Hi Peter,
Thanks for your post!
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings will only read current application's
config file, which is internally obtained by
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ConfigurationFile property. So you
should place the config file with name "appname.exe.config" in the same
directory with your service exe file.
Note: replace "appname" with your service exe name without the extension.
I have written a little sample Windows Service application for testing, it
works well with a local config file:
//MyNewService.exe.config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="abc" value="Hello World" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
//In MyNewService.cs file
System.Diagnostics.EventLog eventLog1=null;
public MyNewService()
{
// This call is required by the Windows.Forms Component Designer.
InitializeComponent();
eventLog1=new EventLog();
if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("MySource"))
{
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(
"MySource","MyNewLog");
}
eventLog1.Source = "MySource";
eventLog1.Log = "MyNewLog";
// TODO: Add any initialization after the InitComponent call
}
static void Main()
{
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
// More than one user Service may run within the same process. To add
// another service to this process, change the following line to
// create a second service object. For example,
//
// ServicesToRun = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] {new
Service1(), new MySecondUserService()};
//
ServicesToRun = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] { new
MyNewService() };
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
string str;
if(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["abc"]!=null)
{
str=System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["abc"].ToString()
;
}
else
{
str="null config";
}
eventLog1.WriteEntry(str);
str=AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ConfigurationFile;
eventLog1.WriteEntry(str);
// TODO: Add code here to start your service.
}
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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