Separate Config Files for Dll's

Is it possible for a .NET dll to have it’s own configuration file? The answer is “yes”. Though people can discuss the merits and demerits of this approach, it is doable. In this post I will present a short example of what you need to do to get this going. I have a DLL that will call a windows service. My client doesn’t need to know where the wcf service is hosted.
Here’s my config file for the dll

Here’s the code for my Dll:

public class CallWcf
{
public static string UserId { get; set; }
public static string UserPassword { get; set; }
public static string EndPointUrl { get; set; }
public string LoadConfiguration()
{
var fileName = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name;
return fileName;
}

public void GetConfigValues(string fileName)
 {
 var dllConfigFile = Environment.CurrentDirectory.Trim() + "\\" + fileName.Trim() + ".dll";
 try
 {
 Configuration configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(dllConfigFile);
//So far we got the config file for the dll in here.
var appSettings = configuration.AppSettings.Settings;
 foreach (KeyValueConfigurationElement keyValueConfigurationElement in appSettings)
 {
 switch (keyValueConfigurationElement.Key)
 {
 case "WSUser": UserId = keyValueConfigurationElement.Value;
 break;
 case "WSUserPassword": UserPassword = keyValueConfigurationElement.Value;
 break;
 case "endpointurl": EndPointUrl = keyValueConfigurationElement.Value;
 break;
}
 }
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("User:{0}\t Password:\t{1} \t{2}", UserId, UserPassword, EndPointUrl));
}
 catch (Exception e)
 {
 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
 }
public string GetToken()
 {
 var obj = CreateWebServiceInstance(EndPointUrl);
 var retval = obj.AuthenticateWithDetails(UserId, UserPassword);
 return retval.AuthenticationKey;
}
internal static Authenticate.AuthenticateSvcClient CreateWebServiceInstance(string endpointurl)
 {
 var binding = new BasicHttpBinding
 {
 SendTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1),
 OpenTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1),
 CloseTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1),
 ReceiveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10),
 AllowCookies = false,
 BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
 HostNameComparisonMode = HostNameComparisonMode.StrongWildcard,
 MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Text,
 TextEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8,
 TransferMode = TransferMode.Buffered,
 UseDefaultWebProxy = true
 };
 // I think most (or all) of these are defaults--I just copied them from app.config:
return new Authenticate.AuthenticateSvcClient(binding, new EndpointAddress(endpointurl));
 }
 }

Here’s the code for my executable:


static void Main(string[] args)
{
var obj = new VBFTestWCF.CallWcf();
var str = obj.LoadConfiguration();
Console.WriteLine(str);
obj.GetConfigValues(str);
var token = obj.GetToken();
Console.WriteLine(token);
}


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