Comments on: Seeking Suggestions for Reading Web.Config

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:55:12 +0000

This probably won’t help at all….but I couldn’t resist. Here’s my version using LINQ to XML in a single line of code:

return (from nd in XElement.Load(Server.MapPath(“web.config”)).Descendants(“authentication”)
select nd.Attribute(“mode”).Value).Single();

By: RadicalWacko

RadicalWacko — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:14:09 +0000

Yeah, I took a look and it doesn’t seem to be any easier. Of course, they are probably a bit safer about thread safety than I am, but I only read it once, so no need to change it now. Thanks for the pointer.

By: dylan

dylan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:58:17 +0000

It looks like you could use System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager too, though it doesn’t look like the code would be any simpler.