Ravindra S. Rathore
Oct 17, 2019
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(8 votes)

Playing with Episerver webconfig settings programmatically

Hi Guys,

Sometimes we need to read, write or update some of the property from the Episerver web.config so Episerver provided a class called "EPiServerFrameworkSection". By using this class we can achieve this.

I found this class very handy and I used this many times when I have to read, write and update the settings on web.config programmatically.

This exists in "EPiServer.Framework.Configuration" namespace.

Some Examples-

Reading providers from config-

ProviderSettingsCollection virtualRoles = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.VirtualRoles.Providers;
ProviderSettingsCollection blobProviders = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.Blob.Providers;

Reading connections string -

var ConnectionStrings = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.CurrentConfiguration.ConnectionStrings;

Reading Appdata path-

string appData = EPiServerFrameworkSection.Instance.AppData.BasePath;

There are lots of other options as well that you can explore on your own. Here are some great documentation from Episerver

https://world.episerver.com/documentation/class-library/?documentId=cms/11/4E02FB31

https://world.episerver.com/documentation/class-library/?documentId=episerverframework/7/09b6aa52-2249-641a-ed99-d6ebe9afc589

Thanks and Regards

Ravindra S. Rathore

Oct 17, 2019

Comments

K Khan
K Khan Oct 18, 2019 07:03 AM

Wondering, what happened when you wrote something programmatically in web.config?

Ravindra S. Rathore
Ravindra S. Rathore Oct 19, 2019 04:42 AM

Hi K Khan,

It will write the entry and recycle the app pool.

valdis
valdis Oct 19, 2019 09:49 AM

I would not recommend to write anything back to web.config :)

Ravindra S. Rathore
Ravindra S. Rathore Oct 19, 2019 10:15 AM

Yes, true but we can use this class to read settings from web.config

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