Path in app.config file

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i add two paths in app.config file

XML

<appSettings>
   <add key="abc" value="C:\"/>
   <add key="def" value="D:\"/>
 </appSettings>

What I have tried:

<appsettings>
<add key="teltonikaPath" value="W:\">
<add key="lmuPath" value="X:\">

then when i call abc in code
try

C#

{
    string path = "";
    path = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("abc");
    DateTime dt = File.GetLastAccessTime(path);
    Console.WriteLine("the last time {0}", dt);

}
catch (Exception e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
}
Thread.Sleep(5000);

then how i call second path def

any solution

Posted 10-May-16 20:10pm

super_user

Updated 10-May-16 21:09pm

Karthik_Mahalingam

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Karthik_Mahalingam 11-May-16 2:13am

path = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("def");

super_user 11-May-16 2:17am

if i add this then path same name exist in this line
path = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("abc");

Suvendu Shekhar Giri 11-May-16 2:18am

Can you please share the specific section of the app.config?

super_user 11-May-16 2:22am

i already share

super_user 11-May-16 2:23am

and when i use this path = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("def"); then how i i identity data when i run this application

super_user 11-May-16 2:24am

curretn data is in this format
the last time 5/11/2016 11:23 am
the last time 5/11/2016 11:25 am

this is only for abc .. how i dispaly for def

3 solutions

Solution 2

the gumby way to do what you want would be like

C#

{
    string path_abc = "";
    path_abc = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("abc");
    DateTime dt_abc = File.GetLastAccessTime(path_abc);
    Console.WriteLine("the last access time for  {0} is {1}", path_abc, dt_abc);
 
    string path_def = "";
    path_def = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("def");
    DateTime dt_def = File.GetLastAccessTime(path_def);
    Console.WriteLine("the last access time for {0} is {1}", path_def, dt_def);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
}
Thread.Sleep(5000);

but thats a repeat .. boring ... all this

Quote:
{
string path = "";
path = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("abc");
DateTime dt = File.GetLastAccessTime(path);
Console.WriteLine("the last time {0}", dt);

}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
}

should be ripped out and put in a public static function that returns a DateTime and takes the name of the 'key' in the config file as a string to work with, with appropriate error handling etc - you'd have to decide what to return if the path didnt exist for example

Posted 10-May-16 20:58pm

Garth J Lancaster

Solution 1

As others pointed out in comments, you have just to duplicate the code that already handles the "abc" case, or , better, write a method having a string as parameter, e.g.

C#

void ShowLastAccessTime(String key)
{
  //...
}

Posted 10-May-16 20:56pm

CPallini

Updated 10-May-16 20:57pm

v2

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Garth J Lancaster 11-May-16 2:59am

beat me to it :-)

super_user 11-May-16 3:17am

please explain more little bit

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koolprasad2003 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-10T21:09:00

try below code

C#

{
    string pathAbc, pathDef  = "";
    pathAbc = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("abc");
    pathDef  = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("def");

    DateTime dtAbc = File.GetLastAccessTime(pathAbc);
    DateTime dtDef = File.GetLastAccessTime(pathDef);


    Console.WriteLine("the last time ", dtAbc.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy hh:MM:ss"));
    Console.WriteLine("the last time ", dtDef.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy hh:MM:ss"));
 
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
}
Thread.Sleep(5000);

Basically GetLastAccessTime Returns the date and time the specified file or directory was last accessed, as system (C:\\) frequently access C:\Temp folder and if you are running code on D:\ then it also access D:\ at same time so I think there should be more time difference in both the cases