NConfiguration

Library for simple configuration management

Examples:

In your web.config or app.config make sure you have a custom section:

<configuration>
	<ExtConfigure>
		<IncludeFile Path="etc\externalConfig.xml" Search="All" Include="All" Required="true"/>
		<IncludeFile Path="etc\machineSpecific.xml" Search="All" Include="All" Required="true"/>
	</ExtConfigure>
</configuration>

Find and download all of the files in the parent directory. Tracking changed included files.

public IAppSettings LoadSettings()
{
	var path = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location).FilePath;

	var loader = new SettingsLoader();
	loader.XmlFileBySection();
	var result = loader.LoadSettings(new XmlFileSettings(path, "ExtConfigure"));
	
	var fileCheckers = FileChecker.TryCreate(result.Sources).ToArray();
	new FirstChange(fileCheckers).Changed += SettingsChanged;

	return result.Joined.ToAppSettings();
}

private void SettingsChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
	//TODO: reload settings or application
}

Watch file configuration:

	<WatchFile Mode='Auto' Delay='0:0:30' Check='Attr,Hash' />

• Mode - mode of watch from file
• Auto - try create FileSystemWatcher, otherwise create delayed monitor
• System - create FileSystemWatcher
• Time - create delayed monitor
• None - not watching, default value
• Delay - delay between checking of monitored file
• Check - what is required to check
• None - only exists file and lenght
• Attr - last write time and other file attributes
• Hash - MD5 hash sum of reader file
• All or Attr,Hash - check same as in Attr and Hash

Deserialization section with the name of all downloaded files.

var configs = settings.Get<ConfigClass>("MyConfig");