Can I create .config file and include it to web.config?

Question

Can I create .config file and include it to web.config? How can i do this?

UPD. If you want to separate config file, for example, move appSettings to another file yo

Answer 1

It is not entirely clear what you want to do, but all configuration sections can be stored in a separate files and be referenced by the main .config file using the configSource property.

See this blog post for details.

Answer 2

This is the way to integrate multiple configs into one web.config

Code in web.config:

<appSettings configSource="config\appSettings.config"/>
<nlog configSource="config\nlog.config"/>
<applicationSettings>
        <MyApp.UI.Properties.Settings configSource="config\Settings.APGUI.config"/>
        <MyApp.BusinessServices.Properties.Settings configSource="config\Settings.Business.config"/>
        <MyApp.Auditing.Properties.Settings configSource="config\Settings.Auditing.config"/>
</applicationSettings>

more: Managing complex Web.Config files between deployment environments