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app config file issue

George George

Hello everyone,

Suppose an exe is linked (referenced) with a couple of DLLs, and both the exe and the

DLLs have their own app.config file. My question is, when we call API to load application

configuration values, are there any confusion about which config to be loaded since both

exe and DLL have app.config files?

thanks in advance,
George

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George George18y ago
Thanks Ryan,

Let me clarify your points,

1.

Do you mean in .Net DLL can not have its own application config file?

2.

Each time DLL reads application configuratio it is actuallty reading from the exe's application configuration?

regards,

George
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Ryan Alford18y ago
in .Net, if you use the ConfigurationManager to read the app.config file, it will only read the [ApplicationName].exe.config file. It doesn't know about the other config files.
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