How to Read a Configuration Section from XML in a Database?

Question

I have a Config class like this:

public class MyConfig : ConfigurationSection
{
        [ConfigurationProperty(\"MyProperty\", IsRequired = true)]
        public         


        

Answer 1

My suggestion would be to keep your current MyConfig class but load your XML from your database in the constructor, then in each property of your MyConfig, you can put in logic to determine where you get the value from (either database or .config file) if you need to pull config from either location, or have it fall back if the value is empty.

public class MyConfig : ConfigurationSection
{
    public MyConfig()
    {
        // throw some code in here to retrieve your XML from your database
        // deserialize your XML and store it 
        _myProperty = "";
    }

    private string _myProperty = string.Empty;

    [ConfigurationProperty("MyProperty", IsRequired = true)]
    public string MyProperty
    {
        get
        {
            if (_myProperty != null && _myProperty.Length > 0)
                return _myProperty;
            else
                return (string)this["MyProperty"];
        }
        set { this["MyProperty"] = value; }
    }
}