Nested app.config (web.config) files

Question

Is it possible to have two app.config files where one app.config serves as a container for second (nested) app.config file? I would like to reference specific sections of a

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, the answer is "Yes". See the section on "Using External Configuration Files" in this article. It's not nesting the files as your title would imply, but based on the question text...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254494.aspx

Answer 2

You can reference other config files yes, so you can have static stuff in one file, and machine specific stuff in another.

Eg, to put app settings in a seperate file, in a subfolder called "configuration":

<appSettings configSource="Configuration\AppSettings.config"/>

Then in the AppSettings.config, just include the appSettings tag as normal:

<appSettings>
   <add key="somekey" value="someValue" />
</appSettings>