EasyConfigurationSection

This package attempts to greatly reduce the (boilerplate) code required to add a custom configuration section to a project. Using EasyConfigurationSection, there's no need to create any object inherting from ConfigurationSection or ConfigurationElement. As long as your configuration object is deserialisable by System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer, you're good to go! (Using your own custom parser is also supported)

Example

app.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="EasyConfiguration" type="EasyConfigurationSection.EasyConfigurationSection, EasyConfigurationSection" />
  </configSections>
  <EasyConfiguration>
    <MyConfiguration>
      <Foo>Bar</Foo>
    </MyConfiguration>
  </EasyConfiguration>
</configuration>

Configuration Object Definition

public class Foo
{
    [XmlText]
    public string Content { get; set; }
}

Consumption code

new EasyConfiguration().GetSection<Foo>("MyConfiguration").Content //returns "Bar";

More features

It is possible to declare mlutiple sections under the configSections element, and then simply load them up via new EasyConfiguration(name). Each EasyConfiguration can in turn contain several of its own sections. Note: If no name is provided, the default "EasyConfiguration" is used, as in the above example

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