Custom section/collection in Web.Config [duplicate]

Answer 1

Yes. And not too hard once you have a start.

You'll need to create a ConfigurationSection derived class to define the section (and then add a

to the configuration to link the element to your type).

You'll then need a type to define each element of the collection and, flagged as default, a property on your second type for the collection.

After all this is set up, at runtime you access your configuration section as:

var myRoutes = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("routes") as RoutesConfigSection;

My blog has a few articles on the background to this: http://blog.rjcox.co.uk/category/dev/net-core/

As noted in another answer there is also coverage (a lot better than it used to be) on MSDN.