Really??? Nobody out there has done something similar to my example using the Custom Configuration Section?? Come on people...I know there are some VERY smart folks out there... Someone must have done this at one time. I really need someone's help with this.
Thanks! Larry On Oct 27, 9:00 am, Larry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've written a windows service in VS 2008 (VB) that used the > appSettings for some configurations. Recently I have a need for more > complex configurations in this program. I initially thought that I > would just create an XML file with the structure that I needed and > write XML parsing to get my config info, but then I read about .NET > 2's Custom Configuration Section. Since I'm not a big fan of writing > XML parsing, I thought that I could do this with the new functionality > of .NET. However, I'm not able to find examples of creating the > Custom Configuration Section class for a structure with a collection > within a collection. I've really been trying to figure it out myself > from more simple examples of singular collection-based configs, but am > just not quite getting it. I wonder if anyone out there can direct me > to some more complex examples, or can tell me what I need to do to > create this class for my structure. Below is an example of what I > would need my config to look like. > > <ClinicDefs> > <Clinic ID="AAA" OEMeaning="NNN" CDBID="YYY" CTable="ZZZ"> > <LocInfo LocID="12345" /> > <LocInfo LocID="99999999" /> > </Clinic> > <Clinic ID="BBB" OEMeaning="GGGG" CDBID="XXXX" CTable="SSSS"> > <LocInfo LocID="5555" /> > <LocInfo LocID="111" ApptTypeCd="777777" /> > </Clinic> > </ClinicDefs> > > Any help or direction would be appreciated! Although I can usually > mentally convert C# to VB, examples in VB would be helpful. > > Thanks, > > Larry
