MyConfig

Sane-ish Configuration Management

MyConfig is a replacement for .NET's ConfigurationManager. Rather than rely on a AppSettings properties, MyConfig will populate a Plain Old C# Object (POCO) from a source. This source can be App.config, a XML file, a database, or you can create your own plugin.

Right now we only support retrieving settings from App.config

Benefits/Drawbacks

Benefits:

• Settings are strongly typed rather than relying on a string
• Settings that are declared but not defined (because a teammate added a new setting but didn't tell you) will raise an exception when settings are loaded
• You can store your settings outside AppSettings.config

Drawbacks:

• Only support App.config
• Can't handle data types like arrays
• No way to specify default values

Quickstart

• Add a reference to MyConfig and the plugin you are using as the source
• Create a POCO object that contains only getter/setter properties. You can use strings, datetime, ints, or anything that supports IConvertible :

  #!c#
  class MySettings {
      public string MaxBackgroundThreads { get; set; }
  }
  

• Grab your settings!

  #!c#
  var manager = new ConfigurationManager<ConfigurationSettings>(MyConfig.Plugins.AppSettingsConfigProvider.ASSEMBLY_NAME);
  var settings = manager.GetSettings();