Reading from .config files (XPath problems with CF)

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Andrea Grandi

Hello,

I've created my .config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="prova" value="pippo" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>

I tried reading this using the Configuration class in OpenNetCF with no
success. I tried to write to their forum, no reply.

I tried this XPath query "/configuration/appSettings/add[@key=" + key +
"]/@value" with no success :(

SelectNode and SelectSingleNode is not available in .Net CF.

I googled for two days, finding only samples that don't work (for
example this: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/58/290766.aspx)

I know that XMLDocument is loaded because in the debug I can see this:

? doc.OuterXml
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><configuration><appSettings><add
key="prova" value="pippo" /></appSettings></configuration>"

Can anyone help me please? I just want to read configuration from a
..config file in an easy way.

Thanks!
 
What happens when you are using OpenNETCF's Configuration class? Make sure
that the name of your config file is <exename>.exe.config
 
Hello,
What happens when you are using OpenNETCF's Configuration class? Make sure
that the name of your config file is <exename>.exe.config
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I've found another solution: I built a class that manually parse a
config.xml file and retrive the configuration.

Withe the OpenNetCF I had this situation:

I've this .config file:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="prova" value="pippo" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>



The executable name is SlotMachines.exe and the config is
SlotMachines.exe.config
in the same folder of the .exe

I try to get the value with this cose:


Dim str As String
str = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("prova")



but the values is always nothing :(
 
Include machine.config into your project and set build action for this
file to 'Content'. Then to make sure that machine.config is in the right
place you might write this code:

using System.IO;

....

const string ConfigDir = "\\windows\\config\\";
const string MachineConfig = "machine.config";
....

string AppDir =
Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase);


string src = Path.Combine(AppDir, MachineConfig);
string dst = Path.Combine(ConfigDir, MachineConfig);
Directory.CreateDirectory(ConfigDir);

if (!File.Exists(dst)) File.Copy(src, dst, false);


Hope this help,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
 
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