I was looking for a way to separate the UIP configuration settings from the default configuration file. Finally come up with the following solution. To use it you have to change the UIPConfiguration class.
By adding the alternativeConfigFile attribute to the uipConfiguration section, you are able to use the following function to get the configuration
configSections>
section alternativeConfigFile="uipConfiguration.config" name="uipConfiguration" type="Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess.UIPConfigHandler, Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.UIProcess, Version=1.0.1.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=null" />
configSections>
Add the following code to the try section of the getter :
_currentConfig = GetSettingsFromAlternativeLocation();
if ( _currentConfig == null ) _currentConfig = (UIPConfigSettings)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig( UipConfigSection );
Finally implement the following private function:
private static UIPConfigSettings GetSettingsFromAlternativeLocation()
{
//Retrieve location of EntryAssembly
string entryAssemblyLocation = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location;
string usedConfigFile = entryAssemblyLocation + ".config";
//Load file in XmlDocument
XmlDocument configurationFile =
new XmlDocument();
configurationFile.Load(usedConfigFile);
//Get uipSection
XmlNode uipSectionNode = configurationFile.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/configSections/section[@name='uipConfiguration']");
//Read alternativeConfigFile location
string alternativeConfigFile = ((XmlElement)uipSectionNode).GetAttribute("alternativeConfigFile");
//If not exist return null, to handle default uipConfiguration section
if ( alternativeConfigFile == string.Empty ) return null;
//If filelocation exist then use it, else Combine it with DirectoryName of configfile
if ( !File.Exists(alternativeConfigFile) )
{
FileInfo fileInfo =
new FileInfo(usedConfigFile);
alternativeConfigFile = Path.Combine(fileInfo.DirectoryName, alternativeConfigFile);
}
//reuse XmlDocument and load alternative configuration file with UIP settings
configurationFile.Load(alternativeConfigFile);
XmlNode uipConfigurationNode = configurationFile.SelectSingleNode("//uipConfiguration");
if ( uipConfigurationNode != null )
{
UIPConfigHandler uipConfigHandler =
new UIPConfigHandler();
return (UIPConfigSettings)uipConfigHandler.Create(null,null, uipConfigurationNode);
}
else return null;
}