Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

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Roger's Blog — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:42:00 GMT

Scott Densmore drills into the configuration block of EntLib

Enjoy Every Sandwich — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 01:12:00 GMT

Scott Densmore drills into the configuration block of EntLib

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Peter — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:31:00 GMT

Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but am I missiing something, or is the Data Access Application Block JUST for Oracle, SQL server & DB2. What about OLEDB or ODBC???

Enterprise Library Configuration (Part 1/2): Customized Appsettings and the EntLib Configuration Manager tool.

The .NET Buffet — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:17:00 GMT

The Provider Model is key to understanding the EntLib

Darrell Norton's Blog — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:13:00 GMT

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

Doug Rohrer — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:19:00 GMT

Scott et al:

I've posted the first of two walkthroughs on the entLib configuration manager on my blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/drohrer/). The post is at http://weblogs.asp.net/drohrer/archive/2005/02/02/366015.aspx - take a look and let me know what you think.

Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1.1 - How to write a Storage Provider

Being Scott Densmore — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:14:00 GMT

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

Brian — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:51:00 GMT

I am trying to use the Data block and the Config block to configure my database connections, but it seems that everything is sensitive to the process it's being run under for the config paths. If I run my project directly, everything works ok as long as dataConfiguration.config and myApp.exe.config are both copied to bin\debug. However, when I point NUnit at the same project, the ConfigurationBuilder chokes because suddenly it is looking in the root path for these files (where the NUnit project is located) instead of bin\debug. I assume this is because I am now running under the NUnit process and so the Config dll gets run from that thread and looks for stuff relative to it's parent app location??? I can fix it manually if I know where to copy the files, but surely I shouldn't have to manually copy those files around depending on how I'm running the code? I tried using the TestDriven.Net add-in to run my unit tests and it was looking in yet another location (this time in my temp folder) for the config files.

This issue is causing me huge headaches and I really hope I'm just missing something.

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

Scott Densmore — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:57:00 GMT

Hi Brian,

You have to make sure you are building the DebugUnitTest target in Visual Studio and running the assemblies built to the output directories for that target. Debug does not have any tests built into them. I can run both Nunit and TestDriven.NET just fine. If you want you can email me directly and I can try and help you out.

Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1.1 - Storage Providers

Being Scott Densmore — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:07:00 GMT

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re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

skeamy — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:27:00 GMT

Hi,
Im relatively new to .Net so I may be asking for something obvious. I like the idea of the Enterprise Library however I would like to centralise my configurations files (app.config, logging.configuration etc..) either for a group of dlls or by machine basis. We have a COM+ application which contains 30 dlls and if each one had to be configured it would be a pain. I tried using Machine.config (Maybe showing my lack of .NET Knowledge now) and it did exacly what I required for my components however when I tried to run the quickstart samples again they complained about duplicate configuration which I assume is because its trying to read the config from both app.config and machine.config - I would have expected it to look for an app.config and if there wasn't one to use the machine.config - any thoughts, ideas would be appreciated...

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Angelos Petropoulos' WebLog — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:55:00 GMT

What about user preferences?

Fbiots — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:11:00 GMT

I'm trying to figure out how to use the configuration block for user preference 'config' files for a large enterprise windows forms application.

I can't use the XmlFileStorageProvider, because that only looks in the same directory as the app config file. (The User's ApplicationData directory should be used; anyway, the app base dir will not allow writes while running under least privileged user. (See <a href="http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2005/01/28/2645.aspx">Peter's posting on this</a>)

So does it make sense to write a custom storage provider (similar to XmlFilesStorageProvider) for managing user preferences? Is it better to take a different approach for user prefs (like <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/CustomPreferences/default.aspx">.NET App Preferences</a>?) Or is this all just overkill for user preferences?

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

Scott Densmore — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:50:00 GMT

Fbiots,

Read my new post and hopefully this will help you out.

scott

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Troglite — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:55:00 GMT

Scott,

I am attempting to research an error condition that I am experiencing with the Config Block in EntLib 1.0. I have an admin web page that I use to populate some config values. I then have a second web pages that pulls those values in order to perform some work. Works like a charm with and without encryption.

BUT... everytime the app pool is restarted in IIS, the app block throws an error when attempting to read the config values. The error is "The section name 'XXXX' could not be found in the Xml file M:\*\XXXXconfig.xml" (I've XX'd out the information that is implementation specific). Re-populating the values using the adin web page resolves the error... until the app pool is restarted again.

Have you seen this before? Any pointers on how I may eliminate this error?

Thanks,

~Justin

re: Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1 - Cofiguration Runtime Overview

Scott Densmore — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:25:00 GMT

Justin,

I have not seen this before, but if you can send me some mail, maybe we can figure this out. I can try and repro this here. (I am sure this was a test case :)). Mail me @ scottden@remove_this.microsoft.com

Error When App Pool is Recycled

Troglite — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:46:00 GMT

Scott,

I found the problem. It appears that the name of the config section is case sensitive (which makes sense since its XML). All of my code referenced "MYconfig", with one exception. When I called GetConfiguration I passed in a value of "MYConfig". Once I corrected the shift in case for this string value, the errors went away.

Hopefully this posting will help anyone who makes this same mistake.

Thanks for the great tutorial and your generous offer to review my code!

Sincerely,

~Justin

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