Create and load a separate Application.Config file

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Hi, I have a solution which contains more than 2 application including an asp.net website and console application. Both of the application using the same connection string and some common values. I want to create a separate config file to read those values and that config file will be placed anywhere in the system. I need to created a another utility to read that config file and fetch the values through that utility and use in both the application. Is there any method to achieve this?

Posted 15-Feb-12 3:33am

PankajSaha

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MaulikDusara · Answer 1 · 2012-02-15T03:38:00

Hello,

If you are facing only problem with ConnectionString for both application so you can define more than one connectionString in one config file. I don't think that you need to use more than one config file for both.

Please refer this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254494.aspx[^]

example:

XML

<connectionStrings>
    <add name="connection1" connectionString="user id=user;password=123;server=10.0.0.1;database=myDatabase;connection timeout=30"/>
    <add name="connection2" connectionString="user id=user;password=123;server=10.0.0.2;database=myDatabase;connection timeout=30"/>
</connectionStrings>