionInformation.ConfigSource)) { string fileDir = SectionInformation.ConfigFilePath; if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(fileDir)) { fileDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(fileDir); } else { fileDir = String.Empty; } string path = Path.Combine(fileDir, SectionInformation.ConfigSource); if (File.Exists(path)) { RawXml = File.ReadAllText(path); SectionInformation.SetRawXml(RawXml); } } } catch { // ignore, it can fail - we deserialize only in order to get // the configSource attribute } XmlDocument doc = new ConfigurationXmlDocument(); doc.LoadXml(RawXml); return(SectionHandler.Create(parent, ConfigContext, doc.DocumentElement)); } return(this); }