How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

re: How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

John Galt — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:14:10 GMT

Thank you very much for posting this.

re: How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

Pete — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:01:57 GMT

Hi Youssef,

have you actually tried this code in the wcf scenario? I found your and although it looks like a really elegant approach, when I try to create a client proxy class, WCF appears to ignore these calls and still tries to load the endpoint from app.exe.config

Cheers

re: How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

Youssef Moussaoui - MSFT — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:18:57 GMT

You're right, liviu. So it's probably a good idea to surround your "new ServiceHost()" call with a try-catch block to make sure the configuration file is valid.

re: How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

liviu — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:22:40 GMT

if the xml of the config gets malformed during external edit, refresh method will raise an exception, and your service will be dead :)

re: How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)

Mike — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:05:00 GMT

Thanks Youssef. Not a great fan of .NET style configuration but that's something I did not know and will find an immediate use for. Cheers.