Demo to read a customer's own config file.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;

namespace ConfigrationTest
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string fileName = "MyOwnLog4Net.xml";
            string fullPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(new System.Uri(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase).AbsolutePath);
            string configPath = Path.Combine(fullPath, fileName);
            System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new System.Configuration.ExeConfigurationFileMap();
            fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = configPath;
            var config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
            var configSetion = config.GetSection("syncManagerSettings") as SynchronizationManagerConfigSection;
            Console.Write(configSetion.syncMangerSettings["timeUntilFirstSync"].Value);

            Console.Read();

            //var map = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
        }
    }

    public class SynchronizationManagerConfigSection : ConfigurationSection
    {
        [ConfigurationProperty("namedSettings", IsKey = false, IsRequired = false)]
        public KeyValueConfigurationCollection syncMangerSettings
        {
            get { return (KeyValueConfigurationCollection)base["namedSettings"]; }
        }
    }
}

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<configuration>

  <configSections>

<section name="syncManagerSettings"

         type="ConfigrationTest.SynchronizationManagerConfigSection,ConfigrationTest" />

  </configSections>

  

   <syncManagerSettings>

    <namedSettings>

      <!--All synchronization timings are in milliseconds-->

      <add key="timeUntilFirstSync" value="1000" />

   </namedSettings>

  </syncManagerSettings>

  

</configuration>